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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1 July 2026
Unprecedented insights into whales' diets emerge from research.
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1 July 2026
Staff, students and community are digging in to return the native bush that once covered the area surrounding the Leigh Marine Laboratory.
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1 July 2026
From children's wellbeing to second relationships, legal experts say New Zealand's relationship property law needs urgent reform.
Arts and culture
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30 June 2026
Dr KDee-Aimiti Ma'ia'i has reclaimed history of regional resistance in the Pacific with doctoral research undertaken at Oxford University. She has begun her new role at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland as the Te Tomokanga postdoctoral Fellow.
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23 June 2026
A lifelong love of creating and the great outdoors led Lara Pyves from small-town Wales to Aotearoa’s largest city.
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17 June 2026
Opinion: NZ can use scale to its advantage by positioning itself as a community-first digital economy. This model thrives on small, high-trust, highly connected communities, says Kenny Ching.
Business and economy
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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.
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26 June 2026
When researchers used generative AI to write corporate sustainability disclosures, the tools made things sound just a little too good.
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22 June 2026
Analysis: AI agents are more than chatbots — they could transform how businesses operate, writes Guy Bate.
Education and society
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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.
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19 June 2026
Commentary: New report outlines need and framework for a permanent emergency protection framework which would formalise New Zealand’s response to sudden global humanitarian crises.
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17 June 2026
How Chinese mothers bringing up their families in New Zealand shape their children's cultural identity is the focus of a study by PhD student Sophie Jing.
Te ao Māori
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1 July 2026
As we mark Matariki this month, maramataka practitioner and researcher Ayla Hoeta advocates for using the holiday to look at the wider system in which the celebration sits.
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29 June 2026
Professor Sarah-Jane Paine’s inaugural lecture traced her Wairoa roots, whakapapa, whānau and the path that shaped her work in Māori health research.
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23 June 2026
An increase in university admission rates show the pathway programme’s success in empowering school students to pursue engineering degrees.
Health and medicine
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30 June 2026
Te Poutoko Ora a Kiwa, Centre for Pacific and Global Health announces seven Honorary Senior Research Fellows, recognising the distinguished Pacific and global health leaders.
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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.
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30 June 2026
A conversation about the frustrations of analysing heart scans inspired first-year University of Auckland student Will Hewitt to put his degree on hold and launch HeartLab.
Politics and law
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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.
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1 July 2026
From children's wellbeing to second relationships, legal experts say New Zealand's relationship property law needs urgent reform.
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30 June 2026
Dr KDee-Aimiti Ma'ia'i has reclaimed history of regional resistance in the Pacific with doctoral research undertaken at Oxford University. She has begun her new role at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland as the Te Tomokanga postdoctoral Fellow.
Science and technology
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1 July 2026
Staff, students and community are digging in to return the native bush that once covered the area surrounding the Leigh Marine Laboratory.
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1 July 2026
The lab at the Centre for Automation and Robotic Engineering Science is a little like a preschool, except it’s robots, not children, who are there to learn.
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28 June 2026
Professor Robyn Whittaker, Co-Director of TRANSFORM Research Centre highlighted the potential of AI to reshape healthcare delivery within Pacific communities, while stressing the importance of addressing bias, data limitations and governance to ensure equitable outcomes.
University news
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30 June 2026
The University of Auckland has launched six Signature Research Areas. Together they form a portfolio bringing together research excellence to respond to major societal issues.
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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.
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25 June 2026
The annual awards acknowledge the many achievements of researchers from across the University.
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.