| Scholarship Name | Scholarship Information |
| Barbara Kathryn Ell Travel Award | Details: The award offers financial support for UC postgraduate students of History or Political Science for travel expenses associated with their studies. Applicants must have completed (within six months of the applicable closing date for applications), or be intending to complete, travel associated with their current studies. Value: Grants of $500 to $1,500 are available from an annual total fund of at least $3,000. Closing date: 31 March and 31 October (if funds available) |
| Barbara Mito Reed Award | Details: Open to graduate students of Japanese (whose native language is not Japanese), enrolled, or intending to enrol in a postgraduate programme in a field of Japanese studies at UC or at a university in Japan. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of Aotearoa New Zealand. Value: Financial assistance of $2,000 for one year. Closing date: 31 March |
| The C. Wright Mills Scholarship in Anthropology | Details: To support thesis students in Anthropology or Sociology at UC. Open to graduate students of any university in Aotearoa New Zealand, or the University of the South Pacific who are enrolled, or about to enrol in a MA or PhD in Anthropology or Sociology. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of Aotearoa New Zealand. Value: Financial assistance of up to $3,750 for 120 points of enrolment which under certain circumstances, may be extended for a second 120 point period (see the Regulations for details). Closing date: 01 November |
| Ethel Rose Overton Scholarship | Details: To support postgraduate students studying BA(Hons), BFA(Hons), MA, MFA or a PhD programme in Art History, Art Theory or Fine Arts. Value: Financial assistance of between $3,000 and $30,000 for between 1-3 years (depending on the category). Please refer to the regulations for further details. Closing date: 01 November |
| F A Hayek Scholarship in Economics or Political Science | Details: To support students towards study for an Honours or Master's degree in Economics or Political Science at the University of Canterbury. Value: Financial assistance with the costs associated with university study, to the value of $16,500 for one year Closing date: 15 October |
| Frank Tay Scholarship in Economics | Details: To support to a promising UC student to continue studying Economics in a research-based degree at the postgraduate level at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury. In the year of application, applicants must have been enrolled full-time at 300-level at the University for a degree with a major in Economics Value: Financial assistance to the value of $5,000 for one year. Closing date: 01 November |
| Freyberg Scholarship | Details: To encourage graduate study into areas relevant to national security. Applicants must be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents who obtained at least second class honours, division A, or equivalent in their qualifying degree and have completed academic studies in political science, history, economics or some other discipline that may be considered an appropriate foundation for such study. NB: this is a Universities NZ scholarship. Value: Financial assistance up to $50,000 per annum normally for one year. Closing date: 01 October |
| Geographical Society (Canterbury Branch) Research Grant | Details: To assist candidates enrolled in a Master's degree in Geography who are likely to incur heavy personal expenses in their thesis research. Value: The funds can be used to provide grants to assist with the costs associated with university study, up to a value of $3,000. Closing date: 31 March and 30 September (if funds still available) |
| Geography Students Conference Fund | Details: To financially assist Master’s and PhD research thesis students in the Department of Geography with expenses involved in attending conferences. Students must be enrolled at UC in one of the following courses – ENVR690, ENVR790, GEOG690, GEOG695, GEOG790 or GISC690. In addition, the senior supervisor for the ENVR690 and ENVR790 courses must be an academic in the Department of Geography. Value: Financial assistance at the value of up to $2,000 Closing date: 31 March or 30 September |
| Graduates Association Postgraduate Scholarship for Arts, Business, and Law | Details: To support postgraduate students in Arts, Business, and Law at the University of Canterbury. Applicants must be Aotearoa New Zealand citizens or permanent residents. Value: Financial assistance to the value of $1,500 for one year. Closing date: 01 November |
| Joan Burns Memorial Scholarship in History | Details: To recognise and support academic excellence by honours and master’s students in History at the University of Canterbury. Applicants must be enrolled full-time or part-time in a Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree programme or in Part 1 of a Master of Arts degree programme. Value: Tuition fees at the domestic rate for 1.0 EFTS of enrolment. Closing date: 31 March |
| Kelliher UC Economics Scholarship | Details: To support the intellectual development of postgraduate students in the field of Economics and to advance research capacity in Economics in New Zealand. Applicants must be Aotearoa New Zealand citizens or holders of New Zealand residence class visas. Value: Tuition fees at the domestic rate plus mentorship and development support for up to 240 points of enrolment. Closing date: 30 November (for those planning on commencing in Semester 1), and, if the scholarship was not awarded in the 30 November round, 31 March. |
| Penelope Wilson Art and Culture Internship Grant | Details: This grant supports postgraduate students at UC who are undertaking an internship in the arts and culture field in Aotearoa New Zealand or overseas. Applicants must be enrolled full-time or part-time in a postgraduate degree programme at UC, preference is given to those studying Art History. Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of Aotearoa New Zealand and have applied for an internship at another institution in an arts or culture field that relates to the applicant's subject of study, such as a library, gallery or museum. The internship cannot be undertaken in Ōtautahi Christchurch and must be undertaken within 12 months of the offer of the award. Value: Financial assistance to the value of $5,000 for one year Closing date: 31 March |
| Te Papa Atawhai (Department of Conservation) Postgraduate Scholarships | Details: To support postgraduate research to help answer strategic and high priority questions around conservation related science in Aotearoa New Zealand. Applicants must be (a) enrolled in, or eligible to enrol in, full time or part time Masters degree; (b) whose proposed course of study includes a minimum research component of 90 points; and (c) whose research focuses on priority questions of importance to Te Papa Atawhai. NB: this is a Universities NZ scholarship. Value: Varies - can be valued up to $15,000. Closing date: 01 October (NOT BEING OFFERED 2024) |
| Three Nations Conference Award | Details: Applicants must be Māori or Pacific students, or students who are indigenous to states or territories of Australia, whose financial circumstances would otherwise preclude them from undertaking postgraduate study in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at UC. Value: Financial assistance to the value of $1,000 for one year. Closing date: 31 March |
| UC GeoHealth Laboratory Short-Term Research Scholarship | Details: To support students undertaking short term research projects and other experiments to provide a foundation for their studies in the UC GeoHealth Laboratory at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury. Scholarships are made available as projects and funds become available. Recipients must have expressed the intention to undertake a programme of study in the GeoHealth Laboratory at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury within 12 months of completion of tenure of the scholarship. Value: Financial assistance at a value determined by funds available but is typically no less than $6,000 for 3 months. Closing date: Applications must be made to the GeoHealth Laboratory by 10 May |
| UC Mathematics & Statistics Scholarship | Details: To recognise and support high-achieving 200-, 300-, or 400-level students majoring in Applied Data Science, Computational and Applied Mathematical Sciences, Data Science, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, or Statistics at the University of Canterbury. Applicants must be enrolled in at least 60 points of the above courses (not including any thesis course). Value: Financial assistance at the value of: (a) $5,000 (Category A awards); (b) $2,500 (Category B awards); (c) $1,000 (Category C awards). Closing date: 31 March |
