Our public services

The evaluation and treatment clinics at the Rose Centre offer specific, effective, innovative diagnostic and rehabilitative procedures for swallowing disorders (dysphagia). Our treatment is driven by the latest research and physiological needs of our patients. Learn more about UC's Rose Rehabilitation Clinics.

UC's Cleft Clinic is offered as a pilot clinic (trial). We offer Speech Language Therapy services for people aged 12 and over with communication difficulties as a result of cleft. Our clinic is currently offered free of charge, but you'll be asked to join a research study about the clinic. Find out more about the UC Cleft Research Centre.

UC's Speech and Hearing Clinic offers a comprehensive range of professional services for people with communication difficulties and swallowing problems. Students enrolled in our Speech and Language Pathology and Audiology programmes attend appointments and are supervised by qualified clinicians. Learn more about the UC Speech and Hearing Clinic. 

The Pukemanu Centre is run by UC's Child and Family Psychology programme. It provides assessments and interventions on a short-term basis for children and families | whānau not currently receiving support from other agencies. Learn more about the Pukemanu Centre.

"He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata". What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.

The Psychology Centre is the clinical psychology training and research centre for UC's Clinical Psychology Programme. We offer students an opportunity to participate in a wide range of psychological assessments and treatments as part of their practicum course, working alongside senior clinical psychologists. Check out our Psychology Centre services.

UC's Centre for Assessment and Monitoring (CAM) was established in 1999. CAM provides high quality entrance testing, value-added assessments, and surveys for New Zealand schools and run the Kiwi English, Mathematics, Science and Spelling competitions. CAM also provides IELTS testing to assess the language ability of people who want to study or work where English is a primary language.  Learn more about our Centre for Assessment and Monitoring.

Ōtehīwai | University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory is located at the top of Mt John hill, Lake Tekapo. The observatory provides outstanding conditions for observations and discoveries of the southern sky. UC also provides researcher and teaching accommodation at the site.