Call For Applications For Fulbright Fellowship
Fulbright New Zealand and the New Zealand Harkness Fellowships Trust invite applications for the Fulbright-Harkness New
Zealand Fellowship, which offers the opportunity for an emerging New Zealand leader in any field of study or vocation
other than health care* to study or research in the US for a minimum of six weeks. Successful grantees will receive
NZ$15,000 (plus basic health and accident insurance) towards a short fellowship programme of their own design at any US
university or institution.
The Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellowship aims to reinforce New Zealand-United States links by improving
cross-fertilisation of ideas and experience between the two countries; to enable established or potential leaders and
opinion formers in New Zealand to benefit from new ideas, practices and contacts in the US; and to increase Fellow’s
abilities to bring about change and improvements in New Zealand.
The two past Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellows were Sacha McMeeking from Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu, who spent three
months researching the role of indigenous leadership in corporate citizenship at Northwestern University’s prestigious
Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Illinois; and Glenda Anthony from Massey University, who spent six weeks
researching reforms in teacher education at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Last year’s Fellow, Glenda Anthony, described her exchange as a “hugely thought-provoking and rewarding experience”. “My
Fulbright-Harkness experience provided opportunities to engage with a group of mathematics educators who are working at
the cutting edge of innovation in teacher education. Working alongside researchers from the Learning In, From, and For
Teaching Practice project, I experienced firsthand a range of instructional activities developed to support prospective
teachers to do the work of mathematics teaching ambitiously, and observed beginning teachers across a range of
university and school settings engage in ambitious mathematics teaching. Importantly, my time away provided the space to
expand my horizons and think about exciting possibilities for developing new pedagogies for teacher education here in
New Zealand.”
Applications for the 2012 Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellowship close at 5:00pm on Monday 2 April.
See http://www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/fulbright-harknessnz/ or contact Stefanie Joe at Fulbright New Zealand
for further information – stefanie@fulbright.org.nz / (04) 494 1507
*Candidates in the field of health care should apply for the Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice
provided by The Commonwealth Fund, applications for which close in September:
http://www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/harknessfellowships/
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