University of Waikato Research Institute Scholarships

31 May, 2013

University of Waikato Research Institute Scholarships

The University of Waikato’s six flagship Research Institutes are offering new doctoral and masters scholarships. The Research Institutes support world-class research in environmental science, demography and economic analysis, business and leadership, professional learning and development, education, and Māori and indigenous development. Each institute is offering a doctoral scholarship worth $22,000 a year plus fees for three years’ full time study, and a masters scholarship worth $12,000 that includes a fees component of $3,500.

“Our Research Institutes all support major research platforms that have been successful in winning contestable research funding, and so this is an exciting time for postgraduate research at Waikato University,” says Pro Vice-Chancellor Postgraduate Professor Kay Weaver. “This gives 12 students a fantastic opportunity to work with some of Waikato’s best researchers on relevant and topical issues.”

The Institutes and topics for postgraduate scholarship research are as follows:

The Environmental Research Institute (ERI) is offering doctoral and masters scholarships to students intending to research aspects of terrestrial, freshwater, coastal marine or Antarctic ecosystems.

The Institute for Business Research (IBR) is offering scholarships to applicants keen to investigate the potential for the small business sector to contribute a sustainable increase to New Zealand’s national income.

The Institute of Professional Learning (IPL), which is based in the Faculty of Education, has scholarships for students to investigate and contribute to improve professional learning and development in New Zealand early childhood centres, kura and schools.

The National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis (NIDEA) links a wide community of researchers who study, and help inform policy responses to, the demographic, social and economic processes that interact to shape New Zealand’s future.

The doctoral scholarship comes under NIDEA’s Indigenous Future Programme and is for a student to research opportunities and challenges around Māori and indigenous demographic change. The masters scholarship will be awarded to a student to investigate the regional impacts of demographic change for New Zealand’s communities.

Te Kotahi Research Institute (TKRI) focuses on research that has potential to transform and create well-being for Iwi, Māori, Indigenous communities and society.

The doctoral and masters scholarship are for students planning research into at least one of the following themes: economic development and intergenerational sustainability, environment and iwi wellbeing, solving complex social challenges, language and cultural identity, leadership kaitaikitanga and rangatiratanga.

The Wilf Malcolm Institute of Educational Research (WMIER) doctoral scholarship will be awarded to a student to investigate how key competencies, as set out in the NZ curriculum, are fostered, evidenced and traced over time, places and tasks in early years and compulsory schooling. The masters scholarship will be awarded to a student to investigate curriculum, assessment and/or policy implementation in the early years, compulsory schooling and tertiary sectors.

Applications close on 31 July, 2013. For information on the scholarships go to: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/research/scholarships/current/research.shtml

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