Melbourne Research Fellowships (Career Interruptions) Program

Critical Dates

Further Details about the 2024 (commencing 2025) round coming soon

Friday 5 May 2023: Applications open via SmartyGrants
Tuesday 13 June 2023: 3:00pm (AEST)
Applications close
July 2023: Notification of outcomes

Additional faculty EOI dates may apply - see below.

Overview

The Melbourne Research Fellowships (Career Interruptions) Program enables eligible researchers to enhance or re-establish their academic careers where they have been significantly interrupted, delayed or otherwise constrained by chronic illness, child rearing or other caring duties.

Successful applicants are awarded with salary funding up to the value of $120,000 (on-costs inclusive), co-contributed equally by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) (DVCR) strategic funding and the host Faculty. Each Fellow is also awarded with $20,000 for their research project costs, which is wholly funded by DVCR strategic funding.

To be eligible for this scheme, potential candidates must have completed a PhD degree in their field three to ten years prior to application.

Academic staff already employed by UoM, but not in a continuing position, are eligible to apply.

How to apply

Review the funding guidelines
Read the Melbourne Research Fellowships (Career Interruptions) Program guidelines.

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	Matthew Scamporlino (abp-research) abp-research@unimelb.edu.au	Please signal your intent to apply via email to abp-research@unimelb.edu.au
Arts	Arts Research Office, arts-staffresearch@unimelb.edu.au
Business & Economics	Alex Campbell, +61 3 8344 5792, fbe-research@unimelb.edu.au
Engineering and Information Technology	FEIT Research Services, FEIT-research@unimelb.edu.au	Please signal your intent to apply via email to FEIT Research Services
Education	mgse-grants@unimelb.edu.au
Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences	Tim Crockett, 8344 4637, mdhs-grants@unimelb.edu.au	Please advise the MDHS Research Support & Evaluation Team via email of your intention to apply.
Law	Mas Generis, 8344 9983, law-research@unimelb.edu.au
Science	Veronica Loew, 03 8344 8236, science-internalfunding@unimelb.edu.au	Career Interruptions Fellowship EOI due by 3.00pm 22 May 2023
Fine Arts & Music	Adelene Auyong, fineartsmusic-research@unimelb.edu.au

Complete the application
Fellowship applications will be submitted via the University of Melbourne's SmartyGrants portal.
Supply referees with documentation
Supply referees with program Guidelines, a download of your draft application and Referee's Report Form. Ask referees to email their reports to res-devschemes@unimelb.edu.au before the due date.
Submit final application
Submit the application via SmartyGrants by the due date. Upon submission, SmartyGrants will forward you a PDF of the application with your confirmation email. Please re-attach the supporting documents to this PDF and also submit via the Themis Submissions Workbench.