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AUT and the Auckland FC are teaming up

AUT now Exclusive University Partner

Sport and recreation
30 Oct, 2025
AUT is very proud to have become Auckland FC’s Exclusive University Partner for the 2025/26 A-League season.
The AUT Blue Awards recognise high-performance athletes and artists who are also achieving their academic goals as students of AUT.

Celebrating AUT student excellence

24 Oct, 2025
The AUT Blue Awards recognise high-performance athletes and artists who are also achieving their academic goals as students of AUT.
Gaza at war city destroyed by idf attacks, aerial rare view Drone view over North Gaza in the war with Israel.

Professor John Tookey on Rebuilding Gaza

Architecture and built environment
22 Oct, 2025
With 83% of its buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than money to rebuild, the AUT Professor of Construction Management writes.
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Business news

Winners of research translation competition

AUT shines at Research Translation comp

Business
24 Oct, 2025
Three AUT Business School academics have been acknowledged for their translation of complex research into ideas that resonate with non-academic audiences.
Annual Talanoa event brings together influential Māori and Pacific thought leaders

Voices of Change

Business
23 Oct, 2025
Annual Talanoa event brings together influential Māori and Pacific thought leaders to discuss doing business in 2025 and beyond.
Professor Kate Kearins smiling for photo.

WFH when everyone else is in the office

Business
23 Oct, 2025
What happens when not everyone in a company can WFH? Sometimes there are long periods of time when a person is not there in-person. How to make it work?
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Culture and society news

Displaced Palestinians in Al-Mawasi crowd to get rice meals from (Al-Takiya) due to the lack of flour and also the lack of entry of aid, in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 29, 2024.

AUT disaster response expert on Gaza

Architecture and built environment
23 Oct, 2025
AUT’s Professor Regan Potangaroa, a global expert in humanitarian engineering, has been involved in more than 200 UN deployments in 22 countries.
Gaza at war city destroyed by idf attacks, aerial rare view Drone view over North Gaza in the war with Israel.

Professor John Tookey on Rebuilding Gaza

Architecture and built environment
22 Oct, 2025
With 83% of its buildings destroyed, Gaza needs more than money to rebuild, the AUT Professor of Construction Management writes.
A photo of the presentation on stage

Emotional landscape of language revival

Communication studies
15 Oct, 2025
Receptive bilingualism was at the heart of Te Ipukarea researchers Dr Nogiata Tukimata & Dr Toiroa Williams presentation at PULiiMA 2025.
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Health news

View over Auckland city

Nobel Sustainability Award

Sport and recreation
20 Oct, 2025
AUT’s Professor Erica Hinckson co-director of recipient organisation
Two people looking at a computer with a brain scan on the screen.

New brain lab ‘a beacon for hope’

Health sciences
17 Oct, 2025
Last week marked a new era for brain research at AUT with the opening of the updated Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience laboratory on North Campus.
Woman Typing Message on her Smartphone in the Evening at Home.

AI chatbots no substitute for therapy

Health sciences
08 Oct, 2025
An AUT senior lecturer says New Zealanders could be at risk from unregulated AI chatbots being promoted for therapy.
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Science and technology news

Attendees of the FAST symposium posing for picture at the event.

AUT hosts FAST! Symposium

Science
03 Nov, 2025
Strengthening science and technology ties between France, Aotearoa and the Pacific was the theme of the recent FAST! Symposium, hosted at AUT.
AUT Dr Hazel smiling with blue sky backdrop.

$820k fellowship for Dr Hazel Abraham 

Engineering, computer and mathematical sciences
31 Oct, 2025
AUT’s Dr Hazel Abraham is “humbled” to be the recipient of a Mana Tūāpapa Future Leader Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Apārangi. 
Asbestos research in east Auckland

Asbestos research in east Auckland

31 Oct, 2025
AUT researchers will collect samples from Auckland beaches to determine the level of public risk posed by asbestos containing materials
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University news

Group photo at the awards

NZSL team wins national award

Language and culture
07 Nov, 2025
The team’s commitment to allyship and inclusivity has been recognised at Te Whatu Kairangi
City Campus at AUT in summer

AUT Marsden and Mana Tūāpapa Success

06 Nov, 2025
AUT academics have been recognised in 2025’s Marsden Fund and Mana Tūāpapa Future Leader Fellowships.
Professor Tania Ka’ai

Privileging Indigenous Knowledge

Te Ara Poutama: Māori and indigenous development
03 Nov, 2025
A lifetime of service by Tania Ka’ai fosters a network of authentic Māori academic excellence, centring Indigenous knowledge in the university ecosystem.
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Celebrating success

Associate Professor Stephanie Rossouw

Associate Professor Stephanie Rossouw

27 Aug 2025
Associate Professor Stephanie Rossouw is part of a global team of researchers that will examine the association between social media and wellbeing.
Dr Anca Yallop

Dr Anca Yallop

26 Aug 2025
Anca Yallop from the Business School has been awarded a $395,002 grant from the Health Research Council as part of the AI in Healthcare Funding Initiative.
Dr Alex Plum

Dr Alex Plum

26 Aug 2025
Dr Alex Plum from the AUT Business School and the NZ Policy Research Institute has been awarded a $1.2 million grant from the Health Research Council.
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