Summer Research Scholarship Programme Projects 2025

The following projects are available. Project specific details and the link to apply can be found on the individual project pages.

Ahunuku

Project 136

Tourist Hazard Awareness on the Tongariro Alpine Crossing (2005–2025).

Project 137

Operational Assistant in the National Geohazards Monitoring Center (NGMC).

Project 138

Seismic and geological field studies at Ōkataina volcano.

Humanities and Social Sciences

Project 401

Photography, geology and ecology: researching an old/new medium.

Project 402

Is there a school-to-prison pipeline in New Zealand?

Project 403

Colin McCahon Exhibition History Research.

Architecture and Design Innovation

Project 501

Redevelopment of Tilley and Patton Street Furniture suite.

Project 503

Optimism bias uplift on cost contingency: a NZ study.

Project 504

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Project at Pynenburg & Collins Architects

Education, Health, and Psychological Sciences

Project 304

Developing a demo game with generative emotional body motion.

Project 301

Prevention of Zoster In Immunocompromised People: A Systematic Review.

Project 302

Evaluation of a Long Covid clinic in Taranaki.

Project 306

Analysing NCEA Trends Using NZQA Data.

Project 307

Lalanga Mo'ui: Weaving Wellbeing.

Project 305

Māori women's perspectives of hauora.

Project 303

Understanding barriers and facilitators to effective rangatahi suicide prevention.

Business and Government

Project 201

Benchmarking LLM-Based Synthetic Data Generators for Structural Coherence in behavioural and Human-centred Datasets.

Law

Project 601

500-year planning.

Biological Sciences

Project 105

Quantifying the effect of wetland restoration īnanga growth using otoliths.

Project 106

Isolation of antimicrobial natural products from New Zealand insect-associated bacteria.

Project 110

Biological control of invasive Portuguese nematodes.

Project 111

Bright Nights, Dying Flights: An International Approach to Understanding Light Pollution and Insect Declines.

Project 117

Development and testing of chemotherapy resistance genes to protect therapeutic immune cells.

Project 119

Engineering imaging agents to expand function and options in cancer management.

Project 121

Kauri Dieback and Host Defenses: Investigating Susceptibility Across Agathis Species.

Chemical and Physical Sciences

Project 140

Composite Metal-Organic Framework (MOF)/Aerogel for the treatment of PFAS-contaminated water.

Project 139

Metal-organic frameworks for iodine capture and storage.

Project 308

Chemical pathways for the degradation of PFAS

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Project 127

Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence for Aquaculture.

Project 128

Machine vision model for detecting when fishing activity is occurring in on-board camera footage.

Project 129

Development of a cascading machine vision model for automatically identifying events of interest in on-board camera footage.

Project 125

Multi-class machine vision model for detecting events of interest in on-board camera footage.

Engineering and Computer Science

Project 101

Machine Learning for Smarter Real-Time Emergency Response.

Project 103

Dispatch Electric Vehicles in Real-Time: A Machine Learning Approach.

Project 104

Fruit Detection and Size Estimation in Orchard Environments Using Deep Learning.

Project 107

Modelling BGP Updates for Anomaly Detection Using Machine Learning.

Project 108

Automating precision thermocouple measurements.

Project 109

News Implied Climate Sentiment through NLP and Data Correlation Analysis.

Project 114

Geothermal Plant modelling for corbondioxide mitigation.

Project 115

Modernisation of the National Geothermal Surface Features Database (Inventory).

Project 120

Time-series Genetic Programming for Ice Sheet Models.

Project 126

Facial Expression Regression with Genetic Programming on FPGA.

Project 133

Pareto, ε-Lexicase, and Down-Sampled Tournament: A Comparative Analysis in Genetic Programming.

Project 135

What does it take to Convert the distribution line lab facility into an AC/DC line facility?

Project 134

Quantum random number generation.

Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences

Project 102

Modelling environmental drivers of remotely-sensed lateral river mobility.

Project 118

Subduction Margins Past and Present.

Project 131

Testing an Earthquake Early Warning System.

Project 124

Volcanism and magmatism in the TVZ and Kermadec Arc.

Project 122

Ōkataina volcano seismic fieldwork and data

Mathematics and Statistics

Project 112

Investigation of superimposed inertial particle migration onto fluid flow through a periodic microfluidic duct.

Project 130

Degree Structure of Computable Presentations of the Unit Interval.

Project 132

Width parameters for matroids.

Robinson Research Institute

Project 116

Magnetic material-based thermoelectric energy harvesting.