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More projects funded in diverse topics important for New Zealand in 2017 Marsden funding round

A total of 133 research projects have been allocated $84.6 million (excl. GST) of funding in this year’s Marsden Fund grants, which support New Zealand’s best investigator-initiated research in the areas of science, engineering, maths, social sciences and the humanities

He nui atu ngā kaupapa rerekē kua whiwhi pūtea e hira ana mō Aotearoa i te tau rauna pūtea Marsden 2017
  • He 133 te maha o ngā kaupapa rangahau i whakawhiwhia ki te $84...

Journey across science and across the world: Building biosensors from Scotland to New Zealand
  • Dr Natalie Plank, a senior lecturer from the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington and a Principal Investigator of the MacDiarmi...

Is the missing carbon dioxide hiding in Fiordland?

Dr Peter Sperlich from NIWA will examine the am...
  • Dr Peter Sperlich from NIWA will examine the amount of carbon dioxide entering and leaving the atmosphere around Fiordland to understand the possible impacts of our lar...

Out of the mouths of babes: how do children understand and answer questions?

Dr Deirdre Brown of V...
  • Dr Deirdre Brown of Victoria University of Wellington will examine the best approaches to question children in criminal and welfare investigations

Whakaarahia anō te rā kaihau! Raise up again the billowing sail! Revitalising cultural knowledge through analysis of Te Rā, the Māori sail
  • Dr Catherine Smith of the University of Otago, Ms Donna Campbell of University of Waikato and Mrs Ranui Ngarimu will study the only remaining Māori sail...

Te whakaarahia anō te rā kaihau! E whakaora anō i ngā mōhiotanga ahurea mā te tātari i Te Rā
  • Ka rangahau a Tākuta Catherine Smith o Te Whare o Otago, a Ms Donna Cambell o Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato me Mrs Rānui Ngārimu i te kōmaru Māori whakamutunga kei t...

Understanding fluid turbulence in the universe

Dr Ashton Bradley from the University of Otago will...
  • Dr Ashton Bradley from the University of Otago will model the nature of fluid turbulence – the mixing of air or liquids – to better understand varied weather phenom...

The secret life of traumatic memories

Associate Professor Rachel Zajac of the University of Otago ...
  • Associate Professor Rachel Zajac of the University of Otago and Professor Maryanne Garry at the University of Waikato will delve into how people recall and process trau...

Massive stars: neighbours from heaven or hell?

Dr Anna McLeod from the University of Canterbury wi...
  • Dr Anna McLeod from the University of Canterbury will explore how the largest stars in our universe reshape their surroundings, and even trigger the formation of new st...

Silencing immunity to control the spread of alien invaders

Professor Phil Lester from Victoria Uni...
  • Professor Phil Lester from Victoria University of Wellington will identify immunity genes in the highly invasive Argentine ant, with the aim of silencing these genes to...

Te whakaruhi ariā mate hei whakahaere i te hora o ngā kaitomo tauhou

Ka tautuhia e Ahorangi Phil...
  • Ka tautuhia e Ahorangi Phil Lester o Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika i ngā ira ārai mate i roto i te pōpokoriki Aketīna tino urutomo, e whai ana ki te whakar...

Rewriting the tree of life with mathematics

Professor Charles Semple and Professor Mike Steel of t...
  • Professor Charles Semple and Professor Mike Steel of the University of Canterbury will apply mathematical models to the complex evolutionary tree of life, in order to u...

A new archaeology of our threatened Māori rock art

Dr Gerard O’Regan from the University of Auc...
  • Dr Gerard O’Regan from the University of Auckland will undertake the first systematic study of Māori rock art across the North Island, to document and protect this i...

He huakanga hou o ā tātau toi kōhatu Māori whakaraerae

Kei te whakahaerehia e Tākuta Gerard O...
  • Kei te whakahaerehia e Tākuta Gerard O’Regan o Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau he rangahau nahanaha o ngā toi kōhatu Māori puta noa i Te Ika-a-Māui, hei tuh...

Youth-quake: how New Zealand youth are putting hope into action

Associate Professor Karen Nairn fr...
  • Associate Professor Karen Nairn from the University of Otago will explore the ways that hope for a better future motivates young New Zealanders to engage with politics ...

Te haruru rangatahi: te āhua o te whakatinana a ngā rangatahi o Aotearoa i ngā tūmanako
  • Ka hōpara a Ahorangi Tuarua Karen Nairn o Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo i ngā āhuatanga o te tūmanako mō tētahi anamata pai ake e whakahihiri ana i ngā rangatahi o ...

Blood and money: playing the ‘Game of Thrones’ in the ancient Mediterranean

Dr Jeremy Armstron...
  • Dr Jeremy Armstrong from the University of Auckland will investigate and reconstruct ancient Roman armour and weapons to explore the centrality of the military in the a...

How do fungi like myrtle rust successfully invade their plant hosts?

Dr Carl Mesarich from Massey ...
  • Dr Carl Mesarich from Massey University will study a common fungus that affects apples, to work out how some fungi are so successful at infecting plants...

