21 November 2014

Four Claude McCarthy Fellowships for Waikato post-grads

Four Claude McCarthy Fellowships have been awarded to University of Waikato students.

The Waikato fellowships are all in Category A, which enables graduates who are registered and enrolled for a doctoral degree at a New Zealand university to travel overseas for short periods to present research work at conferences, and/or conduct research leading towards the New Zealand doctoral degree for which they are enrolled.

The fellowships have been awarded to the following University of Waikato PhD candidates:

• Emily Douglas, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Biological Sciences – Resilience and response of estuaries to nutrient enrichment - $4000.

• Simon Gray, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Political Science – A comparative analysis of the contemporary diversity of political Islam with respect to cases in the Middle East and Southeast Asia - $4500.

• Surrey Jackson, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Psychology – An investigation into establishing (motivating) operations - $4000.

• Kohji Muraoka, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Biological Sciences – Lake mixing and phytoplankton diversity – analysis from regional to global scales - $3500.

The Claude McCarthy Fellowships are administered by Te Pōkai Tara – Universities New Zealand.

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