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Motu Research currently provides:
The Motu Doctoral Scholarship can be awarded to Motu Research Analysts who have been employed by Motu for at least twelve months and who leave to do a highly rated PhD course. The scholarship is $2000.
The objectives are to:
The Motu Research and Education Foundation offers a cash prize of $3,500 for the top economics undergraduate student in New Zealand, who is also moving on to honours or masters level studies in economics, including econometrics. The Sir Frank Holmes Prize is funded by the Hugo Group and is awarded every year in October. It is only available by nomination by university heads of department.
The purpose of this prize is to encourage top quantitative economics students to further their studies in econometrics at graduate level. The prize is not open for applications and is decided through nominations by university lecturers.
Past winners include:
Every year, Motu Research offers a one-year $10,000 scholarship pool to enhance research capacity in Aotearoa’s Māori community. It is offered to university students of Māori descent who are working on (or are planning to work on) an Honours, Masters or PhD thesis.
Applications are currently CLOSED.
Our preference is the thesis topics are in economics, or some other social science and uses a quantitative methodology. Based on the applicants, Motu Research decides each year if we award the scholarship pool to one candidate or split it between two candidates.
Through this scholarship, we hope to enhance research capacity in Aotearoa’s Māori community and encourage students of Māori descent to research topics relevant to public policy development.
If you are interested, please email us.
Some past recipients of the scholarship include:
Taylor Winter (Ngāi Tahu) co-won the 2021 scholarship. A PhD Candidate at the School of Psychology at the Victoria University of Wellington, Taylor has a broad interest in wellbeing. He will use the scholarship to investigate how income may lead to lower levels of happiness than it has historically.
Rangimaria Aperahama co-won the 2021 scholarship. She is completing a BA Honours in Economics through Massey University. She will use the scholarship money next year to begin a PhD expand on her current research looking at distribution in the Māori Economy.
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