Applications sought for 2013 Churchill Fellowships

12 July 2012


Each year the New Zealand Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Board provides ordinary New Zealanders with an extraordinary opportunity.

Each year Churchill Fellowships enable fellows to travel overseas and pursue ideas that will have a benefit to them and the wider community. Typically fellows travel for three weeks to three months, for intensive investigation, experience or research.

Fellows are granted up to 80 per cent of their travel costs; the average grant is between $5000 and $7000.

Fellows approved during the 2011/12 financial year are conducting research in the fields of education, social welfare, health, conservation, technology and the arts, including:

Lynette Adams, who will investigate innovative community sport and recreation programming that develops community cohesion, capacity and capability through participation in sport and recreation at a local level;

Michael Bell, who will take part in the transfer of the short-tailed albatross in Japan and to learn methodology to undertake an albatross translocation in the Chatham Islands; and

Marisa Maepu, who will undertake research in Berlin on the German colonisation of Samoa (1900-1914) to inform her novel. She hopes her research will uncover personal stories of Germans in Samoa.

Winston Churchill Memorial Trusts also operate in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Applications close on 31 July 2012. Successful applicants will be announced in December 2012.

To obtain an application form, or to learn more about the Trust, visit www.communitymatters.govt.nz (search for keyword “Winston”) or phone 0800 824 824.

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The Trust is administered by the Department of Internal Affairs.