Feature Article
30 June 2026
The Fetal Physiology and Neuroscience team has won $500,000 for their life-saving research that has led to the reduction of brain injuries in babies all over the world.
Sustainable impact
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13 July 2026
Research shows greener suburbs are healthier on all kinds of metrics – but achieving them isn’t as straightforward as digging holes and planting seedlings.
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13 July 2026
An international search for researchers with a focus on nature-based solutions to improve business, the environment and the economy is underway.
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8 July 2026
Fulbright recipient Ebony Komene is headed to the United States to explore nursing and models of care grounded in Indigenous knowledge.
Arts and culture
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13 July 2026
Deborah Shepard, the biographer of New Zealand poet Riemke Ensing, is the 2026 recipient of the University's Ripiro Beach Non-Fiction Writing Residency.
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13 July 2026
At just 19, University of Auckland Bachelor or Music student Samuel Mataele has won the 2026 Kiri Te Kanawa Song Quest, worth $50,000.
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4 July 2026
Celebrating Kiribati Language Week (5-11 July). University of Auckland doctoral candidate Roi Burnett seeks to understand the nuanced ways cultural knowledge, language and social practice shape women's experiences through her research.
Business and economy
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13 July 2026
An international search for researchers with a focus on nature-based solutions to improve business, the environment and the economy is underway.
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8 July 2026
Analysis: Aotearoa New Zealand’s tourism sector is striving to be greener. Claire Beach explores what that means for businesses.
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6 July 2026
The rise of generative AI is causing some expert contributors to leave the online communities they helped build, according to University of Auckland research.
Education and society
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14 July 2026
The church in medieval England rigidly policed and punished the sexual habits of its parishioners, as Three Minute Thesis finalist Nicholas Ringwood discovered.
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13 July 2026
Celebrating wāhine Māori leadership, Dr Maia Hetaraka and Dr Piata Allen join Te Whare Rangahau o Himi Henare as its new co-directors.
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26 June 2026
Two engineering students have been awarded a prestigious New Zealand Space Scholarship that will see them interning at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for three months.
Te ao Māori
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13 July 2026
Celebrating wāhine Māori leadership, Dr Maia Hetaraka and Dr Piata Allen join Te Whare Rangahau o Himi Henare as its new co-directors.
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8 July 2026
Fulbright recipient Ebony Komene is headed to the United States to explore nursing and models of care grounded in Indigenous knowledge.
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6 July 2026
Million-dollar government funding will support a new clinical trials platform producing evidence on how to prevent preterm birth and treat babies born too soon.
Health and medicine
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8 July 2026
Fulbright recipient Ebony Komene is headed to the United States to explore nursing and models of care grounded in Indigenous knowledge.
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6 July 2026
Million-dollar government funding will support a new clinical trials platform producing evidence on how to prevent preterm birth and treat babies born too soon.
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3 July 2026
The University's commercialisation prowess will be on show during Auckland Council's 100 Days of Start-ups.
Politics and law
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13 July 2026
An international search for researchers with a focus on nature-based solutions to improve business, the environment and the economy is underway.
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7 July 2026
Analysis: New Zealand wants to end climate lawsuits. Justin Sobion asks how that sits with the country's international commitments.
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1 July 2026
Privacy was a nascent area of the law when the commercial law professor first began his research in the field; now it’s central to how we negotiate our digital world.
Science and technology
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12 July 2026
PhD student Sandra Gómez-Gálvez is working on AI for predator control.
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3 July 2026
The University's commercialisation prowess will be on show during Auckland Council's 100 Days of Start-ups.
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2 July 2026
Building on the success of the ongoing TPA-1 mission, the project to launch the Space Institute’s TPA-2 satellite has now kicked off, preparing a suite of curated New Zealand-developed technologies for a ride to space in early 2028.
University news
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13 July 2026
Celebrating wāhine Māori leadership, Dr Maia Hetaraka and Dr Piata Allen join Te Whare Rangahau o Himi Henare as its new co-directors.
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8 July 2026
Staff from across the University have been celebrated for their efforts and achievements at the annual VC’s Recognition Dinner on Wednesday 1 July.
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6 July 2026
OPINION: Interim Vice-Chancellor Professor Frank Bloomfield writes that the newly launched Signature Research Areas are a way to strengthen University research in a rapidly changing world.
The Challenge
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13 July 2026
Te Pūnaha Ātea-1, (TPA-1) New Zealand's first successful satellite launched in June last year. On its 515km high orbit it has been capturing fresh images of our planet.
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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.