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Madrid, Spain; 05 31 2024: Portia Woodman-Wicklife of New Zealand runs with the ball during Madrid Rugby Sevens at Civitas Metropolitano Stadium.

Who’ll win the Women’s Rugby World Cup? 

20 Aug, 2025
There’s more interest than ever in the tenth Women’s Rugby World Cup, which kicks off in England on August 23. Can an AUT algorithm predict the winner? 
Two academics standing against plain background.

HRC wins for Business School

Business
19 Aug, 2025
Two academics from AUT Business School, Dr Alex Plum and Dr Anca Yallop, have received significant funding from the Health Research Council.
Grants for students on placements

$150K in clinical placement support

Health sciences
08 Aug, 2025
New Zealand’s biggest provider of health sector graduates, AUT is helping address hardship faced by students on clinical placement outside of Auckland.
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Business news

Kate Kearin, Professor at AUT smiling at camera.

The value of leadership “shadowing”

Business
21 Aug, 2025
Is there a way to test out a role before you take it? Kate Kearins examines the benefits of “shadowing” a job before you sign on the dotted line.
Madrid, Spain; 05 31 2024: Portia Woodman-Wicklife of New Zealand runs with the ball during Madrid Rugby Sevens at Civitas Metropolitano Stadium.

Who’ll win the Women’s Rugby World Cup? 

20 Aug, 2025
There’s more interest than ever in the tenth Women’s Rugby World Cup, which kicks off in England on August 23. Can an AUT algorithm predict the winner? 
Two academics standing against plain background.

HRC wins for Business School

Business
19 Aug, 2025
Two academics from AUT Business School, Dr Alex Plum and Dr Anca Yallop, have received significant funding from the Health Research Council.
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Culture and society news

Tonga Language week

AUT celebrates Tonga Language Week

19 Aug, 2025
Uike Kātoanga’i ‘o e lea faka-Tonga is being celebrated across Aotearoa this week.
Launch of the online “Dictionary of the Māori Language of Rarotonga” at Te Ipukarea Research Institute, Auckland University of Technology, for Cook Islands Language Week

Launch of Online Rarotongan Dictionary

15 Aug, 2025
Te Ipukarea Research Institute has partnered with the Cook Islands Language project to launch an online dictionary for Cook Island Māori.

How influential NZ schools affected NCEA

Education
11 Aug, 2025
As we digest the news about government plans to scrap NCEA, we should also consider the role influential and prestigious schools had on its demise.
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Health news

Two academics standing against plain background.

HRC wins for Business School

Business
19 Aug, 2025
Two academics from AUT Business School, Dr Alex Plum and Dr Anca Yallop, have received significant funding from the Health Research Council.
Grants for students on placements

$150K in clinical placement support

Health sciences
08 Aug, 2025
New Zealand’s biggest provider of health sector graduates, AUT is helping address hardship faced by students on clinical placement outside of Auckland.
At the launch of the AUT Women's Health and Neuroscience research programme with AUT Vice Chancellor Damon Salesa (left), Medical Director in Abbott’s diagnostics business Dr Beth McQuiston, and AUT Professor Patria Hume posing for image.

World-Leading Concussion Research at AUT

Health sciences
14 Jul, 2025
AUT and Abbott launch world-leading research into women’s concussion, using blood biomarker technology.
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Science and technology news

AUT students (from left) Corina Huang, Ed Forrest, Akane Shibata, Anuthi Karunaratne at METexpo 2025.

AUT at METexpo 2025

Art and design
06 Aug, 2025
Auckland University of Technology staff and students share knowledge at the Society for Media Professionals, Technologists and Engineers’ METexpo 2025.
Typing in a social world

New model accurately detects AI text

Engineering, computer and mathematical sciences
01 Aug, 2025
Auckland University of Technology researchers have developed a model that accurately detects social media content created by generative AI-driven bots.  
AUT Professor standing in lecture theatre .

Science academic chairs CoRE research

Science
28 Jul, 2025
AUT Associate Professor Armagan Sabetian is now chair of the research committee for the Coastal People: Southern Skies Centre of Research Excellence.
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University news

Impression from the event

Converging sport, innovation & business

21 Jul, 2025
AUT has hosted a U.K. Government and British NZ Business Association event, bringing together more than 100 sports and business leaders.
Y25 illustration of the year

AUT students selected for 2025 Y25 List

18 Jul, 2025
Two AUT students, Laya Rasooli and Ivy Lyden-Hancy, have been selected for this year’s Y25 List.
Photo from the event

AUT hosts Prof Rev Upolu Lumā Vaai

15 Jul, 2025
AUT hosted the first Vice-Chancellor of the Pasifika Communities University, Prof Rev Upolu Lumā Vaai.
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Celebrating success

Associate Professor Armagan Sabetian

Associate Professor Armagan Sabetian

06 Aug 2025
Associate Professor Armagan Sabetian has been appointed as a research committee chair for the Coastal People: Southern Skies Centre of Research Excellence.
Professor Lindsey White

Professor Lindsey White

06 Aug 2025
Professor Lindsey White has received a $1 million MBIE Smart Ideas grant to further investigate how to remediate arsenic contamination in seaweed.
Dr Chen Chen

Dr Chen Chen

06 Aug 2025
The film “Little Potato” by Dr Chen Chen, from the School of Art and Design, recently won the Best New Zealand Short in the 2025 Doc Edge Festival.
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