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Associate Professor Krushil Watene.
When Associate Professor Krushil Watene, Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngāti Whātua o Orākei, Tonga, got the news that she had been accepted into the year-long international leadership programme, Homeward Bound, she admits she was both “thrilled and terrified”.
Dr Watene, a philosopher in the School of Humanities Media and Creative Communication, was one of a hundred women chosen from a pool of 376 applicants.
Dr Watene originally heard about the programme from colleague Dr Priscilla Wehi (Cilla) who attended the programme in 2017. “To be honest I didn’t feel I had much of a chance of being accepted as it’s for women with a background in STEMM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine).
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The Mid Ulster MLA was commenting on the publication of the latest United Nations Human Development report.
“The statistics are stark in terms of the gulf in living standards between Ireland and Britain.
“The UN report looked at life expectancy, education and income and it ranked Ireland at number two in the world. Britain, on the other hand was 13th.
“Those statistics paint a stark picture of the choice we will face in a unity referendum when we can democratically choose which future we want to belong.
“That conversation is already well underway and reports like this will only add to the case for reunification as the economic benefits have already been independently established, even before the chaos of Brexit is taken into account.