News in the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies - Te Ara Auaha
Universities must embrace partnerships
Guides have a STEMtastic time at AUT
Fletcher Chair of Future Environments
Fulbright NZ award winners 2021
More people are paying for online news
Refuse to use: Plastic Free July at AUT
Hayakal al Noor, Bodies of Light on now
Solving the affordable housing problem
MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowships
Five questions: Professor Verica Rupar
AUT Drone Lab Antarctic Conservation
Pikihuia shortlist includes AUT writer
Five questions: Professor Fiona Peterson
Smoothing the path for women in tech
Ad school grads winning awards
Good Health Design & We Read Auckland
DCT welcomes new Head for ECMS
AUT: How we managed to kill the ‘bill’
A Body That Lives Walter Prize showcase
Five questions: Prof. Jairo Gutierrez
AUT set to host Aotearoa AI Summit
Prosthetic fins for injured sea turtles
ICT Engineering Fair attracts employers
The future of AI and machine learning
Giving voice to indigenous stories
Celebrating AUT's women academics
Promoting Equality In The Future of Tech
Visual arts alumna revives Niuean art
New low cost COVID-19 antibody test
AUT alumnus wins major artist residency
Passion for entrepreneurship and design
LOIMATA film wins Grand Prix at FIFO
Greater media literacy is vital
Evolving architecture for future needs
BioDesign Lab delivers new solutions
Communication Studies 2020 Awards
Future Environments 2020 Awards
Director of Pacific Media Centre retires
The first Islamic mindfulness app
Independent NZ media ownership booms
BCIS final projects showcase diversity
New Professors and Associate Professors
Stamping out the racism epidemic
Evocative new work at the Art Gallery
Data Science for Mental Health
Design and Creative Tech PG Awards
Professor gets horror studies editorship
Joint research of NZ’s future power grid
Better recycling = less waste, more jobs
AUT 2020 Best Awards finalists
The Sound of a Quality Education
AUT alumn Haydn Jack changing the world
Freemasons Scholarship recipients 2020
AUT launches new advertising campaign
PJR spotlights media strain in Melanesia
Technology, journalism and democracy
Techweek showcase’s NZ’s tech diversity
Metamorphosis - from waste to fashion
Filming Loimata a family affair
Heritage Preservation through VR
Can social media help combat racism?
A new way of research storytelling
Why does art and design matter?
Design Through a Pasifika Lens
Alumnus hosts Techweek 2020 event
Smart toys exposing kids to risk
Researcher appointed to global network
Techweek 2020 AUT playlist launched
Turning the lens on Māori journalism
Technology to reduce spread of COVID-19
$10k climate and Covid-19 grant
Civilisation and imagined futures
Getting more kids into STEM is crucial
PUNCH: a new film by AUT Welby Ings
AUT grad named international finalist
Crisis, disintegration and hope
Documentary looks at Māori culture
Reframe your mindset during COVID-19
Problem solving even under lock down
Pacific governments and media crackdown
Face shields for health workers
Thank you artwork for essential workers
Fiona Amundsen: Walters Prize nominee
Augmented Reality book wins competition
Speaking Surfaces: stories and spaces
Knowing ourselves through film
The massive scale of food waste
Extreme star’s origin confirmed
Waitangi Day and Pride's shared history
New face mask addresses air pollution
Why radio matters so much, 100 years on
Broadcasting sector in serious trouble
Burning waste to generate electricity
Cookbook sales fund refugee scholarship
AUT building wins NZ Architecture award
Dr Mahsa Mohaghegh wins Equal Pay Award
AUT gets 5 QS stars in all categories
First mother in space explores AUT
New Professors and Associate Professors
Digital curriculum not about devices
Flexibility essential in home design
Top students awarded AUT Blue Awards
How do buildings affect mental health?
