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| Name | Year | Project | Category | Subcategory | Countries |
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| Grace Brown | 2025 | For travel to London to explore technology solutions that break down barriers to communication for deaf, hard-of-hearing, and neurodivergent communities. | Community Service, Education | Community, ethnic, indigenous, family and youth support programs, School education community and adult education, Services to the disabled and aged | United Kingdom |
| Jessica Buchanan | 2025 | For travel to the United Kingdom to examine methods of delivering healthcare and training to remote areas without specialist oral health services. | United Kingdom | ||
| Claudine Crabtree | 2025 | For travel to Singapore, Scotland, and England to study the impact school libraries are having on student literacy and their applicability in Aotearoa. | Singapore, United Kingdom | ||
| Chantelle Griffiths | 2025 | For travel to the United Kingdom and Europe to study processes and systems that will support revitalising braille and tactile literacy in Aotearoa. | Europe, United Kingdom | ||
| Pennie Hunt | 2025 | McNeish Fellowship for travel to Tasmania to extend her creative non-fiction writing. | Literature, Media, marketing and communications – journalism, graphic design, publishing | Australia | |
| Cherie Jacobson | 2025 | For travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland to study historic house museum operations and their relevance to Aotearoa. | The Arts | Charities, not-for-profit and faith-based intiatives, Literature | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Heather Lear | 2025 | For travel to Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Australia to investigate community-based assistance for families to help them support their children’s early communication and language development. | Australia, Canada, Ireland, United Kingdom | ||
| Wendy Robertson | 2025 | For travel to Australia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland to study licensing processes, driver education, enforcement controls, and to improve licensing accessibility. | Community Service, Public Service | Social welfare, Transport and infrastructure – roads, railways, tollways, Vocational education and training | Australia, Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Alana Ruakere | 2025 | For travel to the United Kingdom and Europe to study processes and systems that will support revitalising braille and tactile literacy in Aotearoa. | Europe, United Kingdom | ||
| Karla Sanders | 2025 | For travel to the United Kingdom and the United States to engage with leading organisations that involve young people as partners in creating positive online experiences and addressing online harm, including cyberbullying. | United Kingdom, USA | ||
| Ariana Sheehan | 2025 | For travel to Europe to examine and record Kaitaka Huaki in museum collections to reclaim a vital part of traditional M?ori weaving techniques and disseminate them to art communities in New Zealand. | Europe | ||
| Fiona Allan | 2024 | To increase understanding of how culture, beliefs and traditions within Pacific nations impact the full inclusion of disabled people in sport and physical activity and inform initiatives to promote participation in Aotearoa New Zealand. | Malaysia, Polynesia | ||
| Varsha Asrani | 2024 | For travel to India, Europe and United Kingdom to investigate novel advances to assess the gut to improve clinical outcomes for the critically ill. | India, United Kingdom | ||
| Joe Graham | 2024 | For travel to New York, Cardiff and London to gather insights in on the delivery of alternative education to achieve better outcomes for Aotearoa New Zealand’s most marginalised young people. | England, USA, Wales | ||
| Lynda Knight | 2024 | For travel to the United Kingdom to explore best practice in inform trauma-informed education for Rangatahi in Aotearoa New Zealand. | United Kingdom | ||
| Nicole Miller | 2024 | For travel to North America, Europe and Australia to gather insights on best practice in marine restoration, regenerative ocean farming and marine monitoring to advance community-led marine restoration. | Australia, United Kingdom, USA | ||
| Sarah Townsend | 2024 | For travel to the United Kingdom and Australia to observe responses to child and adolescent to parent violence to inform Aotearoa New Zealand's efforts to eliminate family violence and sexual violence. | Australia, United Kingdom | ||
| Bryan Ward | 2024 | For travel to Canada to observe the Tsuut’ina Nation Police Service community-based interventions supporting youth involved or at risk of being involved, in the justice system to inform delivery of similar programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand. | Canada | ||
| Melissa Warren | 2024 | For travel to Australia to inform the development of models of care and health services that best address the survivorship needs of New Zealanders living with and beyond breast cancer. | Health and Medicine | Health and medical professionals | Australia |
| Lisa Williams | 2024 | For travel to the United States of America and the United Kingdom to inform palliative and end of life care for Aotearoa New Zealand's Rainbow Community. | United Kingdom, USA | ||
| Pietra Brettkelly | 2023 | To investigate film production frameworks that shift the power imbalance that sometimes exists between filmmakers and subjects over Intellectual Property, Story Sovereignty and the Financials of a film production. | |||
