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

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

Māori Professors Support Glass Ceiling Research and Reissue Call for a National Review of Universities

Māori professors from across all 8 of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Universities, write a second letter to the government reissuing their call for an urgent national review of the tertiary sector for Te Tiriti o Waitangi compliance.

They are seeking to meet with the Minister of Education & Māori Crown Relations to ask for the government’s help and leadership in issuing a statement of expectations, conducting a Tiriti audit, and developing and financing an action plan to transform institutional leadership to meet the expectations of the Tertiary Education Strategy 2020.

SUMMER INTERNSHIPS 2020-2021 - another group of aspiring researchers

NPM'S 2020-21 Summer Internship programme is about to start again with an outstanding group of aspiring emerging Māori researchers, working with our NPM Researchers all over the country and engaged in an exciting range of projects across our research themes.

With over 70 students applying for the coveted internships, our selection panel had an extremely difficult task in selecting the successful interns.

Our First Online Gathering of Indigenous Minds

HUNDREDS LOG ON FOR THE 9TH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL INDIGENOUS RESEARCH CONFERENCE!

NPM Co-Director, Professor Jacinta Ruru gives a wrap-up of IIRC20

Last week, Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga hosted one of the largest ever global online gatherings of Indigenous-led research. Our 9th International Indigenous Research Conference - but our first online - exceeded all expectations.

Indigenous Data Sovereignty - new edited open access book

The ongoing work of Indigenous scholars and researchers, including several of our Māori academics, in Indigenous data sovereignty is presented in a new edited open access book ‘Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy’.

'Read Our Words' Poster

NPM Co-Director Professor Jacinta Ruru, Associate Professor Angela Wanhalla and Jeanette Wikaira have released the Read our Words poster, profiling ten easily accessible Māori authored non-fiction books.

The poster encourages the public to engage with the voices and experiences of Māori to help create an anti-racist Aotearoa New Zealand.

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