Australian Research Council and NHMRC Funding Options
ARC Discovery Program
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Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) This is a separate element of the Discovery Program. The DECRA scheme provides more focused support for researchers and is intended to create more opportunities for early-career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions. |
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Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development Provides support for Indigenous Researchers to undertake research projects that may lead to an understanding of a particular subject, or that may meet the requirements of their postgraduate research degrees. |
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Provide funding for research projects which may be undertaken by individual researchers or research teams. A variety of fellowships are offered under the scheme to nurture the talents of Australia's most promising early-career researchers and support established researchers. The fellowships take into account the professional standing of individual researchers.
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ARC Linkage Program
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Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities The LIEF scheme fosters collaboration through its support of the cooperative use of national and international research facilities. The scheme provides funding for large-scale cooperative initiatives so that expensive infrastructure, equipment and facilities can be shared by researchers in partnered organisations. However, the ARC may fund single-organisation proposals in some circumstances. |
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Support research and development projects which are collaborative between higher education researchers and other parts of the national innovation system, which are undertaken to acquire new knowledge, and which involve risk or innovation. |
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Industrial Transformation Research Program The Program will support strong partnerships between researchers and industry to help create new and improved products, processes and services, and generate new high-wage, high-skill jobs for Australians. |
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ARC Fellowships
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Australian Laureate Fellowships These awards are open to applications from outstanding researchers of international repute. The scheme encourages proposals involving Australian and international researchers by providing eligible Australian Laureate Fellows with Project Funding, in addition to a salary supplement and salary- related (on-cost) support |
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An additional round of the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) prestigious Future Fellowships scheme was secured and announced in May, as part of the Federal Budget 2013-14. The Future Fellowships scheme was announced by the Australian Government in 2008 and was implemented to promote research in areas of critical national importance by giving outstanding researchers incentives to conduct their research in Australia. The aim of Future Fellowships is to attract and retain the best and brightest mid-career researchers. |
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ARC Centres of Excellence
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The Australian Research Council has recently updated its Important Dates for the forthcoming Centres of Excellence (COE) round, including both the Expressions Of Interest and full application phases. While the ARC is yet to officially announce the call for proposals and publish the scheme documentation for 2014 COEs, with the round timelines now firming up, UTAS has opened its internal EOI process with immediate effect. please visit the UTAS Centres Of Excellence page for full details. |
25 February 2013 - UTAS ODVCR due date for completed internal Expression of Interest forms. ARC (external) closing date of 10 April 2013. Early March 2013 Outcomes of UTAS’s Expression of Interest phase are expected to be known |
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research, for developing health advice for the Australian community, health professionals and governments, and for providing advice on ethical behaviour in health care and in the conduct of health and medical research.
Applications for Menzies Research Institute Tasmania on behalf of the university. The contact for applications within Menzies is currently Dr. Lisa Schimanski Tel: +61 3 6226 7784