Feature Article
24 October 2025
Celebrating Research Excellence Awards 2025 recognise University's top researchers, research support staff and best theses.
Sustainable impact
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28 October 2025
University of Auckland researchers are working on four smart ideas to enhance resilience and sustainabilty in the country's energy needs.
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25 October 2025
Emma Fisi’ilose Guillain is challenging the silence around family violence in Vanuatu; seeking to create pathways for justice and healing within affected communities.
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24 October 2025
Mia-Mae Taitimu-Stevens research journey has been shaped by exploring her cultural connections including her Tokelau ancestry.
Arts and culture
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28 October 2025
A poetry collection about being a half-Aotearoa, half-Italian girl growing up in New Zealand has won the 2025 Phoenix prize for best Master of Creative Writing thesis.
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24 October 2025
Mia-Mae Taitimu-Stevens research journey has been shaped by exploring her cultural connections including her Tokelau ancestry.
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23 October 2025
Meeting between University of Auckland and the University of South Pacific renewed existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) while exploring innovative ways to support Pacific learners across the region.
Business and economy
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22 October 2025
Opinion: We can’t continue to treat climate adaptation as a fiscal liability – we need a transformative plan, not 'business as usual', says Sasha Maher.
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17 October 2025
From the Southern Alps to Milford Sound, dramatic landscapes take our breath away; they might also make us rethink our next purchase.
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17 October 2025
An AI tool designed to support fertility treatments has taken top honours in the Velocity $100k Challenge, alongside start-ups in space optics and live sports gaming.
Education and society
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28 October 2025
Rā Maumahara, the National Day of Commemoration for the New Zealand Wars, is marked every year on 28 October. Historian Dr Rowan Light believes it's an important chance to acknowledge and learn these histories.
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23 October 2025
A new study examines the risks of using AI in planning and policymaking, including how it could unintentionally favour some communities while overlooking others.
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21 October 2025
Opinion: How much did the Government pay for a curriculum that is so inferior to the version already mandated in our schools, and how else might we have spent that money? wonders Lisa Darragh.
Te ao Māori
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28 October 2025
Rā Maumahara, the National Day of Commemoration for the New Zealand Wars, is marked every year on 28 October. Historian Dr Rowan Light believes it's an important chance to acknowledge and learn these histories.
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24 October 2025
Mia-Mae Taitimu-Stevens research journey has been shaped by exploring her cultural connections including her Tokelau ancestry.
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24 October 2025
A shadow report for the UN warns racial discrimination is worsening.
Health and medicine
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28 October 2025
Burnout is real, but compassion fatigue may not be, says Professor Nathan Consedine.
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28 October 2025
When GPs were asked to rate themselves for compassion, researchers found their patients didn't necessarily agree.
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24 October 2025
The Ka Ora, Ka Ako free school lunch programme improves children’s health and learning, but this year’s funding cuts put those successes at risk.
Politics and law
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25 October 2025
Emma Fisi’ilose Guillain is challenging the silence around family violence in Vanuatu; seeking to create pathways for justice and healing within affected communities.
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24 October 2025
Opinion: The 'primitive doctrine that might is right' is re-emerging, and people who value the rule of law, democracy and human rights must be prepared to resist it, says Gehan Gunasekara.
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24 October 2025
A shadow report for the UN warns racial discrimination is worsening.
Science and technology
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23 October 2025
Opinion: Lauren Baal considers what we have and haven't learned from past mistakes regarding the containment of new gene technologies.
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23 October 2025
A new study examines the risks of using AI in planning and policymaking, including how it could unintentionally favour some communities while overlooking others.
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22 October 2025
University of Auckland scientists checked on the frequent use of antibiotics to keep the birds healthy.
University news
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24 October 2025
Celebrating Research Excellence Awards 2025 recognise University's top researchers, research support staff and best theses.
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15 October 2025
A quarter of the country's leading researchers hail from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland, in an international analysis of the world's top 2 percent of scientists.
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9 October 2025
A new owner has been found for the old UBIQ bookstore and Campus Books will be opening its doors this month.
The Challenge
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21 October 2025
Sir Richard Faull, founder of the Centre for Brain Research is one of the country's most eminent scientists. On his 80th year, we celebrate his journey to explore the human brain.
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9 October 2025
The real story behind scientific 'breakthroughs' is strong fundamental research, hard slog and a little bit of serendipity.
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6 October 2025
As AI tools like MidJourney churn out striking art, the core question remains: when the spark comes from prompts and past data, is it creation - or just clever theft?