Four ASAA/NZ members have successfully won Marsden Fund Awards in 2019. Our congratulations go to:
Dr Marama Muru-Lanning and Dr Keri Mills from the James Henare Māori Research Centre at the University of Auckland, who received a Marsden grant of $660,000 for their collaborative project The Voices of our Harbours: Kāwhia, Manukau and Whangārei.
Associate Professor Susanna Trnka from Anthropology at the University of Auckland, who received a Marsden grant of $842,000 for her project Ka Hao te Rangatahi: Fishing with a New Net? Rethinking Responsibility for Youth Mental Health in the Digital Age.
Dr Barbara Andersen from Social Anthropology at Massey University (Albany), who received a Marsden Fast Start grant of $300,000 for her project Housing and Everyday Security in Papua New Guinea.
Dr Susan Wardell from Social Anthropology at the University of Otago, who received a Marsden Fast Start grant of $300,000 for her project Online Medical Crowdfunding in New Zealand: Illness, giving, and moral emotion.
“This is a huge boost for our discipline,” says ASAA/NZ Chairperson Brigitte Bönisch-Brednich. “Congratulations to our wonderful colleagues; all the best for your projects and thanks to all the colleagues in your departments who will also support you during this time.”
The Marsden Fund was established by the New Zealand government in 1994 to fund excellent fundamental research. It is a contestable fund administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand on behalf of the Marsden Fund Council.
Marsden Fund research benefits society as a whole by contributing to the development of researchers with knowledge, skills and ideas. The Fund supports research excellence in science, engineering and maths, social sciences and the humanities. Competition for grants is intense. Marsden is regarded as the hallmark of excellence for research in New Zealand.
