(From University of Auckland science faculty . Anyone seriously interested in working with me should contact me directly. I have several ideas available).

The Faculty has the opportunity to access 100 Summer Scholarships funded by the university (as opposed to Faculty funds) for special categories of students–this includes international students. The Faculty management team has agreed that we should use our recent Northern Hemisphere summer scholarship experience to try to win up to 20 of these scholarships for international students to come over the NZ summer.

The terms of the scholarships will be as for the normal Summer Scholarship: targeting final year undergraduate students; $5000, plus $1000 available for expenses to the host. No costs to the hosting Department or supervising academic are incurred. The student is responsible for all fares, accommodation, etc. Scholarship to be paid as $3500 on arrival, $1500 on presentation of final report. We are preparing an advertising poster for (southern hemisphere) universities now.

Our Northern Hemisphere scholarship experience showed that these scholarships are extremely useful for academics wishing to enhance links with overseas groups, by providing funding for a student from a collaborating group to come to New Zealand for a short period.