Feature Article
11 June 2026
Researchers at the University of Auckland have been awarded $16m for a broad range of health and medical research projects in the 2026 Health Research Council funding round.
Sustainable impact
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17 June 2026
Ahead of Show Your Stripes Day on 21 June raising awareness of climate change, Professor Cate Macinnis-Ng delves into the environmental impacts of our warming winters.
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17 June 2026
An expert in disaster response law says New Zealand lacks legal remedies to effectively protect the human right to adequate housing.
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17 June 2026
University of Auckland research explores how sustainability initiatives progress inside New Zealand tourism businesses, and where they flounder.
Arts and culture
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9 June 2026
Global collaboration grounded in Indigenous knowledge launches at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland.
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3 June 2026
Alumni profile: Violinist, organist and conductor Zosia Herlihy-O’Brien has found her calling bringing classical music to a wide range of audiences, including at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall.
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3 June 2026
Vaiaso o le Gagana Sāmoa, Sāmoa Language Week in Aotearoa, is a time to celebrate those that uplift Pacific youth to succeed at Waipapa Taumata Rau.
Business and economy
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17 June 2026
University of Auckland research explores how sustainability initiatives progress inside New Zealand tourism businesses, and where they flounder.
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14 June 2026
Opinion: Pacific communities need to ensure people are entering crypto investing with genuine understanding, proper protections and informed consent says Sione Taufa.
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12 June 2026
Space Minister Hon Chris Penk visited the University's Space Institute to announce the round one and two recipients of the inaugural Kiwi Space Activator Programme.
Education and society
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16 June 2026
A complete rethink of the education in emergencies system worldwide is the lofty goal of a project that will be co-led by the University of Auckland.
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10 June 2026
Analysis: Retrofitting homes effectively needs more than understanding the house, but the way people inside live, say Luis Mendrano.
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28 May 2026
Comment: Education is complicated, and we should be wary of stories that suggest it is otherwise like the one the kids failing at maths, says Lisa Darragh.
Te ao Māori
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12 June 2026
$1.2M Health Research Council (HRC) funded study will look to improve paediatric palliative care services for children and their families.
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11 June 2026
The way we measure who’s going hungry in New Zealand doesn’t take into account — or protect — people’s ability to gather and grow food from the land.
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10 June 2026
Beatrice Faumuinā is the new director of the University of Auckland's Kupe Leadership Scholarship, an elite programme dedicated to developing exceptional leaders.
Health and medicine
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16 June 2026
Pasifika women in Aotearoa experience disproportionately high rates of diabetes in pregnancy, a new study aims to combat this.
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16 June 2026
Commentary: It took 30 years before researchers, including at the Liggins Institute, suspected that very preterm babies may also be affected by ‘refeeding syndrome’. Drs Frank Bloomfield and Barbara Cormack explain.
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15 June 2026
Brain scientists from the University of Auckland are helping communities in the Philippines to better understand a brain disease that only affects Filipino men.
Politics and law
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17 June 2026
An expert in disaster response law says New Zealand lacks legal remedies to effectively protect the human right to adequate housing.
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11 June 2026
Both Helen Clark and Christopher Luxon have turned to the metaphor of 'social cohesion' to make different arguments about the state of our nation, but Nicolas Lewis asks what exactly are they talking about?
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8 June 2026
The Christchurch mosque terrorist left a trail of explicit online clues about his plans for 15 March 2019, we just didn't pick them up, a new book reveals.
Science and technology
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17 June 2026
Ahead of Show Your Stripes Day on 21 June raising awareness of climate change, Professor Cate Macinnis-Ng delves into the environmental impacts of our warming winters.
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15 June 2026
Commentary: AI is an amplifier not a replacement, and will always require human oversight says Reza Shahamiri.
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12 June 2026
Space Minister Hon Chris Penk visited the University's Space Institute to announce the round one and two recipients of the inaugural Kiwi Space Activator Programme.
University news
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16 June 2026
A report sets out the progress the University of Auckland has made on the journey to become a 4th Generation university.
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12 June 2026
Space Minister Hon Chris Penk visited the University's Space Institute to announce the round one and two recipients of the inaugural Kiwi Space Activator Programme.
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11 June 2026
Researchers at the University of Auckland have been awarded $16m for a broad range of health and medical research projects in the 2026 Health Research Council funding round.
The Challenge
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28 May 2026
The re-dedication of the Sir James Henare Research Centre recalls the layers of history and renews aspirations for the future.
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19 May 2026
The albatross population of Antipodes Island in the Southern Seas is critically endangered. With more data researchers hope to bring their numbers back.
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2 March 2026
Piecing together how birds and humans interacted in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia hundreds of years ago is the focus of a revealing new study.
