Our stories
Innovate the vote
Our mates at Figure.NZ and Te Pūnaha Matatini have asked us to talk about what innovation means to us. As the Innovation Partnership we bring together like minds to drive digital innovation in New Zealand. We believe that if we can put digital at the centre of our...
The Number 8 RE-wire
Agriculture used to be New Zealand’s main bread and butter. Our small Pacific nation at the edge of the earth was bred on a “number eight wire” mentality, where ingenuity and resourcefulness was at the core of what we did, and the number of sheep was ten-fold the...
Reframing Innovation
Innovation has become a bit of a cliché. The word has graced the spine of one-too-many books in the business section. As someone who researches and writes about innovation I find this painful to say but, if I’m honest, there was a whiff of the naughties about it in...
Siouxsie Wiles – Blake Leader 2016
Congratulations to Te Pūnaha Matatini's Acting Deputy Director Dr Siouxsie Wiles who was named a Blake Leader 2016 from the Sir Peter Blake Trust on July 1. Siouxsie leads the Bioluminescent Superbugs Lab at the University of Auckland. She has spearheaded many efforts...
NZ innovation reframed by leading figures
New Zealand’s leading thinkers and doers are out to reframe innovation in a series of online data-driven discussions from August 1-5. Technical expert Keoni Mahelona and Antarctic researcher Dr Victoria Metcalfe are just some of the leading figures coming together to...
Meet the team: Q&A with Tava Olsen
Meet Professor Tava Olsen from the University of Auckland. Tava is a Director at the New Zealand Centre for Supply Chain Management and was recently appointed Deputy Director - Industry and Stakeholder Engagement here at Te Pūnaha Matatini. Tava brings with her a...
Reframing Innovation
We’re starting a conversation. An online, data-driven conversation that seeks to demonstrate the diversity of innovation in Aotearoa New Zealand. From August 1 – 5 we’re working with Figure.NZ to bring together the country’s thinkers and doers for a series of online...
In the media: investigator interviews from 2015
As leading researchers and science communicators, Te Pūnaha Matatini investigators were regularly sought after by local and international media in 2015 to offer expert opinion and comment on a vast range of subjects. The launch of Te Pūnaha Matatini was profiled by...
University of Auckland Equity reporting – also not such a silly idea?
By Caleb Gemmell and Catherine Webb The Equity Office - Te Ara Tautika – at the University of Auckland has published an equity profile of the university for 2014. The purpose of these yearly publications is admirable – to transparently report how the university is...
Meet the team: Q&A with Stephen Marsland
Meet Stephen Marsland - a professor of scientific computing in the computer science cluster of the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology (SEAT) at Massey University. Stephen is also Te Pūnaha Matatini's new Theme Leader: Complex Data Analytics. "Data is cool...
Meet the team: Q&A with Mike Plank
We recently caught up with Principal Investigator Dr Michael Plank, a senior lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Canterbury. Mike has taken on the role of Theme Leader: Complexity and the Biosphere while Alex James is on hiatus....
My First Conference(s)
By Jonathan Goodman Never do things by halves, jump in the deep end, give it a go, eat your vegetables, trust your supervisors. This is all good advice and I now realise I must have taken it, having presented at the first conference I have ever attended, then...