Marsden Fund awards 2020
View Marsden Fund grants awarded in 2020
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: 2020-Marsden-Fund-announcement-supplement.xlsx
Project ID | Panel | Funding (ex GST) | Project | Investigator | Role | Institution |
20-AUT-023 | SOC | $870,000 | Re-imagining anti-racism theory in the health sector | Associate Professor JD Kidd | PI | Auckland University of Technology |
Dr HA Came | PI | Auckland University of Technology | ||||
Dr BJ Rodgers | AI | Auckland University of Technology | ||||
20-AUT-037 | PCB | $300,000 | Light-Responsive Drug Delivery Systems to Probe Dynamic Biological Functions | Dr CL Fleming | PI | Auckland University of Technology |
Associate Professor EJ New | AI | The University of Sydney | ||||
20-GNS-001 | ESA | $960,000 | Tipping the balance: what makes slow earthquakes episodic? | Dr LM Wallace | PI | GNS Science |
Associate Professor P Audet | AI | University of Ottawa | ||||
Dr KM Jacobs | AI | GNS Science | ||||
Associate Professor K Mochizuki | AI | University of Tokyo | ||||
Professor DM Saffer | AI | University of Texas at Austin | ||||
Professor MK Savage | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr EJ Warren-Smith | AI | GNS Science | ||||
Professor SC Webb | AI | Columbia University | ||||
20-GNS-006 | ESA | $960,000 | Geological fingerprinting of earthquake rupture directions: Can it be done? | Mr RJ van Dissen | PI | GNS Science |
Dr Y Kaneko | PI | GNS Science | ||||
Dr NC Barth | AI | University of California, Riverside | ||||
Dr JD Howarth | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Mr JR Kearse | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Professor TA Little | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr CHR Orchiston | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-LCR-002 | ESA | $960,000 | Australia burning, NZ melting: impacts of bushfires on NZ glacial environments | Dr PM Novis | PI | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research |
Dr LM Petherick | PI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr R Dadic | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr JE Hunt | AI | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research | ||||
Dr BH Jolly | AI | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research | ||||
Dr HL Purdie | AI | University of Canterbury | ||||
20-LCR-008 | CMP | $300,000 | Pausing pregnancy: The convergent evolution of, and mechanisms underpinning embryonic diapause observed across mammals. | Dr AJ Veale | PI | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research |
Dr JA Duckworth | AI | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research | ||||
Dr JC Fenelon | AI | University of Melbourne | ||||
Distinguished Professor NJ Gemmell | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Distinguished Professor MB Renfree | AI | University of Melbourne | ||||
20-LCR-010 | EEB | $300,000 | Does home-field advantage confer resilience against competitive exclusion under warming? | Dr MK Dhami | PI | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research |
Professor DA Petrov | AI | Stanford University | ||||
20-LIU-002 | EHB | $798,000 | Nursery Crimes: Does the popularity and pricing of alien plant species traded in New Zealand ornamental horticulture markets determine the risk of introducing environmental weeds? | Professor PE Hulme | PI | Lincoln University |
Professor C Perrings | PI | Arizona State University | ||||
20-MAU-005 | ESA | $944,000 | Unlocking centuries worth of surface UV-B radiation history hidden in pollen | Dr KA Holt | PI | Massey University |
Dr PE Jardine | AI | University of Münster | ||||
Mr JB Liley | AI | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd | ||||
Dr BH Lomax | AI | University of Nottingham | ||||
Dr MJ Vandergoes | AI | GNS Science | ||||
20-MAU-017 | EEB | $960,000 | Unraveling the 3D structure of archaic hominin DNA in the human genome | Professor MP Cox | PI | Massey University |
Dr N Brucato | AI | University of Toulouse 3 | ||||
Dr I Gallego Romero | AI | University of Melbourne | ||||
20-MAU-021 | SOC | $870,000 | Our game by our rules: Bringing an Indigenous perspective to the Sport-for-Development (SFD) field | Dr RR Stewart-Withers | PI | Massey University |
Dr FR Palmer | PI | Massey University | ||||
Dr JW Hapeta | AI | Massey University | ||||
20-MAU-028 | PCB | $939,000 | Three atoms in a tight spot | Professor J Brand | PI | Massey University |
Associate Professor MF Andersen | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-MAU-050 | MIS | $491,000 | The dynamics of interacting infections | Professor MG Roberts | PI | Massey University |
Professor JAP Heesterbeek | AI | University of Utrecht | ||||
Dr RI Hickson | AI | James Cook University | ||||
Professor JM McCaw | AI | The University of Melbourne | ||||
20-MAU-054 | EEB | $300,000 | Predicting evolution: Quantifying the emergence of antibiotic resistance in diverse environmental strains of E. coli | Dr NE Freed | PI | Massey University |
Dr OK Silander | AI | Massey University | ||||
Professor O Tenaillon | AI | Inserm - University Paris Diderot | ||||
