Recipients
Recipients of the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities.
Latest recipient
Patrick Savage won the 2025 Early Career Research Excellence Award for Humanities for using inclusive collaboration, combining scientific experiments with local and Indigenous knowledge, to reveal cross-cultural relationships between music and language.
Previous recipients
| 2024 | Luke Fitzmaurice-Brown (Te Aupōuri) for his work on decolonising the Aotearoa New Zealand child protection system. |
| 2023 | No award |
| 2022 | Anna High for her socio-legal exploration of orphan relief efforts, child rights and charity regulation in Mainland China. |
| 2021 | Elizabeth Jane Macpherson for her work exploring opportunities for Indigenous peoples' water rights in laws and policies around the world. |
| 2020 | Ngarino Ellis (Ngāpuhi/Ngāti Porou) for her work on Māori art history. |
| 2019 | No award |
| 2018 | Carwyn Jones for his ground-breaking book, New Treaty, New Tradition, which reveals new ways of using Indigenous knowledge to understand how law shapes society. |
| 2017 | Aroha Harris for her substantial contributions to the award winning Māori history, Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History, which spans the entirety of Māori history. She was lead author of the section on sociocultural history of twentieth-century Māori. |