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

Rutherford Foundation

The Rutherford Foundation supports early career researchers by funding PhD scholarships and postdoctoral fellowships, and helps bring outstanding overseas New Zealand researchers back home.

Rolling

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

Eligibility

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

Career stage

Early Career

Host country

NZ

Organization type

University, Research Institute

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

Full eligibility text

Eligibility: See the fund page for full eligibility.

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

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 itemValue in this recordSource
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 3 structured dimensions — see the eligibility panel above same page as above — www.royalsociety.org.nz ↗

Pages & application forms captured

Not captured / obstacles

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