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Record number of midwifery graduates

AUT is celebrating the graduation of the largest-ever cohort of midwifery students.

Needed: more midwives, better supported

Many NZ midwives feel professionally “invisible”, which contributes to a lack of support from healthcare bodies and threatens their health and safety.

Interdisciplinary team wins health grant

An interdisciplinary team of AUT researchers has won a major grant from the Health Research Council.

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.

Te Ara ō Hine – Tapu Ora

Under a new government initiative, AUT will work to increase the number of midwives in our Māori and Pacific communities.

Assisted dying referendum

NZ’s law lacks necessary detail to make a fully informed decision, says Dr Rhona Winnington.

Inequality in access to life-saving AEDs

A study by AUT and St John highlights a worrying discrepancy in the placement of life-saving AEDs (automated external defibrillators) in New Zealand.

Traumatic Brain Injury Network

An online Q+A session and introduction to the new Traumatic Brain Injury Network.

62% increase in AUT researchers

Growing expertise to help New Zealand and the world

Debunking perceptions of safety

A collaboration between AUT’s Midwifery department, Auckland District Health Board and Birthcare led to the opening of three refurbished birthing rooms.