Pacific Scholars

Back in Canberra and in time to helpfacilitate this workshop. Tech and women empowerment - a workshop for all men and women. After successful running workshops in Fiji, Riga Tech are bringing this opportunity to work with Pacific peoples and diaspora communities and in Canberra. Opening opportunitieies and building capacity netwFair Canberra Inc.ebin the islands and abroad.

See you there today and tomorrow.

Tech Hackathon – Women and Tech Empowerment Workshop | ANU Pacific Institute RigaTechGirls Women in Tech Hackathon - Fiji and Australia Edition

Leading from the Frontline: A History of Pacific Climate Diplomacy

Pacific Island states have, for decades, considered climate change a threat to their security. In 1991, island leaders declared global warming and sea level rise as serious environmental threats, and that their ‘cultural, economic and physical survival’ was at risk. Pacific Island countries have since played a disproportionate role in United Nations climate negotiations, working as a diplomatic bloc to shape new rules and to drive multilateral cooperation to reduce emissions. Pacific Island states have also sought greater recognition of climate change as a security threat. This article considers the history of Pacific climate diplomacy. It explains how Pacific Island countries have played a key role in the global response to the climate crisis and outlines the history of regional climate politics in the Pacific Islands Forum. We also focus on recurring tensions between Pacific Island states and Australia with regard to ambition to tackle climate change.
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Privileged to collaborate with Wes Morgan and Fulori Uluilakeba who pushed this publication through.This article is based on years of research, including field research at the annual UN climate negotiations, at the UN in New York, and at regional ministerial and leaders' meetings in the Pacific.

I am grateful to the community of negotiators and Pacific leaders who have allowed us into their world to capture their stories. This is our attempt to piece together the history of climate negotiations from the world of negotiators.

But there is more. This is part of ongoing research in Pacific Climate Diplomacy and Oceanic diplomacy Department of Pacific Affairs Linking community and individuals to regional politics and international politics - the Pacific are continuously shaping the future agenda on climate change.

We hope this article will be useful for scholars, researchers, students, government officials, climate negotiators and civil society organisations who are thinking about Pacific island countries and global climate diplomacy.

We think this history is particularly important to tell now, as Australia prepares to co-host the UN climate talks (COP31) with Pacific island nations in 2026.

The full article is available here as an open-access publication here:

Leading from the Frontline: A History of Pacific Climate Diplomacy Pacific Island states have, for decades, considered climate change a threat to their security. In 1991, island leaders declared global warming and sea level rise as serious environmental threats, a...

Call for Abstracts (due 1feb2024)
“Our Ocean, Our Home: Climate Resilience for a Blue Pacific”

Fourth Pacific Climate Change Conference

Organised by

National University of Samoa, Pacific Climate Change Centre hosted at the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) and Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington 21-23 May 2024 Apia, Samoa

4th POPCCC 2024 – National University of Samoa Call For Abstracts Menu Call For Abstracts Save the date 21 - 23 May 2024, Venue-NUS Samoa. Call for Abstracts “Our Ocean, Our Home: Climate Resilience for a Blue Pacific”Fourth Pacific Climate Change ConferenceOrganised byNational University of Samoa, Pacific Climate Change Centre hosted at the...

Teacher education and inclusive education in the Pacific - Call for Expressions of interest

Call for Expressions of Interest (closing 22 September 2023)
Positions related to Building Teaching Capacity for Inclusive Education (BTCIE)

A consortium of the University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau
and the Institute of Education - USP at The University of the South Pacific are preparing an application to deliver the programme Building Teaching Capacity for Inclusive Education. If successful, the programme will run for three years in Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Tonga and Vanuatu.

We welcome expressions of interest in two kinds of roles:
- Inclusive Education Fellows in the Institute of Education
- Inclusive Education In-Country Leads in each of the countries in the programme

Pacific Islands citizens are particularly encouraged to submit an expression of interest. These roles will need to be based in one of the participating countries.

Job descriptions for the two kinds of roles are attached.
Your expression of interest should include:

- A cover letter or resume stating the role you are interested in and outlining your interest, skills and qualifications for the role
- Your CV which may also be included in our proposal

If our proposal is successful, we will contact you again when we are able to formally advertise positions.

This call for expressions of interest closes on 22 September 2023 at 4:30pm.