20-MAU-071 | MFC | $3,000,000 | Biodiversity, microbiota, and childhood allergies and asthma: variation across space and time. | Professor J Douwes | PI | Massey University |
Dr CR Brooks | PI | Massey University | ||||
Dr MA Corbin | PI | Massey University | ||||
Professor J Crane | PI | University of Otago | ||||
Professor JD Potter | PI | Massey University | ||||
Dr CL Shorter | PI | University of Otago | ||||
Associate Professor AM 't Mannetje | PI | Massey University | ||||
Professor CW Cunningham | AI | Massey University | ||||
Professor R Knight | AI | University of California San Diego | ||||
Professor NE Pearce | AI | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | ||||
Dr LJ Pembrey | AI | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | ||||
Professor GB Rogers | AI | South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute | ||||
20-MAU-090 | SOC | $870,000 | Navigating Pacific Indigenous knowledge and practices in relation to contemporary dietary patterns: investigating 'ai ia e ola' - eat to live well | Dr RT Firestone | PI | Massey University |
Associate Professor N Aitaoto | AI | University of Utah | ||||
Professor BD Brown | AI | University of Montana | ||||
Ms EJ Hughes | AI | The Fono | ||||
Dr LA Te Morenga | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Ms HS Tuisano | AI | Massey University | ||||
20-MAU-093 | EEB | $300,000 | Understanding the evolution of complex female song in songbirds | Dr WH Webb | PI | Massey University |
Professor J Dale | AI | Massey University | ||||
20-MAU-101 | EEB | $300,000 | Plant communication in times of rapid environmental change | Dr AL Clavijo-McCormick | PI | Massey University |
Dr SV Fowler | AI | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research | ||||
Professor RJ Pakeman | AI | The James Hutton Institute | ||||
Dr QE Paynter | AI | Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research | ||||
20-PAF-002 | CMP | $300,000 | How do new pathogen incursions evolve during host infection? | Dr J Jayaraman | PI | Plant & Food Research |
20-PAF-008 | CMP | $954,000 | From the road less travelled: How hornworts can help decipher the evolution of a fundamental stress tolerance adaptation of land plants | Dr KM Davies | PI | Plant & Food Research |
Dr JW van Klink | PI | Plant & Food Research | ||||
Professor JL Bowman | AI | Monash University | ||||
Dr D Chagné | AI | Plant & Food Research | ||||
Dr M Landi | AI | University of Pisa | ||||
20-UOA-002 | CMP | $300,000 | 3D genome dysregulation: Systematic interpretation of noncoding regulatory mutations driving cancer | Dr WS Schierding | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr JK Perry | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor CG Print | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-004 | BMS | $958,000 | Reprogrammed dopamine cells in three-dimensional microspheres to treat Parkinson's Disease. | Professor BJ Connor | PI | University of Auckland |
Associate Professor DM Svirskis | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr AJ McCaughey-Chapman | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-008 | HUM | $638,000 | Cultivating Musical Arrangements in Early Nineteenth-Century Vienna: Uncovering Women’s Agency in the Domestic Sphere | Associate Professor NR November | PI | University of Auckland |
20-UOA-027 | BMS | $959,000 | Releasing the brake on lymphatic regeneration. Developing new paradigms for the treatment of secondary lymphoedema. | Dr JW Astin | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor ARJ Phillips | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Associate Professor J Torres Vázquez | AI | New York University | ||||
20-UOA-034 | EEB | $300,000 | Unravelling the causes of ecological hysteresis in recovery following mass mortality | Dr RV Gladstone-Gallagher | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor JE Hewitt | AI | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd | ||||
Professor DS Wethey | AI | University of South Carolina | ||||
20-UOA-035 | EIS | $300,000 | Using light and ultrasound for quantification of hemodynamics in bone | Dr JL Shepherd | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr G Renaud | AI | Sorbonne Université | ||||
20-UOA-036 | SOC | $300,000 | Psychology of Pacific Peoples or Pacific Psychologies? How Pacific psychologists are changing the discipline | Dr S Manuela | PI | University of Auckland |
20-UOA-041 | MIS | $300,000 | Methods for the analysis of complex routinely collected data | Dr CL Rivera-Rodriguez | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr SJ Cullum | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Associate Professor SJPA Haneuse | AI | University of Harvard | ||||
Professor TS Lumley | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-045 | EHB | $869,000 | A large-scale multimodal mapping approach to investigate age-related changes in the asymmetry of the human brain | Dr F Kurth | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor MC Corballis | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Associate Professor E Lueders | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-056 | SOC | $300,000 | Digital breadcrumbs feeding urban decision-making | Dr K Sila-Nowicka | PI | University of Auckland |
