Annual Report 2018 2 Overview 01 Chancellor’s review 4 Vice-Chancellor’s report 6 Key facts and figures 8 University governance 12 Academic performance 02 Towards Wellbeing Our Commitment and Dedication 18 Faculties, Institutes, UniServices 22 Statement of service performance 03 Statement of service performance 30 Statement of the cost of outputs 41 Compulsory student services fees 41 Financial statements 04 Statement of responsibility 44 Statement of comprehensive revenue and expenses 45 Statement of financial position 47 Statement of cash flows 48 Statement of changes in equity 50 Notes to the financial statements 52 Report of the Auditor-General 87 Glossary 90 Annual Report 2018 | 3 Annual report 2017 Chancellor’s Review As the largest and most highly ranked for postgraduate student families. Very good university in New Zealand, the University progress was made on the new Grafton Hall, of Auckland has an obligation to provide opening for the 2019 academic year, providing outstanding teaching and research to the 324 beds; the new Engineering building on the people of this country, to those students City Campus; and the new Park West building who join us from overseas and to our for Medical & Health Sciences and the School international research collaborators. of Medicine at Grafton, which will allow us to complete the relocation of staff from the Tāmaki During 2018, we continued to fulfil that Campus. This will take place at the end of 2019 obligation and to invest heavily in the process when our occupation of Tāmaki ceases. It will of enhancing our physical infrastructure and also allow for the relocation of staff from the our human capability. Auckland Hospital when that lease ends in This was the largest year in our history for 2020. Work has begun on Waipārūrū Hall, due investment in campus redevelopment, to open at the beginning of 2020 and providing both to address historical issues (such as 786 beds. In addition, the University Council asbestos, seismic strengthening and deferred approved a major new Sport, Recreation and maintenance) and to grow our physical Wellness Centre to be built on the site of the capacity, particularly to support high-end existing centre. The design phase for this research and the wellbeing of our students. building will occur over the next two years, with construction slated to begin in 2020. During 2018, we completed the new facility for Exercise Sciences at Newmarket and stage one These are all significant investments, of Waikohanga House, the refurbished facility but necessary if we are to provide high- at 44 Symonds Street providing 29 apartments quality facilities for our students and staff. Despite the fact that by any means we continue to be more productive and successful each year, we have – in common with the other leading New Zealand universities – struggled to maintain our international rankings. 4 ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Nevertheless, the depreciation and costs • Professors Linda Waimarie Nikora (Ngā Pae Christchurch Symphony Orchestra. associated with investment in these facilities o te Māramatanga), David V. Williams (Law), • The student Waka Ama team won a gold and places an additional burden on our operating Charles McGee (Ophthalmology) and Cynthia a bronze medal at the Queen Lili’uokalani position at a time when our revenues are highly Farquhar (Obstetrics and Gynaecology) were Memorial Race in Hawaii. constrained. elected Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. • University of Auckland students won the We have also invested in ways of increasing National Tertiary Sports Shield for the third our resource base. This includes re-shaping • Professor Cynthia Farquhar (Obstetrics and consecutive year, making us the top sporting the means by which we provide support to Gynaecology) won the Health Research university in the country. our researchers so that they may write and Council’s Liley Medal. manage more research grants, and supporting Despite the fact that by any means we continue • Associate Professors Jay Marlowe the University campaign “For All Our Futures”. to be more productive and successful each (Counselling, Human Services and Social This campaign continues to be an outstanding year, we have – in common with the other Work), Associate Professor Claire Charters success, engaging large numbers of alumni and leading New Zealand universities – struggled (Law) and Dr Ben Albert (Liggins Institute) friends and providing new resources to support to maintain our international rankings. The were awarded 2018 Rutherford Discovery the activities of our students and staff. situation in New Zealand, where successive Fellowships. governments have controlled and kept a That support, and our own commitment to • Associate Professor Carol Mutch (Critical tight rein on two-thirds of our revenues, is in high performance, has allowed us to invest in Studies in Education) was appointed New increasingly stark contrast to other countries our people, spending more than $34 million Zealand Commissioner – Education for which are investing heavily in their top in providing scholarships to students and UNESCO. universities. “Excellence Initiatives”, which see attracting outstanding new staff through our large injections of additional funding in selected normal hiring processes, strategic hires and the • Associate Professor Rochelle Constantine institutions deemed to have the potential Entrepreneurial Universities Initiative, which we (Biological Sciences) was the inaugural winner to become world-class universities, have originally proposed to government and which of the Sir Peter Blake Trust environment award. increased dramatically since the publication now operates across all universities. • Dr Rachel Williamson (Education and Social of global rankings tables in the early 2000S. The outstanding achievements of our staff and Work) was named NEXT Woman of the Year They exist in many places, including France, students were recognised through a range of for Education. Germany, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Israel, awards and honours in 2018. For example: • Professor Cynthia Kiro – now Pro Vice- Saudi Arabia, Russia and India. • Emeritus Professor Charmian O’Connor Chancellor (Māori) – was appointed to chair As education policy guru Jamil Salmi has (Chemical Sciences) was made a Dame the Government’s Welfare Expert Advisory noted, “Excellence Initiatives mark a significant Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit Group. philosophical shift in funding policies of for services to education and chemistry. • Dr Jemaima Tiatia-Seath (Māori Studies the participating countries ... [and] a move away from the principle of uniform budget • Professor Margaret Brimble (Chemical and Pacific Studies), was appointed to the entitlements towards a substantial element of Sciences) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Government’s Mental Health and Addiction competitive, performance-based funding”. Society of London. Inquiry. That may be a difficult prospect for New • Associate Professors Dr Christine Woods • Professor Alison Jones (Te Puna Wānanga) Zealand governments to consider, but it is and Dr Mānuka Hēnare (Management and was a co-winner of the Illustrated Non-Fiction surely better than the current road we are on, International Business) won National Tertiary category of the 2018 Ockham New Zealand which is one towards increasing mediocrity and Teaching Excellence Awards. Book Awards with Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds. declining rankings across the sector. • Professor Juliet Gerrard (Biological Sciences) was appointed the Prime Minister’s Chief • Student Logan Moffat won the coveted Adam Scott St John Science Advisor. Portraiture Awards 2018 with his painting Chancellor Elam, becoming the youngest person in the • Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Gluckman 20-year history of the national competition to was named President-Elect of the win first prize. International Science Council. • Student Modi Deng secured first prize at • Distinguished Professor Marston Conder the 2018 New Zealand National Concerto (Mathematics) was awarded the Jones Medal Competition, playing piano with the from the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. Annual Report 2018 | 5 Annual report 2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Report The 2018 year was one of considerable for university entrance in the previous year. change, as we continued to re-shape New What is particularly striking is the growing Zealand’s largest and highest-ranked academic achievement of those domestic University in the service of the nation. students who choose to enrol at our University. In 2010, 34 percent of the domestic school Some aspects of that change were driven leavers who joined us were high performers by opportunities for enhancement – the (with a Grade Point Equivalent at entry of 5 employment of outstanding new staff, the or greater); this year that figure was more reorganisation of our research and teaching than 60 percent. (The Grade Point Equivalent support systems, a massive campus is calculated from entry scores on a nine- refurbishment programme and the flexibility point scale.) Proportions of both Māori and provided by philanthropic investment, being Pacific students remained similar to those of just a few examples. Other change was more recent years, and below targets, but we are difficult and forced upon us, including the seeing many examples of real achievement need to actively reduce staffing numbers in among these students. For example, we now several faculties and service divisions to cope graduate Māori doctors at a rate close to Māori