New professors and associate professors
Hospitality work: A map for change
Guiding tourism in the Pacific Islands
Matariki chocolate and perfect ice cream
Hospitality jobseekers urged to use their power
A taste of AUT for Restaurant Month
Build back better: A catalyst for change
Voices from hospitality's front line
AUT graduates showcase NZ cuisine
New Professors and Associate Professors 3
AUT climbs up the global rankings
Public fine dining in prisons is popular
A recipe for a successful evening
Renowned restaurateur honoured by AUT
Hiakai wins Ockham NZ Book Award
Should tourism get its hopes up?
A fairer strategy than the green tax
Freedom camping needs new regulations
Hospitality professor heads top journal
New Professors and Associate Professors
Honorary fellowship for culinary hero
A special book on modern Maori cuisine
A study exchange without the travel
Student chefs cook for the homeless
A ‘new normal’ for Pacific Tourism
The survival challenge for NZ tourism
CAUTHE conference comes to Auckland
What's behind the 737 MAX groundings?
Why were tourists allowed on Whakaari?
Cookbook sales fund refugee scholarship
AUT a 5-star university across all categories
New Professors and Associate Professors
AUT moves up 50 places in world rankings
Promoting careers, not just jobs
The changing face of what it means to be Kiwi
Stamp of quality for AUT tourism degree
62% increase in AUT researchers
Five questions: Professor Michael Lück
Diversity celebrated at cookbook launch
Celebrating AUT through the years
Gaining skills for the workplace
Student awarded Te Pia Tāpoi scholarship
New Cookbook to fund scholarship fund
Tourism student to experience Fiji
New Professors and Associate Professors announced
Arts student plans dream event
Minister launches sustainable blueprint
THE rankings place AUT in NZ top three
AUT 2019 domestic and international fees
Making connections at the career fair
AUT students embrace the world
Partnership supports Merge Café
Internships at Walt Disney World Resort
Taking New Zealand cuisine to the world
Harassment in Cook Islands hospitality
AUT increases presence in QS subject rankings
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.
AUT Hospitality ranked 45th in the World
Students studying Hospitality, Tourism, Events and Culinary Arts at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) are completing their degrees in a school that is ranked 45th in the world in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.
Students join Auckland Council to promote cutting food waste
Auckland Council has been working with AUT culinary students to inspire Aucklanders to love their leftovers and reduce food waste
Culinary lecturer in winning team at the International Culinary Olympics
The New Zealand's national chefs’ team, including AUT lecturer John Kelleher, has won silver and bronze at the Culinary Olympics in Germany.
Tourism NZ honour for AUT academic
Tourism New Zealand has recognised AUT Associate Professor Erica Hinckson for her efforts in attracting a world-class academic conference to New Zealand.
AUT student is Sommelier of the Year – wins trip to France’s Champagne region
Congratulations to Bachelor of International Hospitality Management student Dion Wai who took the top prize in blind wine tastings, theory and practical assessments at the New Zealand Sommelier of the Year Awards held recently at the New Zealand School of Food and Wine in Auckland.
AUT gets behind Cooking 4 Change
AUT volunteer students and staff teamed up with well-known Kiwis last night to serve the homeless a gourmet dinner at the Auckland City Mission.
The primordial pleasure of cooking with fire
Michelin-starred chef and School of Hospitality senior lecturer in culinary arts Alan Brown has produced a new book that takes cooking in a wood-fired oven to the next level.
AUT culinary arts student tops Viet Nam fusion competition
Culinary arts student Jamin Gibson has taken out top honours in an international culinary competition held in Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam.
Great food and culture at Culinary Arts event
Latin American cuisine, colour and culture came together at the Bachelor of Arts (Culinary Arts)'s “Sabores Latinos” event.
Queen’s honour for services to art, education and LGBTQI rights
Being named an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) for services to performing arts, education and LGBTQI rights took a while to sink in for AUT senior lecturer Lexie Matheson.
New Zealand’s first team steps up to take on Bocuse d’Or culinary competition
Sourcing a rare fish that lives in the Antarctic’s subzero waters is just one of the challenges that New Zealand’s first ever Bocuse d’Or team has taken on in their quest for the ultimate culinary prize.
