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Information on the 2023 Marsden Fund round

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Information about the number of funded proposals in the 2023 Marsden Fund round broken down by research area and institution, also including gender and ethnicity data

 

Published on 2 Whiringa-ā-rangi November 2023 

Number of applications by research area

The number of proposals by panel is given in Table 1.  While overall 13.3% 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

 

  EOI Full Proposed Contracts Success Rate
Panel FS SD Tot. FS SD Tot. FS SD Tot. FS SD Tot.
BMS 24 71 95 6 17 23 3 10 13 12.5% 14.1% 13.7%
CMP 21 63 84 6 18 24 4 7 11 19.0% 11.1% 13.1%
EEB 28 72 100 9 15 24 4 9 13 14.3% 12.5% 13.0%
EHB 31 56 87 8 15 23 4 8 12 12.9% 14.3% 13.8%
EIS 44 62 106 10 12 22 6 7 13 13.6% 11.3% 12.3%
ESA 37 44 81 7 10 17 5 6 11 13.5% 13.6% 13.6%
HUM 33 32 65 8 9 17 5 5 10 15.2% 15.6% 15.4%
MIS 32 53 85 9 13 22 5 7 12 15.6% 13.2% 14.1%
PCB 12 56 68 5 12 17 3 6 9 25.0% 10.7% 13.2%
SOC 61 84 145 15 21 36 8 11 19 13.1% 13.1% 13.1%
MFC     6                 0.0%
Grand Total 323 593 922 83 142 225 47 76 123 14.6% 12.8% 13.3%


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
 

Institution  EoI     Full    Fund    Success Rate    
  FS SD MFCA Total FS SD MFCA Total SD FS MFCA Total FS SD MFCA Total
CRI  32  42   74  7  6   13  4  3   7  12.5%  7.1%    9.5%
AgResearch  1 3    4  0 0    0 0  0    0  0.0%  0.0%    0.0%
GNS Science  9  9   18  2  2   4  2  1   3  22.2%  11.1%    16.7%
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research  6  5   11  1  0   1  0  0   0.0%  0.0%  0.0%    0.0%
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd  9  14   23  2  2   4  1  2   3  11.1%  14.3%    13.0%
Plant & Food Research  5  9   14  2  1   3  1  0   1  20.0%  0.0%    7.1%
Scion  1  1   0  0  0   0  0 0    0  0.0%  0.0%    0.0%
Institute of Environmental Science and Research  1  1   2  0  1   1  0  0   0  0.0%  0.0%    0.0%
Other  5  6   11  0  0   0  0 0    0  0.0%  0.0%    0.0%
Private  16  13   29  4  2   6  2  0   2  12.5%  0.0%    6.9%
TEO 270   532  6 808  72  134  0 206  41  73  0 114  15.2%  13.7%  0.0%  14.1%
Auckland University of Technology  6  8   14  3  2   5  2 2    4  33.3%  25.0%    28.6%
Lincoln University  4  4   8  0  0   0  0  0   0  0.0%  0.0%    0.0%
Massey University  29  66  1 96  4  14  0 18  2  5  0 7  6.9%  7.6%  0.0%  7.3%
The University of Auckland  69  147  2 218  18  34  0 52  12  19  0 31  17.4%  12.9%  0.0%  14.2%
University of Canterbury  33  66  1 100  15  16  0 31  6  9  0 15  18.2%  13.6%  0.0%  15.0%
University of Otago  55  128  1 184  16  36  0 52  7  20  0 27  12.7%  15.6%  0.0%  14.7%
University of Waikato  24  28   52  6  10   16  3  8   11  12.5%  28.6%    21.2%
Victoria University of Wellington  45  83  1 129  10  22  0 32  9  10  0 19  20.0%  12.0%  0.0%  14.7%
Unitec Institute of Technology  3  2   5  0  0   0  0  0   0  0.0%  0.0%    0.0%
Universal College of Learning (UCoL)  1     1  0     0  0     0  0.0%      0.0%
Waikato Institute of Technology  1     1  0     0  0     0  0.0%      0.0%
Grand Total  323  593  6 922  83  142  0 225  47  76  0 123  14.6%  12.8%  0.0%  13.3%

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 Female		 Investigators Identifying
as Māori
Principal
Investigators		 EoIs 40.9% 5.7%
Full 52.6% 9.0%
Funded 55.4% 8.8%
Associate
Investigators		 EoIs 32.6% 6.4%
Full 37.0% 9.5%
Funded 37.8% 10.0%
All
Investigators		 EoIs 35.8% 6.2%
Full 42.8% 9.3%
Funded 44.7% 9.5%


Table 3: Gender and ethnicity data for 2023. Please note, gender identity data is collected in accordance with Stats NZ's Standard classification of gender identity.

 

 Investigator identifying as Maori

Figure 1: The percentage of responding Principal Investigators identifying as Māori in the Marsden Fund for the 2023 round.

 Genderpost MFC v2

Figure 2: The percentage of responding Principal Investigators identifying as Female in the Marsden Fund for the 2023 round.

 

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