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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19 August 2025
The Health Research Council's 2025 funding round supports researchers seeking answers to an array of pressing health issues.
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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: 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.
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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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.
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17 August 2025
Analysis: Banning contactless and credit card surcharges won’t help – open banking reform is what’s needed.
Environment
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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.
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11 August 2025
A marine energy researcher is building a tide-powered shellfish nursery to boost survival rates for baby mussels, an innovation that could transform the way New Zealand farms its oceans.
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6 August 2025
Birds are under pressure from urban light and noise. What are the effects of broken sleep?
Health and medicine
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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.
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18 August 2025
Research shows a leading e-cigarette brand’s global Instagram account is promoting vapes to vast audiences, including in New Zealand, where regulations prohibit vape marketing to young people.
Politics and law
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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?
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5 August 2025
The topic of constitutional conventions doesn't come up every day but doctoral student Kelly Shuttleworth explains how important they are in a democracy.
Science and technology
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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.
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15 August 2025
MedTech Explorer, an interactive showcase of cutting-edge healthcare technology will be held on 28 August in Māngere.
University news
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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.
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28 July 2025
The 2025 Te Rau Hiringa awards go to research support staff at Liggins Institute and Te Poutoko Ora a Kiwa – Centre for Pacific and Global Health, a University Research Centre.
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21 July 2025
Internationally renowned scholar Vivienne Gray, an Emeritus Professor of Classics, is farewelled by a colleague and several former students at the University of Auckland.
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.