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Marsden Fund awards 2021

View Marsden Fund grants awarded in 2021

Published on 3 Whiringa-ā-rangi November 2021

The definitions of the 10 Marsden Fund panels can be found here

You can download an Excel spreadsheet of these results, including abstracts of all projects, here: 2021-Marsden-Fund-announcement-supplement

Project ID	Panel	Funding (ex GST)	Project	Investigator	Role	Institution
21-AUT-011	SOC	$838,000	Urupā tautaiao: Socially, culturally, and environmentally sustainable Māori burials	Professor HN McNeill	PI	Auckland University of Technology
				Associate Professor HL Buckley	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Dr RMI Pouwhare	AI	Auckland University of Technology
21-AUT-012	SOC	$838,000	Artefacts of relations – building in the Pacific	Associate Professor AL Refiti	PI	Auckland University of Technology
				Mr RV Hoskins	PI	Unitec Institute of Technology
				Professor JT Devatine	AI	Center for Crafts of French Polynesia
				Professor ACH Engels-Schwarzpaul	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Professor LK Kame'eleihiwa	AI	University of Hawaii at Manoa
				Dr BJ Lythberg	AI	The University of Auckland
21-AUT-024	SOC	$838,000	Māori Flexible Learning Spaces (FLS) for supporting Mātauranga Māori and biculturalism in schools	Associate Professor GM Stewart	PI	Auckland University of Technology
				Associate Professor LW Benade	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Dr VLP Smith	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Dr AWJ Wells	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Associate Professor AM Yates	AI	Auckland University of Technology
21-AUT-037	SOC	$360,000	He huarahi mo te wāhine Maori: Career sense-making among Māori women	Dr NA Staniland	PI	Auckland University of Technology
21-GNS-005	ESA	$360,000	Lifting the veil on precursors to unheralded phreatic eruptions	Dr SCP Pearson-Grant	PI	GNS Science
				Professor T Driesner	AI	ETH Zurich
				Dr PM Gregg	AI	University of Illinois at Urbana
				Dr CA Miller	AI	GNS Science
21-LCR-001	EEB	$926,000	Identifying the genomic underpinnings of successful asexuality	Professor TR Buckley	PI	Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
				Dr J Blommaert	AI	Uppsala University
				Dr OM Palacios-Gimenez	AI	Uppsala University
21-LIU-017	EEB	$360,000	Reframing the way we think about disease emergence in the face of global change	Dr LP Waller	PI	Lincoln University
21-LIU-026	ESA	$360,000	Untangling the controls on nitrous oxide emissions from braided rivers	Dr NS Wells	PI	Lincoln University
				Professor TJ Clough	AI	Lincoln University
				Professor BD Eyre	AI	Southern Cross University
21-MAU-012	HUM	$360,000	Do endangered languages get simpler under threat? Young people’s language use in urban and rural communities in Vanuatu	Dr EC Ridge	PI	Massey University
21-MAU-018	HUM	$360,000	Development and optimisation of Te Vairanga Tuatua, a multimedia-multipurpose corpus of Cook Islands Māori.	Dr SAT Nicholas	PI	Massey University
		$360,000		Dr RA Coto Solano	AI	Dartmouth College
21-MAU-043	EHB	$360,000	Caught in a web of lies? Persistence and change in conspiracy theory beliefs	Dr MN Williams	PI	Massey University
				Dr EJR Clarke	AI	Federation University Australia
				Dr SR Hill	AI	Massey University
				Dr JR Kerr	AI	University of Cambridge
				Dr MT Ling	AI	Deakin University
				Dr MD Marques	AI	La Trobe University
21-MAU-044	EEB	$926,000	Identifying the mechanisms that drive cultural evolution of song in natural songbird populations.	Professor DH Brunton	PI	Massey University
				Professor DT Blumstein	AI	University of California, Los Angeles
				Dr NJ Boogert	AI	University of Exeter
				Associate Professor W Ji	AI	Massey University
				Professor M Naguib	AI	Wageningen University
				Dr MD Pawley	AI	Massey University
				Dr R Thorogood	AI	University of Helsinki
21-MAU-051	EHB	$360,000	Greening Economics as an Engine for Sustainable Solutions to Climate Change	Dr S Pieralli	PI	Massey University
				Dr KM Bell	AI	Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research
				Professor RG Chambers	AI	University of Maryland
				Professor A Ortiz Bobea	AI	Cornell University
21-MAU-052	HUM	$360,000	Seen and Heard: Understanding the media girls consume, create, and share in Aotearoa New Zealand	Dr KJ Clarke	PI	Massey University
