Podcast appearances and mentions of teresa cowie

What happens when a pandemic hits and the country is locked down? How can we help keep New Zealanders connected? In collaboration with Sue Berman, Principal Oral History Advisor Auckland Libraries, staff at Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage got on Zoom and hatched a plan to use free online software to encourage nine oral historians from various communities around the country to collect short oral histories with our support. Thirty-five stories with Ngāti Porou, LGBTQI community members, rural Pākehā, health workers, musicians, young Mums, Pacific Island New Zealanders, Northland community workers and Chinese New Zealanders were the result. In this talk Tuaratini will discuss her involvement in the project as a community interviewer, while radio producer and journalist Teresa Cowie will describe her experience working on the creative output of the oral histories. The resulting weekly podcast series, ‘Kei roto i te miru: inside the bubble', launched on 25 March this year based on the interviews undertaken during the 2020 Covid-19 lockdown.   These monthly Public History Talks are a collaboration between the National Library of New Zealand and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.

For many of us our mobile phones are now like an extension of our arms - and for some that means they follow us everywhere, even into the shower. Wellington's Sustainability Trust says it's coming across increasing numbers of homes where household members are checking social media and crack into another episode of whatever we're binge watching as the shower cascades over their shoulders. It says the habit is a huge problem for households trying to live more sustainably. Teresa Cowie has been talking to some of those who have been getting themselves in hot water over their long showers.

Reporter Teresa Cowie has written a piece for the RNZ Indepth site exploring the complicated world of women requesting a caesarean section birth without any medical reasons.

"My body my choice" but when it comes to giving birth, what if a woman's choice is to have a caesarean section? Caesareans that don't have a medical reason are not funded by the health system, the procedure is available privately, but is it fair women who can afford the $6000 fee for private maternity can choose one and others who can't miss out? RNZ Indepth reporter Teresa Cowie has been finding out.

Teresa Cowie talks to Victoria University of Wellington environmental law professor Catherine Iorns about how giving human-style rights to nature could protect our waterways.

Professor Tim Naish, from Victoria University of Wellington’s Antarctic Research Centre, has seen ice shelves the size of the Canterbury region of New Zealand disappear in two months. He discusses his research with Teresa Cowie.

Teresa Cowie talks to water expert Dr Mike Joy from Victoria University of Wellington. He challenges the idea that farming is king in New Zealand.

Insight - Touted as a cure for diabetes, epilepsy and doomed New Year's resolutions to lose weight, the Keto diet is taking off in popularity. Insight reporter Teresa Cowie asks - it is a trend or a treatment?

With New Zealand's population about to hit 5 Million for the first time Insight's reporter Teresa Cowie talks to five 5-year-olds from around the country to find out what it’s like to be 'the big 0-5' in Aotearoa today and what's changed from when their parents headed off to school. 

Dairy's huge role earning export dollars for New Zealand is facing a threat some say could bring it to its knees. Lab-grown milk protein is now stepping outside niche cheese and ice cream markets and into the bulk ingredient arena. Teresa Cowie investigates how much of a threat synthetic products pose to our dairy industry.

Volunteering is facing a crisis. Teresa Cowie investigates how essential services can survive as more and more people decide they can't make on going commitments to help out.  

Insight - What if your beloved has dementia and doesn't know who you are anymore? Is it all right to start a new relationship with someone else? Teresa Cowie explores the tangle of emotions, family reaction and legal issues that can emerge

Insight - With a cannabis referendum on the horizon Teresa Cowie talks to NZ's businesses gearing up for a possible law change

Mobile phones in schools are being accused of derailing learning and causing bitter squabbles between teachers and students as they try to police every ding, vibration and social media notification. When students in France return to school after the northern Summer break phones will be banned in their school by law. Insight's reporter Teresa Cowie has been asking students here what they think about phone bans.

Insight's senior specialist reporter, Teresa Cowie visits New Zealand's Drug Court to find out how it works and if it's worth the money to keep it going.

Teresa Cowie explores whether mobile phones should be banned in schools.

Teresa Cowie takes a look at New Zealand’s growing competitive video game industry.

A building boom in Auckland, open plan offices and classrooms and urban intensification - Teresa Cowie has been out onto the streets and into homes asking about noise levels and what all that racket is doing to our well-being.

After a wet winter, and in some places a drenched summer before that, Teresa Cowie asks if it’s possible to design cities that can cope with the increasing extreme weather being driven by climate change. 

NZers are sending more waste to the dump. Teresa Cowie asks why and explores whether there are bigger,undetected issues

The government is working on plans to get community providers to hand over clients' names and details in order to improve systems, but Teresa Cowie asks how much personal data should we be willing to give up in exchange for social services.

Demand for medical cannabis is growing, Teresa Cowie investigates how patients are coping with living in an 'illegal limbo'

What would you do if your child constantly told you they'd been born in the wrong body? Insight's reporter Teresa Cowie talks to parents about the constant judgement they face, the worries and the practicalities around bringing up a transgender child.  

Teresa Cowie heads inside two of New Zealand's prisons to find out more about rehabilitation programmes and whether they are working.

Teresa Cowie delves into the complicated world of cleaning franchises amid accusations that wages are being driven down, workers are losing their jobs, clients are confused and some franchisees are losing out.

Teresa Cowie explores the expanding labour hire sector amid accusations that some workers are being exploited.

Teresa Cowie asks can New Zealand cope with rapidly growing tourism and the negative side effects it brings?

Teresa Cowie explores profiling for potential child harm

Teresa Cowie explores whether the government's sell off of state housing will lead to better homes for the poor

Teresa Cowie investigates if online video gaming has negative effects or if it is just the latest frontier in sport

Teresa Cowie revisits six babies in the long term study Growing Up in NZ as the second round of information is released

Teresa Cowie looks at the first results to come from a new longitudinal study about growing up in 21st century NZ.

Teresa Cowie looks at the lives of 2 families and asks whether the Whanau Ora plan will make any difference

Teresa Cowie looks at the controversy surrounding the attempt to set up the first wet house for homeless alcoholics

Teresa Cowie talks to grandparents who have opted to raise a grandchild and asks what burdens this can impose.