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Understanding and improving indoor air quality

Guest post by Yanina Purcell Understanding and improving indoor air quality (IAQ) within homes is important for the health and wellbeing of residents. Unitec’s Environmental Solutions Research Centre (ESRC), which investigates ideas and concepts under two main themes of waste… Continue Reading →

Collaborative research project explores the role of art in building capability, wellness and entrepreneurship

Guest post by Paul Woodruffe It is widely acknowledged that mental health and physical health are closely connected. It is also accepted that the arts can play a key role in mental health, and it is in the participation, as… Continue Reading →

Architecture lecturer Min Hall develops a prefab building product using straw

Min Hall, a Lecturer at Unitec’s School of Architecture, was awarded Early Career Researcher Fund (ECRF) grants for both 2019 and 2020. These awards have enabled her to focus on Project Pātūtū, in which she is the lead researcher investigating… Continue Reading →

Dissemination of research in the time of Covid-19

In the first few months of this year, the spread of Covid-19 saw rapid changes to the teaching and learning environment that staff at tertiary institutes had to lead and adapt quickly to, for the welfare of students and their… Continue Reading →

Photography lecturer a visible success

Creative Industries lecturer Allan McDonald plays a key role in three events in the 2018 Auckland Festival of Photography – examining ideas of visibility and control, and celebrating his award-winning photobook Carbon Empire. In a building that once housed a… Continue Reading →

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