Research Events & Funding Opportunities

If you are applying for a research grant please contact foe-research@unimelb.edu.au as soon as possible!

  1. First Round Table for the year Are we ready to prioritise student wellbeing, and who’s going to drive the necessary change? – TODAY!
  2. Commercialisation for Impact Network: Data for good, mental health & wellbeing – 5 June
  3. Global Childhoods Graduate Research Symposium – 25 June
  4. John Templeton Foundation Grants – closes 15 August
  5. CFC Foundation Grants – Always Open

1. First Round Table TODAY! Are we ready to prioritise student wellbeing, and who’s going to drive the necessary change?

Date: Thursday 29 May

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Conference room 915 or zoom https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/88690538459?pwd=acGnD73i6NnvsiEf7rIIvfzBzopUuD.1&from=addon

 If prompted for a password, please enter: 852925

Hosted by Professor Nikki Rickard, Centre for Wellbeing Centre

Panel will include Professor Jon Quach from the Learning Intervention Academic Group, Professor Pasi Sahlberg from the Teacher Academic group, Professor Dianne Vella-Brodrick, Dr Tan Chyuan Chin and Dr Catherine Smith from the Centre for Wellbeing Science

2. Commercialisation for Impact Network: Data for good, mental health & wellbeing

Commercialisation for Impact Network: Data for good, mental health & wellbeing

10.30am – 12pm, Thursday 5 June 2025 at Melbourne Connect 

Hear from our guest speakers about their impact journeys: 

  • Vivek Katial – co-founder and Executive Director of The Good Data Institute (GDI), and recent PhD graduate,
  • Caitlin Hitchcock – Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, and creator of MemFlex: an innovative app-based mental health intervention.,
  • Jon Quach — Professor, Education, and chief investigator of Mental Health in Primary Schools project, the largest mental health investment in Victoria.  

Find out about University funding and support. Meet others who are working to deliver impact through products, services, startups and social ventures.  

Secure your spot: EventBrite  Join the Commercialisation for Impact Network

3. Global Childhoods Graduate Research Symposium – 25 June

Date: 25 June

Time: 9.30am-1.30pm

Venue: Studio 5 KLD

The Global Childhoods Graduate Research Symposium is a half-day symposium shows casing GRs from the Global Childhood Research Hub.

Register at https://go.unimelb.edu.au/dq8p

4. John Templeton Foundation Grants – closes 15 August

The John Templeton Foundation invites applications to support research in the foundation’s core areas. These are:
– Character Virtue Development: seeks to advance the science and practice of character, with a focus on moral, performance, civic, and intellectual virtues such as humility, gratitude, curiosity, diligence, and honesty
– Individual Freedom & Free Markets: supports education, research, and outreach projects to promote individual freedom, free markets, free competition, and entrepreneurship
– Life Sciences: supports experimental and theoretical work on a broad range of areas and topics, including origins of life, complexity, emergence, evolution, human development, and ecological health and interventions.
– Mathematical & Physical Sciences: interested in fundamental questions in the mathematical and physical sciences and how they might converge to form a coherent picture of physical reality
– Public Engagement: funds a wide variety of grantees to create content, cultivate thought leadership, and develop campus programming
– Religion, Science, and Society: supports the discovery of meaningful and practical insights into the religious, spiritual, and cultural dimensions of humanity.

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5. CFC Foundation Grants – Always Open

The Foundation is responsive to requests that contribute to increasing access to opportunities and is dedicated to supporting charities, non-profit organisations, and social enterprises that work within the four primary focus areas:

1. Education
– The Foundation strives to provide much-needed funds to offer powerful learning opportunities that aim to reduce the opportunity gap for those who are most disadvantaged by it
– It will allow these organisations to continue working on researching and implementing best practice pedagogies and providing financial, educational, and emotional assistance to enable students to perform at their best and decrease the gap in learning due to social and economic disadvantages.

2. Medical Research & Health
– There are several foundations and charities in the not-for-profit sector which provide assistance towards medical research and health services in Australia. Many of them have a specific focus such as cancer, diabetes and arthritis. Others are heavily focused on medical research, providing information and raising awareness on specific health conditions. Some charities also fund support for specific patients undergoing treatment
– The Foundation will work with these institutions and support their cause by extending grants and assistance for specific schemes and programs.

3. Disadvantage Youth
– Knowledge, education and physical wellbeing are all factors impacting the full and effective participation of youth in social, economic and political development. Increased attention to improving participation rates of young people, particularly marginalised youth, is needed to ensure that they acquire the knowledge, capacities, skills and ethical values needed to fulfil their role as agents of development, good governance, social inclusion, tolerance and peace
– The Foundation will work with organisations who support disadvantaged youths in attaining general and technical skills, physical fitness, and assist them in their personal development to contribute to their local communities.

4. Arts & Culture
– Art and culture have a huge impact on society and bring diverse communities together. Throughout human existence, art has been an imperative tool in measuring cultural development and recording history. It is one of the most dynamic methods and norms that can make human behaviour change. It can increase empathy, trigger reflection, increase dialogue and help generate new ideas and relationships that can enhance expression of ideas and positive values. Arts help humanity build new possibilities and rehearse a different way of living and connecting
– The Foundation will seek to support charities which encourage participation, education and appreciation of numerous artistic and cultural disciplines including painting, sculpture, writing, photography, puppetry, film, theatre, opera, dance, and music

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