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World-class research supported by Marsden Fund

Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund, has allocated $83.671 million (excluding GST) to 125 research projects across Aotearoa. These grants support excellent New Zealand research in the areas of science, engineering, maths, social sciences and the humanities

Ngā rangahau taumata tiketike e tautokona ana e te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, tae atu ki ngā takuhe pūkengawhitiwhiti nui e rua a Marsden
  • He $83.671 miriona (kore GST) kua tohaina e Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden ki ngā kaupapa rangahau 125 puta noa i Aotearoa...

Exploring the temperature-dependence of Earth’s biosphere over time and space

Professor Vic Arcu...
  • Professor Vic Arcus and Professor Louis Schipper from the University of Waikato with Dr Liyin Liang of Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research, and Dr Bella Duncan from Vict...

Te tūhura i te whakamauru o te ao koiora o Papatūānuku ki te pāmahana i roto i te wā me te tuarangi
  • Kua whakawhiwhia a Ahorangi Vic Arcus rāua ko Louis Schipper o Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, i te taha o Tākuta Liyin Liang o Manaaki Whenua me Tākuta Bella Duncan o ...

Memory in the clouds – literally

Dr Gilles Bellon from the University of Auckland is undertaking...
  • Dr Gilles Bellon from the University of Auckland is undertaking research to transform our knowledge of how climate models are influenced by subtropical low-altitude clo...

Pūmahara i roto i ngā kapua – tika tonu

Kei te whakahaerehia e Tākuta Gilles Bellon o Te Whar...
  • Kei te whakahaerehia e Tākuta Gilles Bellon o Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau i ngā rangahau hei takahuri i ō tātau mōhio mō te āhua e whakaawetia ana ngā ...

Understanding the 1918-19 influenza pandemic through children’s eyes

Dr Charlotte Bennett, Unive...
  • Dr Charlotte Bennett, University of Auckland, will gather children’s written eye-witness accounts of the 1918-19 flu epidemic to understand how they experienced and r...

Next generation solar cell technology for a green future

Dr Paula Brooksby of the University of Ca...
  • Dr Paula Brooksby of the University of Canterbury and Dr Noel Duffy from CSIRO in Australia will construct new, graphene-based electrodes for recently developed, cheape...

Battle of the body snatchers: do multiple parasites in a host help or hinder each other?

Dr Edwina...
  • Dr Edwina Dowle, University of Otago, will study how parasites manipulate their hosts to enhance their own survival and transmission

Never, never ever feed them after midnight: does sleep loss in children lead to unhealthy eating?
  • Associate Professor Barbara Galland and Professor Rachael Taylor, from the University of Otago, will lead a team of researchers in a large scale study of sleep loss amo...

Is #MeToo part of a wider cultural shift?

Associate Professor Sue Jackson from Victoria University...
  • Associate Professor Sue Jackson from Victoria University of Wellington will lead a team to examine how rangatahi young people in Aotearoa make sense of online discussio...

Understanding delayed feedback loops in climate systems could help predict extreme weather

Profess...
  • Professor Bernd Krauskopf, University of Auckland, will unravel the dynamics underpinning global climate systems...

Assessing earthquake hazards in the central Waikato using liquefied volcanic-ash layers in lakes
  • Professor David Lowe will lead a team of international scientists to study hidden faults that pose a potential seismic risk beneath Kirikiriroa Hamilton...

Nature and Nurture? Why gout affects one brother and not another

Dr Tanya Major from the Universit...
  • Dr Tanya Major from the University of Otago will investigate why a disease like gout develops in one family member but not another by studying the biological basis of h...

Problems of having a sweet heart

Dr Kimberley Mellor of the University of Auckland will investigat...
  • Dr Kimberley Mellor of the University of Auckland will investigate the mysterious nature of glycogen in the heart, revealing its impact on hauora health and disease

Te raruraru o tētahi manawa reka

Kei te tūhura a Tākuta Kimberley Mellor o Te Whare Wānanga o ...
  • Kei te tūhura a Tākuta Kimberley Mellor o Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau i ngā pānga o te whakaputu kūhukahuka ki te hauora o ngā manawa o ngā tūroro mate...