Associate Professor U Demšar | AI | University of St Andrews | ||||
Dr M Tomko | AI | The University of Melbourne | ||||
20-UOA-074 | MIS | $717,000 | Modelling calcium dynamics in living animals: multiple time and space scales in theory and practice. | Associate Professor VJ Kirk | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor JR Sneyd | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr M Graff | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor M Wechselberger | AI | The University of Sydney | ||||
20-UOA-099 | ESA | $959,000 | Does climate influence the frequency of volcanic activity and earthquakes? | Dr LJ Strachan | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr PM Barnes | AI | National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd | ||||
Associate Professor HC Bostock | AI | The University of Queensland | ||||
Dr MP Crundwell | AI | GNS Science | ||||
Dr JL Hopkins | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr S Kutterolf | AI | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel | ||||
Professor KM Marsaglia | AI | California State University | ||||
Dr AD McArthur | AI | University of Leeds | ||||
Mr AD Woodhouse | AI | University of Leeds | ||||
20-UOA-107 | MIS | $618,000 | Group structure, actions, representations and algorithms | Distinguished Professor MDE Conder | PI | University of Auckland |
Associate Professor J An | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor EA O'Brien | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-111 | PCB | $941,000 | Lighting the Dark: Understanding the Early Universe | Professor RJM Easther | PI | University of Auckland |
20-UOA-123 | EHB | $869,000 | Deep cultural ancestry and the fortunes of nation states | Professor QD Atkinson | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor JA Bulbulia | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor RD Gray | AI | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | ||||
20-UOA-126 | EEB | $869,000 | Can animals plan for different possible futures? | Associate Professor AH Taylor | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor NS Clayton | AI | University of Cambridge | ||||
Professor RD Gray | AI | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | ||||
Professor T Suddendorf | AI | The University of Queensland | ||||
20-UOA-138 | EIS | $891,000 | New Computational Imaging Methods for Structural Biology | Dr RL Kingston | PI | University of Auckland |
RP Millane | PI | University of Canterbury | ||||
20-UOA-146 | EIS | $899,000 | The vaping puzzle: In silico modelling to piece together the health effects of e-cigarettes | Dr KS Burrowes | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor CR Bullen | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor GK Prisk | AI | University of California, San Diego | ||||
Dr VA Suresh | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor MH Tawhai | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-155 | EIS | $300,000 | Inter-organ communication in the gut: elucidating the bioelectrical basis of the gastro-intestinal junction | Dr TR Angeli | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor LK Cheng | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Associate Professor G O'Grady | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-165 | MIS | $300,000 | Towards Automatic Updates of Software Dependencies | Dr KC Blincoe | PI | University of Auckland |
20-UOA-167 | PCB | $940,000 | Normal in nothing but the name: a new regime of temporal cavity solitons | Dr MJ Erkintalo | PI | University of Auckland |
Associate Professor SX Coen | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Associate Professor SG Murdoch | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-168 | HUM | $638,000 | Reconstitutionalising the Public Service in Westminster systems | Professor JM McLean | PI | University of Auckland |
20-UOA-169 | EIS | $893,000 | Exploiting the ancient microbial response to reactive oxygen species to degrade persistent emerging contaminants | Associate Professor N Singhal | PI | University of Auckland |
Associate Professor R Bettinetti | AI | University of Insubria | ||||
Dr JM Kingsbury | AI | Institute of Environmental Science and Research | ||||
Associate Professor EP Kolodziej | AI | University of Washington | ||||
Associate Professor G Lear | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr IKH Leung | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr L Yang | AI | Queen's University | ||||
