2026 AUT Research Week | Te Wiki Rangahau

The Faculty of Culture and Society warmly invites you to a research showcase celebrating how inquiry across our schools and centres creates change. Featuring presentations from early-career researchers through to professors across the School of Education, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, School of Hospitality and Tourism, and the Centre for Critical Food Studies, this event explores how research and technology can be applied for good by generating insights and practical solutions for people and communities. Open to all staff, students, and industry partners. Morning tea and lunch provided. Come curious. Leave inspired.

Target audience: Open to all 

Please note: Refreshments will be served at this event 

Venue: WZ100c

The School of Art and Design at AUT invites attendance at their Research Week showcase dedicated to the presentation of collaborative and interdisciplinary research. This one-day event will feature innovative projects encompassing creative practice, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and cross-school partnerships, alongside research involving external and international collaborators. Through a programme of presentations, showcases, and facilitated discussions, the event will examine how research practices intersect across disciplines to address contemporary challenges and extend creative inquiry. Intended to promote scholarly dialogue and foster new collaborations, the showcase brings together staff, students, and partners. 

Target audience: Open to all

Please note: this event includes refreshments 

Venue: WA224A-B

You’ve published your research, now what? In this interactive workshop we’ll focus on:

·        Selecting one concept or process in your research and considering why it is interesting to others – and who this audience is; 

·        Exploring LinkedIn as one possible platform and effective ways to capture audience attention; 

·        Discussing copyright considerations;

·        Translating these considerations and observations into prompt phases, using AUTGPT or Copilot; 

·        Discussing what works, what doesn’t, and what you need to tell AI to make it better. 

Please bring a laptop and an example of your own published work to use – open access publications are best.

Target audience: AUT research staff and students.  Please bring your own research article.

Venue: WA505-30

Sports, including rugby and hockey, have historically been associated with forms of masculinity that privilege toughness, stoicism, and heterosexual normativity. This talk uses Heated Rivalry, archival evidence and material culture to consider the long history of queer men’s participation in sport, queer masculinity, and the significance of queer male visibility in sports.

Target audience: Open to all

Please note: refreshments will be served at this event

Venue: WG609

The 4th Symposium on Industrial-based Biomedical Engineering Research (SIBER) returns this year, focusing on applying research and technology for societal good and delivering real impact to industry. This forum brings together researchers, industry leaders, and academics to showcase how innovative biomedical engineering solutions translate into practical healthcare applications. Attendees will explore emerging technologies, real-world implementations, and industry-driven research addressing current healthcare challenges. Featuring keynote speakers, technical presentations, and postgraduate contributions, the symposium highlights collaboration and translational impact at the intersection of engineering, medicine, and industry.

Target audience: All AUT research staff, faculty/school research staff and students and external partners.

Venue: WZ416

The School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences (ECMS) is pleased to present her latest research accomplishments from the five research centres through a blend of illuminating research talks and captivating physical showcases on the applications of new technologies, spanning the fields of AI, data analytics, renewable energy, EV, robotics, manufacturing, and more. Please join us on 1st September (Tuesday) from 8:30am to 2pm in the WZ100 foyer. All are welcome! 

Target audience: open to all

Please note: Refreshments will be served at this event.

Venue: WZ100c

Join us on Tuesday 1 September 2026 for the annual Postgraduate Research Symposium. This event provides an opportunity for our postgraduate research and doctoral students to share their research with fellow students, AUT staff, and the wider community.

This year’s event will open with a keynote presentation before continuing onto sessions that feature oral presentations, creative works, and posters by postgraduate and doctoral research students. The day will also include a panel discussion around publication.

Target audience: Open to all

Venue: WG308 + WG306

The School of Communications | Te Kura Whakapāho Research Showcase celebrates innovative, critical and creative research that shapes the future of media, communication, and the cultural and creative industries. The showcase highlights impactful scholarship across journalism, sonic cultures, screen production and storytelling, digital communication, media cultures, public relations, advertising, communication for social change, media ecosystems, and emerging technologies including AI. Reflecting AUT’s commitment to research with real-world impact, the event showcases a vibrant interdisciplinary research culture that engages communities, responds to social, cultural and industry challenges, and advances new ways of thinking, creating and communicating in Aotearoa and global contexts, while fostering future communication experts, leaders and skilled media practitioners. 

