Te Herenga Waka Māori Postdoctoral Fellowship

The University is offering two postdoctoral fellowships to attract Māori early career researchers—find out how to apply.

NOTE: Dates for 2023 will be confirmed by the end of May 2023.

Award for: Māori

Number offered: One (1)

Salary: 1.0 EFT basis at $85,000 per annum

Additional funding: $20,000 per annum for research related expenses

Duration: Three (3) years

About the Fellowships

The intent of the Fellowships is to attract, retain, and employ Māori early career postdoctoral research fellows at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

Māori early career postdoctoral research fellows from any tertiary institute can apply so long as they match the criteria.

Applicants must be of Māori descent and be either citizens of Aotearoa New Zealand or permanent residents.
Applicants must meet the requirements to graduate with a PhD on or before the start date of the Fellowship.
Supervisors must be permanent full-time academic staff members of Te Herenga Waka.
Applicants may have some previous career research experience, which will need to be described in their application for the Fellowship.
Applicants should normally not currently hold a research role, unless that role is a fixed term role and due to end before the start date of this fellowship.
Applicants who are employed in a technical or teaching capacity would normally be eligible if the role requires at least 80% of their time to be spent on those activities.

Applicants must provide details of three referees in support of their application. These referees must match the Referee Criteria as described in the Applicant Guidelines.
Applicants who have a confirmed supervisor (who must be a staff member of Te Herenga Waka) must provide details for that supervisor in their application.
Applicants without a confirmed supervisor at Te Herenga Waka will need to participate in a 'matchmaking' process as described below.

The selection process will comprise of eligibility screening, excellence filtering, and a review by the selection panel of the applicants' proposed research projects.
The final decision will be made by the University Research Council based on the recommendations of the selection panel.
Applicants will be notified within a week of the final decision.

Applicants who have not arranged a supervisor themselves will be placed through a 'matchmaking' process as described in the Applicant Guidelines.
The Kaiārahi Rangahau Māori will monitor applications as they are received.
Potential supervisors will be identified and approached through the Research Office and the Office of the Deputy-Vice-Chancellor (Māori).
The Kaiārahi Rangahau Māori will connect each applicant with their potential supervisor.

Please contact the Kaiārahi Rangahau Māori by email at rangahau@vuw.ac.nz