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AUT at Best Awards 2022

AUT Art and Design students and staff have won a total of 29 awards at the Design Institute of New Zealand’s 2022 Best Awards.

Best Director nomination for AUT alumna

Master of Communication Studies alumna Lina Tianyue Hu has been nominated in the best director category of the ‘Show Me Shorts’ short film competition.

Programme inspires students to study law

AUT hosted students from lower decile schools as part of Te Kuhunga, a programme built to inspire and support students to study law at university.

Share the Elevator

A new podcast shines a bright light on the inequities and challenges experienced by young women of colour starting their careers in Aotearoa.

Taking care seriously in education

The government is in year three of a 10-year plan to build a ‘planned and coherent’ education ecosystem – but it has failed to make any tangible progress.

Law School scholars, supporters honoured

An evening of excitement and excellence – those words aptly describe the recent 2022 AUT Law Awards, an annual event that recognises our top law scholars.

2022 Pat Hanly Creativity Awards

On 8 September Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tamaki hosted to the 2022 Pat Hanly Creativity Awards, recognizing 89 talented students from 47 secondary schools

Artwork responds to climate crisis

Combining matauranga Māori and western science, an online artwork tracks the decline of Haupapa Tasman Glacier.

The city as laboratory

Learning about urban recovery and transformation in post-quake Christchurch.

Being radical in time of climate crisis

AUT Law School hosted a public lecture by Environmental Law Professor Liz Fisher, a distinguished legal academic from Oxford University.