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This is a joint Motu/Home Foundation Public Policy Seminar, where Motu Fellow Jaimie Monk and Senior Fellow Arthur Grimes will explore the relationship between public housing and wellbeing across different stages of life.

They will bring together evidence on adult tenant wellbeing and children’s developmental outcomes to show how public housing can shape wellbeing. They will then consider what this evidence means for policy, design and investment in public housing in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Read Jaimie’s and Arthur’s recent relevant research on how starting life in public housing can set children up for a brighter future and this journal article on housing tenure and wellbeing, looking at the importance of public housing.

The presentation will be followed by audience questions. You can attend this seminar either in person or online.

Arthur and Jaimie’s research was supported by the MBIE Endeavour Programme, Public housing and urban regeneration: maximising wellbeing. Heartfelt thanks to the Home Foundation for sponsoring this event.

Register: click here register to attend in person and here to register to attend online.
Please arrive 11.45am for lunch if attending in person.
Zoom details for online participants: TBC (they will send these to you after you have registered and before the seminar).

This year’s Symposium themes

• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
• Infectious Disease Inequities
• Emerging Zoonotic Diseases, Biosecurity, and Disease Control (including eradication efforts and surveillance)
• Endemic Zoonotic Diseases
• Environmental Drivers of Health (e.g. water quality, climate change, ecosystem disruption)
• Ecosystem and Biodiversity Health
• Cross-sectoral Collaboration in One Health (partnerships, data sharing, and innovation)
• Te Ao Māori (Māori health, and access issues)

This year’s Symposium themes

• Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
• Infectious Disease Inequities
• Emerging Zoonotic Diseases, Biosecurity, and Disease Control (including eradication efforts and surveillance)
• Endemic Zoonotic Diseases
• Environmental Drivers of Health (e.g. water quality, climate change, ecosystem disruption)
• Ecosystem and Biodiversity Health
• Cross-sectoral Collaboration in One Health (partnerships, data sharing, and innovation)
• Te Ao Māori (Māori health, and access issues)

A panel discussion featuring expert guest speakers from the International Science Council’s (ISC) Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science.

Join us to hear Dr Maia Nuku (Ngāi Tai) deliver the annual Gordon H Brown Lecture, hosted in collaboration with Victoria University and the Adam Art Gallery. Nuku is the Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Curator for Oceanic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

What is the role and relevancy of museums in the 21st century? Are they living, expansive archives of Indigenous knowledge? Or outdated relics of colonial pasts.

The complete overhaul and construction of new galleries for the Arts of Oceania at The Metropolitan Museum in New York gave curator Maia Nuku a unique opportunity to reframe the galleries conceptually; to emphasize connectivity in the context of global and local histories; and elevate the equally critical arts of storytelling, oratory, and performance alongside Oceania’s dynamic visual arts. Curator Maia Nuku shares insights into the 10-year project that has culminated in a suite of galleries that offer international visitors perspectives on art that reach deep into Oceania’s past while also acknowledging ongoing manifestations of its agency in the present.