| Funding
Scheme |
Description |
| Australia Fellowships |
To support the most outstanding
health and/or medical researchers. Successful applicants
have leading international status in their fields and
are conducting research programs of major impact and
benefit to Australia.
This scheme is no longer accepting applications. |
| Capacity Building Grants for
Population Health and Health Services Research |
To provide flexible support to build
groups of excellent population health and/or health
services researchers to pursue broadly based
collaborative research activity.
This scheme is longer accepting applications. |
|
Career Development Fellowships |
For internationally competitive
independent researchers, 2-12 years since the award of a
PhD. Career Development Fellowships are tenable for 4
years and offered at 2 funding levels:
CDF Level 1: 2 to less than 7 years postdoctoral
experience, from $99,431 per annum;
CDF Level 2: 7 to less than 12 years postdoctoral
experience, from $109,980 per annum. |
|
Centres of Research Excellence |
To support research leading to
improved health outcomes; to promote effective
translation of research outcomes into clinical practice
and to support researchers in capacity building
activities in specific areas of need identified by
NHMRC. CREs may comprise a single physical
entity/institute or be geographically disparate, linking
collaborative clinical research effort from several
different organisations. CREs are of 5 years duration.
Funding does not exceed $2.5 million for each Centre. |
|
Development Grants |
To support development of health or
medical research that has commercial potential and the
promise to benefit the Australian community, funding
research commercialisation at the early proof-of-concept
stage. Applicants are encouraged to have a commercial
partner; but this is not essential. Applicants may apply
for funding of between one and three years duration.
There is no specific limit of funding that may be
requested. |
|
Early Career Fellowships |
To provide opportunities for
Australian researchers to undertake research, either in
Australia or overseas, that is both of major importance
in its field and of benefit to Australian health. For
researchers in a health-related field with no more than
2 years postdoctoral research experience. Early Career
Fellowships are tenable for 4 years and are awarded from
$69,891 per annum for salary plus $5,000 per annum for
maintenance. Clinical loadings apply for medical
and dental practitioners. |
|
Mental Health
Targeted Call for Research |
This TCR is focused on research that
will deliver immediate and long term benefits to
children and young adults (less than 25 years of age)
with mental illness, such as policy and service delivery
improvements. Applicants under the TCR are intended to
be highly collaborative and sustainable beyond the
duration of NHMRC funding. A total of $13 million is
available to support a small number of projects of up to
5 years duration. |
|
NHMRC-EU Collaborative
Research Grants |
The NHMRC - European Union Collaborative Research Grants scheme aims to provide assistance to Australian researchers to participate
in multinational research collaborative projects with international researchers that have been
selected for funding under the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) Cooperation
Calls for proposals. |
|
Partnership Centres - Systems Perspectives on Preventing
Lifestyle-Related Chronic Health Problems |
The primary aim of the NHMRC
Partnership Centres initiative is to have a national
resource for excellence in research and related
knowledge exchange in areas central to improving
Australia's health and health care. The strategic
leadership of the centres will be from health or health
care systems and governance will be shared with those
from the research world.
Partnership Centres will be broader in focus than the
Partnership Projects, be driven by system needs and
multiple objectives. The theme of the second Centre is
Systems Perspectives on Preventing Lifestyle-Related
Chronic Health Problems and will
receive up to $25 million over five years from NHMRC and its funding partners. |
|
Partnership Projects |
NHMRC Partnerships for Better Health
- Projects (Partnership Projects) provide funding and
support to create new opportunities for researchers and
policy makers to work together to define research
questions and undertake research and also to interpret
and implement the findings. These research topics are
investigator initiated. |
|
Postgraduate Scholarships |
To support outstanding Australian
health and medical graduates to undertaken PhD studies
or Masters by research. Applicants are ineligible to
apply if they are in the final year of their PhD or
Masters studies after 1 January 2013.
Standard (non MBBS) stipend: $23,729
per annum;
Priority (Nursing, midwifery, allied health
professionals) stipend: $30,584 per annum;
Medical/Dental stipend: $35,329 per
annum. |
|
Practitioner
Fellowships |
To support active clinicians and
public health or health services professionals to
undertake research that is linked to their practice or
policy. Recipients of Practitioner Fellowships are
generally in the top 10% of their field. Practitioner
Fellowships are tenable for 5 years and categorised in 2
levels in increasing order of experience and seniority:
Practitioner Fellowship Level 1: from
$126,861 per annum;
Practitioner Fellowship Level 2: from
$152,180 per annum. |
|
Program Grants |
To support teams of high calibre
researchers to pursue broadly based collaborative
research activities. Program Grants are of 5 years
duration. The budgets offered are determined by the
NHMRC and are dependent on the assessment of the Chief
Investigators' track records rather than the research
proposed. |
|
Project Grants |
To fund project-based research
activities for individuals and small teams (1-6 Chief
Investigators) that lead to improved health of all
Australians. Applicants may apply for funding of between
one and five years duration. There is no specific limit
of funding that may be requested. |
|
Research Fellowships |
To support outstanding health and
medical researchers, usually 9
or more years since the award of a PhD. Recipients of
Research Fellowships are generally in the top 10% of
their field. Research Fellowships are tenable for 5
years and categorised in 3 levels in increasing order of
experience and seniority:
Senior Research Fellow (SRF A and SRF B): from
$116,182 per annum;
Principal Research Fellow: $140,559 per annum;
Senior Principal Research Fellow: $158,972 per
annum. |
|
Translating Research Into Practice
(TRIP) Fellowships |
To provide support and protected time
for clinicians in researching approaches to applying
evidence to improve care, and develop the range of
skills needed for leadership in research translation.
Open to early-to-mid career medical practitioners,
nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and other
health professionals. TRIP Fellowships are funded for 2
years at 0.5FTE and categorised in 2 levels in
increasing order of seniority:
TRIP Fellowship Level 1: $62,000 per annum;
TRIP Fellowship Level 2: $70,000 per annum. |