| Eleanor Cater | 2023 | To study the growth of community philanthropy foundations in the United Kingdom to inform strategies to grow community philanthropic investment in Aotearoa New Zealand. | United Kingdom | ||
| Rebekah Graham | 2023 | To investigate/research parent-led programmes by community groups that are being implemented for parents of blind, deafblind, low vision or vision-impaired young people, and which result in positive, abuse-free, neglect-free lives for the disabled young person and/or increased employment for blind youth assess how they might be reworked to fit within New Zealand’s unique cultural context. | |||
| Amio Ikihele | 2023 | To explore how digital health equity is being addressed in underserved communities in the USA to inform the development of a digital health ecosystem that aims to ensure future healthcare using digital health technologies are culturally acceptable and equitable for Pacific communities. | USA | ||
| Josh Irvine | 2023 | To investigate water management practice challenges and innovative solutions and thinking in the USA and Scandinavia that can be adapted to the New Zealand environment for better water quantity and quality outcomes. | Scandinavia, USA | ||
| Jessica Lennon | 2023 | To explore diabetic education practice and the implementation of diabetic foot care programmes in vulnerable communities in the USA and Canada, and their adaptability to the New Zealand environment. | Canada, USA | ||
| Tania Sawicki Mead | 2023 | To explore the impact of voting rights at 16 years old, and school based civics education in Scotland, Wales, and Austria, on young people's democratic participation and youth wellbeing, to inform debate in New Zealand about lowering the voting age and extending civics education in Aotearoa New Zealand schools. | |||
| Kathryn van Beek | 2023 | Participation in a Writers' Residency in Hungary. | Hungary | ||
| Katharine Watson | 2023 | To study physical and digital archaeological repositories in England and the USA to see how they operate and talk to the people who run them, to learn how best to establish and run an archaeological repository, and apply this knowledge in Aotearoa New Zealand. | United Kingdom | ||
| Amanda Young-Hauser | 2023 | To investigate if the United Kingdom Circles of Support and Accountability model to reintegrate men into the community after serving a prison sentence for sexually abusing children, can be culturally adapted and established to work successfully in Aotearoa New Zealand. | United Kingdom | ||
| Tim Boyd | 2021 | For travel to Australia, the UK and North America to learn from projects that operate shared workspaces for the creative and skills sector, businesses and product manufacturing. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Ecology and environmental management | Australia, United Kingdom, USA |
| Joanne Cribb | 2021 | To engage with organisations and their leaders who are delivering practical, proven initiatives that work across the diversity of the sector, especially for small organisations that serve indigenous communities and those who are vulnerable. | Community Service | Community, ethnic, indigenous, family and youth support programs | Australia, United Kingdom |
| Marion Heeney | 2021 | For travel to Scandinavia, Scotland, England, and Alaska to examine best practice and evidence about services that work for children and young people. | Health and Medicine | General | United Kingdom, USA |
| Veronika Meduna | 2021 | For travel to Micronesia, Melanesia and Australia to carry out research for a book on the settlement of the Pacific. | The Arts | General | Australia, Micronesia |
| Lui Poe | 2021 | For travel to the United States of America to learn from initiatives and leaders of systems approaches, social innovation and design thinking in the United States. | Community Service | Community, ethnic, indigenous, family and youth support programs | USA |
| Clive Aspin | 2020 | ANZSOG: For travel to Canada to gain insights into effective suicide prevention among indigenous Canadians – First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. | Health and Medicine | General | Canada |
| Darral Campbell | 2020 | For travel to the United Kingdom and Denmark to visit leading providers in the delivery of Younger Onset services. | Health and Medicine | General | Denmark, United Kingdom |
| Susan Elliott | 2020 | For travel to the United States to learn from cities renowned for their permanent and temporary public art, and progressive use of new technologies including digital, projection, light, water and interactive works. | The Arts | General | USA |
| Vanesse Geel | 2020 | To explore and observe the range of policies and service initiatives that impact and shape support to children/whanau, using an integrated /partnered approach. | Education | General | United Kingdom |
| Aaron Horrell | 2020 | McNeish Writer's: To interview Kiwis in 2 Asian megacities to document the 21st century Kiwi-Asian experience to inform a novel about kiwi identity, cultural difference & dislocation, cross-cultural gender relations, being M?ori abroad, & mental health. | The Arts | General | |
| Michaela Latimer | 2020 | For travel to the United States and the United Kingdom to connect with community and philanthropic organisations involved in positive youth development. | Community Service | Community, ethnic, indigenous, family and youth support programs | United Kingdom, USA |