PR students help hundreds of non-profits
Turning city streets into public spaces
AUT triumphs at 2019 Best Awards
Exploring self and collective identity
Built futures at AUT Architecture Lab
Sonnar Library wins AUT X Challenge
Architects vs Engineers Debate Brief
AUT VR project exhibits at UN, New York
Voices for the Future: UN Summit in NYC
Are we blissfully ignorant on recycling?
AUT secures $13M in MBIE Endeavour Fund
AUT moves up 50 places in world rankings
19 first in family scholarships awarded
The digital quest for immortality
val smith named Arts Foundation Laureate
Showcasing AUT’s postgraduate research
2019 Te Ataata residency recipient
AI uncovers benefits of mindfulness
Student hackathon works to reduce waste
How recycling is actually sorted
Card game makes collaboration easy
Melanoma - What's hair got to do with it
48 AUT finalists at 2019 Best Awards
WZ building shortlisted for award
Pacific Journalism Review turns 25
New lab focuses on future environments
The business of prison and fashion
AUT students design Export NZ trophies
New Zealander elected Chair of WJEC
AUT student receives NDF scholarship
Grace makes global Badass Women list
Math modelling tackles global issues
Reimagining the future of care
AUT appoints five Professors Emeriti
AUT artist in residence part of Tūrama
Design grad wins Pol Roger competition
A new direction for art on campus
DCT confirms two new Heads of School
Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues
Earthquake Proof Technology Test
Architecture as key to understanding
Pacific countries media reality
62% increase in AUT researchers
High praise for AUT Career Fair
TDC64 Auckland: World’s best typography
The Techweek19 programme is live
Uncommon milestone for 'Sparrow'
Measuring the impact of Pacific holidays
Architecture for the future at AUT
Diversity celebrated at cookbook launch
Five questions: Professor Frances Joseph
Asia Pacific Report covers Christchurch
“Education is the key to life”
AI-DAY Workshop Series at AUT announced
Fiona chosen as Fulbright NZ Scholar
Brain power driving AI breakthroughs
AUT designers make international finals
Farewell to Professor Ian Shirley
Celebrating AUT through the years
Gaining skills for the workplace
Clever Little Monthly wins X-Challenge
Newspapers shrink local news gaps widen
KEDRI Director receives honorary degree
Professor reports on historic referendum
New Cookbook to fund scholarship
New Professors and Associate Professors
Minister launches sustainable blueprint
AUT Blue Awards recognise top students
AUT Blue Awards honour arts and culture
THE rankings place AUT in NZ top three
Memory inspired knits exhibited in NYC
AUT 2019 domestic and international fees
World first for decision-making AI
Five questions: Professor Guy Littlefair
AUT academic joins NZ Project Runway
Five questions: Professor Charles Walker
AUT student's work dazzles at awards
City Campus’ newest building now open
Palliser Ridge Scholarship knitted-up
Excitement around the potential of SKA
Joining top young entrepreneurs
4 questions with Professor Peter Chong
5 questions with Professor Wayne Hope
Marking World Press Freedom Day
AUT artist in residence announced
Prime Minister recognises AUT students
New resource for youth with psychosis
Addressing NZ’s construction woes
Professor John Tookey provided expert comment for a series of Stuff articles which looked at a range of problems besetting the construction industry.
Examining the impact of data misuse
Dr Verica Rupar, Associate Professor in the School of Communication Studies, examined the Cambridge Analytica scandal in an op-ed for Newshub.
ANZ Technology internship leads to career
Attending a lunchtime presentation by ANZ Technology during her time as an AUT student delivered pure gold for software development alumna Bailee Devey.
On Waitangi Day, AUT alumni launched the world's first AR-enabled Māori alphabet colouring book.
Research offers new hope for amputees
Recognising a technology gap for amputees saw Aaron Cleland create Neural Amusement, a groundbreaking research project seeking to ease the pain of phantom limbs.
AUT student joins advisory group
Communication studies student Arizona Leger was recently appointed to a Ministerial Advisory Group to review the current state of NCEA.
Professor recognised with Hind Rattan
School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences Professor Krishnamachar Prasad was recognised with the prestigious Hind Rattan Award in Bangkok.
