Āheitanga Thesis Scholarship open for applications till 3 October

Sep 3, 2025

Applications for our Āheitanga Thesis scholarship are open until 3 October 2025.

Every year, Motu Research offers a one-year $5,000 scholarship to up to two candidates to enhance research capacity in Aotearoa New Zealand’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.  

Through our Āheitanga Thesis scholarship, we hope to help enhance research capacity in Aotearoa’s Māori community and help students of Māori descent research topics relevant to public policy development.

Our preference is the thesis topic is in economics, or some other social science and uses a quantitative methodology.

See here for more info and how to apply.