| Kim Morton | 2020 | For travel to the United Kingdom to explore developments in using arts on prescription for people with experience of mental distress. | Health and Medicine | General | United Kingdom |
| Wendy Newport-Smith | 2020 | For travel to the United Kingdom and North America to understand national, virtual, scientific network best-practice governance and management in well-established networks. | Professions | Sciences and humanities – chemistry, geology, archaeology, history | United Kingdom, USA |
| Mark Roberts | 2020 | To understand how community-led deconstruction hubs, can, by deconstructing buildings rather than demolishing them, divert construction and demolition materials from landfill to beneficial uses. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Ecology and environmental management | USA |
| Sarah Sutherland | 2020 | For travel to the United Kingdom and Australia to gather insights and perspectives on the main factors that drive the successful integration of sustainability across an infrastructure construction project. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Ecology and environmental management | Australia, United Kingdom |
| Benjamin Brooks | 2019 | To investigate what New Zealand can learn from Texas where the imprisonment rate has dropped by over 25% in recent years. | Professions | Legal and judicial | USA |
| Kelly Drake | 2019 | To study animal welfare programmes to support the implementation of species welfare measures for New Zealand farm assurance programmes. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Animals – veterinary services, training, breeding, zoology | Australia |
| Chris Duggan | 2019 | To observe innovative practices to engage 5-12 year-old children in science learning, to inform the development of what would be appropriate for New Zealand children’s needs. | Education | Teaching and teacher training | Australia, USA |
| Martin Enright | 2019 | To study targeted procurement policies in organisations in Canada and the United States of America to inform and support M?ori economic empowerment in T?maki Makaurau and Aotearoa. | Community Service | Community, ethnic, indigenous, family and youth support programs | Canada, USA |
| Kate Evans | 2019 | To research her first book, a ‘biography' of the feijoa, unravelling the history and culture of the fruit and its journey from South America to New Zealand. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Agriculture and primary industry | Brazil, Colombia, France |
| Sara Farrant | 2019 | To study the use of Patient Reported Outcomes (PRO) as standard of care for cancer services at leading international centres in the United Kingdom and the United States of America to inform the implementation of a PRO model in New Zealand. | Health and Medicine | Health administration | United Kingdom, USA |
| Eva Forster-Garbutt | 2019 | To meet academics, professionals, and building archaeologists in the United Kingdom to guide improvements in the investigation and recording of heritage buildings in New Zealand. | Professions | Sciences and humanities – chemistry, geology, archaeology, history | United Kingdom |
| Andrea Gaskin | 2019 | To explore developments in arts access for people living with dementia through research with practitioners at five organisations in the United Kingdom which will enhance the impact of Make Moments in Aotearoa. | Health and Medicine | Training of health and medical workers | United Kingdom |
| Monica Peters | 2019 | To study citizen science projects and programmes to advance citizen science strategy, methods and best practice in New Zealand. | Professions | Sciences and humanities – chemistry, geology, archaeology, history | United Kingdom |
| Carl Pickens | 2019 | To study world leading practice in urban agriculture projects and policies in Europe and the United Kingdom to illustrate how the incorporation of urban agriculture in New Zealand’s urban design and planning can contribute to a more sustainable future. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Ecology and environmental management | United Kingdom |
| Denise Powell | 2019 | To visit leading organisations with co-enrolment programmes for deaf and hard of hearing students. Insights and perspectives gained will inform the discussion on the appropriateness of the co-enrolment model to drive better outcomes in New Zealand. | Education | Special needs education | Australia, USA |
| Anton Black | 2018 | To meet with diversity, multiculturalism and unconscious bias experts to inform the development of resources and training for use in New Zealand. | Community Service | Community, ethnic, indigenous, family and youth support programs | Taiwan, United Kingdom |
| Richard Davies | 2018 | To visit and observe general practice medical clinics providing services to the homeless and other vulnerable groups to inform the delivery of medical services to vulnerable groups in New Zealand. | Health and Medicine | Training of health and medical workers | United Kingdom |
| Stu Farrant | 2018 | To research urban water management policy, technical innovations and funding mechanisms which have supported mitigating the environmental impacts of urban land development. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Ecology and environmental management | Denmark, Germany, Sweden, USA |