20-UOA-178 | EIS | $300,000 | Sub-wavelength ultra-high quality Terahertz resonators for next-generation sensing technologies | Dr DW Vogt | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr HGL Schwefel | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOA-180 | EIS | $300,000 | Visible frequency comb generation with fibre-based microresonators | Dr YQ Xu | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr MJ Erkintalo | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-183 | BMS | $960,000 | Fighting infections around the clock: understanding how neutrophils use an endogenous molecular timer to anticipate and fight bacterial infections | Associate Professor CJ Hall | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor SK Bohlander | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Associate Professor GR Warman | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-189 | CMP | $300,000 | Investigating the Immune Responses to Group A Streptococcus Pili | Dr CJY Tsai | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr JMS Loh | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-197 | EHB | $869,000 | Will upzoning deliver housing affordability for everyone? Evidence from Auckland, New Zealand | Dr RT Greenaway-McGrevy | PI | University of Auckland |
Distinguished Professor PCB Phillips | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr J Schuetz | PI | Brookings Institution | ||||
Mr GC Cooper | AI | PricewaterhouseCoopers | ||||
20-UOA-213 | HUM | $300,000 | Obesity in Aotearoa New Zealand: Unravelling the history of an epidemic | Dr JM Parr | PI | University of Auckland |
20-UOA-225 | PCB | $941,000 | Skyrmion systems: New Opportunities for Information Technologies | Associate Professor T Söhnel | PI | University of Auckland |
Associate Professor C Ulrich | PI | The University of New South Wales | ||||
Professor MA Ruebhausen | AI | University of Hamburg | ||||
20-UOA-255 | SOC | $300,000 | Repression or Rangatiratanga? Investigating why Maori choose the General or Maori Electoral Roll | Dr LM Greaves | PI | University of Auckland |
20-UOA-260 | SOC | $870,000 | Let the River Speak: Working across 'worlds' for socio-ecological transformation | Professor Dame A Salmond | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr DCH Hikuroa | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor GJ Brierley | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr BJ Lythberg | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Mr WH Walker | AI | Gisborne District Council | ||||
20-UOA-269 | EIS | $300,000 | Acoustic Imaging of Movement (AIM): from human tissue to underwater sensing | Dr LA Cobus | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr A Aubry | AI | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | ||||
Professor S Rotter | AI | Vienna University of Technology (TU Wein) | ||||
20-UOA-270 | CMP | $959,000 | Mitochondria break the hot heart, but what breaks hot mitochondria? | Associate Professor AJR Hickey | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr DJ Crossman | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor PU Blier | AI | Université du Québec à Rimouski | ||||
Associate Professor GM Renshaw | AI | Griffith University | ||||
20-UOA-290 | BMS | $959,000 | Better than a hole in the head? Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of brain motion as an indicator of raised intracranial pressure. | Dr SJ Holdsworth | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr S Guild | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor HV Danesh-Meyer | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr GD Maso Talou | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr S Safaei | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Associate Professor M Scadeng | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-314 | PCB | $941,000 | A New Approach to Transient Organic Electronics | Professor J Travas-Sejdic | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr EWC Chan | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOA-318 | BMS | $300,000 | A "self-bridging" approach to antimicrobial peptides: disulfide replacement and peptide stapling | Dr AJ Cameron | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor DA Williamson | AI | University of Melbourne | ||||
20-UOA-333 | EIS | $899,000 | Controlling the passage: an integrated experimental and modelling approach to understand gut sphincters. | Associate Professor P Du | PI | University of Auckland |
Professor LK Cheng | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor Y Imai | AI | Kobe University | ||||
20-UOA-344 | HUM | $300,000 | Dimensions of life: integrating scientific and philosophical perspectives on the living world | Dr EC Parke | PI | University of Auckland |
Dr DCH Hikuroa | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
20-UOC-011 | MIS | $710,000 | Diversity indices and extinction cascades: New mathematical techniques to capture the disappearing 'Tree of Life'. | Professor MA Steel | PI | University of Canterbury |
Professor CA Semple | PI | University of Canterbury | ||||
Professor A Mooers | AI | Simon Fraser University | ||||
Professor T Stadler | AI | ETH Zürich | ||||
20-UOC-061 | EIS | $774,000 | Are interface transitions the key to controlling ferroelectric aging and fatigue? | Associate Professor CM Bishop | PI | University of Canterbury |
Professor JE Blendell | AI | Purdue University | ||||
Professor RE Garcia | AI | Purdue University | ||||
20-UOC-063 | EIS | $889,000 | Correlations and randomness: Brain-like computation using nanoparticle networks. | Professor SA Brown | PI | University of Canterbury |
20-UOC-064 | HUM | $614,000 | Understanding the onset of vernacular reorganisation | Dr L Clark | PI | University of Canterbury |
