Speeches 2014 – 18

June 2018

12 June 2018

Media release: Sir Peter Gluckman congratulates Professor Juliet Gerrard on her appointment as next Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor

12 June 2018

Media release on Discussion paper on preventing youth offending in New Zealand

May 2018

29 May 2018

Media release: Report on methamphetamine contamination in New Zealand residential properties

April 2018

6 April 2018

Knowledge brokerage in an age of rapid technological change – Speech at Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference 2018

February 2018

23 February 2018

The challenge of digitalisation – beyond the technology. Speech to D7 Ministers

January 2018

23 January 2018

Science to inspire humanity – Opening remarks in panel discussion at Congreso Futuro, Chile, 17 January

December 2017

18 December 2017

Media release: Preparing for coastal change – Ministry for the Environment climate change adaptation reports

November 2017

15 November 2017

Science diplomacy – Looking towards 2030 – IIASA 45th anniversary lecture

October 2017

19 October 2017

Will the road to 2030 be evidence paved? University of Sheffield

18 October 2017

Can science and science advice be effective bastions against the post-truth dynamic? STS series, University College London

September 2017

26 September 2017

Science advice: A bastion against the post-truth/post-trust torrent? Keynote address to the Annual Conference of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

August 2017

24 August 2017

Speech at NZ Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences: How science informs current thinking in government

3 August 2017

Speech at Royal Society Te Aparangi 150th anniversary Regional lecture: New life science technologies, social license and social consensus

July 2017

20 July 2017

State of the Nation’s Environment: Sir Peter Gluckman Address to Lincoln University

7 July 2017

Media release: Protecting and enhancing evidential input into the policy process is an important defence against the rise of post-truth polemic

June 2017

28 June 2017

Presentation at Ciencia Y Politica: Experiencias nacionales e internacionales, Buenos Aires: The changing need for science advice

22 June 2017

Address at launch of Health Research Strategy

19 June 2017

Media release: Citizen-based analytics a game-changer for informed social sector investment

May 2017

30 May 2017

Media release: Citizen-based analytics a game-changer for informed social sector investment

16 May 2017

Sir Peter Gluckman’s speech to UN STI Forum on SDGs

March 2017

17 March 2017

Presentation slides at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre workshop on skills for evidence-informed policymaking: Perspectives on science advising: what are the skills needed?

December 2016

14 December 2016

Address to 17th International Biotechnology Symposium, October 2016: New technologies and social consensus

October 2016

3 October 2016

Media release: ICSU and UNESCO to collaborate on science advice

September 2016

30 September 2016

Scene-setting address at the 2nd global meeting of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA): The multiple dimensions & challenges of the science-policy interface

29 September 2016

Blog post @The Guardian (with James Wilsdon): Scientists are giving advice but are governments listening?

15 September 2016

Media release: NHMRC fluoridation report

July 2016

25 July 2016

Address at the EuroScience Open Forum, Manchester: Science and the Sustainable Development Goals

6 July 2016

Science Policy Exchange Membership – Applications [Deadline extended]

1 July 2016

Address to the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Australian and New Zealand Food Treaty

June 2016

13 June 2016

Science Policy Exchange Membership – Applications

May 2016

20 May 2016

Presentation to the United Nations Environmental Assembly Science Policy Forum: Understanding the challenges and opportunites at the science–policy interface: domestic and global perspectives

February 2016

14 February 2016

Speech to AAAS Integrating Science into Policy session: Science advice to governments – multiple modalities, consistent principles

12 February 2016

Media release: International award recognises New Zealand’s Chief Science Advisor

10 February 2016

Address at opening of the NZ Embassy science reception in association with the AAAS Meeting

December 2015

21 December 2015

Media release: Science Advisor looks ahead to 2016 priorities

November 2015

30 November 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s remarks for Keynote Panel on Science Advice to Governments at the Canadian Science Policy Conference 2015

19 November 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s Address at the SuPERU Childhood Obesity Seminar

19 November 2015

Prime Minister’s Science Advisor Welcomes Environment Commissioner’s Report on Rising Sea Levels