21-MAU-077	CMP	$939,000	A sticky question: Does intranuclear aggregation of HDAC4 promote neuronal dysfunction?	Dr HL Fitzsimons	PI	Massey University
				Associate Professor AJ Sutherland-Smith	AI	Massey University
21-MAU-078	SOC	$838,000	Samting i narakain: Understanding Change in the Pacific from the Inside	Professor GA Banks	PI	Massey University
				Professor JD Overton	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr GL Nanau	AI	The University of the South Pacific
				Dr H Steven	AI	Pacific Adventist University
21-MAU-102	SOC	$360,000	Reimagining South Pacific tourism: harnessing resilience and sustainability in a world of increasing disorder	Dr ARN Movono	PI	Massey University
				Professor S Ratuva	AI	University of Canterbury
				Professor RA Scheyvens	AI	Massey University
21-MAU-108	MIS	$685,000	Modern Analysis and Geometry	Distinguished Professor GJ Martin	PI	Massey University
21-MAU-148	SOC	$838,000	Apprehending Ableism: a transformative analysis of able-bodied privilege in Aotearoa New Zealand	Dr PA Carroll	PI	Massey University
				Professor KL Witten	PI	Massey University
				Dr BEA Borell	AI	Massey University
				Dr OEJ Calder-Dawe	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor BE Gibson	AI	University of Toronto
				Dr RC Townsend	AI	University of Waikato
21-MIM-003	BMS	$360,000	Does fever impact T cell metabolism and function during infectious disease?	Dr D O'Sullivan	PI	Malaghan Institute of Medical Research
21-NIW-014	ESA	$913,000	Tracking the lateral transfer of organic carbon by submarine canyon systems – A missing sink in global carbon budgets?	Dr KL Maier	PI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr SD Nodder	PI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr CE Ginnane	AI	GNS Science
				Dr RG Hilton	AI	Oxford University
				Dr JC Turnbull	AI	GNS Science
21-NIW-024	ESA	$913,000	Crossing the Dimensional Divide: Non-linear Interaction between Submesoscale eddies and Turbulence	Associate Professor CL Stevens	PI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr CE Bluteau	AI	Universite du Quebec a Rimouski
				Dr GJ Rickard	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr P Russell	AI	University of Otago
				Dr SH Suanda	AI	University of North Carolina, Wilmington
21-PVT-002	HUM	$455,000	When colonial worlds connect: trans-imperial networks of forced labour between the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the untold stories of Reunionese Creoles in Oceania	Associate Professor KE Speedy	PI	Speedy Research & Consulting
21-PVT-005	SOC	$360,000	Placing unheard voices: the lived experience and geography of young-onset Parkinson’s disease	Dr TM Coleman	PI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-008	ESA	$913,000	Black hole ecology: understanding the masses of black holes formed in stellar deaths	Associate Professor JJ Eldridge	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor ER Stanway	AI	University of Warwick
21-UOA-009	EIS	$916,000	Force and light to understand the structure–function relationship of soft tissue at the microscale	Associate Professor FDG Vanholsbeeck	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr J Li	AI	University of Adelaide
				Dr SR McGlashan	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr CM McGoverin	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor RA McLaughlin	AI	University of Adelaide
				Professor A Thambyah	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-036	MIS	$637,000	Relentlessly complex? New algorithmic foundations to analyze complex evolution	Dr S Linz	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor SM Kelk	AI	Maastricht University
				Professor CA Semple	AI	University of Canterbury
21-UOA-041	EIS	$360,000	Investigating the underlying causes of imbalance in micro-scale current distribution and bubble behaviour on electrode/catalyst surfaces in water electrolysis	Dr JJ Liu	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor JB Metson	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-048	MIS	$684,000	Beyond survival of the fittest: population dynamics of cyclic competition networks	Associate Professor CM Postlethwaite	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr CR Hasan	AI	University College Cork
