TPM | Te Pūnaha Matatini

Sally Davenport MNZM

19 Jan 2018 | Our stories

What better news to start the year than one of our Principal Investigators featuring on the 2018 New Year Honours List? Sally Davenport, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at Victoria University of Wellington, Director of the ‘Science for Technological...

Te Pūnaha Matatini scholar in the news

14 Dec 2017 | Our stories

Te Pūnaha Matatini Whānau PhD student Caleb Gemmell from the University of Auckland was recently interviewed by the NZ Herald about his ground-breaking research using social network analysis to examine ancient artefact movement in pre-European New Zealand. Supervised...

Te Pūnaha Matatini researchers receive $4.2M in Marsden funds

9 Nov 2017 | Our stories

Several Te Pūnaha Matatini researchers around New Zealand have been successful in securing major funding for their research, about $4.2 million in total, from the Royal Society Te Apārangi’s 2017 Marsden Fund round. Marsden Fund applications are very competitive. This...

Professor Murray Cox awarded Te Rangi Hīroa Medal

7 Nov 2017 | Our stories

Professor Murray Cox, a computational biologist in the Institute of Fundamental Sciences at Massey University in Palmerston North and a Principal Investigator at Te Pūnaha Matatini, was recently awarded the prestigious Te Rangi Hīroa Medal by the Royal Society Te...

Restoring the mana of Te Wai a Rongo: We cannot value what we do not know

25 Oct 2017 | Our stories

My kaupapa focuses on Māori perceptions associated with the environment, especially freshwater. I wish to impress upon you why the preservation of freshwater is a property rights issue, guaranteed by the Te Tiriti o Waitangi¹, and not an issue of race or ownership....