Research News & Funding Opportunities

1. Research Development Funding Scheme 2026 – closes 5pm 28 November
2. Disability and Inclusive Seed Funding Project 2026 – closes 5pm 28 November
3. FoE GRs and Supervisors End of Year Celebration Event – 8 December
4. Changes to GR Absent Request Forms

1. Research Development Funding Scheme 2026 – closes 5pm 28 November

https://ricunimelb.smartygrants.com.au/FoERDS2_DEC_2025

The Scheme’s primary objectives are to:

Align with Advancing Melbourne 2030 and the Faculty Strategic

• Support FoE researchers to progress their research capabilities and outputs
• Seed new areas of discovery
• Expand established programs of research
• Build new or existing collaborations into a competitive larger-scale proposition for major external research sources
• Enhance research impact through new partnerships and applied outcomes
• Foster a diverse and inclusive academic community with a strong research culture

2. Disability and Inclusive Seed Funding Project 2026 – closes 5pm 28 November

https://ricunimelb.smartygrants.com.au/FoE-DI-2026

The Disability and Inclusive Seed Funding Projects must:

• Be driven by the priorities of people with disability
• Have a practical outcome
• Be interdisciplinary
• Involve strong partnerships with people with disability and/or disability advocacy organisations
• Have a pathway to further research and funding

3. FoE GRs and Supervisors End of Year Celebration Event – 8 December

All GRs and their supervisors are invited to this end of year event where we will celebrate with GRs that completed their RHD this year.

Date: Monday 8 December

Time: 5pm-6.30pm

Venue: Level 9 Conference Room 015

Please register for this event by 12pm Wednesday 3 December

4. Changes to GR Absent Request Forms

The new leave of absence and return from leave forms for graduate researchers are now live.

The new forms are in the same CiA format as other candidature management forms in StudentOne and use similar online workflows. When a graduate researcher submits a request, their principal supervisors will receive an email with a link to the form in StudentOne to record their approval of the request on the form itself. Leave of absence and return from leave forms assigned to principal supervisors will also appear in their Forms Dashboard on StudentOne.

International graduate researchers will no longer need to attach the separate declaration form as the relevant questions have now been embedded in the form itself and will only display for international graduate researchers.