Feature Article
4 September 2025
Endeavour Fund 2025 is supporting high-impact research at the University of Auckland with almost $35m in funding for long-term research.
Sustainable impact
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7 September 2025
Doctoral candidate Deborah Kakis says bond with Papua New Guinea is a spiritual connection that continually draws one back home.
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5 September 2025
The funding will go towards ambitious five-year research programmes.
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5 September 2025
A gathering of scholars, kaumatua and students was held for the University’s Pūtaiao Research Symposium 2025, held in Whāngarei 4-5 September.
Arts and culture
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8 September 2025
Leaving the military at 25, Darrien Jerard Mitchell discovered a new path in Aotearoa New Zealand that reshaped his life, faith and approach to mentoring.
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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.
Business and economy
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5 September 2025
The funding will go towards ambitious five-year research programmes.
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4 September 2025
Opinion: If we are serious about eradicating slavery, we must treat it as a humanitarian crisis and a research and governance challenge, says Charl de Villiers.
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3 September 2025
Protecting nature comes with a corporate price tag, according to a new study.
Education and society
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4 September 2025
Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland’s Dr Jean Uasike M. Allen and Leah Damm are recipients of the Faculty of Art and Education’s Teaching Excellence Awards.
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2 September 2025
Amateur sports clubs across the country are experiencing the knock-on effects of a sharp decline in volunteer coaches.
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1 September 2025
Chinese languages and culture have a long history in New Zealand and Chinese Language Week is an invitation to find out more by giving the language a go.
Environment
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4 September 2025
Several Auckland organisations have had their environmental sustainability boosted by interns from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
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3 September 2025
Protecting nature comes with a corporate price tag, according to a new study.
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28 August 2025
Opinion: A phase out of government liability for extreme weather events would be problematic and make the consequences of climate change an individual responsibility, writes Basil Sharp.
Health and medicine
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5 September 2025
The first New Zealand study to link high-level rugby to increased risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias has been published in the journal Sports Medicine.
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5 September 2025
Comment: Plans for employing and training graduate nurses might meet the health ministry’s bottom line, but they won’t keep staff and patients safe says Sue Adams.
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5 September 2025
A new research project led by Associate Professor Kelly Burrowes at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute aims to predict the long-term impact of vaping on lung function.
Politics and law
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4 September 2025
Inspired by his own lived experience of forced displacement, Andrew Wai Phyo Kyaw hopes to improve agency among urban refugee communities.
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4 September 2025
Mateo Chitha, PhD candidate and recipient of the Professor Brian Coote Memorial Scholarship, is advocating for a review and reform of intercountry adoption legal and policy frameworks in his homeland of Malawi.
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27 August 2025
Opinion: New Zealand needs to be thinking about how it might respond to further threats from the US President to global stability, says Chris Ogden.
Science and technology
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7 September 2025
Doctoral candidate Deborah Kakis says bond with Papua New Guinea is a spiritual connection that continually draws one back home.
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5 September 2025
A gathering of scholars, kaumatua and students was held for the University’s Pūtaiao Research Symposium 2025, held in Whāngarei 4-5 September.
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4 September 2025
Several Auckland organisations have had their environmental sustainability boosted by interns from Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability.
University news
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4 September 2025
Endeavour Fund 2025 is supporting high-impact research at the University of Auckland with almost $35m in funding for long-term research.
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2 September 2025
Professor Dawn Freshwater welcomes the report of the Universities Advisory Group, the government’s response, and the draft Tertiary Education Strategy.
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29 August 2025
The Emerging Researcher Network has selected the successful proposals for the network's inaugural seed funding round.
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.
