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The Waipapa Taumata Rau Transdisciplinary Ideation Fund is a new initiative that encourages research staff from across the University to develop cross-faculty research partnerships, aspiring toward high-quality transdisciplinary research outputs and successful applications to external research funders.

Applications can gain up to $60k from this fund (for full expenditure in 2022) and must involve team leaders that are from at least two Faculties or Large-Scale Research Institutes (LSRIs).

To facilitate new cross-faculty research collaborations, workshops are being held in July and August for research staff from across the University.

The workshop (in person only - no zoom) will further support research staff towards submitting applications to the Waipapa Taumata Rau Transdisciplinary Ideation Fund. While Principal Investigators will need to be research active academic staff from the University of Auckland, all involved in research in the University of Auckland are welcome to attend.

The Advancing Just, Cultured and Engaged Communities and Innovating Contemporary, Distributed, Secure Knowledge Systems Workshop will be held in the Great Hall on Level One of the ClockTower (City Campus - please note location change) on the 13th August.

You will be encouraged to delve into problems, uncover innovative solutions, identify research projects and initiate new collaborative working partnerships. These workshops gather academic staff from across all Faculties and LSRIs, attracting a diverse mix of attendees spanning early, mid to senior career researchers.

This Transdisciplinary Ideation Fund has emerged as a partnership between all of the Faculties and LSRIs, the Office of Research Strategy and Integrity (ORSI) and UniServices. Applicants from all Faculties/LSRIs are encouraged to participate.

Transdisciplinary Ideation Workshop - 13th August