Feature Article
1 August 2024
Architecture student Charlotte McKeon is leading an innovative housing project to equip high school students for successful trades careers.
Sustainable impact
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5 August 2024
Is sustainable tourism achievable or just a lofty ideal? Doctoral candidate Claire Beach is exploring the complexities of the tourism industry in her research.
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1 August 2024
A new University of Auckland study shows that not all compostable products are as green as they claim.
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1 August 2024
Architecture student Charlotte McKeon is leading an innovative housing project to equip high school students for successful trades careers.
Arts and culture
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1 August 2024
To Hold, the latest ballet from acclaimed choreographer Dr Sarah Foster-Sproull, celebrates the power and beauty of collaboration.
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1 August 2024
First People’s experiences, largely left out of traditional music curricula, are foregrounded in a new book.
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1 August 2024
Dr Ngahuia Harrison has received a 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Best Thesis Award for her work on Whangārei Harbour and the industry that lines its shores.
Business and economy
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5 August 2024
Is sustainable tourism achievable or just a lofty ideal? Doctoral candidate Claire Beach is exploring the complexities of the tourism industry in her research.
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30 July 2024
Aotearoa New Zealand's approach to data sovereignty is examined in a forthcoming paper.
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24 July 2024
Opinion: Improving office window views is a good way to enhance employee well-being, writes Emmy van Esch.
Education and society
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29 July 2024
Finally a legitimate reason to hit the pub on a school night: Raising the Bar is back, on Tuesday 27 August.
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23 July 2024
Anthropology, the study of human societies and cultures, continues to fascinate students and is always a highly ranked subject at the University of Auckland. What’s its secret?
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18 July 2024
Child sexual abuse victims in China face significant obstacles to disclosing their experiences, a new study has found.
Environment
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25 July 2024
Dr Jenny Hillman is one of those leading the way, along with the Ngāti Manuhiri Settlement Trust, to move millions of mussels into the Hauraki Gulf to help filter the waters.
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1 July 2024
Opinion: Dr Priyanka Dhopade cautions we'll pay a heavy price unless the space industry is incentivised to develop and maintain environmental standards.
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4 June 2024
Kelsey Miller is fighting on the frontlines against the kina barrens that are taking over large swathes of our coastal rocky reefs – but kina, says the marine scientist, are not the enemy.
Health and medicine
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4 August 2024
Young Pacific researchers join forces with South Auckland community against major health issues facing Māori and Pacific peoples.
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2 August 2024
Research aimed at improving prevention and care of a range of brain diseases have won Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland $2.3 million funding from the Neurological Foundation.
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1 August 2024
Health psychologist Dr Lisa Reynolds is venturing into bold new territory to help alleviate the distress experienced by those facing the ‘big questions’ of their mortality due to cancer.
Politics and law
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25 July 2024
Opinion: The final report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care is 16 volumes of tragedy and grief, but also hope for a better future, writes Stephen Winter.
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9 July 2024
Auckland Law School to celebrate the contribution of Pacific peoples to the field of Law with its first Pacific Law Week, 15-19 July.
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26 June 2024
A forthcoming article highlights a legal gap regarding cultural misappropriation in Aotearoa New Zealand and offers a solution.
Science and technology
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1 August 2024
My Space: In the first of a regular series exploring some of the special spaces around the University, Professor Jan Eldridge (head of physics) talks to UniNews about her sci-fi themed office.
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24 July 2024
Experts from the University of Auckland and across the Tasman are collaborating to enhance space exploration and address the growing challenges of space traffic.
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18 July 2024
Cook Islands' Education Minister Hon. Vaine Mac Mokoroa visits University of Auckland.
University news
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1 August 2024
Professor Nuala Gregory will become Dean of a new faculty which, from 2025, will combine the faculties of Arts, Education and Social Work and parts of Creative Arts and Industries.
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1 August 2024
The findings of a report into medical training capacity in New Zealand, commissioned by the universities of Auckland and Otago, have been released.
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24 July 2024
Professor Sarah Young will join Waipapa Taumata Rau from the University of Canterbury.
The Challenge
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22 July 2024
Hundreds of thousands of babies worldwide owe their lives to the modest scientist who gave his name to the Liggins Institute.
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24 June 2024
How a bioengineer and a health advocate are changing the way researchers partner with Māori.
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20 June 2024
University of Auckland research leads to a rethink of how vocal learning has evolved in birds.