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Marsden i te tau 2025: Te haumi ki tō tātou anamata mā ngā whakaaro rawe, papai hoki Mā te haumi ki ngā mea pai rawa mō te painga o te katoa, kei te tautoko Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden i te tau 2025 i ngā rangahau taketake hou ki ngā rongoā me ngā haumanu hou, ngā ahumāra whai hua ake...

Marsden i te tau 2025: Te haumi ki tō tātou anamata mā ngā whakaaro rawe, papai hoki
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Marsden Fund Awards 2025 Published on 6 Whiringa-ā-rangi November 2025 You can download an Excel spreadsheet of these results here: 2025-Marsden Fund Supplement The definitions of the 8 Marsden Fund panels can be found here...

A list of all successful 2025 #MarsdenFund projects can be found below. Congratulations to all of the funded researchers!
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Here are some highlights from the successful 2025 #MarsdenFund projects:
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Information on the 2025 Marsden Fund round Information about the number of funded proposals in the 2025 Marsden Fund round broken down by research area and institution, also including gender and ethnicity data

Here are some stats on this year's #MarsdenFund round, including gender, ethnicity, and organisation success rate:
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Marsden in 2025: Investing in our future with today’s best and brightest ideas Investing in our best for the benefit of us all, Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund in 2025 is supporting novel fundamental research into new medications and therapies, more profitable crop...

Investing in our future with today's best and brightest ideas - the 2025 #MarsdenFund results are out! Ka rawe!
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This has everything but the big rocks

Tino pai to mahi! Dr Erin Leitao at the University of Auckland @aucklanduni.bsky.social will use her #MarsdenFund award to create environmentally-friendly alternatives to 'forever chemicals' like PFAS 👩‍🔬🌏
#Chemistry #Engineering #WomenInSTEM
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Genetic pollutants, or precious carriers of whakapapa? Dr Aisling Rayne @aisrayne.bsky.social at the Cawthron Institute has a #MarsdenFund award to investigate attitudes towards hybrid species and their value in conservation - read more i te reo Māori:
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Professor Nicola Gaston, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for transformative leadership for the research, science and innovation sector and as a ‘driver of change’ towards equity for women in science.

Professor Regan Potangaroa (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairarapa) Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, has been awarded the Te Rangaunua Hiranga Māori Award after devoting his career as an engineer and architect to humanitarian deployments, emergency response efforts, and marae restorations.

Professor Stephen May FRSNZ, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, has been awarded the Mason Durie Medal for his work on language rights and revitalisation, spanning the disciplines of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, sociology, political theory, law, and education.

Dr Maria Armoudian, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau, has been awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Research Excellence Award for Social Sciences for research, leadership, and mentoring to advance the interconnected goals of sustainability, human rights, and good governance.

Dr Hinekura Smith (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Ati Awa), Unitec | Te Pūkenga, has been awarded the Te Kōpūnui Māori Research Award for her PhD research titled ‘Whatuora: Whatu kākahu and living as Māori women’. Her whānau accepted the award on her behalf.

2023 Thomson Medal: Bold leadership for equity in the RSI system Professor Nicola Gaston has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for transformative leadership for the research, science and innovation sector and as a ‘driver of change’ t...

Super proud of our Co-Director Prof Nicola Gaston who is tonight awarded the Thomson Medal by @royalsocietynz for
transformative leadership for the #research #Science and #innovation sector and as a ‘driver of change’ towards #equity for #womeninscience 🙌🥳🔬

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Dr Collin Bjork @collinbjork.bsky.social at Massey University has received a #MarsdenFund grant for 'Sound Judgments' - a #research project to explore how #truecrime #podcasting encourages us to make judgements. Ngā mihi Dr Bjork! 🎙️🕵️‍♂️📻🎧 #podcast #media #comms
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“Supercorals” fight for survival: A climatic battle Dr Clinton Oakley from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington will lead a team to investigate what makes certain corals “super”, with hopes of developing reefs that are more resistant...

Check out Dr Clint Oakley's (Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington) new Marsden Standard grant studying coral bleaching. Kia pai mai hoki! www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Te oranga tonutanga o ngā “Kāoa Hirahira”: Te whawhai ā-āhuarangi Mā Dr Clinton Oakley, nō Te Herenga Waka, e ārahi tētahi tīma ki te tūhura i te take i “hirahira” ai ētahi momo kāoa, me kore noa e whakawhanake i ētahi pūkawa e mārohirohi ana ki te hu...

Check out Dr Clint Oakley's (Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington) new Marsden Standard grant studying coral bleaching - i te reo Māori - Kia pai mai hoki! www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/f...

Congratulations to Dr Georgescu from Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo the University of Otago who has a #MarsdenFund award to find out how fever is suppressed during pregnancy to protect the foetus. Mahi tika ana!! #WomenInSTEM #neuroscience 🧠🌡️🤰 🔬
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Dr Joseph Nelson at Lincoln Agritech has been awarded a #MarsdenFund award to discover new compounds for use in cheaper, better-performing #Lithium-ion #batteries - taputapu kē!
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Ngā mihi nui ki a Dr Cain @kecain.bsky.social at the University of Auckland @aucklanduni.bsky.social, who has a #MarsdenFund grant to investigate how sleep disruption impairs vocal learning in young birds!
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#birds #sleep #learning
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Dr Enrique del Rey Castillo at the University of Auckland @aucklanduni.bsky.social has a #MarsdenFund award to make a sustainable, self-healing alternative to concrete inspired by Roman construction and mātauranga Māori - ka rawe!
🏛️🐚
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Dr Maria Borovnik at Massey University has received a #MarsdenFund award to investigate the social and economic impacts of the global 'Crew Change Crisis', when >400,000 seafarers were stranded at sea and in ports due to COVID19. 🚢⚓
Story in te reo Māori here:
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Dr Elahe Parvizi at the University of Waikato will use her #MarsdenFund grant to study how the genome size and composition of sea squirts influences their ability to colonise new areas🧬🗺️
#InvasiveSpecies #conservation #climate
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Ngā mihi nui ki a Dr Brendan Harding at Victoria University of Wellington who has a #MarsdenFund award to model how particles move within fluid flow at the microscale - helping us to better understand what happens within microfluidic devices.
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Dr Liam Martin at Victoria University of Wellington has received a #MarsdenFund award to investigate the shift from incarceration (in prisons) to "e-carceration" (digital monitoring) - mahi tika ana!
#prison #surveillance #monitoring
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Dr Peter Gibson and Dr Luke Harrington at the University of Waikato have both been awarded #MarsdenFund grants to better understand and predict extreme weather events in #Aotearoa - read about this amazing mahi here: #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

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Associate Professor Ting Wang and Professor Boris Baeumer
at the University of Otago has received a #MarsdenFund grant to develop mathematical models of the #dominoeffect to forecast real-world systems.

#Maths #Geoscience #SocialMedia #Economics

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Ka mau te wehi! Dr Jeremy Owen at Victoria University of Wellington has received a #MarsdenFund grant to explore the dormant potential of bacteria to make new antibiotics 🦠🧫
#AntimicrobialResistance #Bacteria #Biosynthesis
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Associate Professor Nicola Daly at The University of Waikato has been awarded a #MarsdenFund grant to work with
Huia Publishers looking at how Indigenous voices can be portrayed in pukapuka pikitia picturebooks🗣️📚 🖼️
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