The Platform establishment team synthesised the ideas we received at our engagement events in early 2025, and brought that direction together in a draft Platform Plan which was delivered to MBIE at the end of March. This is a significant milestone, and we thank you all for being part of the process.

Read more about the research structure contained in the draft Plan, the thinking behind it, and next steps. 

In our latest newsletter we farewell our friend and colleague Distinguished Professor David Johnston. 

We also recap recent engagement and design activities and reveal our new research structure - part of the draft Platform Plan recently submitted to MBIE.

Upcoming research workshops

We will be running further workshops (likely in June – August) to ‘deep-dive’ into the research themes, and some of the capability areas that need to get started early.  We hope to announce dates for these workshops via our next newsletter, so make sure you're signed up to receive these.