NPM Grants & Awards

We are critically aware of the importance of sharing research outcomes with appropriate communities and audiences, user groups and stakeholders – our Māori communities especially – so positive change can be achieved. We also support student development and excellence and emerging researchers in the field of Indigenous research and build capacity and capability through our programmes, activities and with scholarships, awards and specific training initiatives.

All grants and awards have formal application processes and assessment criteria - check each grant or award's criteria and apply online.

Current Opportunities

Summer Internships 2020-2021 - Open for Student Applications
Fulbright-NPM Graduate Award
Fulbright-NPM Scholar Award
Borrin-NPM Legal Research Internship Award

Gravida-Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga PhD Scholarship

Capability Building

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga Research Methods and Skills Scholarships

Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga is pleased to announce its scholarships for research methods and skills via the New Zealand Social Statistics Network (NZSSN) Winter Programme 2011.

Open Research Commissioning (investment in Indigenous Development Research)

NPM seeks to invest in research projects focussing on Indigenous Development Research aligning to its research direction (research priorities). NPM conducts excellent research of relevance to Māori communities. In doing so, we are inspired by a vision which involves harnessing and unleashing the creative potential of Māori to make positive contributions to our world. We foresee positive transformation of Māori communities, and the general community too, to be people and communities of mana: independent and connected, dynamic and harmonious, enjoying an excellent standard of living.

Thematic Research Commissioning

Open to projects within NPM research priorities. Projects will be selected to join NPM research. A total of $3 million is available over the next 2 years, and projects will be expected to start April 2012. Applications must be from researchers at a participating research entity (PREs).

Te Hononga Pūkenga

Te Hononga Pūkenga - ‘the connection of experts’, was created by Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga to make Māori and Indigenous research expertise, location and contact information readily available, in response to the need for stronger engagement between Māori Researchers and Government, the wider public/private sector and to facilitate our communities to access us as Māori & Indigenous researchers. Visit site.

News & Events

2020-2021 NPM Summer Internships Programme Opens!

Applications for NPM's Summer Internship Programme are open once again! 30 summer internship positions will be selected and confirmed from the 49 project proposals.

These are open for our tauira to apply, review the projects, then get your CV and application together and apply by 12 October!

In 2020 we are also including three special named inaugural internship awards. These scholarships honour three of our esteemed NPM scholars and their whānau.

Calls to Act and End Systematic Institutional Racism

Recent weeks have seen an increased focus on issues of inequality and racism in Aotearoa's educational system, particularly within its tertiary sector. NPM is sharing recent open letters regarding action called for by many Māori and Indigenous academic colleagues internationally.

Endeavour Fund Success

NPM Researchers have this week been celebrating successful proposals in the 2020 round of the Endeavour Fund, which plays a unique role in the science system through an open, contestable process with a focus on both research excellence and a broad range of impacts.

The fund encourages researchers to sample a diverse range of ideas and conduct excellent research, with transformational potential and seeks to deliver impacts across a range of economic, environmental and societal objectives, and give effect to Vision Mātauranga.

Making Te Reo Māori Cool

In Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori, one of NPM Principal Researchers in Te Reo me ngā Tikanga Māori, Dr Rachael Ka'ai-Mahuta of Te Ipukarea, published an article in The Conversation highlighting her current NPM research and Making te reo Māori cool: what language revitalisation could learn from the Korean Wave – check out this article here in both te reo Māori and

Highlighting Mātauranga Māori and Science

NPM Researcher Dr Dan Hikuroa has contributed to the recently published book Communicating Science: A Global Perspective. This book includes a chapter on Aotearoa New Zealand, entitled “Participatory science and bicultural knowledge communication” and documents the global emergence of modern science communication.

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