A New Zealand presence is maintained at the New Zealand Centre through the appointment of Visiting Fellows. The Centre’s Visiting Fellowship is available to permanent or fixed-term academic staff of all eight New Zealand universities. Application rounds are posted once or twice a year through the NZC Advisory Board contacts at all NZ universities.

Forty-five Visiting Fellowships have been funded since 2012 for either a short (10 day) or long (one to three months) visit to Peking University. The Fellow must be based at an academic department at PKU and it is essential that applicants have some established connections or networks at PKU to support their Visiting Fellowship’s research and lecture programme. Applicants need to describe how their proposed fellowship will contribute to the ongoing development of relationships with PKU and between China and New Zealand more generally.

The Fellow will also be supported during their Fellowship by the Advisory Board Secretary in New Zealand and the Centre’s Directors and Liaison Interns in Beijing.

Following their Visiting Fellowship in Beijing, Visiting Fellows will have the opportunity to host a return visit from the Chinese/PKU research collaborator/s through the Visiting Research Fellowship to New Zealand. This fellowship provides the opportunity to further strengthen the research relationship resulting from the original NZC Fellowship at PKU.