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Maritime engineers partner with Babcock

Babcock and the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences partnership a pipeline for NZ’s maritime engineering sector.

Yoga breathing changes brain activity

A technique popular in yoga classes has been shown to affect brain activity by researchers at AUT’s BioDesign Lab.

AUT at Best Awards 2021

AUT’s Art and Design students have won a total of 40 awards at 2021’s Best Awards, including 14 Gold, 12 Silver and 14 Bronze.

The pandemic and our social lives

As COVID-19 restrictions are slowly lifted, people should plan to reconnect as soon as it is safe to do so, researchers say.

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.

AUT appoints Dr Damon Salesa as new VC

Pacific scholar and senior university sector leader Dr Damon Salesa has been appointed to be the next Vice-Chancellor of AUT.

Legal aid crisis erodes right to justice

Just as access to health is a good thing, so is access to justice - they are both prerequisites for a decent society, writes Law Professor Kris Gledhill.

Spotlight on sustainability

AUT’s inaugural Sustainability Report assesses our progress in creating a greener and more sustainable future.

Is school ‘hot desking’ beneficial?

In recent years some schools have replaced individual desks with circular booths and shared tables for collaborative work.

Lockdown shows “digital user divide”

AUT’s NZ Work Research Institute (NZWRI), in collaboration with InternetNZ, has released the latest New Zealand World Internet Project (WIP) report.