Current projects with scholarship funding

We sometimes have specific research topics that have designated scholarship funding, and students with the appropriate experience and interest could apply for the position. This is a list of some of those projects that are currently open for applications. 

We try to keep this page as up to date as possible, please click on the link to find out more about the project and contact the supervisor of the project to confirm availability and for any further details.

Doctoral Projects

Science

How do farm types and management practices affect disease transmission among wild birds and poultry?

SCIENCE: Ecology

Contact: Sara Kross

Eco-evolutionary Processes in Biological Control

SCIENCE: Ecology

Contact: Jason Tylianakis

Long-lived, high-performance organic batteries for a greener rechargeable world

SCIENCE: Chemistry & Materials Science

Contact: Deborah Crittenden

What, and where, are the most powerful cosmic-ray accelerators in our Galaxy?

SCIENCE: Astroparticle Physics

Contact: Jenni Adams

Ashley Rakahuri PhD Scholarship

SCIENCE: Biologicial Sciences

Contact: Sara Kross

Evolution of Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters

SCIENCE: Astronomy

Contact: C. Clare Worley

Feasibility of underground hydrogen storage in Aotearoa New Zealand

SCIENCE: Materials Science, Materials Chemistry, Nanomaterials

Contact: Vladimir Golovko

A computer chip that thinks like the brain

SCIENCE: Nanotechnology | Neuromorphic computing

Contact: Simon Brown

Engineering

Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design

ENGINEERING: Mathematics and Statistics

Contact: Philipp Wacker

Exploring Extended Reality (XR) as a Supplement to Traditional Firefighter Training

ENGINEERING: Fire Engineering

Contact: Aatif Khan

Modelling the interaction between ethnicity and infectious disease dynamics

ENGINEERING: Mathematical modelling

Contact: Michael Plank

Large Language Models for Next Generation Engineering

ENGINEERING: Mechanical Engineering

Contact: Yilei Zhang

Modular seismic-retrofit system using advanced and sustainable materials

ENGINEERING: Structural Engineering

Contact: Hyungsuk Lim

Investigating Overpressure Events in Combustible Compartments

ENGINEERING: Civil | Fire

Contact: Andres Valencia

Master's Projects

Modelling the Geomorphic Drivers of Avulsion Risk

SCIENCE: Waterways Centre

Contact: Professor James Brasington or Dr Justin Stout  

Protecting Aotearoa New Zealand from Aerial Insect Invasion

ENGINEERING: Ecological modelling

Contact: Elena Moltchanova

General relativistic cosmology: Mapping the sky from initial perturbations until today

SCIENCE: General relativity, theoretical and observational cosmology

Contact: David Wiltshire