Covid Response
31 December 2020
Will travel ever look the same again? Professor Colin Michael Hall and colleagues from University of Oulu and Wakayama University provide expert insight in article on The Conversation.
11 December 2020
The University of Canterbury (UC) is hosting two special Graduation Celebrations on Monday 14 December for hundreds of graduates who missed graduating in person in April and again in September.
23 June 2020
UC health lecturer and Chair of the College of Emergency Nurses New Zealand, Sandy Richardson, is warning that we cannot get complacent about Covid-19. Richardson told TVNZ’s Breakfast programme that emergency nurses are worried about a second wave and that New Zealanders are no longer practising Covid-19 measures such as social distancing and washing their hands regularly.
22 June 2020
Community minded UC Law student has opened up her home to two struggling migrants workers who were made redundant during Covid-19 fallout.
17 June 2020
UC's Professor Michael Plank and Associate Professor Alex James join four academics in co-authoring article on The Conversation discussing how Covid-19 elimination is not the end, rather it's the start of the next phase, and we can't let our guard down.
10 June 2020
Under lockdown, the University of Canterbury's Student Volunteer Army has mobilised to assist vulnerable people in the community.
27 May 2020
Canadian students have been coming to the University of Canterbury (UC) to complete their teaching qualifications for some 15 years. This year the experience was quite different, but the Canadians chose to stay at UC through lockdown say they’re glad they did.
26 May 2020
Associate Professor Arindam Basu tells NZ Herald that it's an opportune time for rules to relax, but he says that people need to be completely up front and honest about their health to maintain strict contact-tracing mechanisms.
20 May 2020
A simple, low-cost technology developed by University of Canterbury (UC) engineers could save thousands of patients’ lives around the world by doubling the capacity of ventilators in hospital intensive care units, boosting their capacity to treat surges of Covid-19 patients during outbreaks.
19 May 2020
Charles Finny's work as part of the SSANSE Project at the University of Canterbury features on The Spinoff covering trade opportunities for New Zealand in a Post-Covid Future.