Integrity in Science: Climate Debate Implications

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Wed Jun 02 2010 12:00:00 GMT+1200 (New Zealand Standard Time)

Integrity in Science: Climate Debate Implications

Wednesday, 2 June 2010, 12:33 pm
Press Release: Victoria University of Wellington

Integrity in Science: Implications for the Climate Change Debate

A seminar by Professor Sir Peter Gluckman

5.00 pm Wednesday 9 June 2010
Government Buildings, Lecture Theatre One, Victoria
University’s Pipitea Campus, Wellington

Professor Sir Peter D Gluckman KNZM FRSNZ FMedSci FRS is Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister. He is also University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Biology and Director Emeritus in the Liggins Institute University of Auckland and Programme Director, Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences. His own research spans from molecular to economic, encompassing the regulation of fetal and postnatal development, the long term consequences to poor start to life, and the evolutionarymedical interface. This has an agricultural as well as human perspective. He has taken an active role in promoting public engagement with science.

This event is one of the Key Policy Challenges Facing New Zealand seminars, a series of six being presented by the School of Government and the Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University. The final one to follow is: Professor John Hattie National Education Standards for New Zealand 5.30 pm Wednesday 16 June Government Buildings, lecture theatre three For full details go to either the School of Government website (http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sog) or the Institute of Policy Studies website (http://ips.ac.nz)

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