Funding Insight

ViewFrom the archive: On building a track record

Evergreen advice on how to grow mighty oaks from tiny acorns

ViewFrom the archive: Rallying to fight ovarian cancer

The US specialist funder whose main programme is researcher-led and open to international applications

ViewFrom the archive: I got published in Nature as a PhD student

How good fortune and determination combined to unlock a career goal for one young researcher

ViewNHMRC reviewer: ‘No one wants a wall of text’

An experienced peer reviewer on making proposals shine and standards of indigenous health research

ViewOpportunity profile: Keeping Australian industries on top

The Australian Research Council funds large-scale research hubs and training centres linking universities with industry

ViewOpportunity profile: Live-in history for young scholars

Residential fellowships in Germany offer career-starting opportunities for junior researchers focused on European history

ViewOpportunity profile: Polish national academy goes global

Poland’s top research institution will host 15 international fellows for two-year projects

ViewCSIRO-backed fund seeks hidden gems of Australian research

Main Sequence, a deep tech fund, is looking to invest A$250 million in research-based businesses

ViewHorizon Europe opens for business in Australia and NZ

The European Union is pushing its researchers to collaborate with their most distant colleagues

ViewOur winning proposals: Future Fellowships

Strong track records are essential for mid-career researchers hoping to win competitive ARC fellowships

ViewMy winning proposal: ‘One day we will have a CRC’

The successful Marine Bioproducts Cooperative Research Centre bid took years and overcame initial rejection

ViewRead all about it

What to pay attention to when consulting call documentation

ViewOpportunity profile: With peace in mind

An international funder is striving to move peace research forward

ViewSo you’re new to…USAID

Brushing up on the US development funder’s priorities is job number one before submitting bids

ViewOpportunity profile: A fuel injection for dementia research

Nearly A$5 million is available through the Dementia Australia Research Foundation, largely for junior researchers

ViewMy winning proposal: Chance for junior researchers to think big

Early career researchers can build networks around societal challenges through Europe’s Institutes for Advanced Study

ViewFrom the archive: Big money for the big questions

The John Templeton Foundation is a funder like no other

ViewOpportunity profile: Indian promise

How the India Alliance is angling for ambitious biomedical researchers from overseas

ViewPublishing a first monograph: from proposal to print

The final instalment of a two-part primer for early career academics

ViewMy winning proposal: Redi to commercialise

Keeping up private sector relationships opened doors to winning a government-backed industry fellowship

ViewSo you’re new to…the European Innovation Council

An EIC programme manager explains how to handle the funder’s ‘challenge-driven’ calls

ViewPublishing a first monograph: from thesis to proposal

The first instalment of a two-part primer for early career academics

ViewOpportunity profile: Booster shot for NZ health research

New Zealand’s Health Research Council offers career development awards to sharpen research skills among clinicians

ViewMy winning proposal: Seeing astronomy up close

Enthusiasm and independence are needed to win a postdoctoral fellowship at the European Southern Observatory

ViewMy winning proposal: Where violence is interrogated

The specialist funder perfect for pilot studies related to human aggression

ViewMy winning proposal: American dreams require give and take

Fulbright Australia looks for academic ambassadors to visit the US under its Postdoctoral Scholarship scheme

ViewOpportunity profile: Taking geosciences to new places

Public engagement grants from the European Geosciences Union encourage creative ways to reach audiences

ViewTop PI Barry Marshall: From home inventions to the Nobel prize

A sceptical medical establishment meant Australian gastroenterologist found alternative ways to fund his groundbreaking research

ViewKnow your audience

Why you might be writing funding bids with the wrong readers in mind

ViewMy winning proposal: Engineering an NHMRC proof-of-concept grant

Engineer Tuncay Alan explains how he won a commercialisation grant from Australia’s national medical funder