Internal Research Grants

• Research Partnerships Program
• International Research Initiatives Scheme
• Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers
• Research Infrastructure Fund
• Eminent Research Visitor Scheme
• Research Grant Scheme
• Reports 

A listing of successful internal research grants is available.

Research Partnerships Program

Research Partnerships Grants develop innovative, joint research projects with partners from industry, commerce, and the public and community sectors.

Applications Called: 5 March 2010 (Rnd 1) & 30 July 2010 (Rnd 2)
Closing Date: 16 April 2010 (Rnd 1) & 10 September 2010 (Rnd 2)
Results Announced: June 2010 (Rnd 1) & October 2010 (Rnd 2)

• Guidelines (PDF, 84Kb)  

International Research Initiatives Scheme

The International Research Initiative Scheme supports short visits by researchers from overseas to UWS and short research visits by UWS staff to sites overseas to use major facilities for engagement in international project activity.

Applications Called: 5 March 2010 (Rnd 1) & 30 July 2010 (Rnd 2)
Closing Date: 16 April 2010 (Rnd 1) & 10 September 2010 (Rnd 2)
Results Announced: June 2010 (Rnd 1) & October 2010 (Rnd 2)

• Guidelines (PDF, 70Kb)

Seed Grants for Early Career Researchers

The Research Seed Grant Scheme provides an internal source of research funding to be allocated on a competitive basis to UWS staff. The Research Seed Grant Scheme offers initial funding for the establishment of projects conducted by newer investigators, supporting individual investigators as well as small research teams.

Applications Called: 4 June 2010
Closing Date: 23 July 2010
Results Announced: September 2010

• Guidelines (PDF, 91Kb)

Research Infrastructure Fund

The Research Infrastructure Fund (RIF) is designed to provide major infrastructure (minimum request $100,000, maximum award $500,000) to areas of demonstrable research strength founded on a core group of research active staff with shared research interests and complementary expertise at UWS.

Applications Called: 2 July 2010
Closing Date: 20 August 2010
Results Announced: October 2010

• Guidelines (PDF, 54Kb)

Eminent Research Visitor Scheme

Eminent Visiting Research Fellowships foster and secure long term international research collaborations and intensify the research capacity of UWS’s nationally competitive research groupings. Visitors join the University for sustained periods over a designated triennium.

Applications Called: 2 July 2010
Closing Date: 20 August 2010
Results Announced: October 2010

• Guidelines (PDF, 50Kb)

Research Grant Scheme

The UWS Research Grant Scheme is designed to offer funding to staff, either individual researchers or research teams, who have a twelve month program in mind to promote their research project to the point where support from national competitive grant programs, or other major external funding schemes or sources can be realistically sought.

Applications Called: 13 August 2010
Closing Date: 1 October 2010
Results Announced: November 2010

• Guidelines (PDF, 89Kb)

Reports

• UWS Internal Final Report Form (Word, 209Kb)
• UWS Eminent Annual Activity Report Form (Word, 216Kb). 

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