Professor GT Gillon | AI | University of Canterbury | ||||
Dr BC McNeill | AI | University of Canterbury | ||||
Dr AF Scott | AI | University of Canterbury | ||||
20-UOC-112 | EHB | $868,000 | Maori-ecosystem interactions and adaptations on the offshore islands of Aotearoa/New Zealand: agricultural niche construction during the initial settlement of southern Polynesia | Dr MJ Prebble | PI | University of Canterbury |
Professor SJ Holdaway | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor TN Ladefoged | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Associate Professor PC Augustinus | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor N Dubois | AI | ETH Zürich | ||||
Dr G O'Regan | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr RS Phillipps | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr N Porch | AI | Deakin University | ||||
Professor JP Shulmeister | AI | University of Canterbury | ||||
20-UOO-004 | BMS | $300,000 | Messengers in the microenvironment: the role of extracellular vesicles in fat graft retention | Dr KM Danielson | PI | University of Otago |
Associate Professor MJ Currie | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr I Meredith | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr NR Tucker | AI | Masonic Medical Research Institute | ||||
20-UOO-007 | SOC | $300,000 | Clean Teens: Understanding declines in smoking, drinking and drug use in young people's lives. | Dr JM Ball | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-024 | BMS | $300,000 | Real time imaging of neuropeptide release in the maternal brain using Biosensor cells | Dr SH Yip | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-025 | BMS | $300,000 | The role of calsequestrin modification in diabetes and heart failure | Dr ML Munro | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-037 | BMS | $960,000 | Control of stress at the terminal. | Dr KJ Iremonger | PI | University of Otago |
Dr W Inoue | AI | University of Western Ontario | ||||
20-UOO-052 | CMP | $960,000 | How do bacterial CRISPR-Cas defences protect against nucleus-forming phages? | Professor PC Fineran | PI | University of Otago |
Dr C Garcia-Doval | AI | University of Zürich | ||||
Dr LF Gumy | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr SA Jackson | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOO-056 | MIS | $300,000 | Combinatorial aspects of polynomials | Dr DN Searles | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-063 | CMP | $958,000 | Male germline fate in flowering plants | Dr LR Brownfield | PI | University of Otago |
Professor D Twell | AI | University of Leicester | ||||
20-UOO-068 | BMS | $959,000 | The genetic contribution of histone H4 to brain development and disease | Dr LS Bicknell | PI | University of Otago |
Dr JE Huffman | AI | VA Boston Healthcare System | ||||
Associate Professor G van Haaften | AI | University Medical Center Utrecht | ||||
20-UOO-071 | CMP | $960,000 | The circle of life: connecting cell division with cell fate during embryo development | Professor JA Horsfield | PI | University of Otago |
Mr G Gimenez | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr BL Martin | AI | Stony Brook University | ||||
20-UOO-075 | CMP | $300,000 | Interconnecting mitochondrial structure, function and oocyte quality | Dr KL Reader | PI | University of Otago |
Professor RL Robker | AI | University of Adelaide | ||||
20-UOO-079 | MIS | $706,000 | Inference for statistical linear inverse problems: theory and practice | Professor ML Hazelton | PI | University of Otago |
Professor RM Fewster | PI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr JA Goodman | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Professor AP Robinson | AI | The University of Melbourne | ||||
20-UOO-080 | EIS | $899,000 | Dual-comb spectroscopy - resolving optical precision electronically | Dr HGL Schwefel | PI | University of Otago |
Professor G Leuchs | AI | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light | ||||
20-UOO-105 | EEB | $300,000 | Revealing the extent and pattern of viral host-jumping in fish on ecological timescales | Dr JL Geoghegan | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-110 | BMS | $300,000 | The Pathway to Paternity: The role of mating, prolactin, and neurogenesis | Dr KO Smiley | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-117 | BMS | $956,000 | Exploring the pervasive role of the GBA gene in development of Parkinson's disease | Professor MA Kennedy | PI | University of Otago |
Professor TJ Anderson | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Associate Professor AA Cooper | AI | Garvan Institute of Medical Research | ||||
Associate Professor J Gratten | AI | University of Queensland | ||||
Ms YC Liau | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Associate Professor JM O'Sullivan | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr TL Pitcher | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOO-129 | EEB | $300,000 | Has deforestation reshaped our endemic insect fauna? Testing the evolutionary impacts of lowered treelines | Dr GA McCulloch | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-130 | EEB | $300,000 | Exceptions to the rule: why were females much larger than males among New Zealand’s extinct moa? | Dr KJ Mitchell | PI | University of Adelaide |
