Marsden Fund Council’s Strategic Direction
The Council has developed a mission statement, goals and principles for the Fund to guide its fund-design decisions. These are consistent with, and complementary to, the Fund’s high-level nature and objectives.
The Council’s Mission Statement
To drive world-class research in New Zealand by supporting and incentivising excellent researchers to work on their best and boldest ideas leading to new knowledge and skills with the potential for significant downstream impact for New Zealand.
The Marsden Fund Investment Plan
The Investment Plan (2025-2027) sets out the strategic direction of the Fund, including how it will be managed to achieve its objectives. A new Investment Plan has been issued by the Minister, December 2024.
Previous Investment Plan 2021-2024
The Marsden Fund Performance Framework
The Council will assess the effect of the Investment Plan with systematic monitoring and reporting. Data and indicators to be used will be developed and published in the Marsden Fund Performance Framework (to be updated to reflect the new Investment Plan).
Previous Performance Framework, 2021-2024
The Marsden Fund Combined Panel Trial
In the 2018 funding round the Council instituted the Combined Panel Trial, being a broader cross-disciplinary panel (https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-reports/evaluation-reports/).
Projected Value of Awards
The figure below shows the dollars invested in awards, by category, in the 2018 award round, as well as approximate projections for the 2019 - 2021 rounds.
