Mary Lugton Postdoctoral Fellowships

Overview

The Mary Lugton Scholarship  Fund provides postdoctoral fellowships and graduate research scholarships to researchers at the University of Melbourne in the fields of art conservation, medicine, science, botany, engineering or history: currently, these are located across the Faculties of Arts; Medicine Dentistry and Health Sciences; Science; and Engineering and Information Technology.

Fellowship awards will rotate across the six disciplines supported in the order listed above, commencing with art conservation and medicine in 2022, science and botany in 2023, and engineering and history in 2024; and subsequently rotating in order.

This is a Fellowship scheme for early career researchers who have been awarded a PhD within the last 5 years. Applicants who have had career interruptions or who have worked in an academic research organisation for less than 5 years FTE may still apply and complete the additional Eligibility Exemption Request (EER) portion of the full application form.

Funding

Two Postdoctoral Fellowships will be offered per year. Fellowships will be for two years’ duration, commencing at Academic Level A.6. Funding is for salary (including on-costs).

Fellows will receive an additional $25,000 to be spent on project costs over the term of their Fellowship, funded by their host Faculty.

Eligibility

The funding guidelines for the current offering of the Mary Lugton Fellowships is linked below under 'supporting documents'. Please ensure that you are eligible to apply for this program before beginning your submission. If you have any queries on eligibility that are not satisfied by the attached funding guidelines document, please contact the RIC Researcher Development Schemes team on the details below.

How to apply

1. Review the Funding Guidelines

   Read the Mary Lugton Fellowships guidelines under 'supporting documents'.

2. Check Faculty/School processes

   Contact your Faculty/School research office to ensure you have met any Faculty/School specific requirements.

   Faculty	Contact	Instructions
   Architecture, Building and Planning	N/A
   Arts	Arts Research Office, arts-staffresearch@unimelb.edu.au	Submit straight to RIC
   Business & Economics	N/A
   Engineering and Information Technology	FEIT Research Services, FEIT-research@unimelb.edu.au	This scheme does not have an EOI but applicants should register their interest for the support program here
   Education	mgse-grants@unimelb.edu.au
   Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences	N/A
   Law	N/A
   Science	Veronica Loew – science-internalfunding@unimelb.edu.au	Submit straight to RIC
   Fine Arts & Music	FAM Research Office , fineartsmusic-research@unimelb.edu.au

3. Complete the application form

   The nomination form is hosted on the university's SmartyGrants portal. You will receive a PDF of the final application by email once you have submitted in SmartyGrants.

   If your PhD was awarded more than 5 years ago but you have experienced an eligible career interruption as identified in section 3.9 of the funding guidelines or you have worked in an academic research organisation for less than 5 years FTE you must complete an Eligibility Exemption Request (EER) at Part B of the application form. An EER calculator has been provided with the 'Supporting documents' on this webpage to help applicants prepare an EER.

4. .Submit the application form to the Themis Grants Submission Workbench.

   Attach the final application PDF to your Themis workbench submission and ensure the status is 'Forwarded to Hod' or 'Submitted to Research Office' by the due date and time.  A guide on how to complete the workbench submission is found here.

Supporting documents

• 2024 Funding Guidelines
• Link to Application Form
• How to create a grant submission in Themis
• EER calculator
• 2024 Webinar slides
• 2024 Webinar recording

Contacts