AUT culinary team lending skills to Fiji fundraiser
AUT culinary graduates will be working side-by-side with some of New Zealand’s top chefs this weekend to help raise money for Fiji in the wake of Cyclone Winston.
AUT research links tourism to sustainable development in the Pacific
Research to create sustainable livelihoods for our Pacific neighbours: this is the key goal for AUT Professor of Tourism Simon Milne.
Locals - the missing link in national tourism strategy warns Professor
New Zealand’s national tourism strategy needs to focus more on the role of local communities in engaging and interacting with tourists, says AUT University’s tourism and sustainability professor Simon Milne.
Seafaring professor helps to keep Sir Peter Blake’s legacy alive
Joining a group of scientists, academics and educators and 12 outstanding young New Zealanders on the recent 13-day Young Blake Expedition to the subantarctic islands was a ‘huge privilege’ says AUT Professor of Marine Tourism Mark Orams.
Manukau Harbour researchers keen to hear from locals
Tourism researchers exploring the recreation and tourism potential of the Manukau Harbour want to hear from as many locals and visitors as possible about the way they use the harbour.
Prime Minister’s Youth Programme comes to AUT
20 young women, participants in the 2014 Prime Minister’s Youth Programme, took part in a ‘market to table’ experience hosted at AUT’s Four Seasons restaurant this week.
Research explores the legacy of RWC 2011 volunteering
Many Rugby World Cup 2011 volunteers delivered on their intentions to do more volunteer work after an outstanding experience with the event, a longitudinal study has found.
Futuristic hotel vision takes students to Singapore
Imagining a hotel that guests can customise has taken a team of AUT hospitality students into the final round of an international hotel design competition, to be held in Singapore later this month.
Making and eating extravagant ice cream creations to mark the end of a university paper sounds unlikely, but first-year students in AUT’s Certificate and Diploma of Pâtisserie did just that recently.
'Excellent textbook' wins Culinary Quill award
The New Zealand Chef, a textbook co-authored by AUT senior lecturer Lindsay Neill, has been recognised with the chief judge’s special award at the 2013 Culinary Quill Awards.
Once again, AUT University has come back from the National Culinary Fare triumphant, with a stack of medals to display.
Students and graduates from AUT’s School of Hospitality and Tourism programmes, Diploma in Culinary Arts (DCA), Diploma in Patisserie (DipPat) and Bachelor of International Hospitality Management (BIHM), competed in a range of classes at the national event, with plenty of gold, silver and bronze medals being awarded.
AUT’s Arno Sturny has been named New Zealand’s Culinarian of the Year by the New Zealand Chef’s Association.
The senior lecturer in patisserie had no idea the win was coming when it was announced at the association’s annual conference in Christchurch at the end of July.
As New Zealand’s economy continues to strengthen, so too does the hospitality industry, says AUT senior lecturer Lindsay Neill, one of the authors of New Zealand’s third annual Hospitality Report, released this week.
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.
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 student proud to be a chef
AUT University student Jonny Bell is Proud to be a Chef, in more ways than one, and in one month's time he will prove it again.
Bell, who is studying a Diploma in Culinary Arts in AUT’s School of Hospitality and Tourism, won the opportunity to cook in Melbourne in February this year, thanks to his delicious dish in the Fonterra Proud to be a Chef competition.
It was lights, camera, pastry at AUT University’s Piko Restaurant late last year as patisserie students showed off their skills in their end-of-year and ice cream showcase.
Fusion cook takes out top prize
Three stressful hours and a box of 55 ingredients has seen an AUT University student take out a national cooking competition.
The copious cups of tea have paid off for the AUT team in the Dilmah High Tea Challenge this week.
AUT University went Pink for the first ever AUT Pink Ribbon Breakfast.
AUT's Four Seasons Restaurant is going Pink
AUT University is getting behind the colour pink this month and is hosting a Pink Ribbon Breakfast in Four Seasons Restaurant to support the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation (NZBCF).