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USP RESEARCHJ A N U A R Y - M A R C H , 2 0 1 9 V O L . 2 - I S S U E 1

Bula Vinaka and welcome to the first issue of the 2019

Research Newsletter. The year has begun with news of some

very exciting projects. First, congratulations to everyone

involved in the “One Ocean Hub” Global Challenges

Research Fund team who have been spectacularly successful

in winning one of the largest research grants in USP’s

history. The project involves all three faculties as well as

Pace-SD and is an example of the transdisciplinary work

that our researchers are involved in, focused on one of the

biggest challenges facing this region. A second big success

has been the launch of our Innovation Hub in partnership

with UNDP. This initiative is already bringing staff and

students together from across many disciplines and

building collaborations with private and public sector

stakeholders. I am looking forward now to building on this

work to establish a regional network of Innovation Hubs

based at USP campuses.

Creating a Culture

of ResearchProfessor Derrick Armstrong

I N T H I S I S S U E :

USP BECOMES PART OF

THE ONE OCEAN HUB

THE UNDP-USP

INNOVATION HUB

RESEARCHER PROFILES

RESEARCH IMPACT -

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

OUTLOOK

RETROSPECT: A LOOK

BACK AT LAST YEAR

The Pacific is no stranger to the challenges facing its ocean. With

almost ninety-eight percent of the Pacific region covered by the

ocean, its extensive resources are central to the lives and future

prosperity of Pacific Island peoples. For this reason, USP's

success in securing the research grant and becoming part of the

One Ocean Hub is all the more significant for the member

countries it serves.

The One Ocean Hub is led by the University of Strathclyde with

24 research partners and 35 project partner organisations. The

USP team of researchers include Associate Professors Gilianne

Brodie and Ann Cheryl Armstrong, Professors Jeremy Hills and

Matthew Allen, Dr. Morgan Wairiu, Katy Soapi and P-J

Bordahandy, as well as Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research,

Innovation, and International, Professor Derrick Armstrong.

The Hub aims to transform the response to urgent challenges

facing the world's ocean through research that bridges the

disconnections between law, science, and policy. It strives to

empower the communities, women and children, most reliant

upon the oceans, to inform decisions based on multiple values

and knowledge systems.

USP Researchers Part of the

One Ocean Hub

Shaiza Janif

A third exciting development that I want to highlight here

is the work of Dr Nick Rollings and the “Flying Labs” team*.

I was fortunate to get the chance recently to spend some

time with this team during a visit to the University by

DFAT’s Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Scientist, Dr

Sarah Pearson. This work on the development and uses of

drone technology is a wonderful example of how the

University is addressing significant regional issues such as

disaster management, community mapping, resource

monitoring, etc through interdisciplinary research-led

innovation. These examples illustrate the rich diversity of

solution-focused work being done by involving staff and

students.

P H O T O B Y M A R T I N R . S M I T H

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*The next issue of the USP Research newsletter will provide an in-depth coverage on the Flying Labs project.

There are five core themes of the project:

Global Law for Integrated Ocean

Management; Emotionally connecting with

the Ocean; Sustainable and Equitable

Fisheries in an Ecosystem context; Offshore

(non-fisheries) marine resources for a

sustainable blue economy; and

Transformative Governance for an

Inclusive, Innovative and responsible Blue

Society. USP researchers are centrally

involved in all the themes and are

coleading two of the thematic research

projects.

Participants of the One Ocean Hub workshop in Laucala, Suva.Picture: USP SPAC

(Seated from L-R): Professor Derrick Armstrong, Professor Elisa Morgera, HerExcellency Melanie Hopkins, British High Commissioner, and Professor PalAhluwalia, Vice-Chancellor and President of USP, with the One Ocean Hub

team at USP during the launch.Picture: USP SPAC

February 18th marked the beginning of a week-long

One Ocean Hub Inception Phase Regional Workshop

hosted at the University of the South Pacific, Suva

Campus. The key objectives of the workshop were to:

• Engage in substantive discussions among research

partners;

• Develop a culturally appropriate Code of Conduct

with monitoring, communication strategy and training;

• Finalise management and governance structure; and

• Expand on the Hubs Theory of Change.

Towards the end of the workshop the Pacific Launch of

the One Ocean Hub took place at the USP's Laucala

Campus on the 22nd of February.

DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE

The University Research is off to a great start in 2019with almost $350K already awarded for researchprojects commencing this year. The University is alsolooking into reviewing and updating the StrategicResearch Themes to ensure our research remainssignificant for the Pacific. Our Research Office is always looking for ways andmeans to encourage both staff and students to delveinto creative scholarship, whether through researchprojects, seminars or thesis. The ResearchOffice's core functions (Research PolicyDevelopment, Research Promotion and Incentives,

Postgraduate Research Student Support, ResearchFunding, Research Performance Monitoring, andStaff Training) are geared towards undertakingresearch that improves the livelihood of the Pacificpeople while achieving international recognition. It is my hope that you will find the researchsummaries and profiles in this issue of USP Researchsufficiently reflective of the ongoing work at theUniversity. Professor Jito VanualailaiDirector Research



The sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-6) was published on

the 13th of March, in time for the Fourth United Nations

Environmental Assembly. Among the 250 scientists and experts

who authored the report, Professor Jeremy Hills was the sole

contributor from the Pacific Islands.

Professor Hills has over 20 years of experience in research and

consultancy in coastal and marine environments. Having

previously worked in over 40 countries with a range of national,

international institutions, and research organisations Professor

Hills was well placed to take on the challenging task.

When speaking of the GEO-6 experience, Professor Hill

highlighted the importance of involving Pacific Island experts in

such ventures. He stated that “people in the Pacific are highly

reliant on the natural resources, especially those from the ocean,

thus sustainability of the environment is a key issue to the future

of our region. In addition, it is important to internationally

recognise the traditional knowledge and tenure systems of the

Pacific, which need to be embedded in future initiatives for

sustainability.”

Research Impact - Global

Environment Outlook

Shaiza Janif

An Innovation Hub and co-working space

was launched by The University of the

South Pacific (USP) and the United

Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

at the Laucala Campus on 1 February

2019. Professor Derrick Armstrong,

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research &

International welcomed everyone saying

the gathering was not only to launch the

Innovation Hub, but also to celebrate the

critical role that collaborative

partnerships play in supporting and

increasing innovative outcomes.

In his address, Professor Pal Ahluwalia,

Vice-Chancellor and President especially

acknowledged Mr Bakhodir Burkhanov

and other guests for engaging in

meaningful partnerships committed to

supporting innovation and accelerating

the implementation of Sustainable

Development Goals in the Pacific. “It is a

massive accolade for a developing

country university and we are the

premier institution in the region but we

cannot sit back on our laurels and say

that we have made it,” he said. “It is these

kind of initiatives that are so vital to

make sure that we stay at the forefront of

where we need to be,” he added.

Professor Ahluwalia commented that

innovation is all about USP’s engagement

with industry and development partners,

among others.

UNDP-USP

Innovation HubUSP Communications Unit

Professor Pal Ahluwalia, USP Vice-Chancellor and President and Mr Bakhodir Burkhanov, UNDPResident Representative for the Pacific (garlanded) with team members from USP and UNDP .

Picture: USP SPAC

The GEO-6 can be accessed online at:https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/global-environment-outlook-6




At the opening of Shaping Up: Pacific Research

Symposium on Sport and Sustainable Development on

19th of June, 2018 , The President of Fiji, His

Excellency Jioji Konousi Konrote announced that the

Research Office will be introducing a new scholarship

with a focus on sports .This scholarship is a

collaboration between USP and the Oceania National

Olympic Committee (ONOC) and is designed to build

the research capacity at USP in line with the

University’s strategic research themes, strengthen the

evidence base on the contribution of sport to

sustainable development, and inform policy

development and regional investments in and through

sports in Pacific Island countries.

The Pacific Regional Sports Research Scholarship was

officially launched on the 9th of September, 2018 by

the former Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor

Rajesh Chandra during a special side event in

conjunction with the 49th Pacific Islands Forum

Leaders Meeting in Nauru. Applications for the

scholarship were open for a month in late 2018 and

early 2019. The scholarship was offered to three

individuals from USP member countries, all of whom

have a background in sports.

The pioneers of the Pacific Regional Sports Research

Scholarship are: Kiali Molu of Tuvalu, Koini Vuli of

Fiji, and Taburimai Tewaki of Kiribati. During the

yearlong scholarship, candidates will work with their

assigned supervisors on their chosen research topic

and they may even get a chance to gain industry

experience.

