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Funding for emerging researchers
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Four Marsden fund grants for AUT
Pacific language videos: Tuvalu
Moana view in Ars Electronica Festival
AUT Pacific youth mental health study
Pacific language videos: Kiribati
MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowships
AUT Pacific language video series: Samoa
Using ‘food havens’ to reduce obesity
Busting the myths around stroke
Pacific language videos: Rotuman
Ethnic inequity in chronic pain services
Director of Pacific Media Centre retires
AUT Pacific researchers win HRC funding
Language fluency and mental disorders
Hope for the Niuean language in Aotearoa
Pacific language videos: Tuvalu
Eating healthy is hard on a Covid budget
Freemasons Scholarship recipients 2020
Pacific language videos: Tonga
Pacific language videos: Cook Islands
AUT study prompts new rugby role
Pacific language videos: Samoa
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Pacific governments and media crackdown
Study of Pacific people comes of age
AUT choir perform with Hugh Jackman
19 first in family scholarships awarded
Athlete development must better support Indigenous and Pasifika players
62% increase in AUT researchers
Marginalisation on health policy groups
Researching inflammation and depression
Showcasing Pacific history in London
AUT student's work dazzles at awards
Pacific youth at risk if mothers gamble
Doctoral student’s research recognised
Plain English boosts policy outcomes
Disparity in chronic pain services
London calling for AUT law scholar
Prime Minister recognises AUT students
Fijian reproductive health worse in NZ
Langi Latu wins case competition at Beta Gamma Sigma Global Leadership Summit
Langi Latu, an AUT Business School graduate, and fellow team members won their case category during the Team Case Competition, sponsored by KPMG, at Beta Gamma Sigma’s 2017 Global Leadership Summit. The team was selected as a winner based on their innovative and creative solution for their assigned business case, as well as the effectiveness of their presentation.
AUT alumna to attend world-class conference
AUT business graduate, Langi Latu, is heading to the U.S to attend the Beta Gamma Sigma Global Leadership Summit later this week.
Fakafeiloaki (Greetings). Mālo ni (Hello). Vaiaho o te Gagana Tokelau (Tokelau Language Week) celebrates Faka-Tokelau (the Tokelauan way of life) from October 23-29.
Fakaalofa lahi atu! (Great greetings to you!) We are celebrating Niuean Language Week from 15–21 Oketopa (October).
Tālofa! (Greetings!) AUT is proud to support Tuvalu Language Week from October 1-7.
Malo e lelei – (hello). Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e Lea Faka-Tonga (Tongan Language Week), from 3-9 September, provides an opportunity to celebrate Tongan culture here in New Zealand.
Māori and Pacific Early Career Academic Programme
A new generation of Māori and Pacific lecturers is taking up residence at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
The 2018 Early Career Academic Programme offers up to six Māori and Pacific scholars their first, full-time, permanent appointments as research-active lecturers.
Māori and Pacific Early Career Academic Programme
A new generation of Māori and Pacific lecturers is taking up residence at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
Brothers graduate to achieve dream of higher education
Usually students graduating are lucky enough to witness performances from The Oceanian Voices choir during their graduation ceremonies, but at the most recent Business School graduation, two brothers got to pick up their degrees and entertain their fellow graduates.
Pacific mental health expert scoops national leadership award
Dr Monique Faleafa was last week named winner of the 2017 eHealth Innovation Leadership Award by AUT’s Centre for eHealth.
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.
Cook Islands Language Week 2017
Te epetoma o te reo Māori Kuki Airani – Happy Cook Islands Language Week!
Pacific youth leader in ocean conservation
AUT Marine Biology student, Antony Vavia, was selected by the Aotearoa Youth Leadership Institute to attend the first United Nations Ocean Conference in New York last month.
Big result for Pacific health research at AUT
AUT’s Pacific Islands Families (PIF) Study has been awarded three research grants, each worth $1.2 million over three years, by the Health Research Council of New Zealand.
Happy Samoan Language Week 2017!
Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa (Samoan Language Week) – 28 May to 3 June – is time to celebrate and reflect on the rich culture here in New Zealand.
Preventing Tongan youth suicide
AUT research students launch New Zealand’s first evidence-based resource for Pacific suicide prevention.
2017 Woolf Fisher First-in-Family AUT Scholarship recipients announced
The names of thirteen new Woolf Fisher First-in-Family AUT Scholarship recipients were announced at a celebration event at AUT’s City Campus last week.
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.
AUT receives funding for Pacific health study on ageing
The Pacific Islands Families (PIF) Study at AUT South Campus has been awarded almost $1 million for innovative research as part of the ‘Ageing Well’ National Science Challenge.
Sini Tagiloa was toiling on the factory floor, working hard and wondering why he was going nowhere. Wishing he knew what his manager was looking for. And, contemplating what he might do differently if their roles were reversed. He decided to study HR.
AUT students explore Life Below Water for Cook Islands Language Week
This year, AUT is honouring our Pacific Language Weeks through a series of short videos.
Each provides a platform for Pacific students to share their thoughts on one of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals, which aim to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.
Pacific high schoolers encouraged to be tomorrow’s leaders
More than a hundred Pacific Year 13 high school students from 30 high schools across Auckland recently attended a special programme with a vision to inspire them to achieve their very best, and assist them to explore and make informative decisions for their educational and career pathways.
PMC director calls for ‘voice for the voiceless’ at Pacific human rights forum
Giving voice to the voiceless and championing the rights of all people by telling the truth was the message given to the Human Rights and the Media forum in Fiji organised by the region’s Pacific Community.
NZ a world leader in island conservation, says new research
An international study has shown that mammal eradication on islands has delivered great conservation gains for New Zealand’s native species and island biodiversity.
AUT Pacific Islands Families study: Findings to be translated into international context
Researchers at Auckland University of Technology’s South Campus in Manukau will join forces with four other leading research groups in the field of child development studies, thanks to Government funding of $429,017 from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Catalyst Fund.