Australian Arc Future Fellowship For Mid-Career Scientists

personal advice on research funding application

What you'll learn

How to choose Australian University and find an academic mentor

Templates and documents required for application for the ARC Future Fellowship

Advice on the project proposal description and preparation

Investigator capability, research opportunity, and performance evidence

Project quality and innovation, the gap in knowledge, and problems the project is addressing

Benefits, feasibility, and strategic alignment

Statement by the administrative organization (university)

Details of contributions: university and foundation

Planning of project budget: personnel, equipment, consumables, field research, access to research infrastructure facilities, travel and conferences costs

Project dissemination strategies and outreach activities

Submission of a full list of documents by the deadline

Requirements

It is desirable to understand fundamentals of research proposals preparation

Description

The ARC Future Fellowships scheme provides research funding in nationally important areas of science and technology. The ARC Future Fellowship program supports promising mid-career researchers to undertake high-quality research in Australia. The fellowship provides the way to conduct important research, start teaching and potentially, continue fix-term and permanent employment at Australian Universities. Annually up to 100 fellowships are granted by ARC for scientists (5–15 years after PhD). Future Fellowships are supported for four consecutive years on a full working contract time basis. Salary is awarded at one of 3 salary (I, II, III) levels. ARC Future Fellowships provide 4 years (salary + $60,000/year grant that covers personnel, equipment, travel, field research and additional needs) for outstanding Australian and International mid-career scientists. Typically, university provides additional $60,000 and at the end of 4th year Fellowship universities offer additional 3-5 years fixed term contract. At the end, Fellows can be permanently recruited and retained by universities in continuing academic positions. Australian universities provide support during preparations of ARC Future Fellowships. However, international applicants, who apply from abroad, ask many questions and experience many difficulties during application. Please note: this course does not provide an official advice from the ARC organization. The instructor of this course shares his personal experience of successful application for the ARC Future Fellowship. The instructor of this course is an experience scientist with a record of achievements and international research grants.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Preparation for proposal writing

Lecture 2 Key steps and templates

Section 3: Research Opportunity and Performance Evidence (ROPE)

Lecture 3 Description of career and opportunity

Section 4: Statement by the administering organisation

Lecture 4 Supporting letter provided by university

Section 5: Project description

Lecture 5 Proposal preparation

Mid-Career Scientists (5-12 years after Ph.D.),Ph.D. students, postdocs interested to understand more about grants