University of Auckland

Te Rōpū Whakakaupapa Urutā (the National Māori Pandemic Group) won the supreme award at Māori Television’s fifth annual Matariki Awards – Ngā Tohu o Matariki o te Tau 2021.The group won recognition for coordinating a nationwide Covid-19…

The two-year project, Southern Hemisphere Influenza and Vaccine Effectiveness Research and Surveillance V (SHIVERS-V), is led by the University of Auckland in collaboration with the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR)…

The prototype technology, FootSense, is a low-cost device designed for home-based monitoring, to detect early signs of foot complications.It does this by measuring asymmetries in temperature. Research shows that differences in temperature…

University of Auckland PhD candidate Georgi Toma’s thesis was already focused on the endemic issue of teacher stress, but with the extra strain of the Covid lockdowns, she saw a way to put her background in cognitive behavioural therapy…

The project, funded by Wellcome Leap as part of the 1kD program, is intended to develop more precise methods of early screening. This will allow children who need intervention to be identified earlier for appropriate interventions and…

Research from the University of Auckland’s School of Psychology, found that receiving audible notifications on phones could be more distracting for parents than talking on the phone, sending texts or checking their messages. Parents who…

Professor Nikki Turner, director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre at the University of Auckland, won $900,000 of funding from the Health Research Council to develop the tool with Australian colleagues and the World Health…

The research also shows how home can be a place of abuse for disabled people.Forty percent of disabled women experience physical violence from an intimate partner over their lifetimes, compared with twenty-five percent of non-disabled…

The first-ever study to look at anti-depressant use and symptoms of depression in pregnant New Zealand women has identified unmet need for antenatal mental health support.The research examined anti-depressant use and symptoms of…

The University of Auckland and its medical faculty were key in both May’s journey and convincing the government to permanently fund a treatment called PRRT for neuroendocine tumours (NETs).“I’m just really grateful – me and many other…