The software ecosystem is a complex system, and this complexity is a byproduct of evolution, collaboration and innovation.

In an inaugural lecture, newly-minted professors often talk about their journey. But Te Pūnaha Matatini Co-Director Priscilla ...

Te Pūnaha Matatini warmly invites you to the 2026 Capital City Complex Systems Symposium in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The theme ...

Backyards can be refuges for nature, dens for children, sources of food and nourishment, and spaces of speculation on what might have gone on before and what may be happening out of sight. They can ...

An excerpt from Shaun Hendy’s new book, The Covid Response – A Scientist’s Account of New Zealand’s Pandemic and What Comes Next. Just after 1.48 p.m. on Monday 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda ...

A new study from researchers at Te Pūnaha Matatini and the University of Canterbury has developed a powerful new method to understand and address gender pay gaps in New Zealand’s public research ...

A collaboration between complex systems researcher Anna Matheson and illustrator Hanna Breurkes. Edited by Anna Brown. Imagine you’re watching a river flow through a beautiful valley. At first glance, ...

A collaboration between science system researcher Brittany Bennenbroek and illustrator Jean Donaldson. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. Deep in the heart of Aotearoa, a mighty kauri forest once stood.

A collaboration between network scientist Dion O’Neale, modeller and analyst Emily Harvey, and illustrator Hanna Breurkes. Edited by Jonathan Burgess. One day in 1967, strange letters began arriving ...

I slowly open my groggy eyes to see my six-year-old daughter staring at me with a look of concern on her face. It’s 6am on a Monday morning, and I’m not ready for this. But it is kind of my job. And ...

At an undisclosed location on the campus of Lincoln University, on the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, I enter a neglected bike shed whose interior can be charitably described as… punk. The ...