Departmental/school units and centres

Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Social and Community Health
Established: 2004
Purpose: The centre has a strong focus on current Asian health issues, and seeks to develop strategic ways to improve and visualise the health status of the fastest growing population in New Zealand.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: School Centre
Hosted by: School of Biological Sciences
Established: 2005
Mission Statement: The CBB will bring together the capabilities and infrastructure of Landcare Research and the University of Auckland to assemble cutting edge science teams that can establish world leading research, training and education programmes in the related areas of biosecurity and biodiversity. These programmes will support biosecurity and biodiversity policy and management entities at local, national and regional levels, ensuring that they have access to the most rigorous and innovative skills available.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: School Centre
Hosted by: School of Nursing
Established: 1994
Mission Statement: The Centre for Child and Family Research, Te Ara Tupuranga, is a consortium of multi-disciplinary research groups combined administratively to ensure high quality research relating to national policy issues concerning children and families. The work undertaken by the Centre typically occurs at the interface of health, welfare and education.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Social and Community Health
Established: 2001
Purpose: The Centre for Gambling Studies is committed to providing independent and quality research and learning to minimise harm from gambling and to promote gambling related wellbeing in communities.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: School Centre
Hosted by: School of Population Health
Established: 1996
Mission Statement: CHSRP aims to advance understanding of the structure, processes and effects of health services and health policy, with a view to the more effective management and delivery of services and a more efficient and equitable health system.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Mathematics
Established: 2010
Mission Statement: The Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences is a group of researchers interested in applying mathematical and computational modelling to social sciences (particularly politics and economics), based at the University of Auckland. The central topic is mathematics of collective decisions made by a group of self-motivated agents.
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Information Systems and Operations Management
Established: 2007
Mission Statement: Our mission is to develop and disseminate world-class knowledge and practices in supply chain management applicable to Australasian economies by fostering cooperation, collaboration and communication among academic researchers, educators and industry practitioners.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: School Unit
Hosted by: School of Population Health
Established: 1989
Purpose: The CTRU has a 20 year history of conducting high-quality research, in particular undertaking large multi-centre randomised trials of novel interventions for improving health. Currently the CTRU has two prestigious Health Research Council Research Programmes involving trials on smoking cessation, cardiovascular risk reduction, improved nutrition and greater physical activity. Our Research Services group undertakes contract data management and statistics work for external clients.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Physics
Established: 2008
Purpose: Subsuming the former Applied Optics Centre and the Research Unit in Quantum Optics, the centre’s research focuses on Quantum Optics, Applied Optics and Biophotonics.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Unit
Hosted by: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Established: 1983
Mission Statement: To be a centre of excellence for carrying out teaching, research and development in energy utilisation and efficiency for the benefit of New Zealand - with a particular emphasis on environmentally favourable systems.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Economics
Established: 2004
Purpose: The Centre’s research programme is focused on three broad areas: energy markets, resource and environment markets, and transport economics. Research priorities are set by the Centre and are based on conversations with partner companies, the energy sector more generally, transport agencies and government agencies. The Centre has important cross-disciplinary linkages with the School of Engineering, Engineering Science and the Transport Research Centre.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Unit
Hosted by: Department of Psychology
Established: 1984
Purpose: Experimental analysis of the individual behaviour of humans and animals under laboratory conditions, with implications for the extensions of such studies in applied areas.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering
Established: 2007
Purpose: Supported by the Institute of Measurement and Control (IMC) and New Zealand's process and manufacturing industries, the centre produces industry-relevant world class research in both industrial information and control and related human skills development. It facilitates research links and provides a focus for postgraduate research, graduate training and continuing education. This enables a more professional work force and assists NZ process/manufacturing industries to become more efficient, innovative, skilled and productive.
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Formal category: School Unit
Hosted by: School of Asian Studies
Established: 2009
Purpose: Developments in geopolitics and in our own demographic profile have prompted growing interest in the study of Islam itself and in the societies and states in which Islam is an important element. The unit aims to contribute to the wealth of research, create a network with researchers outside The University of Auckland and promote a interfaith and intercultural dialogue.
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Formal category: School Centre
Hosted by: School of European Languages and Literatures
Established: 2004
Mission Statement: The New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies (NZCLAS) is New Zealand’s only interdisciplinary research centre focussed on Latin America. The aims of the Centre are: to be a leading Asia-Pacific Centre for Latin American research and teaching; to provide an academic forum for discussion and debate on policy issues of interest to New Zealand and Latin America; and to promote dialogue between, and serve as a point of access for, scholars, officials, business people and community groups involved in the New Zealand-Latin American relationship.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Commercial Law
Established: 2008
Purpose: The New Zealand Governance Centre has been established as an interdisciplinary centre that will undertake and promote research in governance including: corporate governance; the governance of small and medium sized enterprises, and not for profits; Māori governance; and leadership
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Unit
Hosted by: Department of French
Established: 1979
Purpose: The Pacific French Research Centre undertakes research on language and literature in New Caledonia, as well as historical connections between France and New Zealand.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: School Unit
Hosted by: School of Geography
Established: 2007
Purpose: Extend conceptual and theoretical frontiers relating to academy-policy and academy-industry interactions especially in the Auckland, New Zealand, Australian and Asia-Pacific contexts. Undertake critical analytical, integrated and interdisciplinary investigations of issues, problems, initiatives and phenomena with regional and urban scope with special reference to Auckland, New Zealand, Australian and Asia-Pacifica context.

Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Psychology
Established: 1992
Purpose: The centre’s research focuses on relations between mental processes and neural structures and processes.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: School Centre
Hosted by: School of European Languages
Established: 1999
Purpose: The centre’s research focuses on the extensive historical and cultural links which New Zealand and the South Pacific share with German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia and the Low Countries.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Established: early 1990’s
Purpose: The centre’s research focuses on reproduction in the broadest sense, including the prevention of premature labour, artificial insemination and contraceptive practices.
Last annual report: 2007
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Established: 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this centre is to facilitate the coordination of earthquake engineering research projects within the department through a combination of both the structural and geotechnical research groups.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Centre
Hosted by: Department of Psychological Medicine
Established: 2003
Purpose: The centre’s research focuses on policy and practice for the assessment and treatment of infants, children and adolescents with mental health problems.
Last annual report: 2008
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Formal category: Departmental Unit
Hosted by: Department of Mechanical Engineering
Established: 1987
Purpose: The design and construction of yachts is an important industry in Auckland, and sailing and racing are popular pastimes. The primary function of the Yacht Research Unit is to coordinate and promote research and engineering activities within the University of Auckland that are related to yachts.
Last annual report: 2008
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