Nicola Gaston

Dr Nicola Gaston is a professor in the department of physics at The University of Auckland and co-director of the MacDiarmid Institute. She is the author of the BWB text Why Science is Sexist.

The research sector needs investment now – for the good of our planet and people

Nicola Gaston

15 May 2023

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Dr Rod Carr climate change commissioner getty

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Beware the handbrakes on climate change action

Not-so-modest proposals for Tiwai

2018 was the year I realised that scientists are optimists

Growing up on the DPB: on Metiria Turei, fraud and fear

Do low-value, for-profit tertiary providers really deserve ‘consistent treatment’ from the government?

The impersonal is political, too: a report from the frontline of the culture wars

Why scientists need to go to the barricades against Trump – and for the humanities

Helen Clark: running to be UN boss as an accomplished human who is a woman

Nicola Gaston

20 May 2016

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How can research contribute to economic growth if it’s not funded properly?

When downsizing means destroying our universities

The research sector needs investment now – for the good of our planet and people

Beware the handbrakes on climate change action

Not-so-modest proposals for Tiwai

2018 was the year I realised that scientists are optimists

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Growing up on the DPB: on Metiria Turei, fraud and fear

Do low-value, for-profit tertiary providers really deserve ‘consistent treatment’ from the government?

The impersonal is political, too: a report from the frontline of the culture wars

Why scientists need to go to the barricades against Trump – and for the humanities

Helen Clark: running to be UN boss as an accomplished human who is a woman