2019-20 Student Internships
Te Pūnaha Matatini is a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence with researchers and students based all over New Zealand. We coordinate an internship scheme for partner organisations including iwi, Ministries, government departments, and private companies.
Te Pūnaha Matatini interns report on centre’s carbon emissions record
Te Pūnaha Matatini plans to introduce carbon emission reductions as a KPI from 2021 onwards. To prepare, we have analysed our carbon emissions from staff air travel over the past few years to better understand the centre’s past and current performance.
Te Pūnaha Matatini’s link to exciting new start-up
Te Pūnaha Matatini provided much of the impetus for Nebula, an innovative new data visualisation company set up by physicists with the help of the University of Auckland Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Maths Craft founders win NZAS Cranwell Medal for Science Communication
Dr Jeanette McLeod and Dr Phil Wilson, Te Pūnaha Matatini investigators and the co-founders of Maths Craft New Zealand, have been awarded the 2019 New Zealand Association of Scientists Cranwell Medal for Science Communication.
Why high achieving women aren’t continuing in physics
It is well known that female students are under-represented in university physics. However, the reasons for this are not so well understood. New research by Te Pūnaha Matatini investigators helps shed some light,
Science is sexist, Te Pūnaha Matatini research shows
Te Pūnaha Matatini researchers Alex James (pictured) and Michael Plank co-authored a recently published paper revealing the extent to which women are under-represented in the science field.
NZ universities not meeting diversity, equity goals
New research led by Te Pūnaha Matatini Associate Investigator Dr Tara McAllister has revealed that Māori and Pasifika are severely under-represented in New Zealand’s university workforce.
Improving the tools we use to analyse citizen science data
Julie Mugford, PhD student at the University of Canterbury and Chair of Te Pūnaha Matatini Whānau, is developing statistical tools to improve the accuracy of classification-based crowdsourcing, aka citizen science.
NZ health research attracting global attention
Novel public health research being conducted by Te Pūnaha Matatini investigator Dr Anna Matheson from Victoria University of Wellington has spurred much interest worldwide.
Researching impact of Moa extinctions on early Māori
Te Pūnaha Matatini incoming co-directors Cilla Wehi and Murray Cox have collaborated on an analysis of Māori ancestral sayings (whakataukī), and their recognition of extinctions and their impact.
Our Research
Complexity, Risk, and Uncertainty
Complex Economic and Social Systems
Complexity and the Biosphere