USP & ONOC

CollaborationAnushka Maharaj

The USP Library together with the Research Office,

facilitated Information Research Skills workshop for

new students during the Orientation Week on Laucala

Campus. The Information Research Skills workshop

was specifically designed for first year undergraduate

students at USP. The workshop introduced students to

research as a process that involves reflection,

learning, and making connections. Students were

guided through learning activities to recognise when

information is needed, and learning to locate,

evaluate, and effectively use the needed information.

The workshop built up on the Academic Writing &

Academic Honesty workshop conducted by Student

Learning Support Specialists focusing on finding

relevant information and referencing while

introducing research skills as life skills.

USP Library & Research

Office Hosts IRS During

O-WeekShaiza Janif

First year students at the Information Research Skills Workshop at LaucalaCampus during the Orientation Week, Semester I, 2019.


For Dr Danielle Watson, policing research is an

exciting area to be involved in. Her interest in the

protection services and academia led her into research

to improve security provisions and allowed her to exist

in both worlds. Danielle specialises in police and

civilian relations with a particular interest in hotspot

policing, police recruitment and training, and policing

in developing countries. She is also passionate about

education, specifically graduate supervision and

advancements in tertiary teaching and learning.

Dr Watson’s PhD investigated language and power

relationships between police and residents of

marginalised high crime communities. Her best

research experience to date has been data collection

for her PhD. She spent 6 months working with police

officers in one of the high crime areas in her country.

“I witnessed reports being taken, suspects being

brought in, and officers being ‘human’ (misplacing

stationery, journals and pieces of paper with reports). I

ate when they ate and went on patrol when they did; I

also shared their frustrations over staffing and other

resource shortage issues. I imagine this was as close as

I’d ever come to being a police officer”, she quipped.

“After my PhD, it was confirmed that policing research

was what I wanted to do.” In addition, seeing the

struggles of many of her peers in their research

programmes and being bothered by the supervisory

nightmare stories, inspired her towards research on

graduate supervision. “I figured we are talking about

this problem, so why not write about it in a way that

may positively impact change?”

Dr Watson has published a book titled ‘Reimagining

Graduate Supervision in Developing Contexts’. Her

motivation for this was derived from the lack of

existing literature for supervision in the Pacific

context. Much of the graduate research supervision

literature referenced in the developing world is from

the Global North. “I find this not only a continued

colonial knowledge authority buy-in, but a

shortcoming on our part as Global South scholars.”

Research Profile: Danielle Watson

Adiel Gounder


Coming from a developing country in the Caribbean,

she believes none of the existing literature prepared

supervisors there either and as a researcher from the

Global South doing research in the Global South, she

believes she can make a valid contribution for what

accounts for supervisory best practices. “When you

enter a strange territory, you don’t bring a tour guide

from your country, you find one locally. My approach

with this project is the same – use local perspectives as

the foundation from which supervisory best practices

are developed. Reimagining Graduate Supervision in

Developing Contexts, in my opinion, was a much

needed first step”, explained Dr Watson.

As much as she has accomplished as an emerging

researcher, Dr Watson is yet to regard anything she has

written as her greatest achievement or contribution to

the field. “Ask me that question in the next 10 years

when the wisdom hairs (greys) start to manifest.” As for

future plans, Dr Watson aims to develop USP’s research

profile on regional security. “Dr Sara Amin and I are

currently editing a volume which looks specifically at

different dimensions of security in the Pacific. In

addition to that, I am working with several scholars on

policing related research in Tuvalu, Solomon Islands

and Guam.”

Lecturer - School of Social Sciences

FALE


Nikhil Singh commenced his Masters of Science in

Engineering under the Graduate Assistant Scholarship

sponsored by the USP Research Office. In 2017, Nikhil

received the Vice-Chancellor’s prize for his

involvement in the invention of a Braille Slate. This

tool provided an innovative and low cost solution to

enable visually impaired children to learn the Braille

language. He is also the recipient of the Institute of

Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) award for

the top project in the IEEE Young Engineers’

Humanitarian Challenge 2016 for the same invention.

