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Information on the 2019 Marsden Fund round

Information about the number of funded proposals in the 2019 Marsden Fund round broken down by research area and institution, also including gender and ethnicity data

Number of applications by research area

The number of proposals by panel is given in Table 1.  While overall 12.4% of the Expressions of Interest have been recommended for funding at the final stage, this percentage is not constant over all panels or categories as a change of just one proposal — attributed to either a Fast-Start or Standard award — in the number of successful proposals causes significant change in this percentage.

Here are the definitions of the 10 Marsden Fund panels

 

 

EoIs

Full

Proposed Contracts

Success Rate

 

FS

STD

Tot.

FS

STD

Tot.

FS

STD

Tot.

FS

STD

Tot.

Panel

                       

BMS

22

85

107

6

16

22

4

8

12

18.2%

9.4%

11.2%

CMP

33

72

105

8

14

22

5

7

12

15.2%

9.7%

11.4%

EEB

48

83

131

12

19

31

6

8

14

12.5%

9.6%

10.7%

EHB

48

80

128

13

14

27

6

7

13

12.5%

8.8%

10.2%

EIS

46

72

118

10

15

25

4

7

11

8.7%

9.7%

9.3%

ESA

33

74

107

8

17

25

4

7

11

12.1%

9.5%

10.3%

HUM

40

61

101

9

14

23

5

6

11

12.5%

9.8%

10.9%

MIS

28

72

100

8

17

25

3

8

11

10.7%

11.1%

11.0%

PCB

23

57

80

7

12

19

3

6

9

13.0%

10.5%

11.3%

SOC

68

114

182

17

22

39

9

10

19

13.2%

8.8%

10.4%

MFC

 

 

4

 

 

2

 

 

2

 

 

50.0%

Total

389

770

1163

98

160

260

49

74

125

12.6%

9.6%

10.7%

Table 1: Number of funded proposals by panel (and as a percentage of number of EOIs).

 

Proposals by institution

 

 

EoIs

 

 

Full

 

 

Fund

 

Success Rate

 

FS

SD

MFCA

FS

SD

MFCA

FS

SD

MFCA

FS

SD

MFCA

Total

CRI

36

57

0

9

9

0

3

4

0

8.3%

7.0%

 

7.5%

AgResearch

4

7

 

0

0

 

0

0

 

0.0%

0.0%

 

0.0%

GNS Science

9

18

 

3

2

 

1

1

 

11.1%

5.6%

 

7.4%

ESR

1

1

 

0

0

 

0

0

 

0.0%

0.0%

 

0.0%

Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

6

9

 

1

3

 

0

2

 

0.0%

22.2%

 

13.3%

NIWA

8

10

 

3

3

 

1

1

 

12.5%

10.0%

 

11.1%

Plant and Food Research

4

11

 

0

1

 

0

0

 

0.0%

0.0%

 

0.0%

Scion

4

1

 

2

0

 

1

0

 

25.0%

0.0%

 

20.0%

OTHER (4 institutions)

2

7

0

1

3

0

0

1

0

0.0%

14.3%

 

11.1%

PRIVATE (12 institutions)

12

10

0

2

1

0

1

0

0

8.3%

0.0%

 

4.5%

TEO

339

696

4

86

147

2

45

69

2

13.3%

9.9%

50.0%

11.2%

Auckland University of Technology

12

14

 

0

1

 

0

1

 

0.0%

7.1%

 

3.8%

Lincoln University

7

12

 

0

0

 

0

0

 

0.0%

0.0%

 

0.0%

Manukau Institute of Technology

 

1

   

0

   

0

 

0.0%

0.0%

 

0.0%

Massey University

47

77

 

12

16

 

5

8

 

10.6%

10.4%

 

10.5%

The University of Auckland

95

198

1

28

48

0

14

21

0

14.7%

10.6%

0.0%

11.9%

University of Canterbury

45

68

1

8

15

0

6

6

0

13.3%

8.8%

0.0%

10.5%

University of Otago

52

171

1

22

36

1

13

17

1

25.0%

9.9%

100.0%

13.8%

University of Waikato

29

44

1

4

8

1

0

3

1

0.0%

6.8%

100.0%

5.4%

Victoria University of Wellington

52

111

 

12

23

 

7

13

 

13.5%

11.7%

 

12.3%

Grand Total

389

770

4

98

160

2

49

74

2

12.6%

9.6%

50.0%

10.7%

Table 2: Number and percentages of funded proposals by institution, grouped by type of institution.  The ‘Other’ category includes not-for-profit research institutes and the ‘Private’ category includes individuals and companies.

 

Gender and Ethnicity Data

Table 3 presents the percentages of applicants who self-identify as either female or as Māori researchers in the Expressions of Interest, Full Applications and those proposals recommended for funding.

 

 

 

Investigators Identifying
as Māori (%)

Investigators Identifying
as Female (%)

Principal
Investigators

EoIs

4.5%

33.6%

Full

7.4%

36.7%

Funded

6.4%

33.9%

Associate
Investigators

EoIs

21.2%

34.4%

Full

21.6%

33.0%

Funded

24.7%

36.4%

All
Investigators

EoIs

14.2%

36.4%

Full

15.8%

37.0%

Funded

17.6%

37.5%

Table 3: Gender and ethnicity data for 2018. Please note, gender identity data is collected in accordance with Stats NZ's Standard classification of gender identity.

 

2019 investigators identifying as female v2

Figure 1: The percentage of Principal Investigators identifying as Female in the Marsden Fund.

 

2019 investigators identifying as Maori v2

Figure 2: The percentage of Principal Investigators identifying as Māori in the Marsden Fund.