NZ-UK Link Foundation NZ Discretionary Awards
17 November 2011
A small number of NZ-UK Link Foundation Discretionary Awards are presented by the New Zealand Management Committee each year. The next deadline for applications for the 2011-12 Discretionary Fellowships is 31 October 2012. Each application for an NZ-UK Link Foundation's New Zealand Discretionary Award, awarded by the New Zealand Management Committee, is considered very carefully. Successful recipients are selected where it is felt the Link Foundation is able to help meaningfully and where there is a reciprocal benefit to both countries.
Lesley Shepherd was the Foundation's 2010 NZ Discretionary Award winner and travelled to the UK as part of the Shakespeare Globe Centre NZ's 'Teachers Go Global' project (pictured right on stage at the Globe as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing). She is currently the director of teaching and learning at Macleans College in Auckland. Lesley took the opportunity to investigate original practices in Shakespearian theatre at the Globe Theatre in London and also attended a range of intensive and exciting workshops in a professional development programme. You can read her entertaining and informative report here.
Applications
Anyone may apply for a NZ-UK Link Foundation New Zealand Discretionary Award if he/she is a citizen or permanent resident of New Zealand. The person must demonstrate the reciprocal benefit of their proposed project to both countries - and be in a position, on completion of the Award, to communicate his/her experiences to interested groups. Applications will be assessed by the Management Committee and applicants advised shortly afterwards.
Close off dates for New Zealand are once yearly on 31st October each year. Download a NZ-Link application form here. For further information contact the New Zealand Executive Officer.
Previous winners
In 2010, the NZ-UK Link Foundation supported flight nurse Karyn Hathaway to attend a residential school in Stirling, Scotland as part of the final year of her Master of Health Science (Endorsed Aeromedical Retrieval and Transport) and film archivist Mark Williams. He had recently concluded his internship with the London film-makers co-operative (LUX) enabling him to study and develop networks for exchange of experimental film and video between NZ and the UK. He was also involved with the visit of British film artist and modernist film-maker Malcolm le Grice to NZ.
The Foundation supported Lynne Campbell, a conservator with Christchurch Art Gallery who has attended the twenty second International Institute of Conservators in London in 2009. Dr Edwina Pio associate professor and equity co-ordinator for the AUT Business School in Auckland also received assistance to visit the Judge Business School Centre for entrepreneurial learning at Cambridge University, while Penelope Jackson curator of Tauranga Art Gallery, was able to take up an invitation to give a paper at the Katherine Mansfield Centenary Conference at Birkbeck College, University of London.
In 2007-08, the Foundation supported three members of the Choir of the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul - Miriam Chote, Gillian Nelson and Andrew Baldwin - with a Discretionary Fellowship worth $6,000 towards their costs for a tour of the UK. Agriculture, a key part of New Zealand's economy, forms one of the the biggest reciprocal and ongoing links between the UK and New Zealand. To help the Guild of Agricultural Journalists & Communicators celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Link Foundation supported a travel fellowship worth $5,000 for a young/emerging journalist or communicator to visit the UK in the middle of this year. This was won by Tim Fulton, 32, the Canterbury-based editor of New Zealand Farmers Weekly publication.
In 2006-07, Wellington's Kotuku Choir of 23 children was awarded $5,000 to assist with internal transport costs for the London portion of its tour to the UK and the US in December 2008. They sang with the Tiffin Choir of Kingston-Upon-Thames.
Exciting young New Zealand portrait artist Freeman White - winner of the 2006 Adams Portrait Award - was also given a lift with a $3,000 award. It went a little way to help him fulfil his dream of an Edinburgh residency at the Scottish National Gallery to develop his artistic skills. Alongside, establishing firm links between the portraiture communities of both countries, the trip enabled Freeman to measure himself against portraiture in the UK and gave him the chance to meet other artists and possible patrons, as well as view masterpieces in the UK.
19 year old Jade Steele was awarded $2,000 towards her travel costs to get to a year long course of study at the London School of Musical Theatre.
Files
- Discretionary Awards Application Form
- Download: Discretionary_Awards_Applications.2011.pdf (191.59 KB)
- Lesley Shepherd Report (2011)
- Download: 2011_NZ_Discretionary_Award_(Lesley_Shepherd).pdf (1.15 MB)
- Lynne Campbell Report 2008
- Download: Lynne_Campbell_2008.pdf (498.92 KB)
- Penelope Jackson Report
- Download: Penelope_Jackson_Report.pdf (45.14 KB)
- Tim Fulton Report
- Download: Tim_Fulton_Report.pdf (141.98 KB)