				Professor HM Osinga	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor AM Rucklidge	AI	University of Leeds
21-UOA-058	MIS	$360,000	Rejuvenating the role of random fields in modelling spatiotemporal point patterns: a new era of point process models	Dr CM Jones-Todd	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor JB Illian	AI	University of Glasgow
21-UOA-059	EIS	$360,000	Making a Splash: Accounting for Air in Water Impacts	Dr TD Allen	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr R Panciroli	AI	Niccolò Cusano University
21-UOA-060	HUM	$494,000	Taboo: A literary and cultural history	Associate Professor AJ Calder	PI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-069	PCB	$360,000	Superatoms: catalysts for CO2 activation	Dr C Sikorska	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor IW Anusiewicz	AI	University of Gdansk
21-UOA-070	SOC	$838,000	Matike Mai Te Hiaroa: #ProtectIhumātao	Dr FP Hancock	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor CH Jones	PI	Te Wānanga o Raukawa
				Professor JB-J Lee-Morgan	PI	Unitec Institute of Technology
				Ms QM Matata-Sipu	AI	Makaurau Marae
				Ms PP Newton	AI	Makaurau Marae
				Ms MM Waa	AI	Makaurau Marae
21-UOA-081	EHB	$360,000	Eye movements in three dimensions	Dr PRK Turnbull	PI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-105	MFC	$3,000,000	Gravitational Waves: Sources and Signals	Professor R Meyer	PI	The University of Auckland
				Distinguished Professor NL Christensen	AI	Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
				Professor RJM Easther	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr MC Edwards	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor JJ Eldridge	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor J Frauendiener	AI	University of Otago
				Dr C Gordon	AI	University of Canterbury
				Dr JE Lee	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr EA Lim	AI	King's College London
				Dr PA Maturana Russel	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Professor JC Niemeyer	AI	University of Göttingen
				Dr MF Parry	AI	University of Otago
				Dr YC Perrott	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Associate Professor WHB van Straten	AI	Auckland University of Technology
21-UOA-108	CMP	$939,000	How does allostery modulate bacterial pathogenesis?	Dr G Bashiri	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr LPS de Carvalho	AI	The Francis Crick Institute
				Dr W Jiao	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr IKH Leung	AI	University of Melbourne
				Dr MB McNeil	AI	University of Otago
21-UOA-120	SOC	$360,000	Performing mathematics learner identities in online contexts	Dr LJ Darragh	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor T Trinick	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-130	EHB	$825,000	The Neural Dynamics of Cognitive Control: Theta-range Neural Oscillations and Frontal Executive Function	Professor IJ Kirk	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr CD Erb	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor OE Krigolson	AI	University of Victoria
				Dr MJ Spriggs	AI	Imperial College London
21-UOA-134	EHB	$833,000	Anauralia: The enigma of the silent mind.	Professor AJ Lambert	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor SC Purdy	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-173	HUM	$660,000	Strengthening Democracy for the Twenty-First Century	Associate Professor TK Kuhner	PI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-174	MIS	$554,000	A geometric study of exceptional symmetry	Dr JJ Schillewaert	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor A Thomas	AI	University of Sydney
				Professor H Van Maldeghem	AI	Ghent University
21-UOA-178	CMP	$939,000	Where lies the treasure? Using random DNA to find the functional regions of genomes	Dr ARD Ganley	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor ME Dinger	AI	University of New South Wales
				Associate Professor PP Gardner	AI	University of Otago
				Dr MP Höppner	AI	Kiel University
				Distinguished Professor IT Paulsen	AI	Macquarie University
				Professor AM Poole	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-179	PCB	$922,000	Designing nanopatterns: exploring the "dark world" of binary liquid metals	Associate Professor N Gaston	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr KG Steenbergen	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor K Kalantar-Zadeh	AI	University of New South Wales
