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Future society

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Commentaries
15.09.2025  

Social cohesion: New Zealand’s precious and fragile asset

Social cohesion & resilience
update
14.07.2025  
A new chapter begins
Future society
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update
03.06.2025  
Koi Tū community recognised in King’s Birthday Honours 
Future society
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update
14.05.2025  
We’re hiring at Koi Tū
Future society

Human potential

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Media Releases
30.05.2025  

Growing anxious – are preschoolers matched to their futures?

Wellbeing
Youth mental health
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perspective
17.04.2025  
Adolescence and the digital disconnect
Youth mental health
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update
10.04.2025  
Dr Seungyeon Kim on youth theft
Youth mental health
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update
02.12.2024  
Dr Felicia Low on Australia banning social media for teens
Wellbeing

Navigating change

Reports
18.09.2025  

News deserts: Local journalism at risk

Information environment
media release
18.09.2025  
NZ communities at risk of ‘news deserts’
Information environment
Auckland city.
media release
15.07.2025  
Leadership Group appointed for Auckland tech alliance
Technology futures
speech
04.12.2024  
The potential of innovation and new techniques to reduce agricultural emissions
Sustainability

Informing policy

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Speeches
23.09.2025  

Honouring science’s principles in a troubled world

Science diplomacy
Tertiary students walking outside the University of Auckland.
media release
02.09.2025  
Government releases University Advisory Group reports
Informing policy
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media release
22.08.2025  
Rewiring science diplomacy
Science diplomacy
Flags of UN and EU stand in European council Building at Brussels, Belgium.
event
07.05.2025  
Webinar: Science diplomacy in an unstable world
Science diplomacy

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Future society

Social cohesion & resilience
Democratic innovation

Human potential

Wellbeing
Education
Youth mental health

Navigating change

Information environment
Sustainability
NZ’s place in the world
Technology futures

Informing policy

Long-term thinking
Risk assessment
Evidence to policy
Science diplomacy
Trust in science

Our people

Sir PeterGluckman

Sir Peter Gluckman

Managing Trustee

Hema Sridhar

Deputy Director
Jill Rolston

Jill Rolston

Chief Operations Officer
Felicia Low

Dr Felicia Low

Senior Fellow and Head of the Chloe Wright Policy Unit
Nicole Bassett

Dr Nicole Bassett

Head of Philanthropy
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