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 ...

13 June 2025 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 ...

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 ...

5 May 2025 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 ...

23 April 2025 A collaboration between science system researcher Brittany Bennenbroek and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. Deep in the heart of Aotearoa, a mighty kauri forest ...

Anna Matheson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Governments like to boast that “data-driven” policies are the best way to make fair, efficient decisions. They collect statistics, ...

10 March 2025 A collaboration between network scientist Dion O’Neale, modeller and analyst Emily Harvey, and illustrator Hanna Breurkes. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. One day in 1967, strange letters ...

Image: Te Roto o Wairewa by Billie Ihaka. 4 March 2025 Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship to study the health of shallow coastal lakes in Aotearoa, currently in a state of decline driven ...

Kristin Wilson has been exploring balance in Antarctica as a PhD candidate on Te Pūnaha Matatini’s Human activity in the McMurdo Dry Valleys – Rescue, knowledge and understanding our role as a vector ...

A collaboration between health geographer Jesse Whitehead and illustrator Hanna Breurkes. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. 22 January 2025 “Dad, when are you going to die?” I slowly open my groggy eyes to ...

A collaboration between ecologist Will Godsoe and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. 9 December 2024 At an undisclosed location on the campus of Lincoln University, on the South ...

25 October 2024 This is the final post in our series on complexity. We’ve explored some of the ways that studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world, how this is ...