Funding Opportunities
If you are interested to submitting for any of these opportunities, please contact foe-research@unimelb.edu.au as soon as possible.
National Foundation for Australia-China Relations 2024-25 Competitive Grants Program
Closes 9 September 12.00pm (ACT time)
The Foundation’s grant program aims to promote and coordinate enhanced cooperation between Australia and mainland China, Hong Kong and/or Taiwan, in support of Australia’s national interests and the Australia-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership.
The following objectives will guide this grant opportunity:
o strengthening risk-informed institutional and people-to-people connections and practical cooperation with mainland China, Hong Kong and/or Taiwan in Australia’s national interest
o building Australian capability to engage
o showcasing Australian excellence
o enhancing dialogue and exchange that contributes to a stable and constructive relationship.
Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success
The 2025 rounds of our First Nations and Equity Fellowship programs will provide fully-funded annual fellowships for researchers and practitioners in higher education, to complete a project that will inform an area of Australian higher education practice and policy in relation to domestic students, via a combination of research, translation, best practice implementation, evaluation, and knowledge transfer.
Applications close: 4pm (AWST) on Friday, 27 September 2024.
Applications close: 4pm (AWST) on Friday, 27 September 2024.
Applicants are sought from a broad range of backgrounds (practitioners, researchers, managers), areas (those that contribute to enhancing student equity/student experience, including, but not limited to, designated equity roles) and career stages (early, middle, later)
2025-26 Large Grants Research Program.
Proposals are sought via a two-stage process, with this Expression of Interest (EOI) stage followed by a second stage where successful EOI applicants are invited to submit full detailed proposals for consideration.
EOIs close: 4pm (AWST) on Friday, 6 September 2024.
Full applications close: 4pm (AWST) on Friday, 27 September 2024.
The 2025-26 Large Grants Research Program will fund proposals that address research topics of importance to contemporary developments and challenges in higher education equity policy, practice, and evaluation, across the following priorities:
- Alternative Pathways and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
- Supporting academic success and effective and inclusive curriculum design and delivery.
- University engagement with First Nations and diverse equity-bearing cohorts – belonging, empowerment, and the student voice.
Manchester-Melbourne Call for Jointly Awarded/Dual PhD Projects
MERI deadline for applications 4 October 5pm
RIC deadline closes: 11 October 5pm
Melbourne and Manchester are calling for project proposals to establish pairs of jointly awarded/dual PhD research projects. Each successful team of collaborating Primary Investigators (PIs) will receive funding for two jointly awarded/dual PhD candidates, one based in Manchester, and one based in Melbourne. Funding for each candidate will include tuition fees, a full living stipend allowance, research training support, health insurance and travel allowance.
Project proposals are open to all research areas at Melbourne and the following Manchester faculties: Science and Engineering, and Humanities. Noting that, Manchester’s Faculty of Humanities particularly encourages applications in Creativity, Digital Futures, Inequalities, Post-COVID Society, and Sustainability. Those that involve Early Career Researchers (ECRs) as either Principal Investigators or co-investigators are strongly encouraged.
Melbourne academics must be registered to supervise as per the Supervisor Eligibility and Registration Policy. Primary supervisors should be employed at UoM beyond the envisaged submission date of their PhD candidates (2030). If their employment contract does not extend beyond the submission date, then alternative arrangements must be in place, by either having: