Coronavirus
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22 June 2022
One key way to attract and retain staff is to give people greater scope to craft their jobs, say University of Auckland researchers.
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16 June 2022
Professor Ananish Chaudhuri explores Covid-19 policy decisions, their implications, and cognitive biases in pandemic decision-making in his new book.
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16 May 2022
What impact have lockdowns had on children’s education and also our teacher-training programmes? Owen Poland talks to education experts at the University of Auckland.
Arts and culture
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27 June 2022
Formal welcome for new Ihonuku te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Associate Professor Jemaima Tiatia
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17 June 2022
Dr Lucy Mackintosh recently published a non-fiction book based on her PhD research. Her book, 'Shifting Grounds: Deep Histories of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland', won the 2022 Ernest Scott Prize for History and was shortlisted for an Ockham New Zealand Book award.
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14 June 2022
Ockham award winning writer and former lawyer Gina Cole will work on her upcoming Pasifika futurism novel in Australia this year thanks to a new writers’ residency.
Business and economy
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7 July 2022
Transparent reporting on SDGs is problematic, but a recent framework helps businesses harness the internet of things and blockchain to improve outcomes.
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7 July 2022
Business School academics win the overall award in the 2022 New Zealand Business Research Translation Competition.
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30 June 2022
Opinion: Aotearoa New Zealand has become a country for oldies to enjoy while the young silently drown, says Robert MacCulloch.
Education and society
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30 June 2022
A group of 25 education students recently graduated in front of proud whānau in the Tai Tokerau June ceremony.
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30 June 2022
Opinion: Aotearoa New Zealand has become a country for oldies to enjoy while the young silently drown, says Robert MacCulloch.
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29 June 2022
In her long-awaited inaugural lecture, Professor Liz Beddoe laid down a fiery challenge to social work educators to keep “radical hope” alive and educate students to resist neoliberal and populist agendas.
Environment and sustainability
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7 July 2022
Transparent reporting on SDGs is problematic, but a recent framework helps businesses harness the internet of things and blockchain to improve outcomes.
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5 July 2022
Opinion: An absurd court ruling in the US leaves climate leadership in limbo, says Kevin Trenberth.
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4 July 2022
By forming new habits, you can reduce your food bill, cut down on waste to landfill and restore nutrients to the soil. Waste minimisation specialist Mark Neal has seven starters.
Health and medicine
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7 July 2022
Omega-3 is recommended in pregnancy, but new research suggests care is needed to avoid oxidised fish oil.
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1 July 2022
Dr Geoffrey Handsfield is hard at work on research into cerebral palsy that could change lives. But he also makes sure his own parasympathetic nervous system gets plenty of rest – through immersion in nature.
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30 June 2022
Veeran Morar is delighted to have a job on Vision Bus Aotearoa, taking eye healthcare to those who may not have had it otherwise.
Politics and law
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5 July 2022
Opinion: Our existing adoption law fails to acknowledge the importance of whakapapa, culture, and identity to a child’s wellbeing, writes Mark Henaghan.
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1 July 2022
Opinion: Natalia Booth was born in Russia and says she feels angry at her country for falling into the trap of imperialism. Again.
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30 June 2022
Opinion: Aotearoa New Zealand has become a country for oldies to enjoy while the young silently drown, says Robert MacCulloch.
Science and technology
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5 July 2022
Opinion: An absurd court ruling in the US leaves climate leadership in limbo, says Kevin Trenberth.
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4 July 2022
Dion Wharerau spent the summer as an intern with Te Hiku Media, working to improve their automatic speech recognition model for te reo Māori.
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4 July 2022
Nicola Gaston, a professor of physics, explores the multiverse of the movies.
University news
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7 July 2022
Business School academics win the overall award in the 2022 New Zealand Business Research Translation Competition.
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30 June 2022
A group of 25 education students recently graduated in front of proud whānau in the Tai Tokerau June ceremony.
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30 June 2022
Numerous University of Auckland projects are being funded by the Health Research Council, including nearly $5m for a five-year study of perinatal brain injury.
The Challenge
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9 June 2022
The world faces ‘democratic recession’. Today more people live in autocratic regimes than in liberal democracies. Matheson Russell says democracy needs re-shaping to meet the challenges of climate change and rising inequity.
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4 May 2022
Once safely implanted in the brain, a super sensitive sensor will change the lives of families whose children have hydrocephalus.
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12 April 2022
Engineers design way to clean phosphorus from waste water and turn it into fertiliser.