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 ...

Jordan Phillips | University of Auckland Kia ora koutou. Ko Jordan tōku ingoa. Nō Whaingaroa me Matangirau ōku tīpuna. Kei te noho au ki Tamaki Makaurau. My name is Jordan and I am a Philosophy ...

Te Pūnaha Matatini has been successful in its bid to be refunded by the New Zealand Government’s Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) in the recent CoRE round. From 1 July 2021, the Centre’s funding ...

Image: Cover detail from ‘Community-up system change for health and wellbeing: Healthy Families NZ Summative Evaluation Report 2022’, designed by Toi Āria: Design for Public Good, Massey University ...

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 ...

Holly Thorpe is a Principal Investigator with Te Pūnaha Matatini and a recipient of a Royal Society Te Apārangi James Cook Research Fellowship focused on women’s wellbeing during and beyond the ...

About: Dr Daniel (Dan) Hikuroa, a Principal Investigator at Te Pūnaha Matatini, is an earth systems scientist at the University of Auckland who integrates mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) and ...

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 ...

4 September 2024 This is the fourth of a series of posts on complexity. We’ll be exploring some of the ways that studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world, how ...

24 May 2024 A collaboration between bioeconomy expert Sandra Velarde and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. Kyle Wills is not afraid of planting trees on his beef and deer farm.

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, ...