Joint India New Zealand Research Grants Awarded

Last month Minister Steven Joyce announced the seven successful recipients of the inaugural New Zealand Higher Education Research Grants, with seven winning proposals selected from over sixty applications.

From considering the impacts of climate change on ocean acidification to exploring new chemotherapy treatments, all projects will strengthen academic ties with a country that is New Zealand’s second largest source of international students.

All research proposals have at least one Principal Investigator based in New Zealand and one in India, and the projects clearly indicate the potential for further collaborative research in the future.

Full list of joint India New Zealand Higher Education Research Grant awardees: 

• The University of Waikato collaborating with Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi. Joint research project: India at Leisure: Media, culture, and consumption in the new economy.  

• The University of Auckland collaborating with Anna University in Chennai. Joint research project: Ploy-ethylenedioxythipphene/nitrogen doped grapheme composites for high performance supercapacitor applications.

• The University of Auckland collaborating with Madurai Kamaraj University in Tamil Nadu. Joint research project: The impacts of climate change induced ocean acidification process of the physiology and calcifying rate of sea urchins between temperate (New Zealand) and tropical (India) species.

• The University of Otago collaborating with the University of Delhi. Joint research project: Vitamin D and calcium intakes of young Indian children living in the slums of South Delhi.

• The University of Auckland collaborating with the University of Calcutta. Joint research project: Organmetallic 2- pyridinecarbothioamide complexes as potential inhibitors of cyclooxygenases in anticancer chemotherapy.

• University of Canterbury collaborating with the University of Delhi. Joint research project: Health, labour, migration and the formation of Indian diasporas in the South Pacific, 19-20th centuries.

• Victoria University of Wellington collaborating with Guru Nanak Dev University in Amritsar. Joint research project: Managing India New Zealand institutional challenges for success.