Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury on the impacts of extreme climate events ...

“It was two of the most exciting days of my career,” says Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Associate Professor Jonathan Tonkin.

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 ...

He didn’t quite know what to wear to submit to parliament, so he wore a three-piece suit. Duncan was one of the three of us standing in front of about ten MPs, asking them to change the definition of ...

December 2021 was a busy month for security teams around the world. A zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a seemingly harmless Java logging framework, rocked the digital world in early December 2021. It ...

In an inaugural lecture, newly-minted professors often talk about their journey. But Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director Priscilla Wehi used hers to challenge us to reimagine who we are as New Zealanders, ...

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, ...

It’s 2025, and in Aotearoa New Zealand there are a growing number of people who believe that the Earth is flat. That’s an extraordinary statement, coming from a technologically advanced society living ...