External Research Grants

All external research grant applications should be lodged via the Office of Research Services at least five working days prior to the external closing date, and be accompanied by a completed and signed External Research Proposal Clearance form (Word, 94Kb).

Please note that a 15% infrastructure levy applies to all external research income other than grants income from schemes included in the Australian Competitive Grants Register (opens in a new window).

Australian Research Council

The Australian Research Council (ARC) funds research and researchers under the National Competitive Grants Program. As part of its commitment to nurturing the creative abilities and skills of Australia's most promising researchers.

Please refer to the Important Dates (opens in a new window) for key dates and updates relevant to these Funding Rules.

If you are considering submitting an application in this round, please contact your relevant Research Development Officer to register your intention to apply.

More information can be obtained from the ARC web site (opens in a new window).

National Health and Medical Research Council Grants

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is Australia's peak body for supporting health and medical research; for developing health advice for the Australian community, health professionals and governments; and for providing advice on ethical behaviour in health care and in the conduct of health and medical research.

Program Grants

Closing Date: 22 May 2013 (UWS Internal Deadline)

NHMRC Program Grants provide support for teams of high calibre researchers to pursue broad based, multi-disciplinary and collaborative research activities. Teams will be expected to contribute to new knowledge at a leading international level in important areas of health and medical research.

The scheme is available for all research approaches relevant to better health - biomedical, clinical, public health or health services research and is typically for 5 years.

Note: If you are considering submitting an application in this round, please contact your relevant Research Development Officer to register your intention to apply.

Further information: NHMRC Program Grants (opens in a new window). 

Postgraduate Scholarships

Closing Date: 19 June 2013 (UWS Internal Deadline)

The aim of the NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships (PGS) scheme is to support outstanding health and medical graduates early in their career so that they can be trained to conduct research that is internationally competitive and to develop a capacity for original independent research within Australia. This is usually achieved by NHMRC funding successful applicants to attain a research based postgraduate degree, which may be a PhD, a PhD equivalent degree, or Masters Degree.

Note: If you are considering submitting an application in this round, please contact your relevant Research Development Officer to register your intention to apply.

Further information: NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarships (opens in a new window).

Development Grants

Closing Date: 26 June 2013 (UWS Internal Deadline)

A Development Grant provides funding support to individual researchers, research teams, or a HMR company in partnership with a researcher/s to undertake research at the early proof-of-principle or pre-seed stage.

The Scheme supports the commercial development of a product, process, procedure or service that if applied, would result in improved health care, disease prevention or provide health cost savings.

Applications must demonstrate a basic understanding of the process and steps required to move from research to outcomes that can be commercialised, including:

  • the process and steps to a market, the nature of the market;
  • the milestones and risks of the venture; and
  • an understanding of possible means of handling intellectual property connected with the project.

Note: If you are considering submitting an application in this round, please contact your relevant Research Development Officer to register your intention to apply.

Further information: NHMRC Development Grants (opens in a new window).

NHMRC Research Grants Management System

To assist with understanding the new NHMRC Research Grants Management System (RGMS) NHMRC has recently introduced a training tool called CAPA. This training tool can be accessed from the welcome screen of RGMS - top right hand corner next to the button with an "X". The tool provides step by step instruction on how to use all sections of RGMS.

Any researcher intending to apply for an NHMRC grant should familiarise themselves with this system.

More information can be obtained from the following NHMRC web site (opens in a new window).

Research bulletin

The Research bulletin (PDF, 102.39 KB) is a fortnightly upcoming funding opportunities bulletin delivered direct by email.

You can subscribe to this service by contacting the Research Development Assistant, Angela Theodorou. 

Grant calendar

The 2013-2014 Research Funding Calendar (PDF, 328Kb) is an annual overview of major funding opportunities/grant schemes designed to assist researchers in planning their research workload.

COS Pivot funding database

Pivot focuses on what matters most to Research Administrators, Research Development Professionals, and their institutions: the ability to identify and connect funding opportunities to researchers.

UWS maintains a full subscription to the COS Pivot funding database (opens in a new window), enabling researchers to set up individual profiles and automated personalised searches tailored to capture individual’s research interests.

To obtain a password which then will allow you to use the service off-campus, you will need to access this service initially from a UWS computer.

For any assistance with COS Pivot contact the Research Development Assistant, Angela Theodorou.  

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