Royal Society Te Apārangi · NZ · nz-te-aparangi

Marsden

The Marsden Fund supports excellent investigator-led research in New Zealand, funding projects across all disciplines. It offers Standard Grants for established and emerging researchers, Fast-Start Grants for emerging researchers within seven years of their PhD, and Council Awards for large interdisciplinary projects. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no fixed deadline.

Rolling

Official page ↗

Data last verified 2026-08-14 · sources & verification

Eligibility

Structured dimensions read from the official page. What do these mean? ↗

Career stage

Early Career, Mid Career, Senior

Host country

Organization type

University, Research Institute

Years since PhD

≤ 7

Minimum qualification

Phd

Evidence: every dimension above is read from this scheme's official page — official page ↗.

Full eligibility text

Eligibility varies by grant type: Standard Grants are open to established and emerging researchers; Fast-Start Grants are for emerging researchers up to seven years after PhD conferment; Council Awards are open to established and emerging researchers for large interdisciplinary projects. Full eligibility details are on the fund page.

Deadline

Rolling / ongoing

Application form effort

1 form file(s) downloaded; 5 explicit questions; 10 writing prompts; 55 fields/sections; heavy — expect a full proposal pack

Marsden Fund 2026 guidelines (webdev mirror — main site is Cloudflare-gated) (37 pages)

Sample questions

their own point of view. Could the association be perceived as a conflict of interest?
Does the decision (yes/no to relevance) seem appropriate?
capability development?
that budget for Māori involvement, capability development and consultation?
How do I decide whether to include a Vision Mātauranga statement in my proposal?

Application form preview sample questions, page & word limits from the application form Back to browse

Data sources & verification (for research-office review)

Where each item on this page was read from, so every claim can be verified against the original. Several values often come from the same official page — that page is named in the Source column. Anything we could not reach or parse is listed under Not captured / obstacles below.

Curated item	Value in this record	Source
Funding agency	Royal Society Te Apārangi	www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Country / funding source	NZ · nz-te-aparangi	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Deadline	Rolling — no fixed deadline — official page lists it as rolling/ongoing	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Funding amount	Not stated on the official page	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗
Eligibility	5 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above	same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Official opportunity page ↗
Application form: Marsden Fund 2026 guidelines (webdev mirror — main site is Cloudflare-gated) — download ↗ (37 pp)

Not captured / obstacles

Data is collected from official funder pages only. Figures are machine-curated (rule + LLM where noted) and should be re-verified on the linked source before use.