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WIPCE 2025 recognised at NZEA awards

WIPCE 2025 recognised at NZEA awards

WIPCE 2025 has won Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Event of the Year at the NZEA New Zealand Event Awards 2026.

Helping solve kauri dieback disease

Helping solve kauri dieback disease

How soil microbes shape kauri health, influence dieback disease, and offer clues to protecting one of Aotearoa’s great taonga.

Franklin youth explore the future

Franklin youth explore the future

Innovation Franklin & AUT taking technology to schools

How can mindfulness make waiting easier?

How can mindfulness make waiting easier?

We found that mindfulness – deliberately paying attention to the present – appears to slow the subjective passage of time.

Workplace violence a reality for many

Workplace violence a reality for many

Nearly 80% of NZ’s vital workers in home and community care, mental health, addiction, and disability services experience workplace violence.

Why greedy investors miss out on gains

Why greedy investors miss out on gains

New research shows that greed makes investors more likely to sell winners too soon.

History curriculum is a 'sanitised view'

History curriculum is a 'sanitised view'

The new history curriculum fails to meet demands for an honest engagement with our past, says Lecturer Christopher Burns.

Q&A: International Law Matters

Q&A: International Law Matters

AUT law expert Myra Williamson explains Palestinian statehood, international law, enforcement, deep-sea mining, and the future of global governance.

WIPCE 2025 recognised at NZEA awards

WIPCE 2025 recognised at NZEA awards

WIPCE 2025 has won Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Event of the Year at the NZEA New Zealand Event Awards 2026.

GPs' ‘moral distress’ over patient care

GPs' ‘moral distress’ over patient care

Doctors say they feel ‘guilty’ and ‘inadequate’ because of patient care choices that come from circumstances beyond their own control.

Q&A: Feet Matters

Q & A: Feet Matters

Professor Matt Carroll explains how to care for your feet; whether it’s choosing the right running shoes, managing pain or avoiding bad smells.

Airborne asbestos in kids’ play sand

Airborne asbestos in kids’ play sand

AUT research led by Associate Professor Terri-Ann Berry finds airborne asbestos in children’s play sand.

AI hackathons spark innovation at AUT

AI hackathons spark innovation at AUT

More than 220 participants took part in two sold-out AI hackathons hosted at AUT's South and City campuses as part of the Aotearoa AI Hackathon Festival.

Helping solve kauri dieback disease

Helping solve kauri dieback disease

How soil microbes shape kauri health, influence dieback disease, and offer clues to protecting one of Aotearoa’s great taonga.

E-scooter design makes crashing easy

E-scooter design makes crashing easy

The unstable design of e-scooters makes them easier to crash, and with a higher chance of serious injury, says an AUT mechanical engineering researcher.

AUT meets Chelsea FC!

AUT meets Chelsea FC!

It’s not every day you get to meet one of the world’s best women’s football teams in Auckland. A group of AUT staff, alumni and students recently did.

WIPCE 2025 recognised at NZEA awards

WIPCE 2025 recognised at NZEA awards

WIPCE 2025 has won Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Event of the Year at the NZEA New Zealand Event Awards 2026.

Franklin youth explore the future

Franklin youth explore the future

Innovation Franklin & AUT taking technology to schools