20-UOO-133 | EHB | $869,000 | Should I stay or should I go? Climate-change risks to property values across space and time, and the related implications for financial stability | Associate Professor I Diaz-Rainey | PI | University of Otago |
Associate Professor AB Moore | PI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr GE Bodeker | AI | Bodeker Scientific | ||||
Dr SC Cox | AI | GNS Science | ||||
Dr P Thorsnes | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOO-147 | SOC | $729,000 | Negotiating Childhood around the Pacific-Rim: A multi-generational analysis. | Professor C Freeman | PI | University of Otago |
Professor S Turner | PI | McGill University | ||||
Dr HE Woolley | PI | University of Sheffield | ||||
20-UOO-160 | BMS | $960,000 | Harnessing oxygen to fight infections | Professor AJ Kettle | PI | University of Otago |
Professor RF Anderson | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr LV Ashby | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr N Dickerhof | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOO-173 | EEB | $960,000 | How vulnerable are Antarctica's coasts to colonisation? | Associate Professor CI Fraser | PI | University of Otago |
Professor AM Hogg | AI | Australian National University | ||||
Professor MD Lamare | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr F Montiel | AI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr AK Morrison | AI | Australian National University | ||||
Professor JM Waters | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOO-182 | BMS | $960,000 | Dodging bullets: how the Beijing TB strain evades and subverts BCG-mediated trained innate immunity | Associate Professor JR Kirman | PI | University of Otago |
Associate Professor MI Henao-Tamayo | AI | Colorado State University | ||||
Professor PC Hill | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOO-202 | HUM | $300,000 | Journey Home: Descendants of Maori adoptees search for their turangawaewae | Dr EM Newman | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-223 | SOC | $300,000 | Can a leopard change its spots? Exploring Big Tobacco as a proponent of smokefree goals. | Dr LA Robertson | PI | University of Bath |
Professor JA Hoek | AI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOO-227 | BMS | $300,000 | Decoding the genetic determinants of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain endemic to Maori | Dr HL Aung | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-230 | EHB | $300,000 | Pigs, dogs and chickens and the quest for status and prestige in the Pacific past. | Dr KL Greig | PI | University of Otago |
Dr KA Douka | AI | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | ||||
Dr P Roberts | AI | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History | ||||
20-UOO-243 | SOC | $300,000 | Heating up, cooling off: Managing summer heat flows in New Zealand homes | Dr KC O'Sullivan | PI | University of Otago |
20-UOO-279 | PCB | $300,000 | The role of electron turbulence in heating the solar corona | Dr R Meyrand | PI | University of Otago |
Professor WD Dorland | AI | University of Maryland | ||||
20-UOO-280 | SOC | $870,000 | Producing ‘facts’: how is Big Data created? | Professor PT Norris | PI | University of Otago |
Dr DM Cormack | PI | University of Otago | ||||
Associate Professor E Keddell | PI | University of Otago | ||||
Dr EJ Willing | PI | University of Otago | ||||
20-UOW-004 | EIS | $300,000 | Exploring the utility of stable state theory in real-world environmental problems | Dr SL Gallop | PI | University of Waikato |
Professor KR Bryan | AI | University of Waikato | ||||
Professor DP Hamilton | AI | Griffith University | ||||
Professor JL Largier | AI | University of California, Davis | ||||
20-UOW-022 | EHB | $819,000 | The development of the human visual system in utero: an experimental and computational modelling approach | Professor VM Reid | PI | University of Waikato |
Associate Professor T Donovan | AI | University of Cumbria | ||||
Dr J Dunn | AI | Lancaster University | ||||
Dr J Heerikhuisen | AI | University of Waikato | ||||
Mr M Necas | AI | Waikato District Health Board | ||||
20-UOW-030 | EIS | $899,000 | Bridging the laboratory-field divide to accurately predict the evolution of coastlines | Dr JC Mullarney | PI | University of Waikato |
Dr W Nardin | AI | University of Maryland | ||||
Dr RO Tinoco | AI | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | ||||
20-UOW-033 | HUM | $631,000 | Modern Immunity: Modernism, Threat and Immune Poetics | Dr M Long | PI | University of Waikato |
20-UOW-040 | EEB | $960,000 | Global productivity over the Holocene: Leaf hydraulic design to constrain the Dole effect | Professor MM Barbour | PI | University of Waikato |
Professor TJ Brodribb | AI | University of Tasmania | ||||
Dr M Cuntz | AI | Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture | ||||
20-UOW-041 | EEB | $960,000 | Mycorrhizas, alternative stable states, and landscape partitioning in south-temperate forests | Associate Professor CH Lusk | PI | University of Waikato |
