The Aotearoa New Zealand Tāwhia Te Mana Research Fellowships are administered on behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment.

The Fellowships will support researchers at different career stages to produce excellent and impactful research and to develop into leaders of the Aotearoa New Zealand research system. It is expected that Fellows, throughout their careers, will contribute to positive outcomes for Aotearoa New Zealand. Receipt of an Aotearoa New Zealand Tāwhia Te Mana Research Fellowship is expected to have significant value for the future career development and leadership potential of a researcher.

*2024 applications have now closed, however this fellowship is expected to be offered again in the second half of 2025 *

Administered by the Royal Society, The Catalyst:Seeding facilitates new small and medium pre-research strategic partnerships that cannot be supported through other means, and with a view to developing full collaborations that could be supported through Catalyst: Strategic over time.

The July 2024 call is now open. The closing date for New Zealand applications is 17 October 2024.

The Research and Academic Leave Committee for the Faculty of Science, the Faculty of Health, the Antarctic Research Centre and the Ferrier Research Institute is pleased to announce that applications are now open for 2024 small faculty research grants (<$3,000), to support research projects undertaken by permanent academic staff members, scientists and by academic staff and postdoctoral fellows on contracts of at least two years.

Small faculty research grant applications only require a brief project description and can be applied for in Elements. There will be 3 rounds of applications, with strict deadlines of 31 May, 31 July and 30 September. The online portal in Elements will remain open continuously until the final deadline of 30 September, and any application received after 31 May or 31 July will be considered in the next applicable round.

The Health Research Council established the Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship as a contribution to building New Zealand’s future capability to conduct world-class research. This fellowship provides support for emerging scientists who have demonstrated outstanding potential to develop into highly skilled researchers able to initiate new avenues of investigation. Up to $600,000 is available over four years. Registrations are expected to open in June 2025.

The Ki te Pae Research Excellence Awards celebrate ambitious research that delivers transformative impact. The Awards acknowledge the excellence of our researchers:

- asking bold questions

- pursuing innovative solutions

- expanding creativity and human knowledge

- imagining different ways of understanding the human condition

- collaborating and engaging with iwi, hapū, marae, communities, government, scholarship, industry, and commerce to develop new insights of direct relevance to these groups.

Up to three Early Career Researcher Awards of $10,000 will be awarded.

You can now register your interest to submit a Marsden grant application in the 2025 round (closing in February 2025).

Data demonstrates that researchers who start early and spend more time on the development of their proposals are considerably more likely to be successful both in progressing to the second round of the application process, and in ultimately securing funding.

When you register in Elements, you will be connected with a Research Funding Adviser who can talk you through any aspects of Marsden that are new to you, and who will be available between now and February to help you develop your proposal. Your assigned Funding Adviser will also be able to provide information about Research Office workshops and events relating to Marsden, as well as copies of updated guidelines as they become available.

If you are a VUW staff member and have Marsden-related questions, please contact Hayden at the research office (hayden.thorne@vuw.ac.nz)

The HFSP fellowship program supports proposals for frontier, potentially transformative research in the life sciences. Applications for high-risk projects are particularly encouraged.

The projects should be interdisciplinary in nature and should challenge existing paradigms by using novel approaches and techniques. Scientifically, they should address an important problem or a barrier to progress in the field.

HFSP postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country.

Two different fellowships are available:

Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) are for applicants with a PhD on a biological topic who want to embark on a novel and frontier project focussing on the life sciences.

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are for applicants who hold a doctoral degree from a non-biological discipline (e.g. physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences) and who have not worked in the life sciences before.

Deadlines for the next round have not yet been set, however keep an eye out in early 2025.