Addressing Critical Psychology Shortages – Postgraduate Psychology Incentive Program – Round 3

Overview

The Australian Government recognises the current bottlenecks in the psychology training pipeline and the impacts on workforce availability and service delivery. Strategies are needed to reduce attrition between the number of students commencing undergraduate psychology studies and those going on to practice. The Addressing Critical Psychology Shortages - Postgraduate Psychology Incentive Program aims to support higher education providers who have created 500 additional postgraduate psychology places over four years in courses which lead to general registration and can lead to relevant areas of practice endorsement. The grant opportunity will be available over four separate grant rounds (with one opening each financial year) and will provide up to $61,408,297.50 (GST inclusive) over four years (2023-24 to 2026-27).  Round 3 (of this grant opportunity) will provide up to $16,052,300 (GST inclusive) in 2025-26 to higher education providers to support additional postgraduate psychology places in courses which lead to general registration and areas of practice endorsement.  The purpose of this grant opportunity is to create a scalable, sustainable measure to build capacity within higher education providers to grow the postgraduate qualified psychology workforce to alleviate pressure in the system. To view the grant opportunity documents, please select the red "Grant Opportunity Documents" button on the left-hand side.