A world of research opportunities
The obligations and opportunities with respect to the principles of te Tiriti o Waitangi Treaty of Waitangi are acknowledged in all of our research endeavours.
Taumata Teitei Vision 2030 and Strategic Plan 2025 will guide the institution over the next decade. Our research strategy has focused on an enduring commitment to excellent investigator-driven research and scholarship. We will build on this to become a global powerhouse for translational research, developing new commercial, social and creative enterprises, broadly focused on four interdependent priorities representing the global and regional issues we will face in the next century. These will call upon interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary solutions, and strong and enduring commitment to building relevant research capability. These are:
• Sustainability
• Health and well-being
• Justice
• Ethical innovation and technology.
Hīkina kia Tutuki – the Grand Challenges Fund – was launched in 2021 as a mechanism for identifying new flagship University Research Centres that will provide focus and scale in the impact areas set out in Taumata Teitei. Hīkina kia Tutuki means to rise to meet the challenge in te reo Māori and signifies a requirement for Research Centre members to ‘lift themselves’ to meet the intergenerational challenges and aspirations of the communities they serve. Central to this challenge is a recognition of the importance, value and validity of multiple research practices and knowledge systems. The Research Centres will demonstrate excellence in transdisciplinarity by building and nurturing mana-enhancing relationships across disciplines and beyond academia at every stage in the research process. The new Research Centres launched in mid-2022 providing opportunities for research staff and students to be immersed in transdisciplinary research teams focused on achieving solutions to the problems facing our society.
The University’s researchers are at the leading edge of innovation across many disciplines; from physics, where high-tech inventions are increasing productivity in the agricultural sector, to education, where educators are successfully improving results in clusters of low-decile schools. The University hosts international research leaders in inductive (wireless) power transfer, computational physiology, cancer and brain disease research, better outcomes for mothers and babies, indigenous knowledge, and public policy. More than 12,000 staff and postgraduate students are involved in fundamental and applied research, which generates more than NZ$300 million in annual research revenue.
Auckland also has 35% of the A-rated staff in the country in the national Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) review of tertiary institutions, 33% of the PBRF funding allocation for research degree completions and 36% of PBRF allocations for external research income.
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