The Tuapapa Rangahau team, outside Penman House on Unitec’s Mt Albert campus.

Tuapapa Rangahau, partnering Research and Enterprise

Tuapapa Rangahau, partnering Research and Enterprise is the hub for the management and administration of all staff and postgraduate student research taking place at Unitec. Penman House, where the hub is located, also acts as a ‘home’ for postgraduate students, offering computer labs, study spaces and meeting rooms.

As well as collecting and reporting on all of Unitec’s research activity and outputs, the team manages Unitec’s Performance Based Research Fund (PBRF) activities and helps staff to meet PBRF requirements.

The team helps staff seek and win external funding for research projects, and is a point of contact for external stakeholders wishing to engage with Unitec and its expert staff. Twice a year, the office publishes Advance magazine, the place to find information about Unitec’s exciting, real-world research projects.

The office is responsible for commercialisation activity, technology transfer and the management of intellectual property. Unitec also operates an internal research fund, overseen by the Unitec Research Committee, that acts as a seed fund to support staff research.

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