Jeremy Bloomfield Memorial Scholarship

History and purpose:

Wellington UniVentures is funding a scholarship in memory of Jeremy Bloomfield, who worked for Wellington UniVentures’ School Support Services team (previously Viclink) from 2014 until his passing in August 2019. Amongst Jeremy’s passions were a love for education and the environment.

This scholarship has been established to support Wellington UniVentures’ mission, of developing innovations arising from Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington research activities and translating the innovation out of the University for maximum benefit to the community. This scholarship will be available to Victoria University of Wellington postgraduate research students, undertaking research in the areas of Education or the Environment.

• The scholarship is to be directed to developing and translating an innovation derived from research in the Education or Environmental disciplines.The intent is to fund a substantial step towards translating an existing innovation, resulting from University research out to the wider community for practical use and impact. For example, this could include the development of a new product, service or prototype that allows the research innovation to find use in the community. Funding new research activity is not eligible under this scholarship.
• Applicants must be enrolled at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington in a discipline substantially related to Education or the Environment at postgraduate level.

Selection Criteria:

• The applicant must be currently enrolled at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, undertaking postgraduate research (PhD or Masters level) in any discipline related to Education or the Environment.
• The scholarship must be used to support a substantial step towards translating an existing research-derived innovation, to the wider community for practical use and impact. Examples of eligible activity include; the development of a product, service or prototype to implement innovative research findings. The scholarship may not be used to fund new research activities.