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HRC Research Repository

This library contains details of HRC-funded studies over the past 10 years, including study title, lay summary, lead investigator, host organisation, the sum awarded, year of study commencement, and contract duration.
  • Economic Risks from COVID-19 in Pacific Island Countries

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $51,435.90
    Researchers:
    Professor Ilan Noy
    ,
    Mr Nguyen Doan
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    COVID-19 Rapid Response Project
  • Mental health casual video game for adolescents

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $30,000.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Russell Pine
    ,
    Associate Professor Theresa Fleming
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • He tono whakapiki ora: Whānau and pharmacists’ knowledge exchange

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $258,471.00
    Researchers:
    Mrs Nora Parore
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Clinical Research Training Fellowship
  • The role of whānau in coronial processes and rangatahi suicide prevention

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $29,865.00
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Clive Aspin
    ,
    Professor Antonia Lyons
    ,
    Associate Professor Theresa Fleming
    ,
    Associate Professor Lynne Russell
    ,
    Dr Keri Lawson Te-Aho
    ,
    Dr Heather Gifford
    ,
    Dr Sarah Fortune
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • Understanding how heparan sulfate mimetics control neuroinflammation

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $1,199,969.60
    Researchers:
    Professor Anne La Flamme
    ,
    Dr Olga Zubkova
    ,
    Dr Gill Webster
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project
  • Harnessing lung resident immune cells for mucosal vaccines

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $1,199,975.40
    Researchers:
    Dr Lisa Connor
    ,
    Dr Benjamin Compton
    ,
    Professor Ian Hermans
    ,
    Professor Gavin Painter
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project
  • Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki response to mental health needs in rangatahi

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $5,000.00
    Researchers:
    Miss Ruby Ngamane-Harding
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health Summer Studentship
  • Connecting Kai

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $248,539.60
    Researchers:
    Ms Kahurangi Dey
    ,
    Dr Eva Neely
    ,
    Ms Julia Milne
    ,
    Ms Carolyn Watts
    ,
    Associate Professor Anna Matheson
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Community Action Grant
  • Hapū Whānau: Implementing iwi-owned service hubs to improve health outcomes

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $1,385,761.90
    Researchers:
    Professor Beverley Lawton
    ,
    Helmut Modlik
    ,
    Dr Liza Edmonds
    ,
    Dr Evelyn MacDonald
    ,
    Dr Judy Ormandy
    ,
    Professor Stacie Geller
    ,
    Mrs Francesca Storey
    ,
    Ms Michelle Vincent
    ,
    Ms Victoria Roper
    ,
    Dr Melanie Gibson
    ,
    Ms Varsha Parag
    ,
    Miss Tina Bennett
    ,
    Miss Rachel Pearce
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Project
  • Improving health services for people with extreme obesity

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $29,060.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Caz Hales
    ,
    Associate Professor Anne Haase
    ,
    Associate Professor Mona Jeffreys
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • An exploration of Māori cultural embeddedness

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $67,440.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Ririwai Fox
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health PhD Scholarship
  • Synthesis of fluorescently labelled ligands for therapeutic applications

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $5,000.00
    Researchers:
    Miss Jessica Siesicki
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health Summer Studentship
  • A new research agenda to support safe and accessible assisted dying in Aotearoa

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $29,996.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Jessica Young
    ,
    Dr Jeanne Snelling
    ,
    Ms Leanne Manson
    ,
    Associate Professor Richard Egan
    ,
    Dr Janine Winters
    ,
    Professor Ben White
    ,
    Professor Lindy Willmott
    ,
    Associate Professor Gary Cheung
    ,
    Associate Professor Jackie Robinson
    ,
    Dr Te Hurinui Karaka-Clarke
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • Gaps analysis of mental health and addiction services for rainbow communities

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $29,793.00
    Researchers:
    Dr George Parker
    ,
    Associate Professor Clive Aspin
    ,
    Mx Moira Clunie
    ,
    Associate Professor Suzanne Miller
    ,
    Associate Professor Theresa Fleming
    ,
    Ms Julie Watson
    ,
    Mx Jonathan Selu
    ,
    Mx Joey Macdonald
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • Self-assembling therapeutic nanovaccines for cancer

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $150,000.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Benjamin Compton
    ,
    Dr Lisa Connor
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Explorer Grant
  • Whānau-centric coronial processes to improve suicide prevention strategies

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,192,898.30
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Clive Aspin
    ,
    Dr Denise Blake
    ,
    Professor Antonia Lyons
    ,
    Associate Professor Theresa Fleming
    ,
    Mrs Darna Appleyard
    ,
    Dr Melanie Cheung
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health Project
  • Development of safe, non-addictive pain medications

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,199,999.90
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Bronwyn Kivell
    ,
    Professor Thomas Prisinzano
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project
  • New targets for infectious disease - tackling antimicrobial resistance

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,200,000.00
    Researchers:
    Professor Emily Parker
    ,
    Dr Wanting Jiao
    ,
    Professor Peter Tyler
    ,
    Professor Gregory Cook
    ,
    Associate Professor Jeremy Lott
    ,
    Dr Gerd Mittelstadt
    ,
    Dr Matthew McNeil
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project
  • Manaaki Te Iti Kahurangi: Improving outcomes for whānau

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $4,999,905.10
    Researchers:
    Professor Beverley Lawton
    ,
    Helmut Modlik
    ,
    Dr Liza Edmonds
    ,
    Dr Kendall Stevenson
    ,
    Ms Anna Adcock
    ,
    Dr Leigh Duncan
    ,
    Associate Professor Lynne Russell
    ,
    Dr Evelyn MacDonald
    ,
    Dr Melanie Gibson
    ,
    Mrs Francesca Storey
    ,
    Dr Tania Slater
    ,
    Miss Tina Bennett
    ,
    Ms Varsha Parag
    ,
    Dr Judy Ormandy
    ,
    Ms Victoria Roper
    ,
    Ms Michelle Vincent
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health Programme
  • Employing activities to improve mental health - what is the Aotearoa literature?

