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Centre For Research On Modern Slavery Established
Thursday, 10 September 2020, 4:03 pm | University of Auckland
A new research centre has been established by the Department of Management and International Business at the University of Auckland Business School, to tackle the issues of modern slavery. Founded by international business scholars, Dr Brent Burmester, Professor ... More >>
Study Casts Doubt On Building Industry’s ‘green Certified’ Ratings
Wednesday, 9 September 2020, 10:24 am | University of Auckland
Researchers from the University of Auckland are questioning the accuracy of some ‘green certified’ rating tools used by the building industry to measure the warmth and efficiency of New Zealand houses, after independent research failed to verify ... More >>
Grew Up Singing In South Auckland, Now Singing With The Met
Monday, 7 September 2020, 11:50 am | University of Auckland
Two former students from the School of Music, University of Auckland, New Zealand Tongan tenor Manase Latu and New Zealand Samoan bass-baritone Samson Setu, have secured places on the prestigious New York Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann ... More >>
University Of Auckland Regains Place In The World’s Top 150 Universities
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 8:35 am | University of Auckland
The University of Auckland has climbed 32 places in the Time Higher Education (THE) world rankings to resume its position in the top 150 universities in the world for the first time since 2011. Earlier this year Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading university ... More >>
Mental Health: A Silent Pandemic Among NZ’s Youth
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 8:30 am | University of Auckland
Mental health conditions amongst Aotearoa New Zealand youth have doubled in the past decade with mental health experts describing it as “a silent pandemic of psychological distress.” Psychologists and academics are calling for urgent action to better ... More >>
Architects, Artists And Engineers Feature In International Art Media Festival, In Cyberspace
Thursday, 3 September 2020, 8:19 am | University of Auckland
LightWing II creates a mysterious sensation of tactile data. In this interactive installation, a kinetic construction is augmented with stereoscopic 3D projections and spatial sound. The Digital Research Hub at the University of Auckland has co-ordinated ... More >>
Covid Jobless Doing Better Than Main Beneficiaries, Survey Shows
Friday, 28 August 2020, 11:50 am | University of Auckland
People on the Covid-19 Income Relief Payment, a new benefit for those made jobless by Covid-19, are faring better than those on main benefits, new survey data shows. A collaboration between the University of Auckland, Child Poverty Action ... More >>
‘Lab In A Pocket’ Alerts Young Minds To The World Around Them, By Making Scientific Inquiry Fun.
Friday, 28 August 2020, 8:58 am | University of Auckland
Researchers at the ABI have create a low cost, ‘lab in the pocket’ for schoolchildren, a technology to spark and nurture a scientifically inquiring mind, allowing them to take scientific measurements of the world around and within them such as the quality ... More >>
University Labs And Staff Help Tackle Covid Testing Surge
Friday, 21 August 2020, 2:34 pm | University of Auckland
University of Auckland and Auckland DHB scientists have banded together to help New Zealand process a huge increase in Covid-19 tests after the latest outbreak of the virus. The Grafton Clinical Genomics Laboratory has analysed as many as 2,000 ... More >>
University Project Gets Green Light With Shovel-ready Funding
Tuesday, 18 August 2020, 2:56 pm | University of Auckland
The Government announcement that the University of Auckland will receive ‘shovel-ready’ funding for a construction project will create some 750 jobs in the building sector, with the goal of relocating the Faculty of Education and Social ... More >>
Chatbot As Therapy For Tinnitus – Study Launch
Tuesday, 11 August 2020, 2:52 pm | University of Auckland
Chatbot technology that offers therapy for tinnitus sufferers via a mobile device such as a smartphone will be trialled at the University of Auckland. Researchers are recruiting participants for the ‘Tinnibot’ study which is aimed at helping ... More >>
University Of Auckland Researchers Join Global Consortium For Vehicle Electrification
Friday, 7 August 2020, 2:48 pm | University of Auckland
Work at the University of Auckland will play a significant role following this week’s launch of the National Science Foundation-funded Engineering Research Centre for Electrified Transportation in Utah, USA. Advancing Sustainability through Powered ... More >>
New History Fund Will Uncover More Of Our Own Stories
Thursday, 6 August 2020, 1:12 pm | University of Auckland
A vision to stimulate world-class historical research is behind a $500,000 gift to establish a History Innovation Fund at the University of Auckland. Based in the history department, the fund has been made possible by Dr Felicity Barnes, a senior ... More >>
Addressing Rangatahi Education Challenges After COVID-19
Tuesday, 28 July 2020, 11:57 am | University of Auckland
Lockdown highlighted and exacerbated young Māori students’ life on the wrong side of the digital divide says a new report, which provides evidence and recommendations for how the disparities can be addressed. It highlights how iwi used their own resources ... More >>
Maths During Lockdown: A Testing Time
Monday, 27 July 2020, 2:18 pm | University of Auckland
Parents’ experiencs of helping their children do maths at home during the Covid-19 lockdown varied widely depending on the school, a University of Auckland survey has found. Maths specialist Dr Lisa Darragh from the University’s Faculty of Education ... More >>
New Technologies Put More Human-ness Into The Zoom (and Other Remote) Rooms
Tuesday, 21 July 2020, 10:41 am | University of Auckland
As the pandemic obliged many of us to retreat from the real-world and into the remote one, researchers at the ABI upped the pace of their research on how to put more of the human dimension to Zoom and other teleconferencing platforms. This includes numerous ... More >>
Getting To The Heart And Sole Of Barefoot Running
Tuesday, 21 July 2020, 7:39 am | University of Auckland
Were we really born to run barefoot, and even if we were, should we try to revert to nature after a lifetime of wearing shoes? Probably not all of us, according to research led by Associate Professor Justin Fernandez, Auckland Bioengineering Institute ... More >>
Eruption Alert System Would Have Given 16 Hours’ Warning At Whakaari
Monday, 20 July 2020, 9:49 am | University of Auckland
An alert system that could have given 16 hours’ warning of last year’s eruption at Whakaari/White Island is ready for deployment, University of Auckland scientists say, with warning systems for Ruapehu and Tongariro the next priority. ... More >>
Antibiotic Use Declines, But Still Higher Than Many Countries
Friday, 17 July 2020, 9:47 am | University of Auckland
An analysis of antibiotic dispensing data for more than four million New Zealanders over a six year period reveals that there has been a reduction in the rate of antibiotics dispensed, but that New Zealand’s use of antibiotics still remains higher than ... More >>
Refugee Research Centre Focused On Impact In Pacific And Asia
Thursday, 9 July 2020, 2:51 pm | University of Auckland
The Issues Facing People Forced Out Of Their Homes Due To Conflict Or Climate Change In Asia And The Pacific Will Be The Focus Of A New Research Centre At The University Of Auckland. The Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies (CAPRS) will be led by refugee ... More >>
