New Zealand Research Doctoral Scholarships

Field of Study: All subjects
Deadline:30/09/2022

Description:
New Zealand, in support of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases (GRA), is pleased to offer a Ph.D. scholarship for students from developing countries.
The scholarship offers the possibility for students from developing countries to come to New Zealand to work on research projects related to agricultural greenhouse gas mitigation.
For this special round, four Ph.D. projects aligned with New Zealand research programmes have been selected:
– Assessing soil carbon changes associated with land management and land use change.
– Long-term soil phosphorus fertilizer implications for soil nitrogen cycling and Greenhouse Gas emission.
– Plant and plant/microbiome traits impacting N2O emissions from soil.
– Climate Neutral Farms (ClieNFarms).
The scholarship is supported by the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries.
Deadline: 30 September 2022
Eligibility
The following criteria are non-negotiable:
– Your Ph.D. study must be conducted in New Zealand (not from a distance).
– You cannot hold citizenship or permanent residency status in New Zealand or Australia.
– You must be from a developing country. Check here for current classification.
– You must apply to one of the available projects.
How to apply
Applications must be completed and submitted by 30 September, 11:59 p.m. New Zealand time, exclusively via the Education New Zealand online application portal.
To ensure swift and smooth processing of the application documents, all attachments need to be uploaded in the application portal in the form of PDF files only.
The following information must be provided, and documents must be uploaded to the application portal:
– Evidence of citizenship for every country for which you hold citizenship.
– Meet the requirements to enroll for a Ph.D. program at the selected university.
– Academic transcripts, grading scale and certificate of completion.
– One-page Motivation letter explaining why you would be the best candidate for the selected project.
– CV (maximum two pages).

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