Health sciences news

AUT X Challenge 2021 – The Final Pitch

Eight teams pitched to win at X Challenge – The Final, competing for a share of the $20,000 cash prize pool and over $10,000 of goods and services.

Public Health Champion 2021

Associate Professor Heather Came has been named this year’s Kāhui Hauora Tūmatanui Public Health Champion.

Funding for emerging researchers

Three AUT researchers have been acknowledged at the Health Research Council’s annual Career Development Awards.

Good design and normalising disability

Harnessing the lived experience of disabled people is key to changing the face of disability and design at both a societal and personal level.

A firefighter wellbeing project

Firefighter and AUT student, Josh Darby, is part of a core team leading a $500,000 project to improve the psychological wellbeing of firefighters.

Epigenetic research in breast cancer

The International Breast Cancer Consortium for Epigenetic Discovery will be announced at the opening of the AUT-hosted Breast Cancer Research Symposium.

New Professors and Associate Professors 3

Eight AUT academics have been promoted to the position of Professor, and a further 22 have been appointed as Associate Professors.

Pacific language videos: Tokelau

The final episode of this year’s AUT Pacific Language Week video series is live.

Barriers for Māori with prostate cancer

The Oranga Tū project funded by Movember has mapped ‘the cancer pathway’ for Māori men and their whānau after diagnosis of prostate cancer.

Pacific language videos: Niue

Episode eight of this year’s AUT Pacific Language Week video series has been released.