Professor IA Dickie | AI | University of Canterbury | ||||
Dr FI Piper | AI | Patagonian Ecosystems Investigation Research Center (CIEP) | ||||
Associate Professor J Read | AI | Monash University | ||||
20-UOW-056 | BMS | $300,000 | What is the alternative? Sulphur acquisition in the human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Dr JL Hicks | PI | University of Waikato |
Dr M Berney | AI | Albert Einstein College of Medicine | ||||
Professor MY So | AI | University of Arizona | ||||
20-UOW-062 | CMP | $300,000 | Metal incorporation into honeybee brains and cells: at what cost to the hive? | Dr MNC Grainger | PI | University of Waikato |
Dr MJ Goblirsch | AI | USDA-Agricultural Research Service | ||||
20-UOW-074 | EHB | $300,000 | Thinking backwards and forwards: Characteristics and consequences of age-related memory decline | Dr A Devitt | PI | University of Waikato |
20-UOW-077 | ESA | $300,000 | Global environmental monitors: do penguins concentrate and record diffuse contaminants from global-scale anthropogenic events in pristine Antarctic environments? | Dr TA O'Neill | PI | University of Waikato |
Associate Professor SK Gaw | AI | University of Canterbury | ||||
20-UOW-083 | HUM | $300,000 | Urban island: Histories of dispossession and belonging in Suva | Dr KJ Stevens | PI | University of Waikato |
Dr N Halter | AI | The University of the South Pacific | ||||
20-UOW-093 | ESA | $300,000 | Exploring the limits of climate regulation: Could a decline in marine biological silica uptake exacerbate global climate change? | Dr TT Isson | PI | University of Waikato |
Dr LG Tarhan | AI | Yale University | ||||
Associate Professor NJ Tosca | AI | University of Oxford | ||||
20-UOW-104 | SOC | $300,000 | Retracing the Storylines of Pacific Women Voyagers and Navigators | Dr KLN Wilson-Hokowhitu | PI | University of Waikato |
20-VUW-010 | SOC | $870,000 | The development of the bystander: A socialisation oversight? | Professor VA Green | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Professor C Salmivalli | AI | University of Turku | ||||
Professor MS Wilson | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
20-VUW-020 | SOC | $778,000 | Signs of development: Sociolinguistic variation and change in New Zealand Sign Language in times of status change and globalisation | Dr RL McKee | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr G Major | AI | Auckland University of Technology | ||||
Professor M Meyerhoff | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Mrs SF Pivac Alexander | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
20-VUW-021 | HUM | $300,000 | Mountain or coast? Solving the Austronesian homeland puzzle | Dr V Chen | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
20-VUW-026 | EHB | $300,000 | Neural mechanisms underlying the interaction of consciousness and spatial attention: a brain stimulation approach to assess the effects of alertness on attention | Dr CA Bareham | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr TA Bekinschtein | AI | University of Cambridge | ||||
Dr D Carmel | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
20-VUW-027 | EHB | $869,000 | Attentional Control in Emotional States: Insights from Virtual Reality | Associate Professor GM Grimshaw | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr D Carmel | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
20-VUW-048 | SOC | $300,000 | Shifting intimacies: Navigating the 'game' of mobile dating | Dr AF Gibson | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Professor D Lupton | AI | University of New South Wales | ||||
Professor AC Lyons | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
20-VUW-050 | SOC | $870,000 | Limbic capitalism and the digital landscape of young people’s lives | Professor AC Lyons | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr IR Goodwin | PI | Massey University | ||||
Professor TN McCreanor | PI | Massey University | ||||
Dr N Carah | AI | The University of Queensland | ||||
Dr AM Moewaka Barnes | AI | Massey University | ||||
Ms JE Young | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
20-VUW-051 | SOC | $300,000 | Where is my 'village'? Building a theory of belonging, place and wellbeing in contemporary motherhood | Dr E Neely | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Ms A Adcock | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr LK Boyer | AI | Cardiff University | ||||
20-VUW-058 | SOC | $870,000 | Wellbeing through Nature-based Urban Design: Co-designing Climate Adaptations in Oceania | Dr MTG Pedersen Zari | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr PM Blaschke | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr V Chanse | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr GL Kiddle | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr RF Kiddle | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
20-VUW-063 | PCB | $300,000 | 3D Covalent Organic Frameworks: Potential Materials to Break The Porosity Record? | Dr L Liu | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