Nikhil’s current research interest is primarily in the

area of signal processing and fractional order design

and implementation. During his undergraduate

studies; however, he developed an interest in

microprocessor applications and analog circuit

designs. “When I was in my final year, I thought, why

not use this interest to benefit the community. It was

then that my supervisor, Dr. Utkal Mehta, gave the idea

to develop a teaching tool to aid braille learning for

the visually impaired community from early

childhood”, said Nikhil.

On his current research interest, “Fractional order

filter design is a very new and exciting field of

research. Since it’s still evolving, many researchers

including myself have developed interest in developing

fractional models of filters and implementation on

hardware.” His best research experience thus far was

developing algorithms for fractional order filter

implementation in his Masters and practically

verifying it on a Field Programmable Analog Array

(FPAA).

Research Profile: Nikhil Singh

Adiel Gounder


He believes his biggest achievement and contribution

to the field though was putting smiles on the faces of

visually impaired children with a toy like tool to help

them to learn braille in a fun way from early childhood

stage and obtaining a patent grant from Australian

government.

He would advise students who intend to pursue

research, to identify their interest and streamline it

with research objectives to solve a current issue faced

by the global community. “USP now offers research in

various areas as there are experts in every field to

guide and support new researchers.”

Nikhil graduated with a Masters of Science in

Engineering degree from USP during the 2019 March

graduation ceremony. As for his future plans, he aims

to continue aligning his research interest to his

passion for helping socially and economically

challenged communities in the Pacific.

Masters of Science in Engineering

FSTE


Picture: Pro Photos Fiji

Retrospect: A Look Back at Last Year

The Sustainable Transport Project, initiated by a seed

fund provided by USP in 2012, got closer to the solution

of developing alternative sea-transport options for

Oceanic communities when it received an initial

investment of USD2.5 – 3.0m from the China Navigation

Company on 13 November 2018, to build a low cost, low

carbon, low tech freighter. The construction of the

freighter would be managed by USP’s Micronesian

Centre for Sustainable Transport (MCST), an output of

the SRT project.

The SRT project 'Maximizing the Contribution of Sport

to Economic and Social Development of Pacific Island

Countries: The case of Fiji and Samoa', funded in early

2018 by USP and the governments of Fiji and Samoa,

and led by Seone Lolesio of the School of Economics,

played a central role in informing policy makers in

ministries of sports and sports coordinating bodies in

the Pacific Islands on the status of sports in the region.

The report it produced (of the same name) was

presented at the Forum Economic Ministers Meeting in

Palau (April 2018), at the inaugural Shaping Up Pacific

Research Symposium on Sport (June 2018) and at the

Pacific Islands Leaders Meeting (August 2018). The

Symposium was co-hosted by USP, the Oceania

National Olympic Committee (ONOC) and the Pacific

Islands Forum Secretariat. At the Symposium, USP and

ONOC announced a jointly funded Pacific Regional

Sports Research Scholarship programme. The new

scholarships are designed to build the research

capacity at USP in line with the University’s strategic

research themes.


Jito Vanualailai

Research Impact in the Region

Sustainable Transport in the Pacific Island Countries

Sports Development in the Pacific Island Countries

Mr Winston Thompson, Pro-Chancellor and Chair of USP Council, Mr AlbonIshoda, Charge D’Affaires at the RMI Embassy, Honourable Inia Seruiratu, Fiji

Minister for Agriculture, Rural and Maritime Development and NationalDisaster Management and Meteorological Services and Professor Derrick

Armstrong, USP Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation andInternational (in garland) with participants of the Forum and Expo.

Picture: USP SPAC

The South Pacific Region’s first ever Bioprospecting

Samples Database (BSD), created by the Institute of

Applied Science (IAS), was jointly launched on 20 July

2018. Officially launching the BSD were Chief Guests,

Dr Winifereti Nainoca, United Nations Development

Progamme (UNDP) Environment Team Leader; Mr

Joshua Wycliffe, Permanent Secretary for Ministry of

Environment (MoE); Mr Naipote Katonitabua,

Permanent Secretary for iTaukei Affairs (MTA) and Dr

Johann Poinapen, IAS Director. The BSD was funded by

the Global Environment Facility (GEF) - Nagoya

Protocol Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) project,

implemented in Fiji by UNDP with project partners

MoE, the MTA and IAS. Dr Poinapen stated that the

project allowed his staff to share their knowledge

through training community members in taxonomy

including the collection and identification of marine

samples, and that reciprocally, they gained

complementary traditional knowledge in their

dealings with the communities.

