Māori and Pacific Island women in science

12 Feb 2018 | Our stories

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 New Zealand’s first dinosaur fossils in Hawke’s Bay. She was a...

How machine learning can perpetuate racism

2 Feb 2018 | Our stories

I wrote this algorithm to classify people by gender, but one of the biggest things I learned was how machine learning can reinforce racism and perform poorly on ethnic minorities. Machine learning – or programs that are able to learn from and improve on past...

Sally Davenport MNZM

19 Jan 2018 | Our stories

What better news to start the year than one of our Principal Investigators featuring on the 2018 New Year Honours List? Sally Davenport, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at Victoria University of Wellington, Director of the ‘Science for Technological...

Te Pūnaha Matatini scholar in the news

14 Dec 2017 | Our stories

Te Pūnaha Matatini Whānau PhD student Caleb Gemmell from the University of Auckland was recently interviewed by the NZ Herald about his ground-breaking research using social network analysis to examine ancient artefact movement in pre-European New Zealand. Supervised...

Te Pūnaha Matatini researchers receive $4.2M in Marsden funds

9 Nov 2017 | Our stories

Several Te Pūnaha Matatini researchers around New Zealand have been successful in securing major funding for their research, about $4.2 million in total, from the Royal Society Te Apārangi’s 2017 Marsden Fund round. Marsden Fund applications are very competitive. This...

Professor Murray Cox awarded Te Rangi Hīroa Medal

7 Nov 2017 | Our stories

Professor Murray Cox, a computational biologist in the Institute of Fundamental Sciences at Massey University in Palmerston North and a Principal Investigator at Te Pūnaha Matatini, was recently awarded the prestigious Te Rangi Hīroa Medal by the Royal Society Te...