AUT - Faculty research: where research and learning come together
Faculty research: where research and learning come together
It is within the faculties of the university where research discoveries help inform learning. Postgraduate students’ research is at the heart of faculty research.
This page introduces the type of research we do within each of AUT's 5 faculties:
- Applied Humanities
- Business and Law
- Design and Creative Technologies
- Health and Environmental Sciences
- Te Ara Poutama (Māori Development)
APPLIED HUMANITIES
We focus on the application of cultural, economic and social findings to the lives of individuals, families and communities.
Research areas include:
- Language & Discourse
- Migrant & Refugee Studies
- Education
- Public & Social Policy
- Tourism & Hospitality
- Culture, Society & Communities
BUSINESS AND LAW
Our expertise is in partnering organisations of all sizes and types to solve business and legal issues through research.
Research areas include:
- Accounting and auditing
- Business information systems
- Commercial law
- Economic development
- Employment and labour market dynamics
- Entrepreneurship and innovation
- Financial management
- Human Resource Management and Employment Relations
- International Business
- Investment
- Marketing and Retailing
- Organisational psychology
- Sustainability and environmental economics
DESIGN AND CREATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
We research the creative industries and fields where innovation and technological improvements spawn advances in New Zealand's economic development.
Research areas include:
- Applied mathematics
- Biomedical engineering
- Critical journalism and broadcast media
- Design innovation
- Information and computer technologies
- Mass communication and new technologies
- Visual arts
HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Healthy bodies, healthy minds and healthy environments. Our research focuses on illness prevention, sustainable environments and the improvement in quality of life and surrounds.
Research areas include:
- Aquaculture
- Biodiversity
- Biotechnology
- Biomedicine (transfusion-transplantation, IVF and embryology)
- Chronic Health Conditions
- Earth and Oceanic Sciences
- Environmental Sciences
- Exercise Science
- Food Science and Microbiology
- Health promotion
- High Performance Sports
- Human and Social Ethics
- Maori Health
- Marine Science and Ecology
- Medical Laboratory Science
- Midwifery and women's health
- Migrant health and well being
- Molecular Genetics
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Occupational health
- Oral Health
- Pasifika Health
- Physical Activity and Nutrition
- Physical and Social Rehabilitation
- Physiotherapy
- Podiatry
- Professional, clinical and educational practice
- Psychology
- Public health and mental health
- Rehabilitation
- Violence and trauma
TE ARA POUTAMA (MĀORI DEVELOPMENT)
We are interested in all aspects of Māori communities' social and economic development, and the promotion of this.
Research areas include:
- Aotearoa New Zealand history
- Entrepreneurship and economic development
- Health
- Language acquisition
- Sustainable indigenous communities
- Technology design for recording Māori history and knowledge
- Treaty of Waitangi issues