Feature Article
18 July 2025
Staff from across the University have been celebrated for their efforts and achievements at the annual VC’s Recognition Dinner.
Sustainable impact
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18 July 2025
A new study shows Māori-led business models could be a solution to economic productivity, well-being, and intergenerational wealth.
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17 July 2025
University experts will share insights on New Zealand’s infrastructure challenges and opportunities at the Emerging Technologies Forum on 22 July.
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17 July 2025
Dr Jean M Uasike Allen and Dr Siobhan Tu'akoi receive Early Career Research Excellence Awards.
Arts and culture
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15 July 2025
Waipapa Taumata Rau was strongly represented when the NZ Youth Choir were crowned Choir of the World.
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11 July 2025
Professor Yvonne Underhill-Sem says I-Kiribati researchers play a vital role in the University of Auckland’s Pacific Studies team investigating climate mobility.
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7 July 2025
Pacific Studies doctoral candidate and proud I-Kiribati woman Roi Burnett says her home nation is much more than just ‘climate change’.
Business and economy
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18 July 2025
A new study shows Māori-led business models could be a solution to economic productivity, well-being, and intergenerational wealth.
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9 July 2025
What if your income tax didn’t go to the government but into your own savings account? A bold proposal makes the case.
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7 July 2025
From esports arenas to workplaces, rivalry could hold the answer to stronger teams, research on millions of gamers suggests.
Education and society
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10 July 2025
A team of architecture and engineering students have just won a 72-hour design competition with a flood-resistant housing scheme focused on community.
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4 July 2025
Comment: New Zealand is about to lose its only real interisland rail-ferry link. It's a clear sign of how short-term thinking keeps sinking our big infrastructure projects, says Tim Welch.
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30 June 2025
Dr Timothy Welch highlights five steps councils can take to lessen the impact of rising urban heat before summer.
Environment
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9 July 2025
Opinion: The idea our economy requires constant growth to avoid collapse is a social construct and is not based on the biophysical reality – and there’s an alternative says Phil Shane.
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30 June 2025
Dr Timothy Welch highlights five steps councils can take to lessen the impact of rising urban heat before summer.
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13 June 2025
PhD student Nicole Whitelock is exploring strategies to safeguard the survival of the endemic tara iti.
Health and medicine
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17 July 2025
Dr Jean M Uasike Allen and Dr Siobhan Tu'akoi receive Early Career Research Excellence Awards.
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9 July 2025
Comment: With phase 2 of the Covid inquiry underway it’s essential we learn from mistakes, says Helen Petousis-Harris.
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8 July 2025
Opinion: The cosy relationship between the alcohol industry and politicians extends to how the alcohol levy fund is administered, argues Peter Adams.
Politics and law
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16 July 2025
The Family Court is basing decisions on ‘junk’ research and putting children's futures at risk, according to a new journal article.
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14 July 2025
The rocky road to getting sex work decriminalised in New Zealand, a world first, is the subject of a new book by historian Cheryl Ware.
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11 July 2025
Opinion: AI-generated music is raising big questions about copyright, creativity, and what it means to be an artist in the age of AI, writes Joshua Yuvaraj.
Science and technology
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17 July 2025
University experts will share insights on New Zealand’s infrastructure challenges and opportunities at the Emerging Technologies Forum on 22 July.
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6 July 2025
Computer scientists investigated the email phishing scams likely to succeed against Pacific Island workers.
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3 July 2025
Legacy of outgoing Faculty of Science Kaiarahi Teariki Tuiono set to strengthen support for students.
University news
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18 July 2025
Staff from across the University have been celebrated for their efforts and achievements at the annual VC’s Recognition Dinner.
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17 July 2025
Professor Dawn Freshwater is joining some of Auckland’s top leaders to accelerate the city’s tech and innovation ambitions.
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11 July 2025
Eighteen University of Auckland students are heading to the World University Games in Germany.
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.
