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2015-2016 PROFILE The University of 2015-2016 Profile

The is ’s leading university. It is the only one included in the Times Higher Education top 200 and is the highest ranked New Zealand university in both the QS World University Rankings and the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities. Some 35% of the top ranked academic researchers in New Zealand are at the University of Auckland. www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/new-zealands-leading-university History of the University

Founded by Act of Parliament in 1883 as first century city, with a number of specialised students and the high number of published a College of the University of New Zealand, satellite campuses. The iconic ClockTower, built papers written by staff in collaboration with the University of Auckland became fully in 1926, is a city landmark, and the more recent overseas co-authors has earned it a ranking of independent in 1962. From the beginning, Owen G Glenn Building for the Business School 19th= in the Times Higher Education list of the it has admitted both men and women as is one of the most commented-on buildings of world’s top 100 most international universities. students. At first the College dedicated itself its time. Both staff and students participate in to providing opportunities for higher education The original staff of four professors and a international exchanges and attend international in the arts, science and music, and vocational registrar has swelled to over 2,150 academic conferences. These linkages are vital to a education in law, teaching and commerce. Over and over 2,800 professional staff. In 1883 teaching and which strives to time its curriculum has expanded to include the College enrolled 95 students; now it enrols be academically excellent and to provide its staff architecture, fine arts, engineering, planning, about 42,000 each year. and students with the best possible educational medical and health sciences and theology. The University is an international university, and career opportunities. The University was established in the heart with staff appointed from many countries and of the small colonial city of Auckland and has students attending from around the world. grown to become a major feature of the twenty- Its high proportion of international staff and Fady Mishriki Khylee Quince Sherwin Stowers Students

Students Totals company PowerbyProxi. The great success he Sporting career later achieved led on to his selection as the Sherwin Stowers, a student in the University’s Total student numbers 42,000 University’s 2015 Young Alumnus of the Year. Bachelor of Education programme, has been a Domestic 36,000 “Spark provided us with world-class training, regular member of the All Black Sevens rugby International 6,000 education and mentorship from experienced squad since 2012 and has contributed strongly business people,” says Fady, who is now the Undergraduate* 31,000 to the team’s triumphs in the World Series and company’s Executive Vice-President and Chief the World Cup. Postgraduate* 11,000 Tesla Officer, while also playing his part in Twenty-eight-year-old Sherwin, who is also Masters 3,200 mentoring and inspiring some of our younger a member of the provincial side Counties entrepreneurs. PhD 2,600 Manukau Steelers and is training to be a primary PowerbyProxi is leading a revolution to deliver Other 5,300 school teacher, says the University’s support unplugged power to industrial environments has been crucial in allowing him to combine his *Includes multiple enrolments for one student where power cables, physical connectors and high-level international sporting career with mechanical slip rings are problematic, expensive successful study towards his BEd. Student entrepreneur and unreliable. Founded in Auckland, the He hopes to win another gold medal with his In 2003 Engineering student Fady Mishriki company is now a global leader with clients in team in the 2015 Sevens World Series and to (BE, BCom 2007) entered the University’s more than 37 countries and two offices in the “make the squad for the Olympics” in 2016 inaugural Spark Entrepreneurial Challenge, US, in Silicon Valley and Alpharetta. in Brazil. sowing the seeds for the wireless power www.powerbyproxi.com

Staff

Staff Totals Top teachers Eminent scientist Auckland teachers or teaching teams have won Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Margaret Total staff numbers 5,000 a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award Brimble is a fellow of the Royal Society of New Academic 2,160 in every year except one since their inception Zealand, Companion of the New Zealand Order Professional 2,840 in 2002. In 2014 Senior Lecturer in Law, of Merit and a recipient of the RSNZ’s Rutherford Khylee Quince of Te Roroa/Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Medal for her world-leading contributions to Staff fellowships and awards: Porou descent, won a national Tertiary Teaching the synthesis of bioactive natural products National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award for sustained excellence in and novel peptides. A recent important Excellence Awards - 19 tertiary teaching. breakthrough has been her discovery of the drug (Set up by the Government in 2002) NNZ2566, which has proven highly successful Leading researcher in phase two human trials in the treatment Fellows of the Royal Society - 3 Professor of Paediatrics and Physiology, of Rett Syndrome, a tragically disabling Fellows of the Royal Society of NZ - 69 Alistair Gunn, was the 2014 recipient of the neurogenetic disorder. Rutherford Medal - 7 MacDiarmid Medal, awarded by the Royal (The Royal Society of NZ’s highest honour for Society of New Zealand, for his research into Top geographer the advancement and development of science, using brain cooling to prevent brain injury in Professor Robin Kearns was named New mathematics, social science, or technology) babies who experience low oxygen at birth. The Zealand’s 2014 Distinguished Geographer of -1 MacDiarmid Medal is for outstanding scientific the Year. (Awarded internationally for outstanding research which demonstrates potential for discoveries in Mathematics) human benefit. Sir John Hood Rt Hon receives a welcome as Administrator of the Development Programme Student profile Alumni

