Apply for Funding

Yes, the budget can include costs for the stipends of postgraduate students (e.g. Masters or PhD), if their research topics lie within the funded grant.

The grant application must be completed by the Principal Investigator.

No, only the Principal investigator can have access to the portal with their login details.

Yes, please submit an application, and select “other”. If Cure Kids selects your proposal, we will ask you to provide evidence that your chosen Host Institution has the necessary governance structures, financial processes, and research capacity to employ research staff, oversee the research, and administer the Grant Funds. Your Host Institution must be approved prior to the release of any awarded funds. For further information refer to the " Institution Eligibility" page.

The lead Principal Investigator can list a Co-Principal Investigator on the application, however only the lead PI will have access to the application.

Applications are judged on more than the experience and CV of the Principal Investigator.

Cure Kids’ assessment process considers the diverse skills contributed across the research team and its collaborators, including contributions of experienced people in the research team who can provide advice and mentoring to early-career researchers.

Yes, you can submit more than one application in the same competitive round, and contribute to different research groups, as long as each proposal is completely distinct – they can’t be overlapping.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach, but a good starting point is to engage with either Māori researchers or Māori communities early in the process of study design. For further guidelines on Vision mātauranga, please refer to

Make sure that you include and credit all contributors to the research. Think not only about the science involved in the proposal, but also about stakeholders who could benefit, and form those relationships and partnerships as early as possible in the process in a way that is sustainable.

As a registered charity, Cure Kids can only undertake activities in pursuit of its charitable objectives, and therefore does not fund overheads. The Host Institution must agree to cover overhead costs such as any costs of buildings, premises, office equipment, or administrative expenses. Cure Kids will not contribute to the salaries of staff who are already permanently employed by the host institution for the duration of a grant. Cure Kids will only cover salaries for Named Investigators who depend on securing some or all of their salary from outside their host institutions (so-called “soft” funding). These researchers must disclose all their other sources of partial salary-support, including employment and research activities.