Alumni news

Digital contact tracing for COVID-19

Digital contact tracing solutions for COVID-19 must offer exceptional speed and achieve high take-up rates to be useful, a working paper has found.

Crisis, disintegration and hope

Professor Wayne Hope from AUT’s School of Communications Studies says only urgent intervention can save New Zealand’s media.

Documentary looks at Māori culture

Experiencing Māori culture while studying on exchange at AUT has inspired two filmmakers from the United States.

Lessons From NZ’s Bubbles For The World

Initial findings into how New Zealanders did under lockdown can now help inform policy makers around the globe fighting COVID-19.

Pacific language videos: Samoa

The second episode in the AUT Pacific language video series – ‘Adapting to a changing world, shaping resilient futures’ – has been released.

Pacific language video series

A video series by AUT will highlight the Pacific Islands Families (PIF) Study’s work in shaping resilient futures for Pacific communities.

Students get job-ready during lockdown

Students were able to take advantage of AUT’s Employability and Careers services during the lockdown to get career ready for future opportunities.

Graduate's VR company takes off

AUT alumnus Peter Dong has found his Auckland virtual reality company VR VOOM scaling new heights during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The survival challenge for NZ tourism

Now is the time for tourism operators to win back the hearts of domestic tourists.

Bursting the bubble fallacy

We can’t always conflate the occupants of a single residence into one neat group.