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The New Zealand Harkness Fellowships are intended to enable outstanding mid-career professionals in any field of study or vocation except health policy, to undertake a Fellowship programme which best suits their professional and personal objectives. The Fellowships seek to reinforce…

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The New Zealand Harkness Fellowship is for a high-potential senior leader in any field of study or vocation (excluding health care policy and practice) to study or research in the US for between 3-6 months. One New Zealand Harkness Fellowship…

2025 FELLOW

The Harkness Fellowships Trust (NZ) is proud to announce the selection of Hākopa Ashdown as the 2025 New Zealand Harkness Fellow. Hākopa Ashdown, (Te Aupōuri, Ngai Takoto, Ngāti Kahu), currently Private Secretary to the Minister for Māori Development at Te…

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Harkness@100: From Treasury to Harvard – setting the stage for growth

By Ross Tanner I was awarded a Fellowship in 1980, for 21 months tenure in the US commencing August 1981. At university, I had majored in English literature and language, and then was employed in The Treasury as a policy…

Harkness@100: Fellowship reignited my passion for journalism

By Peter Griffin Watching Obama’s second inauguration from the Mall in Washington D.C., sitting in on editorial meetings with the team at the Center for Public integrity, or visiting the fusion reactor at MIT in Boston. It’s hard to pick…

Harkness@100: From Boston bagels to 9/11 – reflections of a Harkness Fellow

By John Hobbs I undertook my Harkness scholarship over the 2001/02 period with two other New Zealanders, Rae Lamb, and Frances Hughes. My research was undertaken with the oversight of Professor David Bates of the Harvard Medical School.  I arrived…

Harkness@100: Culture shock and curiosity – A Harkness Fellow’s journey across America

By Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (former Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch) I was awarded a Harkness Fellowship by the UK Harkness Committee in 1969. This funded me for 21 months as a PhD student in linguistics at the…

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Championing innovation in Māori economic development: Jacob (Hākopa) Ashdown named 2025 Harkness Fellow

The Harkness Fellowships Trust (NZ) is proud to announce the selection of Hākopa Ashdown as the 2025 New Zealand Harkness Fellow.  Hākopa Ashdown, (Te Aupōuri, Ngai Takoto, Ngāti Kahu), currently Private Secretary to the Minister for Māori Development at Te…

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Fellows in the spotlight: Aphra Green

In 2016, Aphra Green, then a senior manager at the Ministry of Justice, visited the US justice sector as a Harkness Fellow. Her research looked at how New Zealand could deliver better evidence and decision-making tools to criminal justice system…

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