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Powering Potential

A programme that empowers secondary students to realise their full potential
  • A programme that empowers secondary students to realise their full potential

Common research funding information

Common research funding information for the Marsden Fund, Fell...
  • Common research funding information for the Marsden Fund, Fellowships, and Catalyst (international) funding

Statement on use of animals in research and teaching

Statement by Royal Society Te Apārangi on th...
  • Statement by Royal Society Te Apārangi on the use of animals in research and teaching.

Marsden Fund

Supporting excellent investigator-led research in New Zealand
  • Supporting excellent investigator-led research in New Zealand

Catalyst Fund

Advancing global science partnerships for New Zealand
  • Advancing global science partnerships for New Zealand

Aotearoa New Zealand Tāwhia te Mana Research Fellowships

The Fellowships will support researchers...
  • The Fellowships will support researchers at different career stages to produce excellent and impactful research and to develop into leaders in their fields, their respe...

Frontiers Planet Prize in Aotearoa New Zealand

Royal Society Te Apārangi is the National Represen...
  • Royal Society Te Apārangi is the National Representative Body for the Frontiers Planet Prize in Aotearoa New Zealand...

Falling Walls Lab

Opportunity for the next generation of students and early-career professionals t...
  • Opportunity for the next generation of students and early-career professionals to pitch, in 3 minutes, their breakthrough idea and compete to win a trip to Falling Wall...

Supporting international research collaboration

We support New Zealand researchers to collaborate ...
  • We support New Zealand researchers to collaborate with international partners by managing funds for collaboration and travel and international unions.

Charles Fleming Fund

Incorporates a senior scientist award to support research, a publishing award...
  • Incorporates a senior scientist award to support research, a publishing award to support scientific publications, and an environmental award to recognise work undertake...

Human Frontier Science Program

HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic researc...
  • HFSP supports novel, innovative and interdisciplinary basic research focused on the complex mechanisms of living organisms.

RHT Bates Postgraduate Scholarship

Study award of $6,000 for a PhD in the Physical Sciences and En...
  • Study award of $6,000 for a PhD in the Physical Sciences and Engineering in a New Zealand university.

Hutton Fund

Funding of $1,000 per application encouraging research in New Zealand zoology, botany and geology.
  • Funding of $1,000 per application encouraging research in New Zealand zoology, botany and geology.

Skinner Fund

Funding of $1,000 per application encouraging research in the study of the history, a...
  • Funding of $1,000 per application encouraging research in the study of the history, art, culture, physical and social anthropology of the Māori and other Polynesian pe...

The Sir Hugh Kawharu Masters Scholarship for Innovation in Science

Supporting and encouraging mast...
  • Supporting and encouraging masters level study by Māori in the sciences.

James G. Hay Travel Award

The award is to assist New Zealand university staff or postgraduate stud...
  • The award is to assist New Zealand university staff or postgraduate students in biomechanics to present a paper at the biennial International Society for Biomechanics (...

New Zealand Ecohydraulics Trust Travel Award

To enable early career researcher (including post-gra...
  • To enable early career researcher (including post-graduate students) in ecohydraulics from New Zealand to attend the biennial International Ecohydraulics and Fish Passa...

WDS Data Stewardship Award

The WDS Data Stewardship Award celebrates individuals who have signific...
  • The WDS Data Stewardship Award celebrates individuals who have significantly improved the quality, integrity, and accessibility of research data...

Ngā Puanga Pūtaiao Fellowships
  • Ngā Puanga Pūtaiao Fellowships

James Cook Research Fellowship

Supports experienced researchers to pursue their research full-time
  • Supports experienced researchers to pursue their research full-time

Rutherford Discovery Fellowships

Supports New Zealand’s most talented early- to mid-career resea...
  • Supports New Zealand’s most talented early- to mid-career researchers for a five year term

Rutherford Foundation

Supports early career researchers, funds PhD scholarships and postdoctoral f...
  • Supports early career researchers, funds PhD scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships, and helps bring outstanding overseas New Zealand researchers back home.

MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowships
  • MBIE Science Whitinga Fellowships

Past participants of funds and opportunities

Past participants of funds and opportunities offered ...
  • Past participants of funds and opportunities offered by Royal Society Te Apārangi

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