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $29,675.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Denise Taylor
    ,
    Associate Professor Anne Haase
    ,
    Ms Jontel Kiwi Kiwi
    ,
    Mrs Teramira Schutz
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • Improving trauma-informed care for youth with complex trauma in residential care

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $123,431.00
    Researchers:
    Ms Jennifer Montgomery
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Development Award
  • Understanding the Experiences and Needs of Māori with Eating Disorders

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $95,939.00
    Researchers:
    Miss Bailey Rose
    ,
    Associate Professor Clive Aspin
    ,
    Professor Marc Wilson
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health PhD Scholarship
  • Large-scale substitution approaches to engineer non-ribosomal peptides

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $536,377.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Mark Calcott
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship
  • Traceless linking methodology for the synthesis of O-linked glycoproteins

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $7,500.00
    Researchers:
    Mr Aidan Lynch
    ,
    Associate Professor Mattie Timmer
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health Summer Studentship
  • Establishing the Long COVID Collective

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $29,914.00
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Mona Jeffreys
    ,
    Associate Professor Lynne Russell
    ,
    Ms Jenene Crossan
    ,
    Dr Lis Ellison-Loschmann
    ,
    Dr Anna Brooks
    ,
    Dr Rosie Dobson
    ,
    Dr David Davies-Payne
    ,
    Associate Professor Tupa'ilevaililigi Ridvan Firestone
    ,
    Dr Fiona McKenzie
    ,
    Dr Claire O'Loughlin
    ,
    Dr Sarah Rhodes
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • Exploring the early experiences of the assisted dying service in Aotearoa

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,399,972.80
    Researchers:
    Dr Jessica Young
    ,
    Dr Jeanne Snelling
    ,
    Associate Professor Gary Cheung
    ,
    Associate Professor Jackie Robinson
    ,
    Dr Te Hurinui Karaka-Clarke
    ,
    Dr Janine Winters
    ,
    Associate Professor Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll
    ,
    Professor Ben White
    ,
    Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell
    ,
    Dr Aida Dehkhoda
    ,
    Professor Kate Diesfeld
    ,
    Associate Professor Richard Egan
    ,
    Kate Reid
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Project
  • Evidence-based management of Long COVID

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,399,904.30
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Mona Jeffreys
    ,
    Associate Professor Lynne Russell
    ,
    Ms Jenene Crossan
    ,
    Dr Lis Ellison-Loschmann
    ,
    Dr Kirsten Smiler
    ,
    Dr Anna Brooks
    ,
    Dr David Davies-Payne
    ,
    Dr Rosie Dobson
    ,
    Associate Professor Tupa'ilevaililigi Ridvan Firestone
    ,
    Dr Fiona McKenzie
    ,
    Dr Claire O'Loughlin
    ,
    Dr Sarah Rhodes
    ,
    Miss Bailey Yee
    ,
    Fiona Dunford
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Project
  • Whanake te Kura - flourishing pēpi and whānau

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,392,637.00
    Researchers:
    Professor Beverley Lawton
    ,
    Ms Shelley Smith
    ,
    Dr Liza Edmonds
    ,
    Professor Trecia Wouldes
    ,
    Associate Professor Lynne Russell
    ,
    Ms Anna Adcock
    ,
    Professor Stacie Geller
    ,
    Mrs Francesca Storey
    ,
    Dr Melanie Gibson
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Project
  • Building a synthetic biology pipeline to develop nucleoside therapeutics

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $250,001.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Alistair Brown
    ,
    Professor David Ackerley
    ,
    Dr Lawrence Harris
    ,
    Associate Professor Robert Keyzers
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Emerging Researcher First Grant
  • Can assisted reproductive technologies better assist Pacific people in Āotearoa?

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $1,199,999.80
    Researchers:
    Dr Zaramasina Clark
    ,
    Dr Edmond Fehoko
    ,
    Associate Professor Janet Pitman
    ,
    Associate Professor Rhonda Shaw
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Pacific Health Project
  • Identifying autistic tamariki Māori using the Integrated Data Infrastructure

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $30,000.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Jessica Tupou
    ,
    Dr Nicholas Bowden
    ,
    Ms Francis Kewene
    ,
    Associate Professor Reremoana Theodore
    ,
    Mr Andrew Sporle
    ,
    Miss Tori Diamond
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • The Impact of long COVID on Pacific families living in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $29,887.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Marianna Churchward
    ,
    Dr Jesse Kokaua
    ,
    Dr Lanuola Asiasiga
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • Impacts of COVID-19 on work and education

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $29,778.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Fiona McKenzie
    ,
    Dr Adreanne Ormond
    ,
    Associate Professor Mona Jeffreys
    ,
    Dr Claire O'Loughlin
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • An evaluation of WELLfed: pilot data collection

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $29,781.00
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Mona Jeffreys
    ,
    Ms Kahurangi Dey
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • Personalised breast cancer screening in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $30,000.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Nokuthaba Sibanda
    ,
    Mr Broden Bishop
    ,
    Dr Annette Lasham
    ,
    Dr Nicholas Knowlton
    ,
    Associate Professor Bridget Robson
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant
  • Invisible inequity: Healthcare insights from people with rare disorders

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $29,992.00
    Researchers:
    Professor Karen McBride-Henry
    ,
    Dr Tara Officer
    ,
    Dr Michael Roguski
    ,
    Dr Gretchen Good
    ,
    Ms Kim Mcguinness
    ,
    Mrs Michelle Arrowsmith
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Research Activation Grant