21-UOA-180	EIS	$916,000	Electroceuticals in the Gut: Multimodal Imaging and Modelling to Unlock Peristalsis	Dr N Paskaranandavadivel	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr R Avci	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor LK Cheng	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor P Du	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor JM Rogers	AI	University of Alabama at Birmingham
21-UOA-190	BMS	$960,000	Why are two Xs better than one? Modifying X inactivation for the treatment of X-linked neurological disorders	Dr EL Scotter	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor ML Kennerson	AI	ANZAC Research Institute
				Professor GA Nicholson	AI	University of Sydney
21-UOA-207	EIS	$916,000	Keeping spatters at bay and in situ synthesis	Associate Professor P Cao	PI	The University of Auckland
				Distinguished Professor M Qian	PI	RMIT University
				Associate Professor SB Singamneni	AI	Auckland University of Technology
				Dr YM Wang	AI	University of California, Los Angeles
21-UOA-215	EIS	$360,000	Ultra-Broadband Microresonator Dual-Combs in Photonic Belt Resonators	Dr VWC Ng	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor JM Dawes	AI	Macquarie University
21-UOA-219	MIS	$360,000	Unsupervised spatio-temporal representation learning for dynamic graphs	Dr K Zhao	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr J Liu	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-237	PCB	$360,000	Understanding selectivity determinants in CO2 electrochemical reduction reaction	Dr Z Wang	PI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-248	BMS	$960,000	Preeclampsia: Mother vs placenta	Dr CJ Barrett	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor LW Chamley	AI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor KM Groom	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr SY Lau	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr CJ Oyston	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-262	CMP	$939,000	Experimentally probing the RNA to DNA transition at the origin of modern genomes.	Professor AM Poole	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor J Ogawa	AI	University of Kyoto
				Professor PG Schultz	AI	The Scripps Research Institute
21-UOA-272	SOC	$815,000	Imagineering national futures: Global management consultancies and extrastate knowledge infrastructure in Aotearoa	Associate Professor NI Lewis	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr TA Baker	AI	The University of Auckland
				Dr RJ Prince	AI	Massey University
				Dr JD Reid	AI	University of Canterbury
				Dr EL Sharp	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOA-280	PCB	$921,000	Photons on demand: dial-up your number	Dr MD Hoogerland	PI	The University of Auckland
				Associate Professor AS Parkins	PI	The University of Auckland
				Professor S Nic Chormaic	AI	Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
21-UOA-300	EHB	$360,000	Learning to see the world: visual understanding through unsupervised learning	Dr KR Storrs	PI	The University of Auckland
21-UOC-013	PCB	$921,000	Radically different; new reactions of unprotected sugars in aqueous solution	Professor AJ Fairbanks	PI	University of Canterbury
21-UOC-017	EIS	$916,000	Accelerating the advent of physics-based ground-motion simulation for seismic hazard analysis	Professor BA Bradley	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr RW Graves	AI	United States Geological Survey
				Dr RL Lee	AI	University of Canterbury
				Professor A Rodriguez-Marek	AI	Virginia Tech
				Dr PJ Stafford	AI	Imperial College London
21-UOC-038	EIS	$360,000	Creating a physics-based understanding of the spatial correlation of earthquake-induced ground motions in regions of complex geology	Dr RL Lee	PI	University of Canterbury
				Professor JW Baker	AI	Stanford University
				Professor BA Bradley	AI	University of Canterbury
				Dr RW Graves	AI	United States Geological Survey
21-UOC-040	EEB	$925,000	Avian diversity in the aftermath of the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) mass extinction: Zealandia as a hub for the evolution of marine birds.	Dr VL De Pietri	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr EM Crouch	AI	GNS Science
