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Prizes and Grants
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) PhD Prize
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated PhD students to share their research and be considered for the $1,000 prize supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize was reviewed by the AAANZ Prize Committee in consideration of feedback received from the judging panel. In 2024 the PhD Prize was split between research-based PhDs and practice-led PhDs, alternating each year, with the eligible application period being extended to the previous two years. The AAANZ PhD Prize is judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation.
Australia-China Joint Action Program
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) are proud to administer the ASSA-CASS Joint Action Program. This research funding program is intended to provide Australian and CASS researchers the opportunity to collaborate in areas of shared interest. It is suited to early-career researchers who wish to pursue research opportunities with an international colleague, with the intention that this may lead to larger research projects. To apply, researchers must submit a proposal to conduct research with an overseas partner having similar interests. Each application must contain at least one researcher from Australia and one from CASS. As the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia encourages the participation of early-career researchers, one researcher involved in the project must be fewer than eight years beyond the completion of their PhD. The work undertaken on the project may involve online or in-person meetings. Proposals with an interdisciplinary character are encouraged.
Australia-France Grant Program
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia is proud to administer the Social Science Collaborative Research Program (delivered in partnership with the Embassy of France in Australia) and the Pacific Social Sciences Academic Grants (supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-France Indo-Pacific Studies Program). Grants available through this program are for a maximum of $5,000 AUD and are aimed at providing seed funding to foster the development of a larger research program. Funding is available to support activities within a two year (24 month) time frame, activities outside of this period should seek funding from subsequent rounds.
Australian Academy of Science Awards
The Australian Academy of Science awards honorific medals, conference funding and research and lecture grants to champion, celebrate and support excellence in Australian science, promote international scientific engagement and to build public awareness and understanding of science.
Australian Academy of the Humanities Awards
The Australian Academy of the Humanities offers a series of prestigious grants and awards to foster and promote the highest quality humanities research and support the next generation of scholars and practitioners.
Australian Historical Association (AHA) Awards and Prizes
The Australian Historical Association administers a range of prizes and awards annually and biennially. The Association is proud of their partnership with the National Archives of Australia to offer scholarships to postgraduate students, and the Copyright Agency to offer postgraduate bursaries associated with their annual conference and an ECR mentorship scheme.
Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH) Early Career Research Award
The Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH) at the University of Melbourne is collaborating with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) on a new annual award. The aim is to foster new and innovative research and public engagement by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Award (ECRA) is funded by the Australian Institute of Art History and administered jointly with AAANZ. The value of the ECRA is $25,000.
Australian Museum Eureka Prizes
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are the country’s most comprehensive national science awards, honouring excellence across the areas of research & innovation, leadership, science engagement, and school science. Presented annually in partnership with some of the nation's leading scientific institutions, government organisations, universities and corporations, the Eureka Prizes raise the profile of science and science engagement in the community by celebrating outstanding achievement. View winner archive.
Co-Lab Honours Grant
The Co-Lab Honours Grant offers $9,500 in funding for exceptional students to focus on leading research projects with real-world impact, greatly enhancing their student experience and career opportunities. Grants are available to students undertaking a research project that aligns with Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) research interests during their Honours year. The fields of study include: Computer Science, Engineering, Languages, Linguistics, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics. Cross-disciplinary projects will also be considered favourably.
Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Prizes
The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sector, including academics, researchers, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students. Applications normally open in March and close in June. Recipients are announced in October.
Create NSW Cultural Grants Program
The Cultural Grants Program is a Create NSW devolved funding program administered by the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) on behalf of the NSW Government. This grants program assists historical research and publication of local, community and regional history projects. The Society would like to thank Create NSW for funding the Cultural Grants Program, which supports local history and heritage projects, facilitating an understanding of the history of the people and places of NSW.
Criminology Research Grants (CRG) program
The Criminology Research Grants (CRG) program supports policy-relevant research in the area of crime and criminal justice. Applications that address any of these subjects are welcome: coercive control within abusive intimate relationships, overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the criminal justice system, or sexual offence victim/survivor experience of the criminal justice system. Organisations or collaborative teams may apply.
Donna Coates Book Prize
The Donna Coates Book Prize (named after a leading scholar of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies) is administered by the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN). It is awarded annually to a monograph published by an Early Career Researcher and/or someone who has published their first book, that looks at least two countries of the focus of the network, i.e. Australia and Canada or Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. Submissions normally close on 31 December each year.
Early Career Research (ECR) Publication Subsidy Scheme
The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Early Career Research (ECR) Publication Subsidy Scheme assists early career researchers working in Australian Studies. The award value is up to $1,500.
Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme
The ANU Freilich Project offers up to three grants of $5,000 each to emerging scholars to assist research into the causes, the histories and the effects of ethnic, cultural, religious and sexual bigotry and animosity, and to explore how such intolerance can be combatted, and co-existence promoted. Applications are open to PhD students enrolled at Australian tertiary institutions, and Early Career Researchers (as defined by the Australian Research Council) employed at Australian tertiary institutions or other research-focused institutions. The grant may be applied for jointly if all named applicants are individually eligible to apply for the grant. The grant is available to Australian residents regardless of citizenship, in all research disciplines. The grant may be issued irrespective of other research funding or awards.
Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) Student Research Awards
Postgraduate and honours students conducting ecological research may apply for these Student Research Awards to cover expenses such as field travel, research assistance, equipment or consumables. The maximum individual award is $1,500. Ten awards of up to $1,500 are generally offered in each year. Applications open 1 September and close 31 October each year.
Eric Fry Labour History Research Grant
Every year the Grant offers a $1,000 payment to an honours or postgraduate student to complete a thesis on a labour or social history related theme, making use of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the ANU in Canberra. The Canberra Region Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) and AuSI are co-sponsors of this grant.
Lane Cove Historical Society (LCHS) Lane Cove History Prize
The aim of the LCHS Lane Cove History Prize is to stimulate interest in local history by encouraging original research into the history of Lane Cove and its environs which extends and enriches knowledge of the area and its people, both past and present. The Prize was awarded annually from 2016 till 2023, after which it was declared that it would be awarded biennially. Entries to the Prize can be a work of written history (in essay form of 5,000 to 7,000 words); an oral history (audio or video of 30 to 45 minutes); or a documentary style video of (7 to 20 minutes) on an aspect of local history. The winner of the 2025 LCHS Lane Cove Local History Prize will receive $1,500.
Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize
The biennial Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize celebrates excellence in PhD research in the interdisciplinary field of Australian Studies. The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) is honoured to offer this $1,000 prize which Professor Ryan is generously sponsoring to support emerging scholars in Australian Studies.
McMichael Award
The McMichael Award supports research and career development through a global network of mentors and through leaders connected to the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) through the late Emeritus Professor McMichael’s legacy. Up to $30,000 will be offered to the successful applicant to contribute to their agreed-upon research over 12 months.
Publication Subsidy Fund
ANU provides publication subsidies for eligible authors whose work has been accepted for publication by ANU Press. Subsidies are awarded by the Publication Subsidy Committee, which is chaired by ANU University Librarian Roxanne Missingham. The Committee meets three times a year to consider the applications. ANU Press administers the Publication Subsidy Fund and provides secretariat services to the Committee. The Publication subsidy scheme is currently under review.
Stanner Award
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Stanner Award is presented biennially to the best academic manuscript submitted by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author. The Stanner Award is open to all Indigenous authors, scholars and academics; however, submissions must not be under consideration by other publishers or simultaneously entered in to other awards, and no more than 20 per cent of the submission previously published.
State Library of Queensland Awards
The State Library of Queensland offers a suite of fellowships, awards and residencies annually.
The ANU Gender Institute Grants
The ANU Gender Institute actively promotes and supports projects which advance gender and sexuality research, and take feminist and intersectional approaches to research. They look to endorse research which aims to inform gender-related public policy and promote gender equity. They do this through various funding schemes. Each year, we run grants, scholarships, awards, and prizes. They also encourage their members to contact them regarding projects pertaining to gender outside of these grants, as they can often support in other ways and promote ANU gender-related events and research through their newsletter.
The Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme
The Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme is an initiative of Universities Australia and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)—Germany’s national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. It fosters research collaboration of the highest quality and supports exchanges of researchers from member universities to spend time at partner institutions in Germany, and for collaborating German researchers to spend time at Australian universities. Researchers must be working on a joint research project with their German counterparts, rather than furthering their individual research in Germany. The inclusion of early career researchers (ECRs) is a significant focus of this scheme.
The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies
The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies (funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) is awarded to Australian academics and professionals, with aims to advance scholarship in the priority fields of strategic studies, technology, and innovation. The grantee will promote the exchange of ideas, research collaboration, and cultural understanding between Australian and American scholars as well as the institutions that host them. The program was established in 2001 by the Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) as a contribution to Australia’s ANZUS 50th Anniversary commemorations. The aim for establishing this exchange is to contribute in a practical way to contemporary scholarship on the Australian-U.S. alliance relationship. It is a condition of the scholarship that the recipient produces a tangible contribution to contemporary debate in their area of specialisation in the format of a report, which can be used by DFAT, and/or published with an appropriate accreditation.
The Indigenous Languages Grants Program
The Indigenous Languages Grants Program supports projects and cultural activities that preserve, maintain and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Grants of up to $15,000 (exclusive of GST) per activity are available for Queensland-based activities that support the preservation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Indigenous Languages Grants are provided to activities that preserve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages in recognition of the role language plays in strengthening culture and community. A range of cultural initiatives incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages may be eligible for an Indigenous Languages Grant, including art, drama, music and film projects, Yarning Circles, audio recordings, workshops, signage, books, posters and brochures.