Bioprospecting Samples Database Project

To read more on Strategic Research Themes [SRTs] please visit:www.research.usp.ac.fj/SRT



A cohort of regional professionals and researchers

with firsthand knowledge and experience in climate

change adaptation and disaster risk management

undertook training between August – October 2018 at

the Pacific Technical and Further Education (Pacific

TAFE) for the inaugural Certificate IV in Resilience

(Climate Change Adaptation & Disaster Risk

Reduction). According to Dr. Helene Jacot Des Combes

from the Pacific Centre for Environment & Sustainable

Development (PaCE-SD), this had been enabled

through the support of the EU-PacTVET project,

funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented

in conjunction with The Pacific Community. The

€6.2m-Euro project covers 15 countries in the Pacific –

African, Caribbean and Pacific countries with the aim

of developing technical and vocational qualifications

on resilience (climate change adaptation and disaster

risk reduction) and sustainable energy at the regional

level. In fact, the Pacific is leading the way globally in

the development of resilience qualifications at the

regional level. Dr. Helene Jacot Des Combes

emphasised the importance of moving beyond the

workshops and trainings given to Pacific Islanders.

The project is expected to be completed in 2019.

Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster RiskManagement.The findings of a Literacy and Leadership Initiative

(LALI) overseen by the Tonga Campus-based Institute

of Education (IOE) was presented to Hon. Penisimani

‘Epenisa Fifita, the Minister for Education in Tonga on

14 June 2018. They were also presented to H. E. Ms.

Tiffany Babington, the New Zealand High

Commissioner to Tonga at the Lopaukamea Hall at

USP’s Tonga Campus on 14 June 2018 by the IOE staff

led by Associate Professor Eve Coxon, the Project

Director Dr. ‘Ana Maui Taufe‘ulungaki and Dr. Seu’ula

Johansson-Fua, Tonga Campus Director. The Pacific

Literacy and School Leadership Programme (PLSLP),

which was run in the Cook Islands, Solomon Islands

and fifteen (15) Government primary schools in Tonga,

was initiated by New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign

Affairs and Trade (MFAT) and in collaboration with

the University of Auckland (UA), IOE and the

Ministries of Education. The 4-year project was

designed to improve student literacy learning in

primary schools, improve teacher practice in the

classroom, improve school leadership practices, and

build strong foundations at Ministerial level. The

design-based research method of project delivery

meant teachers and principals were given the

opportunity to engage with their own data, make their

meanings from the data and use it to inform their own

school and classroom planning.

LALI Project

The Institute of Applied Sciences (IAS) was awarded a

blue carbon habitat restoration contract to pilot the

use of Blue Carbon in local mitigation of Ocean

Acidification (OA) in Fiji, in October 2018. The

contract, which was valued at USD 89,999, would be

funded by the Ocean Foundation as part of their blue

carbon restoration initiative in the Pacific Islands. Led

by Dr Katy Soapi, the IAS Manager for the Pacific

Natural Products Research Centre (PNPRC) and

supported by the IAS Environment Unit Scientific

Officers, the project aimed to understand the dynamics

of OA parameters before, during and after restoration

of mangrove habitat.

Local Mitigation of Ocean Acidification Project

PNPRC Manager Dr Katy Soapi led by trainers at the University of Hawaii inAugust 2018

Picture: The Ocean Foundation


The Pacific Peoples’ Research Skill [PPRS] Symposium

and pre-symposium workshop was held from the 28-30

August 2018. The symposium showed how people

across all levels of USP and other Pacific institutions

engage willingly and with passion in the explicit,

coherent and incremental development of the research

capacity of the people in the region. The pre-

symposium workshop saw 39 registered and attending

one of three targeted streams. The first stream was for

those who did not know the Research Skill

Development [RSD] framework, and the second stream

was for those who had inherited RSD rubrics, but did

not understand the underlying rationale for using the

RSD. The third stream was for those who had been

using the RSD in individual courses to consider

program-level connections enabled by the RSD.

