2020 Club Melbourne Fellowship

The Club Melbourne Fellowship aims to support the next generation of Melbourne’s research leaders and potential future Club Melbourne Ambassadors. The Club Melbourne Fellowship is focused on delivering community benefits through education, networking and collaboration.

Funding: $10,000 to support costs for research that must include but is not limited to attendance at an international conference specifically for enabling access to a program of research.

Eligibility Requirements

• Applicant must be Within 5 years from conferral of PhD or with career disruptions* within 10 years from conferral of PhD.
• An Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia
• A current Victorian resident and currently affiliated with a Victorian university or research institute (adjunct/honorary status is not eligible).
• Applying for funds to support costs for research that must include but is not limited to attendance at an international conference specifically for enabling access to a relevant program of research.

*Career disruptions account for maternal or parental leave only

Application limits and Monash EOI Process
Club Melbourne will only accept ONE application per Victorian University.  As such, the MRO must run an internal expression of interest (EOI) process to select the most suitable application for submission.

Application Process
Interested researchers must complete the 2020 Application form and send it to mro-applications@monash.edu by 5pm Friday 27 March 2020. The selected applicant will be advised on the EOI outcome shortly thereafter.
Note:  supporting documents requested on the form are not required at the EOI stage.

The selected applicant following the EOI process will need to create a Pure record,  complete the application form with the  required supporting documents and upload them to the Pure record and send if it for Pre-Approval by Monday, 11 May 2020.

Only the application selected for submission through the EOI process will need a corresponding Pure record.

Key Dates
Please disregard the tentative Research Office applications deadline of Friday 27 March 2020 listed on the Application Form and the guidelines.  The official MRO deadline is as below:

Scheme Opens:	NOW
EOIs due to MRO	5pm Monday, 6 April 2020
Pure record to be sent for Pre-Approval	Monday, 11 May 2020
Full application due to Funder	5pm Monday, 1 June 2020

Further information is also available at https://clubmelbourne.com.au/fellowship. For further questions, please email mro-applications@monash.edu.