17 April 2019
The Condliffe Annual Memorial Lecture took place on 1 April 2019 hosted by the Department of Economics and Finance of the UC Business School. Professor of Economics, Business and Public Policy at University of California, Berkeley, Steve Tadelis, engaged the audience with his talk ‘Using Economics to Engineer Trust in Online Markets.’
15 April 2019
UCE Students Luke Campbell and Lucy Turner (both BSc) are on a mission to make voicemails more efficient with their business, Vxt - a voicemail inbox app that converts users’ voicemails to text and gives users smart tools to deal with a large amount of voicemail.
01 April 2019
Robotic retailers, traveling by virtual reality, and pilotless planes are just some of the ideas that University of Canterbury students had for how digital disruption and emerging technologies will impact the future of travel.
19 March 2019
Millie Morgan and Chelsea Aitken, two students highly involved with the UC Centre for Entrepreneurship, won the Dream Believe Succeed Big Break award last Tuesday night. The award recognises the potential of their impressive new venture, New Zealand and Beyond
11 March 2019
UCE disrupt is a series of intense two-day challenges that provide students the opportunity to test their creative thinking, teamwork and presentation skills. The 2019 series kicked off this weekend with the Marketing Smackdown!
08 March 2019
The University of Canterbury is understood to be the first and only New Zealand university to be led by two women. For the first time in its nearly 150-year history, UC is led by two women – lawyer and UC alumna Sue McCormack as its new Chancellor, and former Vice-Chancellor of South Africa’s largest research university Professor Cheryl de la Rey as UC’s new Vice-Chancellor.
05 March 2019
Newly released enrolment figures for 2019 show student numbers continue to be on the rise at the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha, with plans to build on this success with the largest residential building project in the University’s history.
05 March 2019
Department of Economics and Finance Professor Jedrzej Bialkowski recently won the Boyle, Lally, and Rose prize for best overall paper at the 2019 New Zealand Finance Colloquium (NZFC).
01 March 2019
Dr Ronán Feehily was recently invited to speak at a Symposium on Restorative Justice at Harvard Law School.
18 February 2019
Newly published research has shown the important role social media can play supporting health and wellbeing following a disaster.