Feature Article
14 January 2025
Children with traumatic experiences have a higher risk of obesity – but this can be turned around.
Sustainable impact
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30 January 2025
Opinion: Research assistant Abigail Cunninghame and Professor Margaret Stanley argue for better green spaces after studying 64 Auckland primary schools.
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23 January 2025
Professor Dawn Freshwater has welcomed the emphasis on research impact and end-user outcomes.
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21 January 2025
New research published on the nature of parental involvement among Pacific and minority populations with hearing loss.
Arts and culture
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11 December 2024
Some people can’t imagine a dog barking or a police siren. Songs can’t get stuck in their heads. They have no inner voices.
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9 December 2024
Selina Tusitala Marsh was MC at this year's Royal Society Te Apārangi Research Honours Awards, where she wove the awardees scientific achievements into verse.
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2 December 2024
A reading room and exhibition area has opened in the University Library. Its first exhibition highlights pioneering creatives who helped revolutionise Māori modernism.
Business and economy
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28 January 2025
Opinion: Without structural and cultural shifts in how research is funded and supported, the reforms risk being little more than a reshuffling of existing institutions.
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28 January 2025
Opinion: Until Kiwi students see entrepreneurship as a viable career, we’ll keep exporting great ideas for others to commercialise, writes Rod McNaughton.
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21 January 2025
How can we maintain meaningful friendships with work colleagues over time? Stefan Korber explores.
Education and society
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28 January 2025
While most children will soon be back at school, some will struggle to attend regularly, and a new report looks at why and what can be done about it.
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23 December 2024
Opinion: Latest international test results do not support the Government’s narrative about maths teaching;Lisa Darragh, Raewyn Eden and David Pomeroy ask what's really behind the crisis in education?
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18 December 2024
What educational success might look like for Māori is the focus of a new book by Dr Maia Hetaraka from Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland.
Environment
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15 January 2025
Analysis: Thomas Dowling and Te Kahuratai Moko-Painting provided New Zealand perspectives to a global initative calling for sustainable development in space.
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8 January 2025
Analysis: Now is a good time to build resilience to weather extremes as new research shows prospects for even more ocean warming, says Kevin Trenberth.
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17 December 2024
As the climate crisis intensifies, a new report reveals how extreme heat, rising seas, and disease threaten millions across Small Island Nations.
Health and medicine
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![The most important qualities for a minister of health are a deep and evident concern for the health and wellbeing of the population; a willingness to listen to and take seriously advice from all kinds of experts; and an ability to build coalitions. In his last job Simeon Brown [above] did not display these qualities,'](/content/auckland/en/news/2025/01/30/New-health-ministers-unpromising-track-record/_jcr_content/leftpar/imagecomponent/image.img.480.low.jpg/1738194126331.jpg "The most important qualities for a minister of health are a deep and evident concern for the health and wellbeing of the population; a willingness to listen to and take seriously advice from all kinds of experts; and an ability to build coalitions. In his last job Simeon Brown [above] did not display these qualities,'")
30 January 2025
Opinion: The recent track record of Simeon Brown, the former Minister of Transport and the new Minister of Health, is somewhat at odds with the Hippocratic Oath argues Kirsty Wild and Alistair Woodward.
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29 January 2025
Kids need digital skills, but new New Zealand research shows frequent device use can harm children’s education.
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28 January 2025
University of Auckland brain researcher Dr Thomas Park has been volunteering his time to set up a national brain tumour register.
![The most important qualities for a minister of health are a deep and evident concern for the health and wellbeing of the population; a willingness to listen to and take seriously advice from all kinds of experts; and an ability to build coalitions. In his last job Simeon Brown [above] did not display these qualities,'](/content/auckland/en/news/2025/01/30/New-health-ministers-unpromising-track-record/jcr:content/leftpar/imagecomponent/image.img.1024.medium.jpg/1738194126331.jpg "The most important qualities for a minister of health are a deep and evident concern for the health and wellbeing of the population; a willingness to listen to and take seriously advice from all kinds of experts; and an ability to build coalitions. In his last job Simeon Brown [above] did not display these qualities,'")
Politics and law
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29 January 2025
Analysis: Visual contracts can simplify complex legal documents, making public procurement more transparent, inclusive and efficient, writes Marta Andhov.
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29 January 2025
Beyond modernising existing rules, Companies Act reforms should consider the role and purpose of corporations in society, say Lynn Buckley and Peter Underwood.
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23 January 2025
Opinion: It’s crucial that any decisions around deregistering the Waipareira Trust maintain the integrity of the charitable sector – otherwise trust is easily eroded, writes Jane Norton.
Science and technology
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23 January 2025
Professor Dawn Freshwater has welcomed the emphasis on research impact and end-user outcomes.
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11 December 2024
Some people can’t imagine a dog barking or a police siren. Songs can’t get stuck in their heads. They have no inner voices.
University news
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20 January 2025
As chair for the Sustainable Development Goal 8 Hub, the University leads global and national initiatives to support inclusive economic development and fair work.
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13 January 2025
Two new leadership roles have been made in the office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation.
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31 December 2024
Dr Makarena Dudley and Dr Rachel Simon-Kumar have been made Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit among other University people in the 2025 New Year Honours.
The Challenge
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29 October 2024
University researchers have joined the global challenge to understand what gravitational waves can tell us about the universe and how everything began.
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22 October 2024
Netball is celebrating its centenery in New Zealand. Auckland University researcher Dr Margaret Henley has been digging deep in the archives.
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10 October 2024
Discussion about the use of genetic modification technology outside the lab can easily become polarised. Research suggests a way to avoid this.
