Māori PhD Scholarship on Machine Learning for Emergency Medical Dispatch

This scholarship is funded by an MBIE Endeavour Smart Idea Fund and has been established to encourage Māori students to conduct doctoral-level research. The scholarship supports full-time PhD study at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, focusing on machine learning applications for emergency medical dispatch. Applicants would normally be expected to have completed a BSc (Hons), MSc Part 1 or a PGDipSc in AIML, COMP, DATA, SWEN or STAT, demonstrating good academic achievement. The scholarship comprises a tax-free stipend plus tuition fees coverage for the thesis component, enabling recipients to focus on their research over a three-year tenure. Recipients are selected based on academic merit and are expected to act as Ambassadors for the University.