15 Aug 2025
Launch of Online Rarotongan Dictionary - AUT News
Te Ipukarea Research Institute has partnered with the Cook Islands Language project to launch an online dictionary for Cook Island Māori.
17 Jul 2025
Top prizes for AUT Māori law students - AUT News
Two AUT law students took out the top awards at the recent Hui-ā-Tauira, an inaugural event run by Tūmatakahuki | National Māori Law Students' Association.
09 Jul 2025
"Whaea” Ella’s professorial lecture - AUT News
“Whaea” Ella Henry, AUT Business School’s inaugural Professor of Māori and Indigenous Entrepreneurship, delivered a lecture filled with wairua and aroha.
13 Jun 2025
Matariki art a koha from AUT Pou Māori - AUT News
This year’s free Matariki art, from Auckland University of Technology, features work by Bachelor of Design tauira Te Awanui a Rangi Teresa Clark.
09 Jun 2025
AUT releases 5th annual Pay Gaps report - AUT News
Measuring progress towards a diverse, fair and inclusive workplace
23 May 2025
Panel discussion: Auckland’s volcanoes - AUT News
A panel discussion on 29 May at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) will explore the volcanoes and lava caves of Tāmaki Makaurau.
21 May 2025
Trailblazer at AUT AI Collaboration - AUT News
AUT hosted renowned video designer, Maru Nihoniho, at a livestreamed event held in collaboration with the Science Gallery at the University of Melbourne.
01 May 2025
Schools Partnership Programme launched - AUT News
AUT recently launched itsSchools Partnership Programme, Iti kōpara to provide pathways to higher education for priority Māori and Pasifika learners.
24 Mar 2025
The flap over DEI: woke, or just awake? - AUT News
Ella Henry says she is happy to be called “woke”, because it means she is wide awake, aware of efforts to increase social injustice and racial disharmony.
24 Mar 2025
AUT builds on the success of Te Aronui Framework - AUT News
AUT has built upon the success of its groundbreaking Te Aronui framework with the appointment of Professor Meihana Durie in a new role, Te Toi Aronui.
NZ law schools embed, teach bijural law
AUT Law School and all NZ law schools are working to ensure the tertiary law curriculum reflects a legal system that is bicultural, bilingual, and bijural.
Kiwis embrace te Reo Māori
As this year’s Te Wiki o te Reo Māori gets underway, AUT’s Professor Ella Henry reflects on NZ’s changing attitudes toward te Reo Māori.
Study hailed as applicable, impactful
A tripartite working group of multiple unions, employers and funders hailed research by AUT’s Amber Nicholson and her colleagues into the experiences of community support workers as insightful and impactful.
Ella Henry: myth buster
Māori knowledge is opening up exciting new areas of scientific exploration, as AUT’s Ella Henry explains.
Paving the way for diversity, equity and inclusion
Dr Nimbus Staniland recently participated in a panel discussion about Eke Tangaroa, AUT’s Māori and Pacific Early Career Academic Programme.
Focusing on the next generation of Māori businesses
Associate Professor Ella Henry talks to Stuff about AUT’s new business minor and why it’s important for the future of Māori businesses to have tāngata who are business-savvy.
Flash Māori team up for AUT business course
Listen to Associate Professor Ella Henry talk about why she is so passionate about AUT’s new undergraduate course in Māori indigenous business.
Challenges for Māori support workers
A new report co-authored by AUT’s Amber Nicholson, Katherine Ravenswood and Fiona Hurd lays bare the challenges faced by Māori community support workers.
Celebrating the use of te reo
Associate Professor Ella Henry congratulates TVNZ presenter for te reo weather report. Read the full story in the New Zealand Herald.
Costco will change how Kiwis shop
Costco will change the way New Zealanders shop. In this article from The Conversation, Marketing expert Dr Megan Phillips shares tips for getting the most out of a bulk buy.
Queen’s Birthday and Platinum Jubilee Honours for Ella Henry
Associate Professor Ella Henry was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Read the article on Waatea news.com.
AUT academics interviewed on TVNZ’s Marae
Professor Jarrod Haar and Associate Professor Ella Henry were recently interviewed on TVNZ’s Marae, discussing the lowest unemployment rate for Māori for many decades.
Mātauranga Māori celebrated
There are ample reasons to celebrate the stars of mātauranga Māori in and beyond AUT, including at the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law.
Video: Researching indigenous business communities
Dr Nimbus Staniland recently participated in an indigenous business scholars panel at the Beedie Business School in Canada.
Covid cautious or Covid cavalier?
New AUT research shows half of Kiwi employees have at least a moderate level of “office anxiety” - concerns about returning to the workplace.
AUT talent showcased at NZIFF
Business graduate Mia Henry-Tierney is a producer for We Are Still Here, which has its New Zealand premiere at the NZIFF; one of several festival films with AUT connections.
Wellbeing at work expert wins top award
AUT has awarded its preeminent academic award, the AUT University Medal, to the Business School’s Professor Jarrod Haar (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Mahuta).
Funding for emerging researchers
PhD student Daysha Tonumaipea is one of three AUT researchers awarded grants to undertake research that will address some of New Zealand's most pressing health challenges.
We regularly hold events for Māori and Pacific students and staff at Te Ara Auaha, the Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies at AUT.