Titaningtyas, also called Tita, was born and Prime Minister of New Zealand 1999–2008, Total alumni 125,000 grew up in Jakarta, where she completed a now based in New York as Administrator of the bachelors degree in natural resources and Overseas alumni 14,000 United Nations Development Programme; environmental economics at Universitas New Zealand alumni 111,000 champion rower Mahe Drysdale (BCom 1999, Indonesia. For her postgraduate study Tita PGDipCom 2001), Olympic Gold medallist chose to come to New Zealand because it has 2012 and Young Alumnus 2007; and Sir Among our alumni are: His Excellency the “good economic growth and beautiful natural John Hood, former Vice- of the Honorable ( LLB 1971 and resources” and to the University of Auckland Universities of Auckland and Oxford, now CEO LLD (Honorary) 2006 ), Governor General of because it is “the best university in the country”. of the Robertson Foundation and chair of the New Zealand 2006-2011; Rt Hon Helen Clark She gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Science Rhodes Trust. (BA 1971, MA 1974, LLD (Honorary) 2010), (Environmental Management) in 2014 and enrolled in 2015 for a Master of Science degree. Budget Tita’s passionate interest is in sustainable development and she has discovered that issues related to the environment are treated in a different manner here than in her own country. “In New Zealand it is more participatory and engages the stakeholders.” Tita’s dream is to 11% become an expert in the participatory approach Revenue to environmental decision-making, and to 34% Government tuition subsidy implement her new skills “for the benefit of Domestic student fees Indonesia”. 29% International student fees External research revenue/PBRF Other income 10% 16%

12% Expenditure People costs Operating costs 27% 57% Depreciation and leases Surplus

4% Professor Rod Dunbar, Director of the Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery Distinguished Professor Jane Harding Research