				Dr G Mayr	AI	Senckenberg Research Institute
				Associate Professor CM Reid	AI	University of Canterbury
				Professor RP Scofield	AI	Canterbury Museum
21-UOC-046	EHB	$839,000	Multi-sensory speech perception and syllable structure	Dr DJ Derrick	PI	University of Canterbury
				Professor BW Gick	AI	University of British Columbia
				Professor MC Jermy	AI	University of Canterbury
21-UOC-059	EEB	$360,000	Understanding when and why predictions succeed or fail for species distributions	Dr HR Lai	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr SM Windecker	AI	University of Melbourne
21-UOC-060	HUM	$360,000	Understanding the Nature of Word Grammar Through Te Reo Māori	Dr FA Panther	PI	University of Canterbury
21-UOC-084	EEB	$926,000	Eight legs and a mind for numbers	Dr FR Cross	PI	University of Canterbury
				Professor RC Grace	AI	University of Canterbury
				Professor RR Jackson	AI	University of Canterbury
				Professor EM Jakob	AI	University of Massachusetts Amherst
21-UOC-092	SOC	$824,000	The Greening of Death in Aotearoa: Co-designing sustainability adaptations in body disposal	Associate Professor R McManus	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr DD Blake	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
21-UOC-107	HUM	$659,000	Do patterns of covariation in speech carry social meaning?	Associate Professor KD Watson	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr L Clark	AI	University of Canterbury
				Professor JB Hay	AI	University of Canterbury
21-UOC-108	EHB	$839,000	Bifurcating neurons and the thalamic control of memory	Professor JC Dalrymple-Alford	PI	University of Canterbury
				Associate Professor AS Mitchell	PI	University of Oxford
				Dr BC Harland	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor M Wolff	AI	Université de Bordeaux
21-UOC-115	EIS	$904,000	Thinking outside the square! Discovering the design rules for a new class of highly-functional nanomaterials.	Professor MW Allen	PI	University of Canterbury
				Professor RJ Reeves	PI	University of Canterbury
				Associate Professor N Gaston	AI	The University of Auckland
				Professor AP O'Mullane	AI	Queensland University of Technology
				Professor T D Veal	AI	University of Liverpool
21-UOO-002	EEB	$926,000	Parasite microbiomes and host manipulation: who’s really pulling the strings?	Professor R Poulin	PI	University of Otago
				Dr MF Jorge	AI	University of Otago
21-UOO-023	CMP	$360,000	Investigating the roots of resilience to climate change in kuku at single cell resolution	Dr NJ Kenny	PI	University of Otago
21-UOO-026	HUM	$660,000	Kaitiakitanga and Antarctic narratives	Associate Professor P Wehi	PI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor KPM Watene	PI	Massey University
				Ms THA Henare	AI	North Tec
				Mr TW Hetaraka	AI	Hihiaua Cultural Centre Trust
21-UOO-030	EHB	$360,000	Embodied Colonialism: Biohistories of 19th-century Pakeha and Chinese Migrants to New Zealand	Dr AME Sohler	PI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor JJ Beattie	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr JJ Miszkiewicz	AI	The Australian National University
				Dr C Posth	AI	University of Tübingen
21-UOO-039	EEB	$926,000	The olfactory cocktail party: How animals and humans segregate mixed odours	Dr P Szyszka	PI	University of Otago
				Dr TL Edwards	PI	University of Waikato
				Dr GT Eyres	AI	University of Otago
				Dr NJ Hall	AI	Texas Tech University
				Dr M Peng	AI	University of Otago
21-UOO-040	BMS	$960,000	Rewarding Mum: hormones supporting maternal-infant interactions	Dr RSE Brown	PI	University of Otago
				Dr J Clarkson	AI	University of Otago
				Professor AE Herbison	AI	University of Cambridge
21-UOO-057	MIS	$685,000	Training natural language models to understand genomics and study gout in Māori and Pacific populations	Dr AN Gavryushkin	PI	University of Canterbury
				Professor MJ Witbrock	PI	The University of Auckland
				Dr MP Leask	AI	University of Otago
				Professor TR Merriman	AI	The University of Alabama at Birmingham
21-UOO-076	BMS	$960,000	Reprogramming transcription with a flexible degradation machine	Associate Professor PD Mace	PI	University of Otago
				Dr SHJ Brown	AI	University of Wollongong
