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

New Zealand’s economic complexity has fallen over the last two decades. On page 13 of MBIE and MFAT’s new long-term insights ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ngā mihi ki a tātou. Tuatahi – tēnei te mihi nui ki ngā kaikōrero, mō rātou whakaaro, moemoea, wawata. First – our huge thanks to the contributors, for their thoughts, dreams, aspirations. Tuarua – ...

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.

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

Governments like to boast that “data-driven” policies are the best way to make fair, efficient decisions. They collect statistics, set targets and adjust strategies to suit. But while data can be ...

This is the fourth 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 ...

Soil is complex. Beautiful. Wondrous. It gives us food, foundations and filters the air we breathe and water we drink. In a very literal way, soil is also a part of us. Our bodies are not discrete ...