Designer catalysts for a sustainable future

Professor Alison Downard and her team from the Univers...
  • Professor Alison Downard and her team from the University of Canterbury will use a novel strategy to more efficiently speed up very slow reactions, such as the splittin...

Making international economic law in uncertain times

Dr Guy Fiti Sinclair from Victoria University...
  • Dr Guy Fiti Sinclair from Victoria University of Wellington will study how the laws and institutions governing the global economy have functioned since World War II for...

The hottest stuff in the universe

Dr Jonathan Squire from the University of Otago will study the b...
  • Dr Jonathan Squire from the University of Otago will study the behaviour of plasma – the fourth state of matter, which makes up stars – under extremely hot conditio...

Why is diabetes a risk factor for heart disease?

Dr Kenneth Tran from the University of Auckland w...
  • Dr Kenneth Tran from the University of Auckland will develop a computer model to study how diabetes can lead to heart failure...

Understanding the origins of CRISPR in the humble bacteria

Associate Professor Peter Fineran from ...
  • Associate Professor Peter Fineran from the University of Otago is investigating the regulation of the CRISPR-Cas bacterial immune system, which could have far-reaching ...

Earthquake accounting: A new way of including local soils in the predictions of ground shaking
  • Dr Christopher McGann (University of Canterbury) will develop methods to improve the prediction of ground shaking from earthquakes of different magnitudes, taking into ...

Bringing 3D to home videos

Dr Stefanie Zollmann of the University of Otago will combine novel vide...
  • Dr Stefanie Zollmann of the University of Otago will combine novel videography and computational techniques to enable us to ‘virtually walk through’ a 3D scene crea...

Protein recycling could hold the key to heart disease

Professor Sally McCormick at the University ...
  • Professor Sally McCormick at the University of Otago will study how “bad” cholesterol particles are cleared from our blood, which could lead to novel cholesterol-lo...

Going wild: searching for genes to protect New Zealand kiwifruit from Psa

Dr Honour McCann from Ma...
  • Dr Honour McCann from Massey University will investigate how Psa, the bacterial disease causing devastation to New Zealand kiwifruit, has evolved and emerged over the p...

Taku Ara Rā: Walking in our ancestors’ footsteps

Dr Naomi Simmonds from the University of Waika...
  • Dr Naomi Simmonds from the University of Waikato will lead a hīkoi to rediscover the journey of the ancestress Māhinaarangi, in order to reconnect descendants with th...

Taku Ara Rā: Te whai i ngā tapuwae o ō tātau tīpuna

Ka ārahina e Tākuta Naomi Simmonds o Te...
  • Ka ārahina e Tākuta Naomi Simmonds o Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato tētahi hīkoi ki te tūhura anō i te haerenga a te tipuna a Māhinaaragi, hei tūhono anō i ngā u...

Crunchy, creamy, crispy… do we eat less food if it has a complex texture?

Professor Bryony James...
  • Professor Bryony James, Associate Professor Michael Hautus and Dr Nicholas Gant from the University of Auckland will study how food texture relates to our sense of feel...

Whole body makeover, literally

Dr Megan Wilson of the University of Otago will investigate how cer...
  • Dr Megan Wilson of the University of Otago will investigate how certain animals can completely regenerate their bodies, which could revolutionise human medicine if we c...

Understanding ocean turbulence using cookie monsters and floating robots

Associate Professor Craig...
  • Associate Professor Craig Stevens from NIWA will explore how heat and energy are transported through the turbulent waters of Cook Strait, to help understand how our pla...

Cells and whistles: supercharging our biodiversity monitoring toolkit

Researchers from the Univers...
  • Researchers from the University of Auckland and Massey University will combine sound recordings with statistics, software, and genetic information to better estimate th...

Ngā pūtau me ngā whio: te tino whakakaha i tā tātau kete aroturuki koiora-kanorau

Ka whakakot...
  • Ka whakakotahitia e ngā kairangahau o Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau me Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa ngā hopukanga oro me ngā tatauranga, pūmanawa rorohiko, me ng...

Could life have originated on land?

Professor Kathy Campbell from the University of Auckland will ...
  • Professor Kathy Campbell from the University of Auckland will drill into the world’s oldest land-based hot springs in outback Western Australia for new evidence on so...

Writing the modern world across the Pacific

Associate Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville of the U...
  • Associate Professor Alice Te Punga Somerville of the University of Waikato will examine the diverse history of 20th century indigenous writing across New Zealand and th...

TB or not TB? Understanding the spread of tuberculosis in the Pacific

Dr Michael Knapp from the Un...
  • Dr Michael Knapp from the University of Otago will study ancient DNA from seal and human bones to map the arrival and spread of tuberculosis across the Pacific, to bett...

He nui atu ngā kaupapa rerekē kua whiwhi pūtea e hira ana mō Aotearoa i te tau rauna pūtea Marsden 2017
  • PUBLISHED:
    Thu 2 Nov 2017

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