The Centre for Science Communication is pleased to announce the appointment of Wiebke F Hendry as its new Teaching Fellow.




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Students may now apply for a very limited number of places in the one-year Postgraduate Diploma in Natural History Filmmaking and Communication. Applications need to be in by 31 October 2008 for the 1st round. Read More...

Applications Close
31 October
for 1st Round






Students wishing to enrol in the Master of Science Communication in either:

– Science and Natural History Filmmaking

– Creative Nonfiction Writing

– Popularizing Science

need to have their applications in by 31 October 2008.

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In the final Distinguished Communicator Lecture for 2008, Associate Professor Allan Blackman wowed an audience in the St David Lecture Theatre, proving both that chemistry could be interesting and that we really should care about it. Based loosely on his column in the Otago Daily Times, Allan covered a broad spectrum of issues. These ranged from New Zealand’s Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, McDiarmid and Rutherford, to how we can make chemistry sexy.




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Hot on the heels of all the other awards it has been collecting: A Moment of Clarity, the film by Sarah Cowhey and Louise Davidson has been selected for screening in the 9th annual Planet in Focus International Environmental Film & Video Festival, which takes place October 22nd-26th in Toronto. Read More...

Octavia Cade, a student in the MSciComm in Creative Nonfiction Writing, will be doing an internship at "Cosmos" magazine.





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Kim Hill and Dr Greg Waite, Head of the Department of English






Kim Hill, New Zealand’s premier radio personality, last night delivered a Distinguished Communicator Lecture co-hosted by the Department of English and the Centre for Science Communication.
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