Research at AUT

2016 Research & Innovation Showcase: Transformational Digital Futures

AUT has made impressive strides in developing its research capabilities, and is progressing rapidly towards its two key research goals: creating a vibrant learning community through research, and growing national and international research impact.

The research activities within each of AUT’s five faculties are overseen by an Associate Dean of Research who works closely with the Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Innovation and Enterprise. We encourage you to explore the broad suite of research activities.

Research activities across AUT

• Faculty of Business, Economics and Law research
  
• Faculty of Culture and Society research
  
• Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies research
• Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development (Te Ara Poutama) research
• Pacific research

AUT's research collaborations

Research at AUT: Drivers

As AUT works to advance research success it is focusing on:

• Producing research that matters
• Growing research partnerships
• Increasing collaboration with industry
• Attracting research funding
• Building a culture of research excellence
• Encouraging commercialisation of research; and
• Strengthening research infrastructure and modernising research facilities
  

Research infrastructure

AUT has a comprehensive research infrastructure, with a centralised Research and Innovation Office and the commercialisation arm AUT Enterprises Limited, as well as research leadership within each faculty.

• Research and Innovation Office
• AUT Enterprises Limited

Research funding

Direct spending on research is approximately $23 million per year. This supports a range of research activity - from specific research projects to student scholarships, faculty research allocations and a Strategic Research Investment Fund.

Find out more about research at AUT

• AUT research excellence
  
• AUT research facilities
• AUT research institutes