				Associate Professor KR Keeshan	AI	University of Glasgow
21-UOO-086	EEB	$926,000	Succession or suppression: how do sex-changing fish know when they should or shouldn’t change sex?	Distinguished Professor NJ Gemmell	PI	University of Otago
				Professor C Brown	AI	Macquarie University
				Professor CL Jasoni	AI	University of Otago
				Dr S Muncaster	AI	Toi Ohomai Institute of Technology
				Dr EV Todd	AI	Deakin University
21-UOO-087	EEB	$360,000	Molecular time-capsules of oceans past – reconstructing Antarctica’s marine ecosystems using historical environmental DNA from marine invertebrate collections	Dr GJ Jeunen	PI	University of Otago
				Professor S Mariani	AI	Liverpool John Moores University
				Ms VS Mills	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
21-UOO-088	BMS	$960,000	Recovery of red blood cells from oxidative stress: a window on human ageing	Professor MB Hampton	PI	University of Otago
				Dr C Goebl	AI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor EC Ledgerwood	AI	University of Otago
				Professor CC Winterbourn	AI	University of Otago
21-UOO-123	ESA	$875,000	Laboratory exploration of co-crystal minerals for planetary chemistry: Assisting NASA Dragonfly's search for the origins-of-life on Titan.	Dr CP Ennis	PI	University of Otago
				Dr ML Cable	AI	California Institute of Technology
				Dr R Hodyss	AI	California Institute of Technology
				Dr HE Maynard-Casely	AI	Australian Nuclear & Science Technology Organisation
21-UOO-128	BMS	$960,000	A novel amyloid formation mechanism ignited by oxidation	Dr C Goebl	PI	University of Otago
				Dr VK Morris	AI	University of Canterbury
				Professor M Sunde	AI	University of Sydney
21-UOO-140	BMS	$960,000	Taking the driver's seat: suppressing tumour metastasis by eliminating epigenetic drivers	Dr EJ Rodger	PI	University of Otago
				Dr A Chatterjee	AI	University of Otago
				Dr PA Stockwell	AI	University of Otago
				Mr RJ Weeks	AI	University of Otago
21-UOO-154	MIS	$665,000	Egocentric Vision Augmentation - Coherent visual integration for AR through real-time view modelling	Associate Professor TM Langlotz	PI	University of Otago
				Dr Y Itoh	AI	Tokyo Institute of Technology
				Dr D Kalkofen	AI	Graz University of Technology
				Professor HT Regenbrecht	AI	University of Otago
21-UOO-164	BMS	$960,000	The missing link: LncRNA regulation of lysosome function in brain disease	Associate Professor SM Hughes	PI	University of Otago
				Dr I Basak	PI	University of Otago
				Dr SDH Diermeier	AI	University of Otago
21-UOO-182	CMP	$939,000	Neurons to keep mums cool	Dr SR Ladyman	PI	University of Otago
				Dr TL Merry	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOO-186	EHB	$839,000	How do sensory shifts shape our diet? - Testing the neural mechanisms underpinning nutrient selection	Dr M Peng	PI	University of Otago
				Dr M Garratt	AI	University of Otago
				Professor JE Hayes	AI	The Pennsylvania State University
				Dr RP Roberts	AI	The University of Auckland
21-UOO-192	BMS	$360,000	How does stress cause anxiety?	Dr JS Kim	PI	University of Otago
21-UOO-212	EEB	$926,000	Beyond sperm transport: how seminal fluid shapes the female life course	Dr M Garratt	PI	University of Otago
				Distinguished Professor NJ Gemmell	AI	University of Otago
				Dr MW Pankhurst	AI	University of Otago
				Professor SA Robertson	AI	University of Adelaide
21-UOO-217	HUM	$660,000	Paraconsistent Computablility Theory	Associate Professor ZJ Weber	PI	University of Otago
				Distinguished Professor BJ Copeland	AI	University of Canterbury
21-UOO-238	CMP	$360,000	Deciphering translation of the ‘untranslated’ regions of messenger RNAs	Dr CS Lim	PI	University of Otago
				Associate Professor CM Brown	AI	University of Otago
				Dr H Le Hir	AI	l’Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS)
21-UOO-250	CMP	$360,000	Making heads or tails of bees: understanding the evolution of the first stages of embryogenesis	Dr A Oliphant	PI	University of Otago
21-UOO-251	BMS	$959,000	Targeting CaMKII to tune cardiac structure and restore function in the diabetic heart	Dr JR Erickson	PI	University of Otago
				Dr JC Baldi	AI	University of Otago
				Dr ML Munro	AI	University of Otago
21-UOW-007	EIS	$916,000	Advancing understanding of atomic-scale interface formation and heat transfer in composite materials	Dr F Yang	PI	University of Waikato