20-VUW-064 | PCB | $941,000 | Activating Substrates for Chemical Synthesis with Reactive Aluminium Reagents | Professor MP Coles | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Associate Professor JR Fulton | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr CL McMullin | AI | University of Bath | ||||
20-VUW-078 | EEB | $960,000 | Changing climate and biodiversity in mountains: understanding the interactive effects of warming, species extinctions and invasions on ecosystem function | Dr JR Deslippe | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Professor AT Classen | PI | University of Vermont | ||||
20-VUW-079 | EEB | $943,000 | Eusociality in plants | Professor KC Burns | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr IJ Hutton | AI | Lord Howe Island Museum | ||||
Dr V Savolainen | AI | Imperial College London | ||||
20-VUW-086 | ESA | $960,000 | Fault slip and ground-shaking in the coming Alpine Fault earthquake | Professor J Townend | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr CE Holden | PI | GNS Science | ||||
Dr CJ Chamberlain | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Professor A Curtis | AI | University of Edinburgh | ||||
Dr MA Denolle | AI | Harvard University | ||||
Associate Professor H Miyake | AI | The University of Tokyo | ||||
Associate Professor K Van Wijk | AI | University of Auckland | ||||
Dr EJ Warren-Smith | AI | GNS Science | ||||
20-VUW-088 | ESA | $624,000 | The recipe for our solar system: Investigating the raw ingredients in the oldest meteorites | Dr BLA Charlier | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Professor N Dauphas | AI | The University of Chicago | ||||
Dr FLH Tissot | AI | California Institute of Technology | ||||
20-VUW-104 | MIS | $718,000 | Computability, Reverse Mathematics, and Effective Descriptive Set Theory | Professor N Greenberg | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr DC Turetsky | PI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr AS Marks | AI | University of California, Los Angeles | ||||
Dr LGM Patey | AI | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | ||||
20-VUW-105 | MIS | $718,000 | New Initiatives in the Theory of Computation | Professor RG Downey | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr AG Melnikov | AI | Massey University | ||||
Dr KM Ng | AI | Nanyang Technological University | ||||
20-VUW-128 | HUM | $638,000 | Kai Ora: Food for Hope and Wellbeing | Associate Professor JT Smith | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr JV Hutchings | PI | Tiaho Ltd | ||||
20-VUW-136 | MIS | $300,000 | Genetic Programming for Evolving Interpretable Models for Symbolic Regression | Dr Q Chen | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Professor W Banzhaf | AI | Michigan State University | ||||
20-VUW-137 | MIS | $300,000 | Matroids representable over GF(4) and other fields | Dr NJ Brettell | PI | Durham University |
20-VUW-152 | ESA | $300,000 | Understanding Zonal Wave Three and Its Impacts on Southern Hemisphere Climate Extremes | Dr KR Clem | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Associate Professor JM Arblaster | AI | Monash University | ||||
Associate Professor RL Fogt | AI | Ohio University | ||||
Dr GJ Marshall | AI | British Antarctic Survey | ||||
Professor MN Raphael | AI | University of California, Los Angeles | ||||
Dr DP Schneider | AI | National Center for Atmospheric Research | ||||
20-VUW-168 | EHB | $300,000 | Fresh ideas for water economics and policy | Dr JTJ Talbot-Jones | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Professor DH Cole | AI | Indiana University | ||||
Professor RQ Grafton | AI | The Australian National University | ||||
20-VUW-177 | SOC | $870,000 | Is Multiculturalism Helpful or Harmful to Indigenous Peoples? | Professor CA Ward | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr TN Neha | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr ML Walls | AI | Johns Hopkins University | ||||
20-VUW-180 | MIS | $300,000 | Reconstructing Dynamic Panoramic Scenes in Mixed Reality | Dr FL Zhang | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Professor NA Dodgson | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
20-VUW-186 | CMP | $960,000 | Energiser microbes: shedding new light on rhodopsin bioenergetics | Professor KG Ryan | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr AR Martin | PI | University of Tasmania | ||||
Professor O Béjà | AI | Technion-Israel Institute of Technology | ||||
Professor JP Bowman | AI | University of Tasmania | ||||
20-VUW-195 | EIS | $300,000 | Ultra-precise control of magnetic flux quanta in high-Tc superconducting magnets | Dr J Geng | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr RA Badcock | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr CW Bumby | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Associate Professor M Zhang | AI | University of Strathclyde | ||||
20-VUW-209 | ESA | $300,000 | Warmth, wind, and wanderers: how abrupt climate change and the southern westerly winds shaped the colonisation of New Zealand | Dr ABH Rees | PI | Victoria University of Wellington |
Dr KR Clem | AI | Victoria University of Wellington | ||||
Dr LM Petherick | AI | Victoria University of Wellington |