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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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