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 ...

Te Pūnaha Matatini PhD researcher Tony Nemaia travels to Niue expecting to deepen his hiapo methodology – and returns with something he didn't plan for. A reflection on knowledge transmission, tūpuna, ...

We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Centre for Sustainability Research. The Centre for Sustainability is an interdisciplinary research centre at the University ...

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 ...

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 ...

One day in 1967, strange letters began arriving in letterboxes in Omaha, Nebraska. The letters had the name of a stockbroker in Boston, Massachusetts and instructions to send them on to a friend or ...

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

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 ...

Kyle Wills is not afraid of planting trees on his beef and deer farm. Kyle is a farm advisor from Central Otago. In the winter of 2022 and 2023 he planted over 7,000 trees in two different areas of ...

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 ...

Te Pūnaha Matatini is bringing acclaimed evolutionary biologist and science system researcher Professor Carl Bergstrom (University of Washington) to New Zealand in February 2026 for a series of public ...

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 ...