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Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
One
Grant
NZ $1,000
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
The Diane Campbell-Hunt Memorial Award was established in 2010 with funds raised following the tragic death of Diane Campbell-Hunt in an accident on Mount Taranaki in October 2008.
Diane Campbell-Hunt was a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography, funded by a Tertiary Education Commission Top Achiever Doctoral scholarship. She had completed two-thirds of her PhD programme at the time of her death. Her project looked at the long-term sustainability of fenced sanctuaries in New Zealand in a multi-disciplinary analysis: ecological, economic, social, and governmental.
Benefits
The scholarship is worth NZ $1,000.
Eligibility
Applicants must:
- be enrolled and confirmed in a PhD programme or the thesis component of a Master's research programme in any Department or School at the University of Otago
- have written a peer-reviewed academic paper that has been accepted for publication in a journal or for presentation at a conference, or a book chapter that has been accepted for publication in a volume of academic peer-reviewed research, which contributes to New Zealand conservation (as defined above), and in which they are the lead author
- not have previously been granted the Award
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
New Zealand
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
Bachelor
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
30 Jun 2027
Closing date: 30 June