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Fireworks above the Aotea Centre on November 16 for WIPCE 2025.

Thousands gather for WIPCE 2025

Te Ara Poutama: Māori and indigenous development
17 Nov, 2025
Iwi manaaki Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei welcomed more than 3000 Indigenous knowledge holders, educators and leaders from across the globe for WIPCE 2025.
Khaled Ibrahim

Rural wisdom in a digital world

Business
17 Nov, 2025
Rural NZers are leading a sustainability movement based on social trust and pragmatic purchasing, rather than advertising slogans or education campaigns.
Artwork for Te Ao Pūtahi. Red and orang hues, showing the sun rising over Rangitoto and the city of Auckland.

Indigenous festival hits Auckland

Te Ara Poutama: Māori and indigenous development
16 Nov, 2025
Landing in the heart of Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Ao Pūtahi Festival will transform Aotea Square into a living Indigenous village.
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Business news

Khaled Ibrahim

Rural wisdom in a digital world

Business
17 Nov, 2025
Rural NZers are leading a sustainability movement based on social trust and pragmatic purchasing, rather than advertising slogans or education campaigns.
Connected World Graphic

NZers more cautious about Internet

Business
12 Nov, 2025
Tense, sceptical, aware – three words that describe NZers’ relationship with the Internet and AI, according to the 2025 World Internet Project.

AUT shines at Research Translation comp

Business
24 Oct, 2025
Three AUT Business School academics have been acknowledged for their translation of complex research into ideas that resonate with non-academic audiences.
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Culture and society news

Fireworks above the Aotea Centre on November 16 for WIPCE 2025.

Thousands gather for WIPCE 2025

Te Ara Poutama: Māori and indigenous development
17 Nov, 2025
Iwi manaaki Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei welcomed more than 3000 Indigenous knowledge holders, educators and leaders from across the globe for WIPCE 2025.
Artwork for Te Ao Pūtahi. Red and orang hues, showing the sun rising over Rangitoto and the city of Auckland.

Indigenous festival hits Auckland

Te Ara Poutama: Māori and indigenous development
16 Nov, 2025
Landing in the heart of Tāmaki Makaurau, Te Ao Pūtahi Festival will transform Aotea Square into a living Indigenous village.
Displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi crowd to get rice meals from (Al-Takiya) due to the lack of flour and also the lack of entry of aid, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 29, 2024.

AUT disaster response expert on Gaza

Architecture and built environment
23 Oct, 2025
AUT’s Professor Regan Potangaroa, a global expert in humanitarian engineering, has been involved in more than 200 UN deployments in 22 countries.
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Health news

View over Auckland city

Nobel Sustainability Award

Sport and recreation
20 Oct, 2025
AUT’s Professor Erica Hinckson co-director of recipient organisation
Two people looking at a computer with a brain scan on the screen.

New brain lab ‘a beacon for hope’

Health sciences
17 Oct, 2025
Last week marked a new era for brain research at AUT with the opening of the updated Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience laboratory on North Campus.
Woman Typing Message on her Smartphone in the Evening at Home.

AI chatbots no substitute for therapy

Health sciences
08 Oct, 2025
An AUT senior lecturer says New Zealanders could be at risk from unregulated AI chatbots being promoted for therapy.
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Science and technology news

Senior Lecturer Priscila Besen smiling for photo outside of AUT City Campus.

AUT’s Priscila Besen at COP30

Architecture and built environment
11 Nov, 2025
The senior lecturer in sustainable architecture spoke to the Science Media Centre ahead of attending the 30th UN climate conference in Belém, Brazil.
Attendees of the FAST symposium posing for picture at the event.

AUT hosts FAST! Symposium

Science
03 Nov, 2025
Strengthening science and technology ties between France, Aotearoa and the Pacific was the theme of the recent FAST! Symposium, hosted at AUT.
AUT Dr Hazel smiling with blue sky backdrop.

$820k fellowship for Dr Hazel Abraham 

Engineering, computer and mathematical sciences
31 Oct, 2025
AUT’s Dr Hazel Abraham is “humbled” to be the recipient of a Mana Tūāpapa Future Leader Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Apārangi. 
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University news

Group photo at the awards

NZSL team wins national award

Language and culture
07 Nov, 2025
The team’s commitment to allyship and inclusivity has been recognised at Te Whatu Kairangi
City Campus at AUT in summer

AUT Marsden and Mana Tūāpapa Success

06 Nov, 2025
AUT academics have been recognised in 2025’s Marsden Fund and Mana Tūāpapa Future Leader Fellowships.
Professor Tania Ka’ai

Privileging Indigenous Knowledge

Te Ara Poutama: Māori and indigenous development
03 Nov, 2025
A lifetime of service by Tania Ka’ai fosters a network of authentic Māori academic excellence, centring Indigenous knowledge in the university ecosystem.
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Celebrating success

Associate Professor Stephanie Rossouw

Associate Professor Stephanie Rossouw

27 Aug 2025
Associate Professor Stephanie Rossouw is part of a global team of researchers that will examine the association between social media and wellbeing.
Dr Anca Yallop

Dr Anca Yallop

26 Aug 2025
Anca Yallop from the Business School has been awarded a $395,002 grant from the Health Research Council as part of the AI in Healthcare Funding Initiative.
Dr Alex Plum

Dr Alex Plum

26 Aug 2025
Dr Alex Plum from the AUT Business School and the NZ Policy Research Institute has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Health Research Council.
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