UNSW@ADFA Internal Research Funding:
| Name: | New Staff Start-up Grant (SUG) |
| Application Form (rtf) | |
| Applications accepted from ongoing Academic Staff in their first 2 yrs of appointment. Grant normally up to $10,000. | |
| Name: | Rector-funded Visiting Fellowships |
| Closing Date: | 31 March 2010 & 31 October 2010 |
Guidelines  & Application Form |
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| Provides a contribution towards living expenses for periods of one to four months to support visiting scholars and academics who will strengthen existing research areas and/or assist the College in recruiting new staff and postgraduate research students from other institutions. | |
| Name: | Defence-related Research Funding Scheme (DRR) |
| Closing Date: | 16 October 2009 - CLOSED |
| Guidelines & Application Form (rtf) |
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| Provides seed funding of up to $20,000 to support full-time academic staff to pursue Defence-related research. | |
| Name: | Special Research Grants Program (SRG) |
| Closing Date: | 16 October 2009 - CLOSED |
| Guidelines & Application Form (rtf) |
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| The Special Research Grants (SRG) are aimed at providing funding to full-time academic staff to develop their research to be competitive nationally in terms of quality and/or ability to attract external funding. Grants of up to $10,000 may be awarded. | |
| Name: | Early Career Researcher Grant Scheme (ECR) |
| Closing Date: | 16 October 2009 - CLOSED |
| Guidelines & Application Form (rtf) |
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| To support an Early Career Researcher who has been awarded their PhD or equivalent within five years of the submission date of their application; or received their first academic or research appointment within the last five years. | |
| Name: | UNSW@ADFA RT Scholarships |
| Closing Date: | 27 April 2010 |
| Guidelines & Application Form (rtf) |
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Provides funding to full-time continuing academic staff in the form of scholarships to attract new research students. |
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| Name: | 2010 UNSW Engineering-ADFA Research Collaboration Scheme |
| Closing Date: | 30 November 2009 - CLOSED |
| Guidelines & Application Form Guidelines & Application Form (rtf) |
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This initiative has been allocated a total of $280,000 by Engineering and ADFA for funding in 2010. The Scheme provides seed funding of up to $40,000 per project to promote research collaborations between researchers from Engineering and ADFA and to enable these researchers to develop their research to be competitive nationally in terms of quality and/or ability to attract external funding. |
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| Name: | Faculty Research Grants (Silverstar Scheme) |
| The Silverstar Scheme is conducted along similar lines to the UNSW Goldstar scheme but with a reduced funding level. Funds will only be available to unsuccessful Discovery applicants in a similar way to the Goldstars. The successful UNSW@ADFA Silverstar grants will be selected after the UNSW Goldstar grants have been announced. Selection will be on the basis of the list of UNSW@ADFA unsuccessful ARC Discovery applicants until the allocation of funds has been expended. | |
| Name: | Strategic Research Initiative Funding Scheme (SRI) |
| Guidelines & Application Form (rtf) | |
| Is aimed at building research groups to achieve critical mass and encouraging cross-disciplinary research in both existing and emerging areas of research strengths. |
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Funding Links
Grant Applications
Presentation:- "Writing a Good Research Grant Application".
Faculty Research Grants Committee
The Faculty Research Grants Committee is responsible for assessing internal grant applications and for formulating policies with regard to internal research funding. The Committee, chaired by the Associate Dean (Research), consists of two representatives each from Engineering, Humanities and Science. The composition of the committee in 2009 is:- Associate Dean (Research) (chair)
- Prof Paul Eggert
- A/Prof Tuan Pham
- A/Prof Grant Collins
- A/Prof Harald Kleine
- Dr Robin Robertson
- Dr Kieran Sharpe