Motu currently funds two scholarships:
The Motu Research and Education Foundation also offers a cash prize for the top economics undergraduate student in New Zealand. The Frank Holmes Prize is awarded every year in October and is only available by nomination by university heads of department.
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust is offering a $1,000 scholarship to a student of Māori descent who intends to study economics and is planning to enrol in a second year econometrics course, or equivalent quantitative economics course.
There will be one Āheitanga Scholarship for each university. Where multiple candidates from one university apply, Motu will assess student’s academic achievement and interest in economics or a related field. We will also be guided by advice from the university on the student’s involvement in mentoring and links to their cultural heritage.
The purposes of the award are to
To apply for the scholarship, please complete this form and send it to recruitment@motu.org.nz by 30 August 2020.
The Motu Doctoral Scholarship can be awarded to Motu Research Analysts who have been employed by Motu for at least twelve months and who leave to undertake a highly rated PhD course.
The objectives are to:
Previous recipients of the Motu Doctoral Scholarship are Isabelle Sin (Stanford), Melanie Morton (Yale), Andrew Aitken (University College London), Simon Anastasiadis (Stanford), Alex Olssen (MIT), Athene Laws (Cambridge), Wilbur Townsend (Harvard) and Sean Hyland (Chicago).
In recognising Sir Frank Holmes as one of New Zealand’s pre-eminent Economists and his contribution to the development of public policy over many decades, the Motu Research and Education Foundation provide an economics scholarship for New Zealand’s top economics undergraduate student every year – The Sir Frank Holmes Prize. Sir Frank Holmes agreed to give his name to this scholarship shortly before he passed away in October 2011. The purpose of the prize is to encourage top quantitative economics student to further their studies in econometrics at graduate level. The prize will be awarded to a top student, who is moving on to honours or masters level studies in economics, including econometrics. The prize is not open for applications and is decided through nominations by university lecturers.
Past winners include:
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust offers a scholarship to a student of Māori descent undertaking an Honours or Master’s thesis on an applied topic, preferably in economics or another social science, and preferably using a quantitative methodology.
Past recipients:
2017 - Correna Matika (Ngāti Kuri and Ngāti Wairere (Tainui) descent) won the 2017 Thesis Scholarship. She used the scholarship to complete her PhD in psychology at the University of Auckland.
2016 - Hautahi Kingi (Nga Rauru, Te Atihaunui a Paparangi) a PhD candidate in economics at Cornell University in the United States. Mr Kingi has two elements to his research, one around immigration and the other looking into tax and consumption. You can read more about Hautahi here.
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