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Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence, underpinned by its vision of Māori leading New Zealand into the future.
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The PPI provides independent analysis and insight into key policy issues affecting New Zealand and the world.
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COMPASS is an experienced team undertaking quantitative social science research of international standing and with policy relevance.
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We are a multi-disciplinary research institute promoting research, scholarship and teaching on contemporary Europe and EU-related issues.
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The New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies (NZCLAS) is New Zealand's only interdisciplinary research centre with a focus on Latin America.
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The centre supports research into the historical and contemporary links between Northern and Central Europe, and New Zealand and the Pacific.
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The AHI seeks to engage with the historical and cultural development of Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland and its importance to New Zealand life and beyond.
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The ANZL is a writer-led initiative developed to help our active practitioners sustain themselves through a writer's life.
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This project responds to Jacinda Ardern's calls for a politics of kindness by investigating what such politics really looks like.
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The University of Auckland Critical Theory Network is an interdisciplinary network of critical scholars from across the disciplines.
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The Big Q connects audiences to informed dialogue about science, economics, arts and politics.
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