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Avoid using outdoor cooking/heating appliances indoors during Cyclone Gabrielle recovery
Our fellow, Phoebe Taptiklis has come up with life-saving, evidence-based information for people in cyclone-ravaged areas of Aotearoa New Zealand. Accidental carbon monoxide poisoning kills several people a year in Aotearoa. Deaths increase during long-term…
Warmer Kiwis Study on effect of heat pumps in NZ homes published
Motu Research has just published the most comprehensive study of heat pump effectiveness in New Zealand homes, with funding from EECA. The study shows heat pumps installed through EECA’s Warmer Kiwi Homes programme result in warmer…
Motu awards its Āheitanga Scholarship
Every year, Motu Research offers the Āheitanga Scholarship — a one-year $10,000 scholarship pool. Mākere Hurst won the scholarship this year. Āheitanga means ability, capability and competence. The scholarship is for university students of Māori descent…
Motu awards Sir Frank Holmes prize to top economics student
Every year, we give out The Sir Frank Holmes prize to encourage and support top quantitative economics students to further their studies in econometrics at graduate level. This year we awarded the prize to Jessie…
Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) becomes entity in its own right
The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), until recently part of Motu Research, has become so successful they are now an entity in their own right. We wish HRMI well on this next phase of growth…
Motu researchers win NZAE prizes
Our researchers won several prizes this year at the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE) Conference 2022. Our senior fellows Arthur Grimes and Dave Maré and affiliate Stuart Donovan won two prizes for their paper Cities…
Shakked Noy wins the Motu Doctoral Scholarship 2022
A big congratulations to Shakked Noy, who has been awarded the 2022 Motu Doctoral Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to Motu Research Analysts who leave Motu to do a highly rated PhD course. The scholarship…
Applications are open for our Āheitanga Thesis Scholarship
Applications are open for our Āheitanga Thesis Scholarship. Every year, Motu Research offers a $10,000 scholarship pool to promising university students of Māori descent who are working on (or are planning to work on) an…
Hiring Research Analysts - applications now closed
Do top quality economic and public policy research for the public good Want to work for a small organisation conducting top quality economic and public policy research for the public good? Applications are now open to work…
Hiring Summer Interns - applications now closed
Intern applications for summer 2022/23 are OPEN and close on 4 April 2022. Want to work for a small organisation doing top quality economic and public policy research for the public good? Applications are now open to work…
