Feature Article
19 August 2025
The Health Research Council's 2025 funding round supports researchers seeking answers to an array of pressing health issues.
Sustainable impact
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22 August 2025
Postgraduate student Pepe Afeaki demonstrates how professional growth and academic aspirations can walk hand in hand.
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21 August 2025
The first stage of the construction of a major new asset on the City Campus will begin after the removal and repurposing of the old Alten Road Early Childhood Centre.
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21 August 2025
Artificial intelligence is being examined for its potential benefits and environmental costs.
Arts and culture
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18 August 2025
Analysis: We often say we have no choice but to drive, but as it turns out, that’s often not true. Urban form enables walking but it doesn't guarantee people will, as I-Ting Chuang explains.
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16 August 2025
Celebrating Tonga Language Week (17-23 August), Law academic Dr Suliana Mone talks about her presentation at the University of Oxford, where she honoured her ancestors by speaking lea faka-Tonga, the Tongan language.
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14 August 2025
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland lends voice to Pacific Climate Change Roundtable underway in Apia, Samoa.
Business and economy
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20 August 2025
Concerns about the continued use of farrowing crates in commercial pig farming have been raised by a new review from the University of Auckland.
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19 August 2025
Initiatives like the Auckland Maths Challenge tap into the potential of young Māori and Pacific learners - transforming lives, uplifting families and wider communities.
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18 August 2025
Analysis: AI is peeling back the layers of ‘low-value’ work – NZ may be well placed to adapt, writes Kenny Ching.
Education and society
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21 August 2025
Distinguished linguist and Pacific Studies senior lecturer Dr Melenaite Taumoefolau is launching a new course on Pacific Language Studies: Issues and Resolutions.
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8 August 2025
Opinion: As the Government moves swiftly to change the direction of NZ education, both ‘sides’ need to stop talking past each each other, says John Morgan.
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6 August 2025
An international project taking on one of the biggest challenges facing the world, forced migration, will now include input from the University of Auckland.
Environment
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22 August 2025
New Zealand's southern right whales, or tohorā, are keen on a zone south of Australia in international waters.
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21 August 2025
Artificial intelligence is being examined for its potential benefits and environmental costs.
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20 August 2025
Concerns about the continued use of farrowing crates in commercial pig farming have been raised by a new review from the University of Auckland.
Health and medicine
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21 August 2025
A major new project focused on Māori women with breast cancer is launching, with a $5 million grant from the Health Research Council.
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19 August 2025
Post-operative surgery complications not picked up quickly enough in Māori patients have led to higher death rates than in Pākehā.
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19 August 2025
The Health Research Council's 2025 funding round supports researchers seeking answers to an array of pressing health issues.
Politics and law
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20 August 2025
Analysis: New Zealand is trailing its allies over Palestinian statehood – but there’s still time to show leadership, writes Treasa Dunworth.
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17 August 2025
Analysis: Banning contactless and credit card surcharges won’t help – open banking reform is what’s needed.
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9 August 2025
Opinion: Claire Charters questions whether the Electoral Amendment Bill bill is a justified limitation on the right to vote or an attempt to rig voting in the coalition’s favour?
Science and technology
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22 August 2025
New Zealand's southern right whales, or tohorā, are keen on a zone south of Australia in international waters.
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19 August 2025
Initiatives like the Auckland Maths Challenge tap into the potential of young Māori and Pacific learners - transforming lives, uplifting families and wider communities.
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15 August 2025
The most common whales in the inner Hauraki Gulf, Bryde's whales, could increasingly be further out as prey shift due to climate.
University news
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22 August 2025
After months of intense training, the University’s waka ama squad is ready to test their endurance on the world stage at the Queen Lili'uokalani Canoe Race in Hawai’i.
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21 August 2025
Three Auckland Bioengineering Institute projects – from the gut health, cardiology, and cancer imaging teams – have been awarded a total of $2.55 million in the latest 2025 Health Research Council funding round.
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21 August 2025
The first stage of the construction of a major new asset on the City Campus will begin after the removal and repurposing of the old Alten Road Early Childhood Centre.
The Challenge
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24 June 2025
Psychology professor Ginny Braun on how she came to co-author the century’s third most-cited scientific paper.
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27 May 2025
Rocks collected by an expedition to Antarctica hold clues to an extinction event 183 million years ago.
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26 May 2025
In its first season new podcast Ingenious showcases research taking on society's most persistent challenges.
