This document discusses support provided by the Research Office and Postgraduate Centre at Unitec for staff and student research. It specifically mentions supporting Christoph Schnoor's application to the Marsden Fund, New Zealand's largest competitive funding pool for open-ended research. The Research Office helped with Schnoor's expression of interest and full proposal to the Marsden Fund. If successful, the Marsden Fund grant of $200,000 over two years would support Schnoor's research and add to Unitec's research credibility and profile.

1. Stephen CoxExternal Research Development Manager 3D Story Telling; Schnoor and the Marsden Fund

2. Research Scaffold “The Research Office and Postgraduate Centre work to support staff and student research at Unitec. We provide the scaffolding to support and enable staff and students to conduct excellent research and achieve their research goals. We provide leadership and advocacy for research at Unitec.”

3. Christoph Schnoor

4. Marsden Fund www.marsden.royalsociety.org

5. The Royal Society ; Marsden Marsden supports outstanding early career researchers as evidenced by the Fast-Start awards. The scheme enables emerging researchers to build their careers – and often catalyses a far wider impact

6. Support Provided Identification of Opportunity via Unitec Research Funding Newsletter Management of Online proposals to the Marsden Fund Assistance with the Expression of Interest via quality review, peer assessment, budgeting, and liaison with the Marsden Fund Assistance with the Full proposal via response to international referees

7. Marsden ; Ripe Research Fruit

8. If Successful ; Unitec Research Fruit Unitec’s only Fast Start , Marsden Fund 200K over two years Research Outputs ( 8?) Performance Based Research Fund ( Schnoor –B? , External Research Funding ) Adds more credibility to Unitec’s Research Profile