Please send your expression of interest to
Prof Ann Cheryl Armstrong
BTCIE Regional Coordinator
[email protected]

Inclusive education in country leads: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F9HSgaAWlSH7gH9Gc_EGGBz6HMdvn2w5/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106849130354828516916&rtpof=true&sd=true

Inclusive education IOE fellow: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SqzALPyb2t7j8EHxOY73UkmQOJ6OjQWg/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106849130354828516916&rtpof=true&sd=true

PD_IE Fellow USP.docx Position Description: Inclusive Education IOE Fellow Position Title: Inclusive Education IOE Fellow Location: Cook Islands. Fiji, Niue, Tonga or Vanuatu (1 FTE continuing and .5 FTE for duration of project) Overview University of Auckland (UoA) and the University of South Pacific (USP) ar...

Would you have stayed this calm..? 😂

Associate Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, has been awarded the Metge Medal for intellectual leadership on gendered social relations and development studies.

2022 Metge Medal: Understanding gender relations in Pacific communities

Oceania Comparative and International Education Society - OCIES 50th Annual Conference Thursday 10 and Friday 11 November.

https://vuw.zoom.us/j/9224486755

For more information contact Pine Southon [email protected]

Revisioning education in Oceania and beyond: Walking backward into the future, together

On behalf of the OCIES, the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) and the Fiji National University (FNU) are delighted to co-convene the milestone 50th Annual OCIES Conference in November 2022. This year’s conference is organised in two parts, as follows:

Part 1: Virtual conference: 10-11 November 2022, free registration (hosted by VUW; NZ afternoons of the dates)

Part 2: Face-to-Face conference: 21-23 November 2022, registration fee required (hosted by Fiji National University at the Lautoka campus, Fiji).

The Call for Abstracts for the conference is now open. The deadline for submitting abstracts is 21 October. Please click here for information about the Abstract requirements. To submit an abstract complete the online form here.

Registration will open very shortly, and further information about the programme, Lautoka accommodation options, and the field trip will also be shared on this page soon. If you have any questions regarding the conference, please contact Mrs Pine Southon [[email protected]]

OCIES 50th Annual Conference, November 2022 - Revisioning education in Oceania and beyond: Walking backward into the future, together On behalf of the OCIES, the Victoria University of Wellington (VUW) and the Fiji National University (FNU) are delighted to co-convene the milestone 50th Annual OCIES Conference in November 2022. This year’s co...

Waka Resource Production - Institute of Education (IOE) 1. ECCE – Nauru Book 3 2. ECCE – Nauru – Book 4_adapted from Book 2 3. ECCE Teacher Guide – Nauru ECCE – ESD Wordless Big Book 1 ECCE – ESD Wordless Big Book 2 ECCE Teacher Guide – NIUE ECCE Teacher Guide – TONGA ECCE Teacher Guide – TUVALU

Why isn't my Professor Māori or Pasifika - Diversity and Inclusion Week

Date and time
Thu., 22 September 2022

10:00 am – 11:00 am NZST

All of New Zealand’s eight universities have policies and strategic frameworks relating to Māori students and academic staff. Most refer to acknowledging the Treaty of Waitangi, validating the importance of Māori leadership, and integrating te reo Māori and mātauranga Māori into the syllabus. Yet these policies, which use the language of inclusion for under-represented groups, including Pasifika, fall well short of the goals and principles they publicly endorse. In the paper, Why isn't my professor Māori? and Why isn't my professor Pasifika? Dr Tara McAllister and Dr Sereana Naepi address these shortcomings and challenge New Zealand's universities to move beyond tokenistic attempts at "inclusion" and "diversity", and to begin dismantling the structures that continue to marginalise Māori and Pacific people.

The session will be facilitated by Professor Carla Houkamau. It will explore the impetus and impact of Tara and Sereana's research, the need for systematic change to address the dearth of Māori and Pasifika scholars in Aotearoa/New Zealand and how Universities can genuinely address their obligations to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Bio's

Dr Tara McAllister (Te Aitanga a Māhaki) is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Science in Society at Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington. She holds a PhD in freshwater ecology from the University of Canterbury and is an interdisciplinary scholar with expertise spanning freshwater ecology to racism in the tertiary sector.

Dr Sereana Naepi, who has Fijian and Pākehā whakapapa, is a Social Scientist and Lecturer in the UoA Faculty of Arts. She has a BA (Hons) and an MA from Auckland University and a PhD from the University of British Columbia in Canada. In the course of those studies and, more recently, her research and lecturing back in Auckland, she’s focused on questions about the inequity for Pacific students and staff in tertiary education.

This event is proudly supported by Te Mana Pakihi and Commerce o’ Pasifika.

Why isn't my Professor Māori or Pasifika - Diversity and Inclusion Week This session will discuss the important kaupapa of increasing Māori and Pasifika academic representation in universities.