An AU-Tea Experience

Tea was the name of the game, and the taste of it, when an AUT University senior lecturer and student went to Sri Lanka this month.

Senior lecturer in Culinary Arts John Kelleher and Bachelor of International Hospitality Management student Nicole Gomes spent a week in Sri Lanka with Dilmah Tea, after finishing the runners up in the 2012 Dilmah High Tea Challenge New Zealand.

Māori share their culture and heritage with the USA

Washington DC will have a Māori element next month thanks to AUT University’s Te Ipuakarea -The National Māori Language Institute and the Smithsonian Institution.

AUT partners with ATC in a New Zealand first

AUT University is investing $5 million in the Waterfront Theatre Project at Auckland’s Wynyard Quarter’s Innovation Precinct. The new partnership with Auckland Theatre Company (ATC), whereby AUT will own 15% of the limited liability company established to develop, own and maintain the new theatre, is the first of its kind in New Zealand.

Domestic violence online tool

AUT researchers are looking for women to participate in the isafe study, a new online research study to assist women living with partner violence to make good safety planning decisions for themselves and their children. 

The isafe study has been developed to improve women’s decision making, safety planning, wellbeing and health and to give them information about services in the community for support.

Medal for Excellence for culinary whizz

For the first time a New Zealander has won the Medal for Excellence in Culinary Arts from City and Guilds London, and that New Zealander is from AUT.

Senior lecturer Alan Brown from the AUT School of Hospitality and Tourism won the medal earlier this year after being nominated by colleagues.

AUT completes largest problem gambling trial in world

The world's largest problem gambling clinical trial has been completed by a team of AUT University researchers and led by Professor Max Abbott. 

Newspaper paywalls not paying off … yet

Newspaper paywalls are less successful than newspapers are suggesting, and don’t offer a viable business model in the short term according to an AUT media researcher.

Derek Handley appointed to Executive Professor role

Derek Handley, one of New Zealand’s most well-known entrepreneurs, has taken up an Adjunct Executive Professorship at AUT. As Executive Professor, Derek Handley will work with Dr Geoff Perry, Dean of AUT’s Business School.

New Applied Ecology institute launches at AUT

AUT University launched the new Institute for Applied Ecology NZ last week under the directorship of Professor Steve Pointing.

New to the university himself, Pointing is a professor of applied ecology specialising in deserts, microbes and climate change.

AUT bridges gap between academia and industry

The Auckland Centre for Financial Research at AUT Business School will host a one-day symposium on 31 May 2013 to bring together industry professionals and academia for the first time to discuss research into New Zealand capital markets.