Te Pūnaha Matatini is bringing acclaimed evolutionary biologist and science system researcher Professor Carl Bergstrom to New ...

Ngā mihi nui to our treasured Kaumātua Professor Tom Roa (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato, Ngāti Apakura), who has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year 2026 Honours. On 14 ...

New Zealand’s economic complexity has fallen over the last two decades. On page 13 of MBIE and MFAT’s new long-term insights briefing on New Zealand’s productivity in a changing world, they note that ...

Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury to work on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities. Extreme events such as droughts ...

“It was two of the most exciting days of my career,” says Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Associate Professor Jonathan Tonkin.

During my residency with Te Pūnaha Matatini, I created Ongo mei he fonua – Sounds of soil (contamination), a work that explores the interconnections between land, people, and environmental histories.

“It was two of the most exciting days of my career,” says Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Associate Professor Jonathan Tonkin. In August 2024, Jono ran a workshop with a diverse team of ...

We think we live in the information age. In the information age one of the latest big buzzes is artificial intelligence (AI). We’re surrounded by claims about the power and potential of AI. We hear ...

He didn’t quite know what to wear to submit to parliament, so he wore a three-piece suit. Duncan was one of the three of us standing in front of about ten MPs, asking them to change the definition of ...

December 2021 was a busy month for security teams around the world. A zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a seemingly harmless Java logging framework, rocked the digital world in early December 2021. It ...

In an inaugural lecture, newly-minted professors often talk about their journey. But Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director Priscilla Wehi used hers to challenge us to reimagine who we are as New Zealanders, ...

Backyards can be refuges for nature, dens for children, sources of food and nourishment, and spaces of speculation on what might have gone on before and what may be happening out of sight. They can ...