Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for funding commencing in 2025
Tender ID: 540464
Tender Details
Tender Description
The DECRA grant opportunity provides focused research support for early career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions.
The DECRA scheme objectives are to:
- support outstanding early-career researchers with demonstrated capacity for high-quality research and emerging capability for leadership and supervision.
- foster collaboration, with national or international researchers.
- support excellent and innovative research that addresses a significant problem or gap in knowledge and represents value for money.
- create new or advanced knowledge resulting from the outcomes of the research with economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia; and
- advance promising early career researchers and promote enhanced opportunities for diverse career pathways in high-quality and supportive environments.
The intended outcome of the Discovery Program is to contribute to the growth of Australia’s research and innovation capacity. Increasing Australia’s research and innovation capacity generates new knowledge and results in the development of new technologies, products and ideas, the creation of jobs, economic growth and an enhanced quality of life in Australia.
Eligibility:
An application may only be submitted through the Research Office of an Eligible Organisation listed in the relevant Grant Guidelines.
Eligibility
A DECRA candidate must satisfy the eligibility criteria for the role they are to perform as listed in the relevant Grant Guidelines.
A previous recipient, or an individual who has been nominated for a DECRA on two previous occasions, is not eligible to apply for another DECRA. This includes withdrawn and ineligible applications.
To be eligible, the candidate must, as at the grant opportunity closing date:
- not be nominated for more than one DECRA in a grant opportunity.
- have met their obligations regarding previously funded projects, including submission of satisfactory final reports to the ARC at the grant opportunity closing date.
- have an award of PhD date on, or after 1 March 2019: or
- have an award of PhD date together with an allowable period of career interruptions that would be commensurate with an award of PhD date on, or after 1 March 2019. The allowable career interruptions set out and the period allowed for each are in Table 8 of the Discovery Program Grant Guidelines – Fellowships (2023 edition).
If a DECRA candidate has more than one PhD, the earliest awarded PhD must fall within this timeframe.
A DECRA candidate can be concurrently funded through the Discovery Program for a maximum of one ARC Fellowship and one project as a CI; or one ARC Fellowship or project if the individual is also a director on an active ARC Centre of Excellence and/or a Special Research Initiative project.
Applications for DECRA don’t need to meet the project limit requirements at the grant opportunity closing date. If successful, project limits must be met before the project can start. Refer to the Instructions to Applicants for more information.
Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania
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