The Trust Board met on the 19th April to consider and approve project, equipment, travel, and conference support grants. Grants-in-aid of $198,600 were approved, down compared to the same funding round of a year ago and due in large part to fewer applications. The percentage of approved to requested funds remained unchanged at 24%.

Applicants are reminded that there is now a one year stand-down period for projects and travel, beginning from this first funding round for 2018. A further change introduced by the Trust Board last year is that applications for travel to conferences will only be considered for approval if the date of travel occurs after the relevant Board meeting. This means that there will be no retrospective funding for travel. In practice this will not affect the majority of applicants as there are three travel rounds each year (with closing dates of 1st March, 1st June and 1st October and with associated Board meetings in mid to late April, July and November). In some instances applicants may need to apply slightly earlier than previously. These changes, and other changes on eligibility, are covered under the grant categories.

Scholarships and Fellowships funded by the Trust can be found under the Scholarships and Fellowships page. Further information, including stipends payable, is available from the institutional graduate student offices that administer the Trust’s programmes.

As posted previously, the Office of the MPPT moved from Parnell to Grafton in early 2017 and our contact details have changed. The office is at 89 Grafton Rd, the phone number is 09 379 5316, the postal address is PO Box 110008 Auckland Hospital 1148, and the email address for all Trust correspondence is zn.tppm@tppm.