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Practitioner Fellowships

 Practitioner Fellowship

Funding body

NHMRC

Status

Closed

Key dates

Internal closing date: Wednesday 30th January 2013
Application due at NHMRC: Wednesday 13 February 2013

Aims

The Practitioner Fellowship is a targeted award intended to assist experienced and productive clinical and public health researchers who wish to maintain both a research and a professional career. The scheme aims to support clinical (medical, paramedical, allied health) and public health professionals who have undertaken a successful research program and wish to continue at nationally or internationally competitive levels. Successful applicants will, for their non-research time, be employed by a health care authority to provide clinical care, or public health services or related policy activity. Applicants for a Practitioner Fellowship must be engaged in clinical or public health practice in order to be eligible for the Scheme. Recipients of Practitioner Fellowships are generally in the top 10% of their field.

Eligibility

Applicants for a Practitioner Fellowship must be engaged in clinical or public health practice in order to be eligible for the scheme. The scheme supports practitioners in developing a career that includes successful research.

  • Successful applicants must, for their non-research time, be employed by a health care authority to provide clinical care, or public health services or related policy activity.
  • The proposed research must be linked to the applicant's practice or policy activity and undertaken in Australia. Applicants whose research does not link to their practice, may consider applying for a part-time Research Fellowship.
  • Special consideration will be given to clinical researchers conducting research on human subjects in a clinical setting and public health practitioners conducting public health and/or health services research.
  • The Scheme is not designed to support applicants already well established as scientists who happen also to be clinicians or public health practitioners; such scientists are more appropriately supported by the Research Fellowships Scheme.

Funding

Practitioner Fellowship Level 1 $129,144

Practitioner Fellowship Level 2 $154,919

Application Process
  1. Read How to apply for a NHMRC scheme and Prepare a proposal before you start
  2. Contact Jane Zhang of the the Research Grants and Contracts office
  3. Review the NHMRC reference material:Practitioner Fellowship Funding Policy, Practitioner Fellowship Advice and Instruction to Applicants
  4. Read Sydney Instructions for applicants (93k, doc, UniKey req'd)
  5. Gain access to RGMS
  6. Complete the application in RGMS
  7. Create application in RGMS and submit draft proposal to Research Grants and Contracts by internal closing date
  8. Complete Research Proposal Clearance Form
  9. Submit complete final application by final application due date