Research Impetus Grants

You MUST email foe-research@unimelb.edu.au if you are interested in this funding opportunity.

Closes: 3pm Friday 24 May

Information Webinar: Monday 6 May 11am (register here)

The University of Melbourne recognises that significant interruptions to research and career opportunity, or disruptive life experiences, may detrimentally affect a researcher’s professional capacity and trajectory.

The University of Melbourne’s Research Impetus Grants scheme (pilot round open for application in 2024) aims to help early-career and mid-career researchers who have experienced significant career disruption/s regain their research momentum.

It does this by awarding funding for bespoke and targeted grants that have a strong and demonstrable likelihood of supporting the academic staff to regain the promising research career trajectory they were on prior to the disruption/s. Research Impetus Grants support recipients to progress their research program, build partnerships and networks, and produce research of high quality and impact.

Applicants must be academic staff of the University who:

• Have held, for a minimum of six months, a salaried fixed-term or continuing appointment with the University of 0.5 FTE or more, at Level A, B or C, and will continue to hold an appointment for a requisite period to achieve the proposed outcomes of the grant; and
• Have a minimum research allocation of 40% of their employment fraction (i.e. Education & Research, Academic Specialist, or Research Focussed) during the proposed duration of the grant; and
• Have experienced a significant disruption/s that demonstrably impeded their research or career trajectory and occurred (or was continuing) within the timeframe 24 May 2019 to 24 May 2024 (i.e., within the prior five years to the closing date for applications under this scheme).

Please see website 2024 Research Impetus Grants for more details.