Research Support Scheme

The Research Support Scheme provides financial support for ACEMS' Research Fellows and Associate Investigators and aims to increase cross-node collaboration between our Early-Career Researchers.

The Research Support Scheme funds small to medium size research projects as well as providing funding for extended research visits around Australia and overseas, funding for media, outreach or stakeholder activities and for students to undertake these activities.

ACEMS particularly encourages Early-Career Researchers to apply to gain experience with writing grant applications, developing and monitoring research project budgets, supervising a research assistant and administering successful research projects.

In 2018 ACEMS saw the Research Support Scheme really take off amongst ACEMS AIs and Research Fellows. The Executive Committee approved ten new projects in 2018, worth $193,310. Recipients of the RSS have organised workshops, provided new PhDs with support, travelled across Australia and internationally to collaborate and importantly undertaken cross-node collaboration, which is what the scheme was designed to encourage. This scheme has enabled ACEMS researchers across the country to come together to work on new and innovative projects and form new collaborations that we hope will last a lifetime.