A collaboration between software researcher Nkiru Ede and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. December 2021 was a busy month for security teams around the world. A zero-day ...

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, ...

Backyards can be refuges for nature, dens for children, sources of food and nourishment, and spaces of speculation on what might have gone on before and what may be happening out of sight. They can ...

A collaboration between PhD candidate Michael Miller and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. How many people in Aotearoa speak te reo Māori? This may seem like a simple question to ...

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 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 Zealand ...

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 ...

The New Zealand Government’s decision to restructure the Marsden Fund and Catalyst Fund is more than a simple budgetary adjustment – it is a pivotal moment. This decision comes in the context of ...

At Te Pūnaha Matatini we value the opportunity to work with artists to explore how art and research come together to tell stories about our world. Eager to bring new perspectives to our research, and ...

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 ...