Landcare Research - Manaaki Whenua

Landcare-Research -Manaaki Whenua

Collaboration with universities

National Land Resource Centre (NLRC) - a gateway to New Zealand’s land information and services

National Land Resource Centre (NLRC) - a gateway to New Zealand’s land information and services

All our larger sites are on or close to university campuses and we have a number of joint appointments with New Zealand universities. This facilitates collaborative research, and makes it easier for our staff to supervise postgraduate students and present invited lectures. We are also developing more strategic opportunities for summer students within our research programmes.

To encourage many more PhD students into our research programmes, we have increased the number of part-time appointments (seven) of our high performing scientists to our Joint Graduate School with the University of Auckland.

During the year, we hosted 16 postdoctoral researchers – talented young researchers embarking on science careers, more than half of whom are from New Zealand with the others coming from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain and the UK.

Links with universities

For year ended 30 June: 2010 2011 2012 2013
NZ university staff in our research projects 48 38 41 421
Our staff in university projects 18 13 13 72
Postgraduates being supervised by our staff 98 71 102 483
Staff paid to lecture in university courses 14 12 7 104
University positions held by staff 41 36 39 295

1 42 staff and postgrad students from 8 universities collaborating in 33 of our research projects
2 7 of our staff in 7 programmes at 3 universities
3 38 PhD, 9 MSc and 1 postgraduate diploma (does not include students supervised by overseas research associates). The significant drop reflects the completion of a large number of theses
4 10 staff delivered 15 sets of paid lectures; another 22 staff provided 25 sets of guest lectures for no fee
5 22 staff hold 29 honorary positions (professorships, lectureships, fellowships) in New Zealand and overseas universities

Collaborative research centres, networks and consortia

We are partners with universities, CRIs and other agencies in a number of national and international research centres, consortia and networks in areas relevant to our National Outcomes and capability as outlined in the Scope of our Core Purpose.

Outcome 1:Biodiversity

  • Centre for Biodiversity and Biosecurity (CBB)
    www.cbb.org.nz
  • Regional Councils’ Biodiversity Forum
  • Invasive Animals Cooperative Research Centre
    www.invasiveanimals.com
  • Southern Temperate Ecosystems Research Network (STERN)
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
    www.gbif.org
  • Species2000 Catalogue of Life
    www.sp2000.org

Outcome 2:Land resources

Outcome 3:Greenhouse gases

Outcome 4:Industries and business