Efficient and fair surgical schedules with algorithms
Dr Thomas Adams is working to improve surgical scheduling algorithms using individualised surgical duration predictions.
PhD scholarship on modelling and optimising healthcare delivery
Applications are invited for a fully-funded PhD studentship to work on a project modelling healthcare delivery and optimising for wellbeing, justice, equity, and efficiency.
PhD scholarship on game theory and fundamental social and biological interactions
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD scholarship to examine fundamental social and biological interactions using game theory.
Innovative research at the intersection of science and mātauranga
Associate Professor Priscilla Wehi has been awarded the 2021 Hill Tinsley Medal from the New Zealand Association of Scientists (NZAS).
What’s in our soil, and what it means for us
Te Pūnaha Matatini supports the work of Soilsafe Aotearoa to explore community soil values and map lead and other metals in home garden soils.
How we can make science education more equitable
Te Pūnaha Matatini was a natural home for Steven Turnbull to complete his doctoral project on tertiary science participation in Aotearoa New Zealand.
He took foundational physics and is now teaching the course
Dr Kannan Ridings teaches Tertiary Foundation Certificate and Tuākana students that the best work that they can do will come from collaborative efforts.
Hīkoi, kōrero and community-led restoration of ngahere in Ōtaki
Two masters projects funded by Te Pūnaha Matatini are currently flowing together like a braided river towards creating communications to support community-led environmental restoration in Ōtaki.
Modelling for transport policy interventions
Julie Mugford is applying the skills that she learned through her doctoral project with Te Pūnaha Matatini to a career across the public service.
Making a global impact in predicting and preventing pandemics
Professor David Hayman made a global impact in 2020 with his contributions to the report on biodiversity and pandemics by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).