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Giving voice to indigenous stories

Insight, AUT’s alumni magazine, talks to globally acclaimed indigenous storyteller and AUT communication studies alumna Chelsea Winstanley.

Communication Studies 2020 Awards

Students were recognised for their outstanding accomplishments at this year's Communication Studies Awards.

Filming Loimata a family affair

For senior communications studies lecturer Jim Marbrook, helping tell the story of Lilo Ema Siope and her family was a family affair.

small budgets, big ideas

Dan Fastnedge, Lecturer in Advertising Creativity, explores what Netsafe’s new online porn public service advertisement tells us about Kiwi ad creativity.

Crisis, disintegration and hope

Professor Wayne Hope from AUT’s School of Communications Studies says only urgent intervention can save New Zealand’s media.

Knowing ourselves through film 

Screen Production Associate Professor Arezou Zalipour says now more than ever the value of different perspectives in film making is valued.

The human face of Iran

PMC's David Robie looks behind the chadors and sabre rattling to show the human face of Iran with a series on politics, travel and adventure.

Grace makes global Badass Women list

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

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”.

62% increase in AUT researchers

Growing expertise to help New Zealand and the world