In February we sent you notice of the 1 April closing date for applications for the Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand
Fellowship. We have now extended the closing date for this award until 1 May. Please see the amended call for applications below.
Last year’s Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellow, Peter Griffin from the Science Media Centre, recently gave a seminar
about his exchange experience at our office in Wellington: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfrP-6wTqBU
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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 a basic health benefit plan) 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 2012 Fellow, Peter Griffin from the Science Media Centre, undertook an intensive seven week research programme into
public interest journalism. Peter visited many high profile media organisations including the Center for Public
Integrity in Washington, DC and the California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting in Oakland, California.
He blogged his observations of media trends in the US and New Zealand at www.futurenews.co.nz and reports on his exchange experience in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfrP-6wTqBU
Applications for the 2013 Fulbright-Harkness New Zealand Fellowship close at 5:00pm on Wednesday 1 May.
See 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:
www.fulbright.org.nz/awards/nzscholar/harknessfellowships