Investigating the effects of a changing climate on health inequities in Aotearoa, through disease transmission and healthcare ...

Te Tairāwhiti is an isolated region with a large Māori population, high deprivation, problematic land-use, and regular flooding in recent years.

What is the impact of climate mitigation and adaptation efforts on the life of communities? Can we overcome the radical uncertainty of extreme events that operate across multi-species environments? It ...

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 ...

Evidence-based policy is created through an ecosystem of interacting people with various different roles, knowledge bases, ...

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 ...

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 ...

An excerpt from Shaun Hendy’s new book, The Covid Response – A Scientist’s Account of New Zealand’s Pandemic and What Comes Next. Just after 1.48 p.m. on Monday 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda ...

A new study from researchers at Te Pūnaha Matatini and the University of Canterbury has developed a powerful new method to understand and address gender pay gaps in New Zealand’s public research ...

A collaboration between complex systems researcher Anna Matheson and illustrator Hanna Breurkes. Edited by Anna Brown. Imagine you’re watching a river flow through a beautiful valley. At first glance, ...

A collaboration between researchers Richard Arnold, April Boland, Zoë Brown and Rebecca Priestley and illustrator Hanna Breurkes. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. It’s 2025, and in Aotearoa New Zealand ...