International Faculty Affiliations
As New Zealand's largest university, and leading research institution, The University of Auckland offers its faculties, staff and students a strong platform for international recognition. Many of The University of Auckland’s faculties and research institutes belong to specialised international networks, affiliations and associations.
The Faculty of Arts is a member of the Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Arts (DASSH), which promotes the arts, social sciences, and humanities in Australasia and internationally.
The University’s Auckland Bioengineering Institute is involved in two key international collaborations:
The Integrative Biology Project
The Integrative Biology Project brings together an international consortium of leading biomedical and computing researchers to address two of the most important problems in clinical medicine today: understanding what causes heart failure and how cancer tumours develop and grow.
The Wellcome Trust Heart Physiome Project
The Wellcome Trust Heart Physiome Project is a five-year international collaborative effort between the universities of Auckland and Oxford to develop a multi-scale modelling framework for the heart that can be used for addressing a wide range of scientific and clinical questions.
AOTULE
The Faculty of Engineering is a member of the Asia Oceania Top University League of Engineering (AOTULE). Formed in 2007, this network of institutions focused on Engineering, is focused on improving the quality of engineering education and research and on facilitating international collaboration among 12 leading universities in the Asia-Oceania region. Through the exchange of information, students, faculty members and staff among the top ranking engineering universities in the Asia-Oceania region the AOTULE members have established strong collaborative relationships.
International Association of Law Schools
The University’s Faculty of Law is the only New Zealand member of the International Association of Law Schools (IALS). This is a non-profit organisation founded in 2005 with a membership of educational institutions, associations, and legal educators from throughout the world. In particular, its members are committed to the proposition that the quality of legal education in any society is improved when students learn about other cultures and legal systems and the diverse approaches to solving legal problems employed in those legal systems.
IUCN Academy of Environmental Law and Global Ecological Integrity Group
The Law Faculty’s New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law also has a number of international collaborations and affiliations. It is a founding member of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, a global network of universities teaching and researching in the area of environmental law. It also coordinates the Global Ecological Integrity Group, a global network of over 250 environmental scholars in the areas of ecology, biology, philosophy, public health, economics and law.