The University of Auckland is New Zealand’s Centres of Research Excellence National Science Challenges largest research organisation with more than As well as having more than 50 research units, The University of Auckland is Challenge 12,000 staff and postgraduate students centres and institutes at departmental, faculty Contractor for two of New Zealand’s National involved in fundamental and applied research. and University level, the University of Auckland Science Challenges: “High-Value Nutrition” and It generates more than $200 million in annual hosts six of New Zealand’s Centres of Research “A Better Start”. These are both hosted in the research revenue, more than $30 million Excellence, established by the Government to Liggins Institute, and the University is developing from overseas bodies such as the European drive innovative, international research. The detailed research and business plans for the Commission and the National Institutes of centres hosted at Auckland include four of six Challenges through to 2024. The University is Health (US). selected through the 2013-14 funding round also a formal party to eight other Challenges The operates a (the first four listed below), which have been (as a “Challenge Member”). national research evaluation system, the granted funding until January 2020. Commercialising research Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF), Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular which is similar to the British Research Biodiscovery, which brings together more than Auckland UniServices Limited is our commercial Assessment Exercise (RAE) but based on the 200 researchers in multi-disciplinary teams research, knowledge transfer and custom evaluation of individual staff. Twenty-seven New working in drug discovery and development. education company. Zealand tertiary institutions participated in the Medical Technologies Centre, which applies It is the largest company of its kind in last PBRF exercise in 2012. bioengineering technologies to healthcare by Australasia, with 600 employees. UniServices The University of Auckland, with just 25% of the producing new knowledge of physiological brings income and new employment eligible staff nationally: processes in health and disease and developing opportunities into the University and New • Had 35% of the top rated researchers in the novel bio-instrumentation and computational Zealand, with revenue of $127 million in 2014, whole country physiological models. over 252 licences for intellectual property and more than 37 New Zealand businesses spun out Te Pūnaha Matatini, the Centre for Complex • Won 28% of the funding nationally based on from University research. quality evaluation of academic staff, 33% Systems and Networks, which brings together of the funding based on research degree New Zealand’s leading researchers in physics, UniServices currently has more than 1,500 completions and 36% of the funding based economics, mathematics, biology, computer projects in 45 countries. These range from on external research income science, operations management, statistics and inductive power transfer wirelessly charging social science to study complex systems and vehicles on the streets of London to creating • Won 31% of the funding overall, thereby networks. energy from artificial muscles and developing confirming its position as the nation’s premier robots to assist with the care of elderly people. Brain Research New Zealand, Rangahau Roro research institution. Aotearoa, which seeks to unlock the secrets of www.uniservices.co.nz Our research programmes range across all the ageing brain and develop new therapies and Entrepreneurial ecosystem disciplines: from Education, where researchers better clinical and community care to enhance are trying to increase learning success in low- brain health throughout life. This centre is co- The University’s Business School has established achieving primary and secondary schools, to hosted with the . an entrepreneurial ecosystem to foster young entrepreneurs to create start-up companies. our Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, which carries out It features two key competitions: Spark – an a world leader in cancer drug development. We research for the advancement of New Zealand’s annual student-led entrepreneurial challenge are international research leaders in inductive indigenous Māori, focusing on their needs and with categories ranging from new ideas through (wireless) power transfer and computational aspirations in education, health and science. physiology. Neonatologist Distinguished to fully developed products and business plans, Gravida (National Centre for Growth and Professor Jane Harding (FRSNZ) is leading and Chiasma – another student-led initiative Development), which brings together leading a project that has global implications for which encourages ideas, networking, careers biomedical, clinical and animal scientists from reducing brain damage in newborn babies and and business in biotechnology. across New Zealand and around the world to has funding from the United States National www.spark.auckland.ac.nz increase understanding of the effects of early- Institutes of Health. www.chiasma.auckland.ac.nz life influences on growth and life-long health. Fale Pasifika

Faculties and schools

Faculty of Arts National Institute for Creative Arts Faculty of Medical and Health Schools and Industries Sciences • School of Cultures, Languages, and Schools, centres Schools, institutes Literatures • School of Architecture and Planning • School of Medical Sciences • School of Humanities • • School of Medicine • School of Social Sciences • School of Music • National Institute for Health Innovation • Te Wānanga o Waipapa - School of Māori • Dance Studies Programme • School of Nursing Studies and • Centre for Art Studies • School of and Vision Science www.arts.auckland.ac.nz www.creative.auckland.ac.nz • School of Pharmacy Business School (Faculty of Faculty of Education • School of Population Health Business and Economics) www.fmhs.auckland.ac.nz Schools Departments, schools, • Curriculum and Pedagogy Faculty of Science institutes, centres • Counselling, Human Services and Social Work • Accounting & Finance Schools, departments • Critical Studies in Education • School of Biological Sciences • Commercial Law • Science, Mathematics and Technology • School of Chemical Sciences • Economics • Te Puna Wānanga - School of Māori Education • Computer Science • Graduate School of Management • Teaching, Learning and Development • School of Environment • Information Systems & Operations Management • Teacher Education Practice • Institute of Marine Science • Management & International Business www.education.auckland.ac.nz • Mathematics • Marketing Faculty of Engineering • Physics • Property Departments, institutes, • Psychology • NZ Asia Institute • Chemical and Materials • Sport & Exercise Science • NZ Leadership Institute • Civil and Environmental • Statistics www.science.auckland.ac.nz • Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship • Electrical and Computer www.business.auckland.ac.nz • Engineering Science Auckland Bioengineering Institute • Mechanical www.abi.auckland.ac.nz • Institute of Earth Science and Engineering Liggins Institute www.engineering.auckland.ac.nz www.liggins.auckland.ac.nz Faculty of Law Subject rankings www.law.auckland.ac.nz

