Communication studies news

AUT moves up 50 places in world rankings

AUT is now in the top 1% of world universities and in the top 50 for research citations.

19 first in family scholarships awarded

19 AUT students were awarded Woolf Fisher First-in-Family AUT Scholarships at a celebration event at the AUT South Campus on Thursday 29 August.

Pacific Journalism Review turns 25

Pacific Journalism Review turns 25

Kiwi to lead world journalism education body

Associate Professor Verica Rupar has been elected Chair of the World Journalism Education Council.

AUT student receives NDF scholarship

After attending NDF 2018 as a scholarship recipient, AUT Post Graduate student Louise Saunders won the role of NDF Auckland Regional Ambassador.

Grace makes global Badass Women list

AUT Law and Communications student Grace Stratton joins Rihanna, Marie Kondo and Nobel prize winner in global list

DCT confirms two new Heads of School

Dr Rosser Johnson will be Head of the School of Communications Studies, and Dr Andrew Withell will be Head of Art & Design.

Pacific research of ‘hard’ social issues

Six years of diverse Pacific research by Auckland University of Technology staff and students has been profiled in a new publication.

To build social cohesion, our screens need to show the same diversity of faces we see on the street

Migration plays an important role in shaping Aotearoa New Zealand society. New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland, is now “more diverse than London”.

Pacific countries score well in media freedom index, but reality is far worse

When Pacific countries reflect on the state of their media, they know the reality is much worse than the ticks they got from global media freedom watchdog.