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Applying for Research Grants
Australian Research Council
Details on Australian Research Council (ARC) national competitive grants such as Discovery, Linkage and Future Fellowships can be accessed from the ARC website.
National Health and Medical Research Council
Details on National Health and Medical Research Council funding opportunities for research support, infrastructure support or people support can be obtained from the NHMRC website.
University Grants
This area is currently under development, please check back soon.
ACU IRIS Grants
The purpose of ACU Industry Research Incentive Scheme (IRIS) is to provide seed funding for researchers to initiate collaborative links with Industry and Community Partners and to support high quality research projects that require a pilot or exploratory study.
Other Grants
Use the SPIN database to create a research interest profile and have relevant funding opportunities emailed to you! Contact your local Research Services Officer for further information.
Research Grant Coversheet
Research Grant Coversheet (MS Word 112KB) to be completed at time of application. Refer to the Academic Organisational Unit codes (Excel, 26kb) for reference.
Budget Information
Information on preparing your research grant budget
Salaries
Please note: The EB is currently under negotiation and the salary scales are provided as a guide only for the preparation of grant proposals. It is strongly recommended that 2% be added for salaries calculated between September to December 2009 and that a further 4% be added for 2010 and each year thereafter. On-costs such as superannuation, payroll tax, holiday loading and workers compensation should be calculated at the minimum of 28% which is the multiplier used by the Australian Research Council in its Discovery and Linkage projects.
The Enterprise Bargaining Agreement (PDF 1.6MB) is provided for reference.
Levies
Under development, please check back soon.
Assistance
For research grant enquiries please contact:
| Lihong Kong | Lihong.Kong@acu.edu.au Extension: 2105 | Faculties of Arts and Sciences, Health Sciences, Business (from January 2010) and Theology and Philosophy. Excluding the Faculty of Education and academic organisational units at Brisbane campus. |
| Rowena Olding | Rowena.Olding@acu.edu.au Extension: 7349 | Faculty of Education (all ACU locations) and all Brisbane campus Faculties. |
| Jim Holt | James.Holt@acu.edu.au Extension: 7591 | Review of grant proposals, policy, oversight of grants unit. |