When Elon Musk's commercial space company Space X successfully launched Falcon Heavy, AUT’s Radio Astronomy and Space Research team helped keep an eye on it.
AUT increases presence in QS subject rankings
New global rankings show AUT now has 13 subjects ranked, with two of them featuring in the top 50 in the world.
'Bearing Witness' project reporters win Dart trauma award
The Pacific Media Centre's Bearing Witness climate change project has won the Dart Asia-Pacific Prize for Journalism and Trauma at the annual Ossie Awards in Student Journalism presented at the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) annual conference at Newcastle University in December.
AUT Grad wins Australia’s most prestigious graphic design award
Communication Design graduate Alistair McCready has won Australia’s single top graphic design award.
Journalism under duress in the Asia-Pacific – PMC turns 10
The Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology is highlighting the threats to media freedom in the Asia-Pacific region in an event next week marking its 10th anniversary.
Budding student entrepreneurs prepare for AUT’s “Dragon’s Den”
X-Challenge, a new university-wide competition that gives every AUT student an opportunity to develop an idea for a business, cause or project will culminate with a Dragons Den style pitch night on Thursday 23 November.
AUT student shows spirit at the 2017 Attitude Awards
An AUT student has been heralded for her advocacy work at last week’s Attitude Awards.
Colab partnership to translate research innovation into reality
A new sponsorship agreement with S23M will result in a wealth of new opportunities for students and staff
Indonesian academic exchange an opportunity for unique collaboration
Pacific Media Centre Director, Professor David Robie will join academics from around the world in a global academic exchange with Indonesia's Universitas Gadjah Mada. In return, seven academics from the Indonesian university will visit AUT for the first communication and publication research collaboration of its kind in New Zealand.
AUT wins big at 2017 Best Design Awards
AUT has won big at the 2017 Best Awards - the annual design industry awards dinner held last Friday, 6 October 2017.
AUT at NZFW Graduate Show 2017
Three talented fashion designers represented AUT at this year’s New Zealand Fashion Week (NZFW) Graduate Show.
AUT alumna bound for The Happiest Place on Earth
AUT communications graduate, Molly Dagger, is heading to the U.S to take part in the annual Disney World Cultural Exchange Programme.
Meet AUT's Artist in Residence
AUT welcomes French artist and designer Antonin Fourneau as this year's Te Ataata Creative Technologies Artist in Residence.
From Auckland to Paris: Four AUT students heading to Europe's largest tech festival
Four AUT students, with support from the Embassy of France in New Zealand, have been selected to present their work at Europe’s largest digital festival, this month in Paris.
New Head of School of Communications
AUT has appointed a new Head of the School of Communications.
AUT student shortlisted for a Canon Media Award
An AUT student is in the running to win Student Journalist of the Year at this year's Canon Media Awards.
Pacific Journalism Review research - Journalists working harder, women disadvantaged
New Zealand journalists are working longer hours, and feeling more pressure, both ethically and resource-wise, than they were only two years ago, a new research survey has found.
Minister visits two School laboratories
The new Science Minister, Paul Goldsmith, has made his second trip to AUT in two weeks.
Disobedient teaching: surviving and creating change in education
Despite being expelled from Secondary School and suspended from Teachers College, AUT Professor Welby Ings’ new book is about teaching.
AUT part of SpaceX’s first delivery to International Space Station
AUT’s Institute of Radio Astronomy and Space Research was thrilled to be a part of SpaceX’s first delivery to the International Space Station overnight.
AUT appoints new Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of DCT Faculty
Professor Guy Littlefair has been appointed by Auckland University of Technology (AUT) as the new Dean of its Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies (DCT) and Pro-Vice Chancellor. He will take up the position in July 2017.
Student documentaries featured on RNZ National
In early 2017, RNZ National featured a number of radio documentaries made by final-year Bachelor of Communication Studies students.
Exploring what it’s like to look for love as a 40-something year-old woman, a grandfather recovering from a stroke and the life of a bushman are just some of the stories made by AUT students.
