Manaakitanga, tika, tapu and pono Te Pūnaha Matatini is a New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence. The values of manaakitanga, tika, tapu and pono are central to the way that we do our mahi. Pono is ...

Student internships Te Pūnaha Matatini is the Aotearoa New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence for complex systems, with researchers and students based across the country. We coordinate an ...

In 2024 I will be entering my third year as an Environmental Science and Global Studies student at the University of Auckland. I am passionate about nature, animal rights, space, systemic justice, ...

16 June 2025 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 ...

Richard Arnold, April Boland, Zoë Brown and Rebecca Priestley are exploring how individuals and communities in Aotearoa New Zealand engage with, and trust (or mis-trust), science and scientists as ...

Just after 1.48 p.m. on Monday 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced that, following the recently introduced four-level alert system, New Zealand would move to Alert Level 3 ...

Anna Matheson is a principal investigator with Te Pūnaha Matatini who leads the research project Ki te toi o te ora: System change to reverse health inequality and environmental degradation. Hanna ...

A new study has developed a powerful new method to understand and address gender pay gaps in New Zealand’s public research sector – just as the country’s Crown Research Institutes face major ...