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24 New Zealand Brain Research Institute

NZBRI 2017 Statement of Service Performance

Reveal new knowledge about the

brain and its dysfunction

Output

Submit high-quality funding applications to competitive funding rounds
at external research funding bodies.

The Institute’s research activity is primarily funded by grants from external

sources. Any funds awarded are as the result of a competitive process, and the
quality of the work is assessed by national and international peer reviewers.

These measures were not reported in previous SSPs.

Performance Measures Performance

Quantity Numbers of grants submitted 23

Quality Numbers of grants successful or otherwise 10 successful
5 unsucessful
7 awaiting a decision

1 withdrawn (due to success
of application to antoher body)

Outcome Funding received to enable research activity, by providing for
research costs and maintaining employment stability for externally-

funded research staff.

Most external research income is not directly awarded to the Institute and
hence does not appear explicitly in its Financial Statements. This is because
most of its research staff must apply for funding through their affiliated
university as the host organisation. Thus the Institute generates much more
research income than is apparent from its own Financial Statements.