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Working Paper 2018/03 – Analysis of Climate Change Reporting in the Public and Private Sectors now published, demonstrating low levels of climate change reporting

by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 23, 2018 | ReportingNZ Project

New McGuinness Institute research demonstrates the low standard of climate change reporting by New Zealand’s major organisations. Working Paper 2018/03 – Analysis of Climate Change Reporting in the Public and Private Sectors, published here, found that information,...

London School of Economics course: Global Macroeconomic Issues

by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 11, 2018 | CivicsNZ Project, ForesightNZ Project, LivestockNZ Project, OneOceanNZ Project, PublicScienceNZ Project, ReportingNZ Project, StrategyNZ Project, TacklingPovertyNZ Project, TalentNZ Project

I attended the Global Macroeconomics Issues course at the London School of Economics from 11 to 15 June 2018. The teaching faculty included Gianluca Benigno (Associate Professor), Paul De Grauwe (Professor), Lorenzo Codogno (Professor), Linda Yueh (Adjunct Professor)...

London School of Economics course: Behavioural Economics and the Modern Economy

by Wendy McGuinness | Jul 10, 2018 | CivicsNZ Project, ForesightNZ Project, LivestockNZ Project, OneOceanNZ Project, PublicScienceNZ Project, ReportingNZ Project, StrategyNZ Project, TacklingPovertyNZ Project, TalentNZ Project

I attended the Behavioural Economics and the Modern Economy course at the London School of Economics (LSE) from 11 to 15 June 2018. The teaching faculty included Matthew Levy (Assistant Professor), Nava Ashraf (Professor), Erik Eyster (Professor) and Dr Kristof...

Visit from University of Canterbury Masters students

by Eleanor Merton | Jun 29, 2018 | CivicsNZ Project, ForesightNZ Project, LivestockNZ Project, OneOceanNZ Project, PublicScienceNZ Project, ReportingNZ Project, StrategyNZ Project, TacklingPovertyNZ Project, TalentNZ Project

On Tuesday 26 June, 15 Masters in policy and governance students from the University of Canterbury visited the Institute to talk to Wendy about her work in politics, governance and policy. The students were curious and engaged and had prepared a list of questions for...

CEO Research Trip Insights Discussion Evening

by Eleanor Merton | Jun 27, 2018 | CivicsNZ Project, ForesightNZ Project, LivestockNZ Project, OneOceanNZ Project, PublicScienceNZ Project, ReportingNZ Project, StrategyNZ Project, TacklingPovertyNZ Project, TalentNZ Project

Wendy McGuinness explored the insights from her overseas research trip at a discussion evening at the McGuinness Institute on 26 June 2018. In her presentation she shared her two most significant takeaways: That Europe is in the middle of a 'slow crisis of...

OECD Forum 2018: Distilling the message from the noise

by Wendy McGuinness | Jun 17, 2018 | CivicsNZ Project, ForesightNZ Project, LivestockNZ Project, OneOceanNZ Project, PublicScienceNZ Project, ReportingNZ Project, StrategyNZ Project, TacklingPovertyNZ Project, TalentNZ Project

About the OECD Forum, 29 to 30 May 2018 Over two days 3000 attendees came together in Paris to hear some of the 80+ sessions and explore ‘What brings us together?’. Discussions were loosely structured around three central and connected themes: inclusive growth,...

McGuinness Institute Newsletter Issue 19 out now!

by Eleanor Merton | Jun 1, 2018 | CivicsNZ Project, ForesightNZ Project, LivestockNZ Project, Nation Dates, OneOceanNZ Project, PublicScienceNZ Project, ReportingNZ Project, StrategyNZ Project, TacklingPovertyNZ Project, TalentNZ Project

This newsletter shares our updated work programme, giving you a summary of what we have been doing since our last newsletter in May 2017 and detailing what we hope to achieve before the end of the year. Our work programme this year is focused on the 10 year...

CivicsNZ think piece and working paper published

by Eleanor Merton | May 30, 2018 | CivicsNZ Project

Think Piece 29 – Civics and Citizenship Education in New Zealand: A case for change? and Working Paper 2018/02 – Civics and Citizenship Education in New Zealand Schools: Current state have now been published as accompanying documents to the Policy Quarterly (vol 3,...

Think Piece 28 – Biological Corridors Throughout New Zealand now published

by Eleanor Merton | May 11, 2018 | ForesightNZ Project, OneOceanNZ Project

Wendy McGuinness has crystallised her vision for walking the length of New Zealand through conservation land with the newly published Think Piece 28 – Biological Corridors Throughout New Zealand. This think piece was the culmination of an idea Wendy has been fostering...

Institute presents ReportingNZ findings to the XRB

by Wendy McGuinness | May 11, 2018 | ReportingNZ Project

The McGuinness Institute presented the findings from the 2017 Extended External Reporting Surveys to the XRB (External Reporting Board) board members on 2 May 2018. The presentation focused largely on the importance of transparent reporting on climate change issues in...