Australian Laureate Fellowships for funding commencing in 2021

Overview

The Australian Laureate Fellowships grant opportunity encourages applications from the highest-quality researchers by providing eligible Australian Laureate Fellows with project funding in addition to a salary supplement and salary-related (on-cost) support. We may name two successful Australian Laureate Fellows as the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow and the Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow. The Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship may be available to a highly ranked female candidate from the humanities, arts and social science disciplines. The Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship may be available to a highly ranked female candidate from the science and technology disciplines. Recipients will be provided with additional funding to undertake an ambassadorial role to promote women in research. The Australian Laureate Fellowships objectives are to: support ground-breaking, internationally-competitive basic and applied research; forge strong links among researchers, the international research community and/or industry and other research end-users; enhance the scale and focus of research in Australian Government priority areas; attract and retain outstanding researchers and research leaders of international reputation; and provide an excellent research training environment and exemplary mentorship to nurture early-career researchers. The intended outcomes of the Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme are: expanded knowledge base and research capability in Australia; and economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia. Preference will be given to researchers who will play a significant, sustained leadership and mentoring role in increasing Australia’s internationally competitive research capacity.