| Mia Gaudin | 2018 | 2018 Winston Churchill McNeish Writers Fellowship Recipient. Mia Gaudin for travel to Mexico and California to research the lives of Sandra Bogart and Marion Grant for a novel that explores themes of identity, travel, feminism, family, joy and loss. | Professions | Sciences and humanities – chemistry, geology, archaeology, history | Mexico, USA |
| Ian McDonald | 2018 | To study communications and operations management in the Baseball industry to inform the development of Baseball New Zealand. | Professions | Media, marketing and communications – journalism, graphic design, publishing | USA |
| Shona McElroy | 2018 | To investigate how the latest technologies – such as augmented reality, the internet of things and artificial intelligence – and inclusive and participatory design methodologies are being applied to address social and environmental challenges. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Ecology and environmental management | Canada, USA |
| Alayne McKee | 2018 | To learn from speech, language and communication professionals addressing the speech, language and communication needs of children, adolescents and adults who are involved with care and protection, justice, mental health or behaviour services. | Health and Medicine | General | United Kingdom |
| Jimmy McLauchlan | 2018 | To study world-leading iCBT therapies and explore their possible adaptations to inform the implementation of effective delivery of e-therapy to whanau and community mental health patients in New Zealand. | Health and Medicine | Alternative medicines | Australia |
| Andrew Prescott | 2018 | To look at models of care utilising paramedics in a hospital based role to inform discussion and debate on extending the scope of paramedic roles in New Zealand. | Health and Medicine | Health and medical professionals | Canada, United Kingdom, USA |
| Ursula Rack | 2018 | To investigate the preservation of their Antarctic histories and identify practices that may be utilised in Aotearoa New Zealand. | Professions | Sciences and humanities – chemistry, geology, archaeology, history | United Kingdom, USA |
| Olivia Stapleton | 2018 | To research mobile health technology integrated into clinical care settings, to inform the design and delivery of a technological solution to help women in the NZ community with perinatal depression. | Health and Medicine | Training of health and medical workers | USA |
| Carolyn Stobbs | 2018 | To work with a leading intellectual disability training and development agency to gain knowledge and skills that would further develop IHC’s Community Advocacy Work Programme in New Zealand. | Community Service | Social welfare | United Kingdom |
| Anthony Tedeschi | 2018 | To undertake archival research as part of a study on the book collector Alexander Horsburgh Turnbull (1868–1918). | The Arts | Literature | United Kingdom |
| Nathan Watson | 2018 | To study models of prevention focused outdoor recreation (land based) public safety to inform practice in New Zealand. | Health and Medicine | Sports and sport management | Canada, USA |
| Claire Woolley | 2018 | To identify models used to deliver affordable housing outcomes for Native Hawaiian, Native American and First Nations peoples that could be tailored for affordable housing projects for Māori in New Zealand. | Community Service | Social welfare | Canada, USA |
| Joseph Bergin | 2017 | To explore how municipalities and NGOs promote and incentivise local economic development specifically in the youth innovation space. | Public Service | Charities, not-for-profit and faith-based intiatives | Denmark, France, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom |
| Samuel Brown | 2017 | To survey the weevil fauna, focusing on Rarotonga and collecting specimens from as many of the other islands as possible. | Professions | Sciences and humanities – chemistry, geology, archaeology, history | Cook Islands |
| Michael Cameron | 2017 | To study world-leading laws and processes for protecting the community against dangerous former offenders, while protecting the rights of these individuals. | Community Service | Social welfare | USA |
| Lynn Campbell | 2017 | To research current practices in the conservation of historic wallpapers. | The Arts | General | United Kingdom |
| Diana Coop | 2017 | Winston Churchill NZ China Friendship Society Fellowship Recipient Diana Coop will travel to China and learn more about working practices of conservation of Chinese cultural materials. | The Arts | General | China |
| Jennifer Dunn | 2017 | To visit leading sites for tetraplegia nerve transfer surgery and develop and test the GRASSP (Graded and Redefined Assessment of Strength, Sensibility and Prehension) procedure. | Health and Medicine | Training of health and medical workers | Sweden, Switzerland |
| Carolyn Gillum | 2017 | The McNeish Fellowship funds travel as part of a research and writing trip to support a novel based on the Norwegian Alta conflict. | Norway | ||
| Turumeke Harrington | 2017 | Winston Churchill NZ Hawkes Bay Design Trust Fellowship Recipient Turumeke Harrington will travel to Italy to attend Salone del mobile and design fair in Milan, and the European Design Academy Conference, to meet with local designers. | The Arts | Artistic support – instrument making, costume and set production | Italy |
| Michael Jackson | 2017 | To investigate key programmes and research related to rural farm safety programmes in schools. | Education | Vocational education and training | USA |