Social innovation is here to stay
It’s the new buzzword for ‘doing good well’, but New Zealand has strong roots in social innovation that predate the movement.
From AUT student to award winning entrepreneur
Te Pou Tatau Pounamu NZ Peace Foundation award for Christina Milligan
Screen Production lecturer Christina Milligan was among the recipients at the Nga Aho Whakaari (Maori Film Practitioners) 20th Anniversary awards. Christina, director Kim Webby and coproducer Roger Grant received the Te Pou Tatau Pounamu NZ Peace Foundation award for “their contribution to peace and aroha”.
AUT-SKA project highly commended at NZ Innovation Awards
AUT’s role in the world’s biggest science project won a highly commended prize at the NZ Innovation Awards.
Frucor Real Life sessions prepare AUT students for Industry 4.0
Auckland University of Technology (AUT) has collaborated with Frucor Beverages to help students prepare for successful careers in the rapidly changing world of IT.
Over the past nine weeks, Frucor’s business technology team has delivered a series of Real Life sessions for Bachelor of Computer Information and Sciences (BCIS) students at AUT South Campus.
AUT cleans up at Best Design Awards
AUT has had its most successful Best Awards night yet.
The Best Awards are the country’s top Design awards and were held in Auckland on Friday 14th October.
AUT researcher wins MBIE funding for quake tech
Technology co-designed by an AUT academic that improves earthquake resilience in buildings has won more than three million dollars in government funding.
The Resilient Slip-Friction Joint (RSFJ) was designed by Structural Engineering lecturer Dr Pouyan Zarnani with two members of Auckland University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department when he was a post-doctoral fellow there.
AUT finalists named in the New Zealand Innovation Awards 2016
AUT has bagged three nominations at this year’s Innovation Awards.
New Zealand SKA Alliance Big Data Challenges led by AUT and NZA has been named a finalist in the Innovation Excellence in Research and Young New Zealand Innovator category.
AUT student nominated for Young New Zealander of the Year
AUT Postgraduate Diploma in Communication Studies student Joshua Iosefo has been nominated for Young New Zealander of the Year at the New Zealander of the Year Awards.
AUT student represents NZ at Edinburgh Arts Festival
AUT PhD Candidate Olivia Webb and her artwork represented New Zealand at one of the largest art events in the United Kingdom, the Edinburgh Arts Festival.
Earlier this year Olivia was invited to create an artwork for the festival as part of the festival’s 2016 Commissions Programme. Her new artwork, Lapides Vivi, was launched at this year’s festival.
AUT PhD candidate places third in Falling Walls competition
AUT Engineering PhD candidate Stephanie Anne Croft placed third in the Falling Walls Competition held in Canberra, Australia, where participants have to sum up their research in three minutes.
Computer and engineering students head to China with Huawei
On Friday 26 August, five AUT Computer and Engineering students headed to China with Huawei.
Over the next two weeks they’ll get the rare opportunity to go behind the doors of Huawei HQ in Shenzhen and see what is involved in being the world’s biggest telecommunications technology retailer.
AUT secures 25 Best Award nominations
Twenty five projects by students and staff from the School of Art and Design and Colab have secured nominations in the country’s top design awards.
The first Māori woman to get a PhD from engineering at AUT graduated on Friday.
Ngaire Hart is believed to be only the second Māori woman to have the qualification in this field.
Head of NASA’s Juno Mission visits AUT
The head of NASA’s Juno Mission got a first-hand look at AUT’s Institute of Radio Astronomy and Space Research work at its radio telescopes at Warkworth last week.
Smarter use of big data - National centre to create new data technology platforms
Building world-leading data technology platforms that create industries and keep talented young New Zealanders in this country is the focus of a new organisation being launched at AUT tonight.
World Journalism Congress at AUT
The CEO whose organisation stood behind the release of the Panama Papers will be a speaker at the World Journalism Congress to be held at AUT in July this week. Peter Bale runs the Centre for Public Integrity in Washington DC, one of the largest nonpartisan, nonprofit investigative centers in America.