Target audience: Open to all

Please note: Refreshments will be served at this event.  

Venue: WG126

Hosted by the Toi o te Ora – AUT Wellbeing Research Network, Te Whare Tūroa – AUT Regenerative Environments Research Network, and AUT Transformational Technologies Research Network, this interactive series is a chance to learn about and connect across these three research networks, bringing together researchers, industry partners, and community stakeholders from Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond.

Each network will host its own focused session, showcasing key research areas and emerging priorities. Between sessions, attendees will come together for networking over shared kai, creating space to build relationships, spark collaboration, and strengthen cross-disciplinary connections.

Please note: Refreshments will be served at this event

Target audience: Open to all

Venue: WG306 + WG308

This seminar highlights some of the ways in which ASTRI members have used creative or innovative methods to advance social change in their research. We’ll share the ‘wins’ and some of the challenges or reflections using these methods.

The seminar will start with a panel discussion, followed by time for discussion with the audience, with tea/coffee and biscuits.

This is aimed at all AUT researchers, and PG and ECR researchers are very welcome.

Target audience: AUT research staff/students

Please note: refreshments will be served at this event

Venue: WG701

The African Postgraduate Research Symposium aims to provide a platform for emerging scholars to showcase their research, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, contribute to knowledge exchange, and be known to and recognized as part of the AUT academic community. The Symposium is focused on supporting postgraduate students to highlight their research skills while networking with peers, academics and colleagues.

Target audience: Open to all

Please note: Refreshments will be served at this event.

Venue: WG607

This year’s roadshow celebrates our research community—the creativity, curiosity, and connections that shape our work and what that makes possible. Grounded in real-world challenges and possibilities, our work is driven by a shared desire to understand and improve the world we’re part of.

Through bold TED-style talks, lightning presentations, impact stories, and open discussions, we bring research to life – not just what we do, but how we think, question, and explore.

Whether you identify as a researcher or are just beginning to wonder if you might, join us to discover, connect, and imagine the futures we can shape together.

Target audience:  Faculty research staff/students, external partners, wider community

Venue: WA2224A-B

Celebrating Research Success & Early Career Research

The School of Future Environments Research Week Symposium celebrates the diverse and transdisciplinary research shaping future architecture, engineering, construction, design, sustainability, and creative technologies.

Bringing together staff, postgraduate students, early career researchers, and industry partners, the symposium provides a platform to showcase current research, emerging ideas, collaborations, and future opportunities across SoFE.

The event highlights research excellence, supports emerging researchers, and strengthens connections across AUT and the wider industry and community ecosystem.

Target audience: Open to all 

Please note: refreshments will be served at this event

Venue: WZ100c

Join us for the finals of AUT’s 2026 Three Minute Thesis Competition!

Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) is a research communication competition developed by the University of Queensland. In it, doctoral students who have successfully passed their Confirmation of Candidature milestone present their thesis and its significance in just three minutes. Presentations are done by video, and should be both informational and captivating.

This event is the finals for doctoral students who have passed through AUT’s 2026 3MT pre-heats. It will take place on Thursday 3 September 2026 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. The finalists’ videos will be live-streamed, and there will be an opportunity for those attending to cast their Audience Vote before the award winners for this year’s competition are announced. Those attending in person will also have the opportunity to network over nibbles and non-alcoholic drinks.

Target audience: Open to all

Venue: WG308 + WG306

We are the Auckland University of Technology, innovative by nature and by reputation.

Join us for the second annual Innovation Showcase to explore the projects and services that AUT offers to the world. From early-stage research to full-scale prototypes, you’ll discover commercialisation initiatives alongside a range of expertise and capabilities we make available to industry.

Come and see what’s emerging from AUT and meet the people making it happen.

Target audience: Open to all

Please note: Refreshments will be served at this event

Venue: WZ100c