| Patricia (Jacqui) Knight | 2017 | To investigate conservation measures being put in place for the monarch butterfly. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Ecology and environmental management | Mexico, USA |
| Gretchen La Roche | 2017 | To investigate strategies employed by international orchestras to increase their relevancy and contribution to their immediate communities. | The Arts | Performing arts – music, dance, theatre, opera, film | United Kingdom |
| Ben Lakomy | 2017 | To explore SPCA Animal Welfare Inspectorate best practice. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Animals – veterinary services, training, breeding, zoology | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Stephen Macaulay | 2017 | To research how New Zealand primary industries can position and add value to its primary products in international markets to take advantage of new and disruptive technologies occurring in the global supply chain for food and fibre products. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Agriculture and primary industry | USA |
| Anne McLeod | 2017 | To investigate co-creating relationship centred health models and lessons learnt from their implementation. | Health and Medicine | Health administration | United Kingdom, USA |
| Taiaroa Royal | 2017 | To explore choreographic research with Exhale Dance Tribe to start developing a united choreographic language and voice. | The Arts | Performing arts – music, dance, theatre, opera, film | USA |
| John Sinclair | 2017 | To study successful volunteer-led prisoner rehabilitation programmes both in prisons and post-release. | Community Service | Social welfare | United Kingdom |
| Philip Squire | 2017 | To compare and contrast urban climate change and sustainability programmes operated by local and central government, and investigate the roles of local and national NGO's and other social enterprises. | Community Service | Community, ethnic, indigenous, family and youth support programs | Germany, United Kingdom |
| Abann Yor | 2017 | To research refugee resettlement programmes. | Community Service | Social welfare | Australia |
| Manaaki Barrett | 2016 | Research eco-tourism, indigenous cultural tourism perspectives and best practice. This Fellowship will encourage new perspectives and understanding about utilising resources for tourism sustainably and in a culturally appropriate manner. | Professions | Tourism, leisure, hospitality and retail | USA |
| Mark Boddington | 2016 | To investigate using Information Communication Technology (ICT) to improve access to justice information and services for marginalised groups. | Professions | Legal and judicial | Australia, Samoa, USA |
| Lyn Cotton | 2016 | To research the delivery of high quality dance training for people with disabilities by integrated dance companies. The information and practical experience gained will be used to enhance inclusive dance programmes in New Zealand. | Community Service | Services to the disabled and aged | United Kingdom |
| Vicki Culling | 2016 | To learn more about training programmes for perinatal and infant loss. The Fellowship includes observing the UK Sands Befriender Training initiative which provides support to bereaved parents. | Health and Medicine | Training of health and medical workers | United Kingdom, USA |
| Mary Dawson | 2016 | To visit organisations leading in migrant and refugee settlement and integration programmes. The insights and perspectives gained will be used to drive better outcomes in New Zealand for migrants and refugees. | Community Service | Social welfare | Canada, USA |
| Monica Evans | 2016 | To research the design and facilitation of transformational residential creative arts camps for young people. | Education | Vocational education and training | USA |
| Alistair Fraser | 2016 | To examine taonga pūoro/ Māori musical instruments held in museum collections. This Fellowship will produce primary research, including detailed documentation of the instruments held at the museums visited. | The Arts | Performing arts – music, dance, theatre, opera, film | Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Gordon Harcourt | 2016 | To focus on consumer protection in the home building industry. The Fellow will study the role of the National House Building Council in the UK’s home building industry and lessons learnt. The research will be used to inform debate and seek change in NZ. | Community Service | Social welfare | United Kingdom |
| Prudence Langbein | 2016 | Examine creative interactive audio-media for children and digital storytelling. The study will assist the development of non-commercial digital platforms for New Zealand children to access and enjoy. | Professions | Media, marketing and communications – journalism, graphic design, publishing | Canada, USA |
| Peter Lawless | 2016 | To study advances in facilitating community leadership in managing marine environments and protecting biodiversity. The knowledge gained from observing practices in Canada and the USA will then be considered for application in New Zealand. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Ecology and environmental management | Canada, USA |
| Glenda Lewis | 2016 | To focus on researching agricultural history, sustainable agriculture practices and drawing comparisons between farming in the Hawkes’ Bay and Milton-under-Wychwood in the UK. | Land, Commerce and Logistics | Agriculture and primary industry | United Kingdom |