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Yes, data can produce better policy – but it’s no substitute for real-world experience

7 Apr 2025 | Our stories

7 April 2025 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, set targets and adjust strategies to suit. But...

Your friends probably have more friends than you do

10 Mar 2025 | Our stories, Storytelling

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 began arriving in letterboxes in Omaha, Nebraska. The letters had the...

Postdoctoral fellowships in complex systems

7 Mar 2025 | Our stories

Join us to model an entire country as a complex system 7 March 2025 We’re launching a new project to model an entire country as a complex system. This is a unique opportunity to use complex systems research to explore the unique challenges that Aotearoa New...

PhD scholarship on measuring the impact of lake health interventions

4 Mar 2025 | Our stories, Te Pūnaha Matatini Scholarships

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 by environmental factors and human activity. A number of...

Balancing with Antarctica

17 Feb 2025 | Our stories, Storytelling

17 February 2025 A collaboration between PhD candidate Kristin Wilson and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. If you travel south from Aotearoa New Zealand, you will eventually hit the landmass known today as Antarctica. Antarctica wasn’t...