Study into whether ancient malaria led to genetic predisposition to diabetes, gout in Pacific populations
  • Professor Tony Merriman, Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith, Dr Anna Gosling of University of Otago, Associate Professor Frank Camacho of University of Guam, Dr Paul Pumuye o...

Te rangahau mēnā i ahu mai te tinga iranga o te matehuka, porohau i roto i ngā taupori o Te Moananui-a-Kiwa i te eku onamata

  • Kua whakawhiwhia a Ahorangi Tony Merriman, Ahorangi Lisa Matisoo-Smith, Tākuta Anna Gosling, Ahorangi Tuarua Frank Camacho o Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtakou, Tākuta Paul ...

Improving diagnosis of gastrointestinal disorders

Dr Sara Miller from the University of Otago will...
  • Dr Sara Miller from the University of Otago will develop a more comprehensive tool for providing point-of-care diagnosis for gastrointestinal diseases that could lead t...

Te whakapai ake i te whakatau i ngā mate whēkau

Ka waihangatia e Tākuta Sara Miller o Te Whare ...
  • Ka waihangatia e Tākuta Sara Miller o Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtakou i tētahi utauta matawhānui ake mō te tuku whakatau i te wāhi manaaki mō ngā mate whēkau e puta...

Unravelling the molecular interactions driving Alzheimer’s disease

Dr Vanessa Morris of the Univ...
  • Dr Vanessa Morris of the University of Canterbury will investigate the interaction between Alzheimer’s disease and the immune system protein TREM2

The Voices of our Harbours: Kāwhia, Manukau and Whangārei

Dr Marama Muru-Lanning and Dr Keri Mil...
  • Dr Marama Muru-Lanning and Dr Keri Mills from the University of Auckland are collaborating with flaxroots Māori to investigate kaitiakitanga over Aotearoa’s harbours...

Ngā Reo o ō tātau Whanga: Kāwhia, Manukau me Whangārei

Kei te mahi tahi a Tākuta Mārama Mur...

Can rimu fruit save the kākāpō?

Dr Janet Pitman and Dr Simon Hinkley, both from Victoria Univer...
  • Dr Janet Pitman and Dr Simon Hinkley, both from Victoria University of Wellington, will investigate whether rimu fruit is a ‘super-food’ that triggers breeding in k...

Investigating the impact of religion on cooperation and inequality in Fiji

Dr John Shaver from the...
  • Dr John Shaver from the University of Otago will be investigating the effects religion has on power structures in Fiji

Measuring Antarctic glacier melting rates in the Ross Ice Shelf

Dr Craig Stewart from the National...
  • Dr Craig Stewart from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) will establish monitoring stations on the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, to investiga...

Whose science is privileged in the protection of our rivers?

Dr Marc Tadaki from the Coastal and F...
  • Dr Marc Tadaki from the Coastal and Freshwater Group at the Cawthron Institute will investigate what kind of river science is privileged by environmental decision maker...

Nō wai te pūtaiao rangatira i roto i te tiaki i ō tātau awa?

Ka tūhura a Tākuta Marc Tadaki ...
  • Ka tūhura a Tākuta Marc Tadaki mai i te Coastal and Freshwater Group i te Cawthron Institute he aha te momo pūtaiao awa e whirinakitia ana e ngā kaiwhakatau mō te ...

Through the looking glass: reinventing mirror-image chemicals

Professor Shane Telfer from Massey U...
  • Professor Shane Telfer from Massey University will develop a revolutionary new tool for ‘asymmetric catalysis’ to make single versions of mirror-image molecules...

Octopus vision: not as black and white as we think

Dr Misha Vorobyev of the University of Auckland...
  • Dr Misha Vorobyev of the University of Auckland will disentangle the mystery of colour vision in octopuses...

Te kite a te wheke: kāore i te tino mārama ki tērā i pōhēhētia

Ka wetewete a Tākuta Misha ...
  • Ka wetewete a Tākuta Misha Vorobyev o Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau i ngā mōhio huna mō te kite ā-tae i roto i ngā wheke...

Using biological big data to predict disease risk

Dr Yalu Wen from the University of Auckland will...
  • Dr Yalu Wen from the University of Auckland will build a new data driven model for disease risk that makes use of vast quantities of biological, molecular and genetic d...

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