The Times Higher Education publishes rankings for the top 400 universities each year. The University of Auckland is the only New Zealand university included in the top 200. Auckland’s current ranking of 164 is seventh highest of all Australian and New Zealand universities. In 2013-2014 the University of Auckland was the highest ranked New Zealand university, at 94, in QS World University Rankings of 700 universities. In ranking of broad subject areas the University of Auckland is 69th for Arts and Humanities, 78th for Life Sciences and Medicine, 151st for Natural Science, 58th for Social Sciences and Management and 89th for Engineering and Technology. www.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/key-statistics For individual subject areas In 2014 the University was in the top 50 for ten of these subjects, with Accounting and Finance (24th), Politics (26th), Law (28th), Education (34th), and Psychology (34th) ranking particularly well. www.auckland.ac.nz Distinguished Professor , Artist’s impression: Newmarket Campus Director, Centre for Brain Research Campuses

City – this campus covers 16 hectares in Newmarket - is a new campus covering 5.2 Epsom - is the main Faculty of Education the heart of Auckland City and is home to hectares and adjacent to the major business campus, ten minutes drive from the City, and the University’s administration and the Arts, area in Newmarket. The first of the new facilities offers programmes in teacher education and Engineering, Science, Law, Business and Creative are now occupied by the Faculty of Engineering social services. Arts and Industries faculties. and the campus will provide the University with Tai Tokerau - offers courses run by the Faculty Grafton – houses the Faculty of Medical and a site for expansion over the next 50 years. of Education at the Tai Tokerau Campus in Health Sciences (FMHS) and is adjacent to Tāmaki - is home to the School of Population Whangarei, three hours north of Auckland. Auckland Hospital. It has undergone a $24 million Health, and the Sport and Exercise Science www.auckland.ac.nz/campuses redevelopment, replacing traditional divisions programmes. between departments with theme-based, open- plan, multi-disciplinary research spaces.

Facilities

Research facilities libraries in Australia. Located on the five undergraduate and postgraduate international Among leading University research facilities campuses, it includes 14 subject-specific students to study here from over 110 countries that benefit staff, students and the public is the libraries, three of which include information We have achieved a position of 19th= among world class Centre for Advanced MRI (Magnetic commons, as well as the stand-alone Kate Edger all universities world-wide in the Times Higher Resonance Imaging) at Grafton, which has the Information Commons on the City Campus. Education Rankings for internationalisation, and most advanced 3T Skyra MRI research scanner There are 4,700 study spaces, 1,200 with we are the only New Zealand member of three in the world. Our National Conservation computers. Each year the University invests international consortia which enable leading Laboratory for Wet Organic Archaeological over NZ$18 million in the Library’s collections, research universities from around the world Materials, based in the Department of giving students and staff access to a very to collaborate in addressing issues of global Anthropology, is the only facility of its type in the extensive digital collection as well as print, significance: , the Association South Pacific and our new Brain Recovery Clinic multi-media and archival collections. of Pacific Rim Universities and Worldwide Universities Network. at Tāmaki Campus links people in the Auckland Art and recreation community with world-leading scientists and On the City Campus there is a large Recreation clinicians from our Centre for Brain Research. Centre, a 448-seat theatre and 150-seat Music We have strong collaborations with leading Facilities at Newmarket Campus will include Theatre, and two art galleries: The Gus Fisher universities in China - including initiatives such an Aerodynamics Hall, the University’s Yacht and George Fraser. At Epsom campus there are as the New Zealand Centre, established at Research Unit and a new wind tunnel, as well dance studios, a fitness centre and gymnasium, as a venue for NZ-China policy as a 45-metre 50-tonne flume that will sit on tennis courts and a swimming pool. development, the Three Brothers collaboration a specially-designed foundation and circulate with Tsinghua and Qinghai universities in water from a below-ground reservoir, allowing The University provides counselling and medical highland ecology and advanced materials and fluid engineers to conduct research ranging from services for students and there are three a Confucius Institute (one of 300 world wide) the understanding of erosion in river beds to childcare centres on the City Campus and two based at Auckland and run in partnership with effects of waves on engineering structures. each at Epsom and Grafton. . Top Chinese PhD students are International engagement also enrolling at Auckland, many in disciplines Library like biomedicine and bioengineering. The University Library system is the most The University of Auckland has formal extensive tertiary library system in New Zealand agreements with 161 universities in 39 and ranks alongside the top five university countries and we attract high-quality The University of Auckland Alumni Relations and Private Bag 92019 Development Auckland 1142, New Zealand Phone: +64 9 373 7599 ext 88113 Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] [email protected] Web: www.auckland.ac.nz Web: www.alumni.auckland.ac.nz

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