EPISODE · Mar 19, 2026 · 38 MIN
EP 205. Looking up and out at Otago.
from HEDx · host HEDx
Grant Robertson looks up and out 18 months in as Otago VC. As former Deputy PM of NZ he returns to where he studied and worked in research commercialisation, to lead change in a traditional research-intensive university. As a non-academic VC he reflects on his views as a past-President of the Otago Student Union and a 5 page letter he wrote of what was wrong with universities. He shares experience from the heart of government in how universities are perceived and what they need to do about it. And he reflects on his strategic focus of leading his colleagues to look up to a higher aspiration for students and communities, and out to broader global best practice, to both drive the change he sees is needed.
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Grant Robertson looks up and out 18 months in as Otago VC. As former Deputy PM of NZ he returns to where he studied and worked in research commercialisation, to lead change in a traditional research-intensive university. As a non-academic VC he reflects on his views as a past-President of the Otago Student Union and a 5 page letter he wrote of what was wrong with universities. He shares experience from the heart of government in how universities are perceived and what they need to do about it. And he reflects on his strategic focus of leading his colleagues to look up to a higher aspiration for students and communities, and out to broader global best practice, to both drive the change he sees is needed.
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