4 November 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s speech to INGSA Workshop at WSF in Budapest

October 2015

15 October 2015

Opening address: Third Meeting of APEC Chief Science Advisors and Equivalents

5 October 2015

Media release – National Statement of Science Investment

September 2015

16 September 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to IPANZ on The science of stewardship and the stewardship of science

2 September 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to the RMLA: The Salmon Lecture

July 2015

21 July 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address at the Launch of the PPS Programme

7 July 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to the IGPS Symposium

June 2015

26 June 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to the E-Research 2020 Workshop

11 June 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address for the Paolo Budinich Lecture

May 2015

6 May 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to the Public Symposium on Engagement of Indigenous and Science Knowledge Systems (378KB)

1 May 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to the Christchurch Health and All Policies Conference (473KB)

April 2015

28 April 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to the NZ Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Conference (126KB)

15 April 2015

Royal Society of NZ and Office of the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Report on Asbestos Exposure in NZ(205KB)

10 April 2015

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address to the NZ Association of Scientists, “Trusting the scientist”(158 kb)

March 2015

18 March 2015

Media release – Tackling childhood obesity (101 kb)

February 2015

13 February 2015

Keynote address at AAAS Annual Meeting, “Building a Global Scientific Enterprise”

December 2014

4 December 2014

Media release – Survey reveals Kiwis’ attitudes to science (312 kb)

November 2014

7 November 2014

The future of the nexus between science, society and governments Sir Peter Gluckman’s opening address at the Science Agora meeting in Tokyo, Japan

7 November 2014

Science in Transition – bridging science, society and policy Comments by Sir Peter Gluckman at Science Agora in Japan

October 2014

15 October 2014

The art and science of policy advice: Can we embed science into the processes of government? Sir Peter Gluckman’s address at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Brussels

August 2014

29 August 2014

Media release – Science advice to governments comes of age at Auckland conference.

28 August 2014

Sir Peter Gluckman’s opening address at the Science Advice to Governments Conference, Auckland Post-normal science advising in an era of post-normal policy formation

27 August 2014

Sir Peter Gluckman’s opening speech at Auckland’s Science and Diplomacy Symposium

22 August 2014

Media release – Review finds community water fluoridation safe and effective.

19 August 2014

Media release – Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor’s annual report released.

July 2014

29 July 2014

Comments by Sir Peter Gluckman at the Launch of the Science in Society Plan

29 July 2014

Media Release – Science in Society Plan – A Nation of Curious Minds – published

28 July 2014

Media Release – Sir Peter Gluckman welcomes New Zealand Data Future Forum’s Report and Recommendations

23 July 2014

Visoneering a Future Sir Peter Gluckman gives the Inaugural Earle Lecture hosted by the Manawatu– Branch of The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand

22 July 2014

Media release – Sir Peter Gluckman welcomes appointment of Chief Education Scientific Advisor.

June 2014

23 June 2014

Science and Diplomacy Address by Sir Peter Gluckman at the European Science Open Forum in Copenhagen (ESOF 2014)

16 June 2014

Analysing linkages between science and politics. Opening Address by Sir Peter Gluckman to Siftung Mercator Conference: Interfaces of Science and Policy

May 2014

28 May 2014

Media release – Government publishes draft National Statement of Science Investment for feedback.

20 May 2014

Media release – Sir Peter Gluckman to lead global attack on Childhood Obesity.

18 May 2014

Science and public policy – reconciling two cultures. Sir Peter Gluckman gives Arthur E Mills Memorial Oration to the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (738kb)

March 2014

13 March 2014

The art of science advice to government. A commentary by Sir Peter Gluckman in Nature.

13 March 2014

A global summit on scientific advice. A piece by Professor James Wilsdon on the Guardian’s Political Science blog.

January 2014

21 January 2014

Sir Peter Gluckman’s address at the University of Sussex – Evidence based policy: a quixotic challenge?(738kb)