				Dr L Bolzoni	AI	University of Waikato
				Dr G Ji	AI	Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
				Professor T Li	AI	Ruhr University Bochum
				Professor Y Wang	AI	The Pennsylvania State University
21-UOW-008	EHB	$839,000	Accurately dating the Māori past using marine shell	Associate Professor FJ Petchey	PI	University of Waikato
				Professor AJ Anderson	AI	Independent Researcher
				Dr ML Furey	AI	Auckland Museum
				Dr G O'Regan	AI	Otago Museum
				Dr MME Schmid	AI	University of Kiel
21-UOW-034	SOC	$838,000	Beyond the cycle of shame and silence: A relational study of intersex experience	Professor K Roen	PI	University of Waikato
				Professor LE Allen	PI	The University of Auckland
21-UOW-052	SOC	$360,000	Answering the Christchurch Call: Investigating New Zealand-based white supremacist discourse on social media	Dr JB Phillips	PI	University of Waikato
				Dr K Campion	AI	Charles Sturt University
21-UOW-078	EIS	$360,000	Thermoelastic stress tomography: using heat to detect, map and quantifying the effect of hidden defects	Dr RC Tighe	PI	University of Waikato
				Professor X Balandraud	AI	Université Clermont Auvergne
				Dr N Rajic	AI	Department of Defence Science & Technology
21-UOW-081	SOC	$817,000	Ngā Hanganga Mātua o te Whakaako Hitori: Critical Pedagogies for History Educators in Aotearoa New Zealand	Dr N Mahuika	PI	University of Waikato
				Dr RF Manning	PI	University of Canterbury
				Dr AM Loader	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr VM Tawhai	AI	Massey University
21-UOW-106	EIS	$360,000	Soil organics matter: exploring abiotic pathways to mitigation of agricultural nitrous oxide emissions	Dr D Torres-Rojas	PI	University of Waikato
				Dr JPG Goodrich	AI	University of Waikato
				Dr R Hestrin	AI	Lawrence Livermore National Lab
				Dr T Whitman	AI	University of Wisconsin-Madison
21-VUW-011	CMP	$939,000	A new role for the amniotic cavity	Associate Professor PL Pfeffer	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr DK Berg	AI	AgResearch
				Dr CL Gray	AI	University of Otago
				Dr JL Li	AI	Nanjing Medical University
21-VUW-012	ESA	$360,000	How did changing sea ice conditions impact primary production in the Ross Sea over the past 200 years?	Dr VHL Winton	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr AA Bahamondes Dominguez	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Dr M Dall'Osto	AI	Institute of Marine Science
				Associate Professor A Hartland	AI	University of Waikato
				Dr AD Ming	AI	University of Cambridge
				Professor J Turner	AI	British Antarctic Survey
21-VUW-021	EEB	$360,000	The geometry of coexistence: Bio-optical niche modelling of coral-symbiotic microalgae under climate change	Dr MR Nitschke	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor M Kühl	AI	University of Copenhagen
				Dr T Rongo	AI	Kōrero o te ‘Ōrau
				Professor DJ Suggett	AI	University of Technology, Sydney
21-VUW-032	CMP	$360,000	Uncovering the novel biochemistries of the seaweed microbiome – the metabolic heavy lifters of the ocean.	Dr CJ Vickers	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor WA Nelson	AI	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
				Professor JD Van Hamme	AI	Thompson Rivers University
21-VUW-041	EIS	$916,000	Magnetism without angular momentum; High speed low power cryogenic memory	Dr SE Granville	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr K Chen	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr JF McNulty	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor HJ Trodahl	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
21-VUW-103	ESA	$913,000	Can Snow Change the Fate of Antarctic Sea Ice?	Dr R Dadic	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Associate Professor BM Anderson	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr P Heil	AI	Australian Antarctic Division
				Professor ML Lehning	AI	Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
				Dr GH Leonard	AI	University of Otago
				Dr BL Light	AI	University of Washington
				Dr RP Pirazzini	AI	Finnish Meteorological Institute
				Dr M Schneebeli	AI	Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research
				Dr IJ Smith	AI	University of Otago
21-VUW-108	SOC	$360,000	An ethnographic study of 1080 pest control and the Anthropocene in Aotearoa	Dr CP Addison	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
