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Send us a message or visit AskAuckland, where you find answers to frequently asked questions: https://uoa.custhelp.com The University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau is New Zealand’s largest and leading university. We celebrate our location in the beautiful harbour city of Auckland | Tamaki Makaurau, our unique position in Aotearoa New Zealand and our place within the Pacific.  

Our te reo Māor

i name was gifted by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, the Indigenous peoples of the Auckland area, and symbolises that this is a place where diverse world views are shared and lifelong journeys of inquiry, learning and service begin. Read more at: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/about-us/about-the-university/waipapa-taumata-rau-university-of-auckland.html

31/08/2026

August slipped away into a moment in time 🌟

30/08/2026

Doors of UoA 🚪

28/08/2026

Took a stroll around our Grafton Campus ☀️

26/08/2026

Mānawa Mai Open Day 2026 - Everything You Need to Know!

These are your essentials for the day:
Map and programme - Grab a physical copy or download the digital version
Free bus/train ticket - Register to download your free transport ticket
Comfortable walking shoes
Water bottle
Stamp (with registration) to grab some freebies

Buses run every 15 minutes between Grafton and City Campus - check the map for the bus stop locations

Help desks, student volunteers, and staff will be available across campus to guide you.

Know someone considering University? Join us on Saturday, 29 August, 9am to 4pm.

Register now: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/manawa-mai/open-day.html?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=Organic&utm_campaign=OpenDay26

25/08/2026

Did you know an estimated six percent of New Zealanders over the age of 13 experience tinnitus? It’s annoying high-pitched ringing in your ears. Globally, the figure is estimated to be more than 740 million.

For Professor of Audiology Grant Searchfield, the numbers represent more than a significant health challenge. They are an opportunity to make a substantial difference to people’s lives.

Searchfield spent 30 years tackling the “gnarly problem” of tinnitus. His research is behind TrueSilence Therapeutics, a digital health start-up taking a personalised tinnitus treatment from the lab to patients.

TrueSilence Therapeutics’ first platform, QCore, uses non-invasive digital polytherapy, combining active and gamified sound therapy through a smartphone app and earbuds. Clinician-prescribed daily activities guide patients through personalised 90-day programmes to help them manage their tinnitus.

The programme targets the three components Searchfield identifies as contributing to the magnitude of tinnitus: loudness, awareness and annoyance.

Searchfield, who grew up with a hearing-impaired mother, was always interested in non-medical, technical health sciences. After graduating as an audiologist in 1994, Searchfield met many patients with tinnitus but found he had few tools to help them, becoming the research he focused on over the next three decades.

TrueSilence’s first rollout to customers is now underway through New Zealand audiologists while the company works towards US regulatory approval.

Read more: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026/08/25/how-30-years-of-tinnitus-research-became-a-start-up.html

24/08/2026

Six projects by University architecture and design staff have been shortlisted for the Te Kāhui Whaihanga NZ Institute of Architects (NZIA) National Awards, placing them alongside some of New Zealand's most important new buildings, including Auckland's International Conference Centre and Air New Zealand's groundbreaking timber aircraft hangar.

The projects are among a growing list of recent honours for design work by University staff, spanning everything from experimental timber structures to a heritage church precinct enhanced with community housing.

Read more: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026/08/18/staff-design-projects-attract-national-honours.html

20/08/2026

No better place to watch the sunrise from City Campus than Hiwa 🌅

19/08/2026

A landmark gathering in Sāmoa to shape the future of precision medicine has brought together researchers, clinicians, community leaders and Pacific experts.

The opening ceremonies reflected the gathering's cultural foundations. Delegates participated in an ava ceremony, while a carved hoe gifted from Aotearoa symbolised the deep connections linking Pacific peoples across Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa.

The carving featured the wheke, drawing on Pacific narratives that emphasise interconnectedness, shared whakapapa and relationships across the region.

The conference looked beyond scientific discovery to address the cultural, ethical and governance issues needed to ensure precision medicine serves Indigenous communities.

The next conference is expected to return to Sāmoa in two years, with future gatherings potentially rotating through other Pacific nations.

Read more: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026/08/12/pacific-precision-medicine-leaders-unite-to-shape-future-of-indigenous-health.html

18/08/2026

Remembering Riemke Ensing: Poet, teacher, activist. The University farewells notable New Zealand poet and long-time English tutor.

Netherlands-born poet Riemke Ensing, university teacher, mentor, anthologiser, visual arts commentator, peace activist, Depot Artspace cultural icon and writer of some of Aotearoa’s finest poems on migration, has died at Muriwai, West Auckland.

She was surrounded, as her son wrote, ‘with family and her books and poems and art’ in a landscape setting that evoked the poems of the west coast beaches she’d immortalised in the collection ‘Storm Warning - after McCahon’.

That book was dedicated to pianist Bill Trussell with whom she’d shared the pleasure of exploring the coastline;

We flew in like gannets at Muriwai
hovering on the currents of wind.
Sea was our element.
Immediately
on that coast
we were home.

Read the full obituary from her biographer Deborah Shepard here: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026/08/18/tribute-riemke-ensing.html

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