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The show must go on
8 December 2020
A love of theatre and enormous respect for their teachers at the University inspired a recent gift to Drama from Sydney-based alumni Ian Narev and Frances Allan.
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Wallace prizewinner no flash in the pan
2 December 2020
A writer of flash fiction, extremely short stories, has won the University of Auckland’s $5000 Sir James Wallace Creative Writing Prize for the first time.
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Reunion director Jake Mahaffy: film graduates are in hot demand
1 December 2020
With New Zealand being such a desirable destination for filming series and film, Reunion director Jake Mahaffy says it's a great time to study filmmaking.
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Helen Sword devises a new writing tool to sharpen your prose
1 December 2020
A gift has allowed writing expert Professor Helen Sword to improve her popular online tool to tighten people's prose.
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Mexican mentoring Māori and Pacific students: 'It just feels like family'
1 December 2020
Gove Grefnes Diaz arrived at the University of Auckland from Mexico in 2011 an expert in cacti. Now he’s doing a PhD in linguistics and mentoring Māori and Pacific students.
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New UNESCO Chair brings dance to the table
26 November 2020
UNESCO has established the world’s first Chair on Dance and Social Inclusion, a partnership between the University and UNESCO with inaugural co-chairs, Associate Professors Ralph Buck and Nicholas Rowe of the Dance Studies Programme.
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Women’s innovative music-making in the 19th-century home
18 November 2020
Associate Professor Nancy November has has been given a major research boost by Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund, to further investigate the music-making of 19th century women, and the creation of take-home versions of large-scale compositions.
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Top voices from sheer hard work and a Pacific culture of song
18 November 2020
Opinion: Dr Te Oti Rakena explains how Pacific nations produce performers with such great voices and why diluting their success as ‘natural ability’ is wrong.
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Honour for Ngarino Ellis: carving out new histories
18 November 2020
The importance of Māori art history has been recognised in a Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award in the Humanities for Associate Professor Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou).
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Māori knew how to build, in ways we’re only beginning to understand
10 November 2020
Māori had a sophisticated understanding of construction techniques often hidden from view and poorly understood by Western researchers, as has been revealed by Jeremy Treadwell, a senior lecturer at the School of Architecture in his PhD thesis.
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Iron Mountain takes on kaitiaki role for audio taonga
7 November 2020
The University of Auckland has a gold mine of Māori and Pacific audio archives which range from recorded lectures of the late Mira Szászy and Bruce Biggs, to interviews relating to the Ringatū faith and Fāgogo: fables of Samoa surveying traditional forms of music.
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Endless adventure of discovery: Brian Boyd wins Rutherford Medal
5 November 2020
In the first year New Zealand’s top research honour, the Rutherford Medal, has been open to the humanities, it has been awarded to Distinguished Professor Brian Boyd of the University of Auckland.
