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, ...

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 ...

Written by Te Pūnaha Matatini PhD candidate Michael Miller. Just four years ago, experts warned te reo Māori was on a “pathway towards extinction” unless resources were put into teaching young Māori.

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 relevant to all ...

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 ...

I slowly open my groggy eyes to see my six-year-old daughter staring at me with a look of concern on her face. It’s 6am on a Monday morning, and I’m not ready for this. But it is kind of my job. And ...

Te Kahuratai Painting (Ngāti Manu, Te Popoto, Ngāpuhi) is exploring how maramataka can guide Ngāti Manu kaitiakitanga of awa and moana. For his Master of Marine Conservation project, Te Kahuratai ...

Before I started working as a research assistant on the Hidden Networks project, the only woman from the history of New Zealand science I could name was Joan Wiffen, the “dinosaur lady” who discovered ...

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 once stood.

Dr Thomas Adams is working to improve surgical scheduling using algorithms and individualised surgical duration predictions. Increased throughput, increased utilisation, decreased overtime, fewer ...

Networks arise in all shapes and forms in our everyday lives, and their features can provide new information to its respective topic. However, a list of nodes and edges alone is challenging to ...

The 2020 Prime Minister’s Science Prize has been awarded to Te Pūnaha Matatini for our contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand’s Covid-19 response. The Prime Minister’s Science Prize is awarded for ...