21-VUW-109	SOC	$360,000	The social lives of sex hormones: (Re)imagining our bodies, ourselves in Aotearoa New Zealand	Dr NS Appleton	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				MB Mitchell	AI	Intersex Trust Aotearoa New Zealand
21-VUW-111	EHB	$839,000	Structure of human music perception	Dr SA Mehr	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
21-VUW-112	EHB	$839,000	Understanding the drivers of adolescent depression: The role of personal memories.	Professor KE Salmon	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor RA Bryant	AI	University of New South Wales
				Professor PE Jose	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor JE Reese	AI	University of Otago
21-VUW-116	ESA	$360,000	The Silent Trigger: Do slow-slip earthquakes trigger volcanic unrest in the Taupō Volcanic Zone?	Dr F Illsley-Kemp	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Associate Professor TMD Gernon	AI	University of Southampton
				Dr TK Hincks	AI	University of Southampton
				Dr KM Jacobs	AI	GNS Science
				Dr LM Wallace	AI	GNS Science
21-VUW-120	PCB	$360,000	Molecular Indium Phosphide: A Bottom-Up Approach to the Synthesis of InP Materials	Dr MD Anker	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor MS Hill	AI	University of Bath
21-VUW-122	PCB	$922,000	How the nose knows? -Understanding the mechanisms in insect olfactory biosensor devices	Dr NOV Plank	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr CJF Carraher	AI	Plant & Food Research
				Professor AP Micolich	AI	University of New South Wales
21-VUW-123	PCB	$921,000	Electromagnetic scattering by particles of arbitrary size and shape with application to microplastics	Professor EC Le Ru	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr LE Revell	AI	University of Canterbury
21-VUW-129	ESA	$360,000	Turbulence in the Intracluster Medium: toward the robust extraction of physical parameters	Dr YC Perrott	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor S Oughton	AI	University of Waikato
				Dr TN Parashar	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
21-VUW-145	MIS	$685,000	Gradual concurrency: correctness, simplicity, and performance via dynamic ownership	Professor RJ Noble	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor ST Wrigstad	PI	Uppsala University
21-VUW-156	MIS	$685,000	Establishing a structure theory for C*-algebras of non-Hausdorff groupoids	Associate Professor LO Clark	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor A an Huef	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
21-VUW-205	SOC	$360,000	How does global order change? Precedent, domestic politics and the evolution of international trade rules from 1950 to 2020	Dr MA Castle	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
21-VUW-208	MIS	$360,000	A Novel Genetic Programming Approach to Image Classification	Dr Y Bi	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Associate Professor S Cagnoni	AI	Università degli Studi di Parma
21-VUW-221	SOC	$836,000	Towards Socioculturally Responsible and Inclusive Stewardship of Digital Indigenous Knowledge Collections (D-IKC)	Associate Professor CL Liew	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Associate Professor SC Lilley	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
21-VUW-232	HUM	$660,000	Reimagining ocean law to achieve equitable and sustainable use of marine ecosystems	Associate Professor JC Mossop	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr RM Moynihan Magsig	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor RA Barnes	AI	University of Lincoln
21-VUW-233	ESA	$913,000	Climatic and environmental impacts of the largest explosive volcanic eruptions on Earth	Dr SJ Barker	PI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Professor L Carter	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr NA Iverson	AI	New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
				Dr LG Mastin	AI	U.S. Geological Survey
				Professor RM Newnham	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr AR Van Eaton	AI	United States Geological Survey
				Professor CJN Wilson	AI	Victoria University of Wellington
				Dr VHL Winton	AI	Victoria University of Wellington

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