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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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Harkness Fellowship – applications open!

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…

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