2018 Joint Science-Medicine Interdisciplinary Research Seed Funding Scheme APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

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 2018. 

Please direct your researchers to the JSM 2018 intranet page for more information on the scheme including the Guidelines, Instructions to Applicants and the Application Form.

The funded proposals will be able to:

• Show significant innovation/novelty and/or be a proof-of-concept for a new collaborative research 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.

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         

                                                     

Applications close at 5pm, Wednesday 30 May 2018.

Late applications will not be accepted.

In 2018, the Faculty of Science Research Office will administer this scheme, please direct all queries to Nicole DeRycke at sci-research@monash.edu.