Paving the way for Auckland’s aspiring tertiary entrepreneurs
Aspiring AUT entrepreneurs are receiving a welcome boost to turn their ideas into a commercial reality through a new student entrepreneurship programme.
TEDxManukau: Explore, Realise, Act
Last month, David Sinfield, senior lecturer and undergraduate programme leader of Graphic Design and Moving Image at AUT South Campus, explored the relationship between lettering, design and storytelling across time and space at TEDxManukau.
AUT alumnus to study at Columbia University
Congratulations to Auckland University of Technology (AUT) alumnus, Jeremy Olds, who has been awarded a 2016 Fulbright New Zealand General Graduate Award.
Christchurch rebuild inspires competition win
Inspiration from the Christchurch rebuild helped a group of Colab students win a top French design competition.
Masters students Sarah Loggie, Jacques Foottit, Lisa Clist and Jenna Gavin travelled to Paris earlier this month for the European Street Design Challenge at the Futur –en-Seine Digital Festival in Paris
Fiji placement enlightens aspiring climate change journalists
A two-week journalism stint in Fiji, dubbed “Bearing Witness”, has lent new perspectives on the effects of climate change on AUT journalism student Ami Dhabuwala and graduate TJ Aumua.
AUT video: the science and history behind Matariki
The bright blue stars known as the Seven Sisters are known for marking the beginning of Matariki- or the Māori New Year.
Experieco CEO Andrew McPherson to speak at STEMprenuers speaker series
The CEO of cloud service provider Andrew McPherson will be the third speaker at this year’s STEMprenuers speaker series.
Journalism under threat - ‘digital first’ strategies put journalists last
Journalism in New Zealand is threatened by the constant culling of editorial jobs and current affairs programmes. The 2015 JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report observes that in this year alone 60-70 jobs were removed from newsrooms and current affairs production. This report is the fifth produced by the AUT’s research centre Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD).
Final year fashion students transformed the newly-reopened St James’ Theatre into a fashion hotspot last week.
Journalism Conference gets UNESCO Grant
AUT has won a UNESCO grant to help support the World Journalism Education Congress being hosted at the City Campus in July 2016.
AUT launches NEUlab - NZ's first advanced data science laboratory
New Zealand’s first advanced data science laboratory has opened at AUT.
AUT students head to Huawei HQ in China
Six lucky AUT students are this month getting the rare opportunity to go behind the doors of Huawei HQ in Shenzhen and see what is involved in being the world’s biggest telecommunications technology retailer.
French Ambassador visits AUT Colab
There’ll be more French digital artists-in-residence at AUT, after the university and the French Ambassador signed a Memorandum of Understanding about the newly established programme.
AUT students take part in Engineers Without Borders competition
A storm water management system and wind turbines are AUT Engineering students answer for a struggling village in Cameroon.
The JMAD New Zealand media ownership report 2014 was published and distributed on December 5, 2014.
AUT Pacific journalism students win Ossie Award for Fiji elections coverage
AUT University’s Pacific Scoop has won a major student journalism award for its coverage of the Fiji post-coup general election in September.
Conference to put lens on political journalism in Asia-Pacific
Renowned investigative journalists, film makers, academics and media freedom campaigners from across the Asia-Pacific region will come together at AUT University on 27-29 November 2014.
Journalism students create first ever university news bureau for Fiji elections
Three AUT University journalism students have recently returned from Fiji having covered the recent elections for AUT’s Pacific Media Centre (PMC).
Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief to meet AUT University Communications Students
This Friday September 12, co-founder of the Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, will visit New Zealand for a number of high profile engagements.
AUT to host the World Journalism Education Congress
Identity and integrity of journalism education will be a key theme of the next World Journalism Education Congress to be held at AUT in 2016.
UNESCO World Press Freedom lecture to tackle NZ media challenges
The UNESCO World Press Freedom lecture will be livestreamed here tonight - Tuesday 6 May.
