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Information on the 2020 Marsden Fund round

Information about the number of funded proposals in the 2020 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 11.4% 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.

The definitions of the 10 Marsden Fund panels can be found here

 

 

EoIs

Full

Proposed Contracts

Success Rate

 

FS

STD

Tot.

FS

STD

Tot.

FS

STD

Tot.

FS

STD

Tot.

Panel

                       

BMS

46

98

144

15

21

36

7

9

16

15.2%

9.2%

11.1%

CMP

27

60

87

11

14

25

6

6

12

22.2%

10.0%

13.8%

EEB

45

70

115

15

16

31

8

7

15

17.8%

10.0%

13.0%

EHB

41

65

106

13

15

28

4

8

12

9.8%

12.3%

11.3%

EIS

43

79

122

11

16

27

7

8

15

16.3%

10.1%

12.3%

ESA

31

55

86

8

12

20

4

7

11

12.9%

12.7%

12.8%

HUM

44

44

89

12

11

23

5

5

10

11.1%

11.4%

11.2%

MIS

44

74

118

13

18

31

6

7

13

13.6%

9.5%

11.0%

PCB

29

61

90

6

13

19

3

6

9

10.3%

9.8%

10.0%

SOC

93

115

208

21

26

47

9

11

20

9.7%

9.6%

9.6%

MFC

 

 

6

 

 

2

 

 

1

 

 

16.7%

Total

443

721

1170

125

162

289

59

74

134

13.3%

10.3%

11.5%

Table 1: Number of funded proposals by panel (and as a percentage of number of EOIs).  For the purposes of clarity, the Marsden Fund Council Award has been presented as a panel (MFC) and is assessed by the Marsden Fund Council.

 

Proposals by institution

 

 

EoI

 

 

Full

 

 

Fund

 

 

Total

 

 

Success Rate

 

 

 

FS

SD

MFCA

FS

SD

MFCA

FS

SD

MFCA

EoI

Full

Fund

FS

SD

MFCA

Total

CRI

30

40

 

4

7

 

3

4

 

70

11

7

10.0%

10.0%

0.0%

10.0%

AgResearch

4

7

 

0

0

 

0

0

 

11

0

0

0.0%

0.0%

 

0.0%

GNS Science

5

7

 

1

2

 

0

2

 

12

3

2

0.0%

28.6%

 

16.7%

ESR

1

2

 

0

0

 

0

0

 

3

0

0

0.0%

0.0%

 

0.0%

Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research

6

1

 

2

1

 

2

1

 

7

3

3

33.3%

100%

 

42.9%

NIWA

8

16

 

0

2

 

0

0

 

24

2

0

0.0%

0.0%

 

0.0%

Plant and Food Research

6

7

 

1

2

 

1

1

 

13

3

2

16.7%

14.3%

 

15.4%

OTHER (6 institutions)

4

9

 

0

2

 

0

0

 

13

2

0

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

PRIVATE (12 instutions)

11

14

 

1

1

 

0

0

 

25

2

0

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

0.0%

TEO

399

658

6

120

152

2

56

70

1

1063

274

127

14.0%

10.6%

16.7%

11.9%

Auckland University of Technology

8

21

 

2

3

 

1

1

 

29

5

2

12.5%

4.8%

 

6.9%

Lincoln University

9

5

 

1

1

 

0

1

 

14

2

1

0.0%

20.0%

 

7.1%

Manukau Institute of Technology

 

2

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

2

0

0

 

0.0%

 

0.0%

Massey University

53

78

1

12

13

1

3

6

1

132

26

10

5.7%

7.7%

100%

7.6%

The University of Auckland

111

169

3

32

50

1

16

23

0

284

83

39

14.4%

13.6%

0.0%

13.7%

University of Canterbury

38

70

 

4

13

 

0

5

 

108

17

5

0.0%

7.1%

 

4.6%

University of Otago

74

161

 

32

36

 

16

14

 

235

68

30

21.6%

8.7%

 

12.8%

University of Waikato

42

46

1

14

9

0

8

5

0

89

23

13

19.0%

10.9%

0.0%

14.6%

Victoria University of Wellington

60

105

1

23

27

0

12

15

0

166

50

27

20.0%

14.3%

0.0%

16.3%

Auckland Institute of Studies

1

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

1

0

0

0.0%

   

0.0%

Unitec New Zealand

2

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

 

2

0

0

0.0%

   

0.0%

Universal College of Learning (UCoL)

 

1

 

 

0

 

 

0

 

1

0

0

 

0.0%

 

0.0%

Grand Total

443

721

6

125

162

2

59

74

1

1170

289

134

13.3%

10.3%

16.7%

11.5%

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.

 

   

Proportion of Responding Investigators Identifying
as Māori

Proportion of Responding Investigators Identifying
as Female

Principal
Investigators

EoIs

5.7%

35.0%

Full

6.7%

39.3%

Funded

9.7%

43.9%

Associate
Investigators

EoIs

4.6%

31.5%

Full

5.6%

31.5%

Funded

4.8%

34.5%

All
Investigators

EoIs

5.1%

35.0%

Full

6.0%

36.6%

Funded

6.5%

40.7%

Table 3: Gender and ethnicity data for 2020. Please note, gender identity data is collected in accordance with Stats NZ's Standard classification of gender identity.

Fig1 investigators Maori

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

Fig2 investigators Female

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