Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury on the impacts of extreme climate events ...

Mahdi Arpanaei is a PhD researcher at the University of Canterbury’s Waterways Centre. Fully supported by a Te Pūnaha Matatini PhD Scholarship, his doctoral research focuses on predicting and ...

Sidney Wong is a researcher and community advocate. He was born in Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai (Lower Hutt) and is now based in Ōtautahi (Christchurch). As the former chair of Qtopia and the Ethnic Rainbow ...

Before I started working as a research assistant on the Hidden Networks project, the only woman from the history of New Zealand science I could name was Joan Wiffen, the “dinosaur lady” who discovered ...

Ngā mihi ki a tātou. Tuatahi – tēnei te mihi nui ki ngā kaikōrero, mō rātou whakaaro, moemoea, wawata. First – our huge thanks to the contributors, for their thoughts, dreams, aspirations. Tuarua – ...

A collaboration between sociologist Holly Thorpe and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. Aroha* turned 16 just one week before the first nationwide lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand ...

A summer internship can be a lonely experience. That wasn’t the case for the 12 interns supported by Te Pūnaha Matatini over the 2023-24 summer. As they worked on their diverse research projects in ...

This is the second of a series of posts on complexity. We’ll be exploring some of the ways that studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world, how this is relevant to ...

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

This is the fourth of a series of posts on complexity. We’ll be exploring some of the ways that studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world, how this is relevant to ...

You can’t get much more remote than the Chatham Islands, a bumpy plane ride 840km east of Ōtautahi. |Christchurch. Although the archipelago is made up of about ten islands, people live on just two: ...

Dr Thomas Adams is working to improve surgical scheduling using algorithms and individualised surgical duration predictions. Increased throughput, increased utilisation, decreased overtime, fewer ...