The launch of the PPRS symposium by the Attorney

General & Education Minister of Fiji showed the

interest by Fiji government in the RSD initiative, and

the culmination of the event with the announcement

by the DVC (Education) of a follow up symposium in

2020 demonstrated the high level of support from the

University. The keynote by Professor Unaisi Walu

Nabobo-Baba, a renowned alumni of USP, surveyed 50

years of USP research, focusing on key researchers

over that period and the influence of their research

within the institution and across the people, lands,

oceans and governments of the region. The keynote by

Professor Geoffrey Crisp brought current international

perspectives on assessment and technology. Close to

100 academics and administrators participated in this

event.

Shaiza Janif

Pacific People's Research Skills


Participants of the Pacific People's Research Skills Symposium with the Chief GuestHon. Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum



The annual research awards evening was held on the

15th of November, 2018 at the Japan-Pacific ICT

Multipurpose Theatre. The Chief Guest for the event

was Professor Alan Peter France, a Professor of

Sociology from the University of Auckland, New

Zealand. More than 170 staff and students were

rewarded for their high quality publications (ranked

A*, A and B) published in the previous year (2017), with

over 180 publication titles being recognised.

In addition, the rewards event recognised three (3)

USP inventions that had received patent certification

from the Australian Government and registered under

the Australian Patents Act in 2018. The Patents

include:

a) Foot Steps Waste Energy Harvesting System Using

Hydro Generator– By Dr Kabir Mamun, Dr F.M. Rabiul

Islam, Professor Maurizio Cirrincione, Shamal

Chandra, and Rishay Deo

b) An Emi Sensor For Non-Destructive Corrosion

Estimation In Concrete System- By Dr Kabir Mamun,

Dr F.M. Rabiul Islam, Ravin Deo, Aneesh Chand, Aisake

Cakacaka, and Kushal Prasad

c) My Kana – A Mobile App To Promote Healthy Eating

In The South Pacific - By Dr Irene M. Chief, Mr Rajneel

Totaram, Dr M.G.M. Kkan, Mr Mojito Jione, and Ms

Vulori Sarai

The highlight of the rewards event was the

presentation of The 2017 Vice-Chancellor’s Prizes for

Research. These are special awards to acknowledge

those staff and students who have demonstrated

outstanding research performance through high

ranked publications, creative works, innovation; and

development and societal impacts over time. The Vice-

Chancellor’s Prize for Research Impact was awarded to

Professor Ciro Rico, Dr Susanna Piovano and Ms

Kerstin Glaus with a special mention to former team

members who have since left the University; Dr

Amandine Marie, Dr Cara Miller and Mr Celso Calwich.

This award was in recognition of their research titled

South Pacific Coastal Shark Conservation Research

Program.

Fulori Nainoca-Waqairagata2017 Research Excellence and Innovation Awards Evening

The Prize for Best Research Output was jointly

awarded to Professor Mohammed Rafiuddin Ahmed

and Sandeep Patel for their research paper on solar

chimney power plants for power generation in the

Pacific, published in an A*-ranked journal. Dr

Apisalome Movono was the second recipient of the

award recognising his A*-ranked research paper on the

ecological and social interconnectedness of the Fijian

culture on tourism development. The Prize for Best

Student Research was awarded to Ms Avnita Goundar

for her paper on sustainable sea transport for the

Pacific published in an A-ranked journal, Marine

Policy.

The Prize for Innovation was awarded to two

innovative projects; (1) Braille Eye-Slate: A device to

teach Braille script to visually impaired children,

developed, tested, and implemented by Mr Nikhil

Singh and team from the School of Engineering and

Physics and; (2) the MBA Program which was

developed and successfully applied by the Graduate

School of Business, FBE.

Ms Avnita Goundar receiving the Vice-Chancellor's Prize for BestStudent Research.


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The My Kana team with Professor France receiving certificate of recognition for their workon the mobile application to promote healthy eating in the South Pacific.

Professor Pathak receiving the Vice-Chancellor's Prize forInnovation on behalf of the Graduate School of Business .

Professor Maurizio Cirrincione and Dr Kabir Mamun receivingcertificate of recognition for obtaining patent for "Foot StepsWaste Energy Harvesting System Using Hydro Generator".

Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Armstrong, Director Research Professor Vanualailaiand Research Office staff with the Chief Guest Professor Allan France


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