Pacific Development Research Grants

 

 

Applications are currently closed!

 

Download the Application Form

Please click on the video link here for instructions on how to prepare a good application and research proposal: https://youtu.be/AVUG9NZ1KhM

The DevNet Pacific Development Research Grants are open to postgraduate students, early-career, and mid-career researchers at universities and research institutions in the South Pacific region (excluding French and American territories, as well as Pacific researchers studying or working at institutions in New Zealand and Australia) who are actively engaged in research on development issues.

We encourage all eligible students to submit their applications. Please subscribe to our website and follow us on Facebook and LinkedIn to stay up to date with our next funding round.

The Application Form can be downloaded HERE.

 

 

Research on Development Issues

The goal of the Grant is to support early and mid-career researchers in the Pacific in designing and leading their own research projects, as well as to provide doctoral candidates and master’s students at Pacific Island universities and research institutions with the support they need to complete field research for their theses.

 

 

Objective

The Grant will support Pacific scholars in ensuring that development questions important to Pacific Island researchers are prioritised. It will also enable DevNet to further its goal of facilitating and supporting Pacific researchers in conducting their own research while making new international development research more accessible.

 

 

Award Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for an award, applicants must:

 

  • Have already been enrolled in a Master’s and PhD programme, or be an early career, and mid-career staff member in Development Studies or closely-related disciplines at a university or research institution located in the South Pacific region (excluding French and American territories and Pacific people who are studying or working in New Zealand and Australian institutions)
  • Be of Pacific nationality
  • Have received (or will receive prior to commencement) university ethics approval to conduct the research.
  • Have received (or will receive prior to commencement) approval to conduct research from the appropriate government authorities or communities in which research will be conducted.

 

 Read the Awards Regulations for more information.

 

Recent Award Recipients

 

2022-23


2023-24


2024-25


2025-26

 


  • Anawaite Matadradra – The University of the South Pacific
  • Lydia Kaforau  – Solomon Islands National University
  • Navneel Shalendra Prasad – The University of Fiji
  • Priteshni Chand – The University of Fiji
  • Regina Gwaibo – Papua New Guinea University of Natural Resources and Environment

 

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Contact Us

Any questions regarding requirements for applications should be directed to the Awards Administrator at info@devnet.org.nz.

 

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