Applications open for overseas research opportunities

23/6/2004

New Zealanders wanting to travel abroad to benefit this country are again invited to apply for Winston Churchill Fellowships.

The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust has helped more than 600 New Zealanders, as diverse as entertainers, scientists, teachers and community workers, to undertake research overseas since it was set up in 1965.

Britain’s wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill strongly believed in people going overseas to develop a particular area of expertise, and returning to make a greater contribution to their community back home. Churchill Trusts also operate in the UK and Australia.

Churchill Fellows are granted up to 80 per cent of their travel costs. They typically spend from three weeks to three months overseas. Past fellows have researched a vast range of topics.

Doug Drysdale, Principal at Bunnythorpe School in the Manawatu, compared professional development opportunities for rural school principals in Canada, Scotland, England and New Zealand.

Jo Hume studied whether customers care about the sustainability of New Zealand's key exports, and Ian Platt looked at sustainable forest management in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.

Application forms for travel in 2005 can be obtained from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, administered by the Department of Internal Affairs, PO Box 805, Wellington, e-mail tanja.schutz@dia.govt.nz or phone (04) 495 9431. Applications close on July 31.

Click here for more information on the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust .

Contact:
Claire Hall
Communications Advisor
Department of Internal Affairs
Phone: (04) 495 7299
027 284 4228
claire.hall@dia.govt.nz