Te Pūnaha Matatini's treasured Kaumātua Professor Tom Roa has been made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

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New Zealand’s economic complexity has fallen over the last two decades. On page 13 of MBIE and MFAT’s new long-term insights briefing on New Zealand’s productivity in a changing world, they note that ...

This is the second of a series of posts on complexity. We’ll be exploring some of the ways that studying complex systems gives us a more nuanced way of understanding the world, how this is relevant to ...

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 ...

A summer internship can be a lonely experience. That wasn’t the case for the 12 interns supported by Te Pūnaha Matatini over the 2023-24 summer. As they worked on their diverse research projects in ...

“It was two of the most exciting days of my career,” says Te Pūnaha Matatini Principal Investigator Associate Professor Jonathan Tonkin.

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 ...

Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury to work on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities. Extreme events such as droughts ...

It’s 2025, and in Aotearoa New Zealand there are a growing number of people who believe that the Earth is flat. That’s an extraordinary statement, coming from a technologically advanced society living ...

During my residency with Te Pūnaha Matatini, I created Ongo mei he fonua – Sounds of soil (contamination), a work that explores the interconnections between land, people, and environmental histories.