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The Pacific Health Research Placement Programme (PPP) is a capacity building initiative designed to place Pacific students within ‘world-class' research teams in the health research sector. The role of the HRC is to identify entry points and training opportunities within leading research teams and to match these with the research interests identified by eligible Pacific students.
The Pacific Placement Programme is designed to:
- build the academic and research capacity of the Pacific community in New Zealand;
- coordinate the placement and participation of Pacific students in ‘world-class' research teams;
- foster the development of the Pacific health research sector;
- encourage recruitment of Pacific researchers by NZ research teams;
- promote research opportunities and careers to Pacific communities, and
- support and mentor future Pacific research leaders.
A key goal of the programme is to train and support students in developing their own research proposals. By placing students within prestigious research teams who have an extensive track record of peer-reviewed publications and of securing research funding from the HRC and other key government crown agencies, students will be in an environment conducive to developing autonomy and leadership in undertaking research and managing research processes.
The programme seeks to provide better coordination and recruitment of Pacific students into research. By ‘brokering' for Pacific students, the HRC is able to tap into its extensive research networks to encourage the recruitment of Pacific researchers who are available to conduct research towards their Masters or PhD degrees. The advantage of this is that the HRC can bring students and research teams with common research interests together, thereby providing an opportunity that has great potential to be mutually beneficial to both parties. The successful student wins a career development award and the chance to work within a highly skilled and experienced research team in an area of interest to them, while the research team is provided with the benefit of the involvement of a fully-funded Pacific postgraduate research student on their team.
The PPP is a three-stage process:
1. Student Application Forms: students who are eligible to undertake a Masters or PhD are required to submit a completed Application Form (PP07) and their CV by the due closing date.
2. Invitation to Research Teams: Research teams are invited to register their interest to have a student placed with them by submitting a Registration of Interest form. HRC will then identify research teams able to provide research training opportunity within the student's self-identified area of research interest and will be invited to participate in the programme. This will involve training and supervising a fully-funded student to complete their Masters or PhD, and to support them in the development of their own research proposals.
3. Placement of Students with relevant research teams across New Zealand.
Last Updated : 27 July 2007 15:25:55.
