2019 Faculty of Science and Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS) Interdisciplinary Research Seed Funding Scheme

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences (MNHS) are pleased to announce the joint seed funding scheme to support the development of interdisciplinary research collaborations between the two faculties which aims to form significant collaborations that will develop into external major grant applications will be running in 2019.

The funded proposals will be able to:

• Show significant innovation/novelty and/or be a proof-of-concept for a new collaborative research project (the CI’s may have previously worked together but the application must be for a new project).
• Lead to external funding applications for nationally and internationally competitive schemes; and/or
• Lead to new industry engagement opportunities that may lead to new or increased funding.

Eligibility criteria:
1. The lead Chief Investigators from Science and MNHS must be level B-E Monash University academic staff members (Teaching and Research (T&R) or Research Focused (RF) /Research Only (RO) or Clinical staff).  They must hold either full-time or fractional appointments at, or greater than, 0.5 FTE with an expectation of employment over the duration of the grant and must be able to dedicate sufficient time to the project to ensure its completion.  Applicants’ salaries must be either funded from the University operating budget or from their own Fellowships obtained from a National Competitive scheme.

2. Each application must have at least one Chief Investigator (CI) from the Faculty of Science and at least one CI from the Faculty of MNHS (the first named CIs from each faculty are considered co-lead CIs).

3. Applicants can only be co-lead CI on ONE application per round.

4. Adjunct staff are NOT eligible to be the co-lead CI from their respective faculty on any application but may be listed on the application.

5. Applications will not be considered for research projects that are the subject of existing successful or requested competitive grants (ARC, NHMRC, etc.) or industry projects of the CIs.  Thus, they cannot be used to cover shortfalls in funding or expand existing funded research projects.

How to Apply:
Applications must be submitted on the Interdisciplinary Research Seed Funding Scheme application form in accordance with the eligibility criteria and other instructions set out in the guidelines.

Email the signed application (pdf) to: sci-research@monash.edu

Closing Date: 5:00pm Friday 28 June 2019

Late applications will not be accepted.

The application form is here.

The guidelines are here.

In 2019, the Faculty of Science Research Office will administer this scheme, please direct all queries to sci-research@monash.edu