Sabbatical and research visitors

We welcome people who wish to conduct research or other scholarly activity with us during periods of sabbatical leave. In recent years we have hosted a number of high profile international visitors.

Please direct enquiries to the Director:

Professor Wayne Cutfield
The Liggins Institute
The University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
Email: director@liggins.auckland.ac.nz

May 2010: Professor Clare Hanson, The Centre for Contemporary Writing, The University of Southampton (UK)
Professor Hanson will visit the Liggins Institute and the Department of English on a Seelye Visiting Fellowship. She is an authority on twentieth century literature, the interplay between literature and science/medicine and popular science as a literary genre. Her current work is exploring eugenics and related concepts, including modern genomics and epigenomics, as reflected in literature. She has placed a particular focus on the role of women in literature, both in writings about women and by women.

Professor Hanson will give a public lecture “Eugenic values, eugenic costs” at The University of Auckland on 18 May 2010.

Details and bookings

A number of leading academics have visited the institute. While here, they have engaged in joint research projects and many have given public lectures and media interviews.

Previous visitors include:

• Professor Lord Robert Winston, Imperial College London
• Professor Sir Patrick Bateson, University of Cambridge. Former Biological Vice President of the Royal Society
• Professor Eric Kandel, Columbia University (USA). Nobel Laureate
• Professor Mark Hanson, Director Institute for Developmental Sciences, University of Southampton
• Professor John Challis, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Canada
• Professor Michael Meaney, McGill University, Canada
• Professor Roger Short, University of Melbourne
• Professor Ieuan Hughes, University of Cambridge
• Professor David Barker, University of Southampton