Internal grants and fellowships

Offered to employees of the University of Sydney. The fellowships are designed to offer applicants a continuation of salary for period of up to one year at the end of an ARC or NHMRC Fellowship when they have been unsuccessful in obtaining a continuing externally funded salary. Awards are available up to a maximum period of 12 months and are initially funded for a period of time between the date of expiry of the externally funded fellowship and December 31 in the relevant year.

This scheme will not be offered in 2020. 

Contact: Siobhan Clark

The University of Sydney funds three categories of Equity Prizes for employees of the University. They include:

• Thompson - aims to promote and enhance the careers of academic women. They are offered to academic and research-only women employed by the University of Sydney at levels C or D. 
• Brown - offered to researchers whose careers have been interrupted by the undertaking of sustained primary caring duties and provide relief from routine teaching and administrative responsibilities, and research-only staff with funding for technical assistance for up to two semesters
• Laffan - named in honour of Mr Matt Laffan, Sydney alumnus and colourful character in Sydney's legal fraternity who battled a rare genetic disorder and inspired Australians with his zest for life. These are offered to university researchers who have, or have experienced, a significant disability, and aims to assist recipients re-establish or enhance their academic research careers.

More detailed information, including key dates, will be provided on the intranet when the scheme is open.

Contact: Matthew Louie 

Offered to employees of the University of Sydney and funded by the University and the NHMRC, grants of up to $200,000 will be considered for funding. Where the application is for part funding of a purchase greater than $200,000, funding for the remainder must already have been secured and evidence for this funding must be supplied with the application.

Contact: Jack Ault

These prizes are awarded to early and mid career researchers and aim to recognise and develop our most talented researchers and to establish a cohort of future research leaders for Sydney. Applicants must be University of Sydney academic staff. See our most recent SOAR prize recipients.

Contact: Lia Zambetti    

The distinctive aim of SREI 2020 is to encourage colleagues to self-organise and propose opportunities from both within and/or across disciplines to test new ideas, push disciplinary boundaries and scale up research activities that have the potential for enabling research excellence, leadership and preeminence globally. Continuing and fixed term University of Sydney academic staff and affiliates are eligible to apply and/or be part of this scheme. See our most recent SREI2020 recipients. 

This scheme will not be offered in 2021. 

Contact: research.support@sydney.edu.au

Available to University of Sydney employees, the University of Sydney’s Commercial Development and Industry Partnerships (CDIP) Team offer the following opportunities:

• CDIP fund for research commercialisation - provides critical financial support for research projects with commercial potential

Contact: cdip@sydney.edu.au

The Robinson Fellowships create a pathway towards continuing teaching and research positions at the University for the most outstanding early-career researchers. The structured, four-year program includes salary, research costs, and mentoring support. Heads of School, Deans, Associate Deans (Research) and the Research Portfolio identify potential candidates (current employees only) based on merit and potential. Eligible candidates will likely hold an externally or internally funded fixed-term fellowship, and be less than 12 years post-PhD. Read more.

Contact: Lia Zambetti

The University of Sydney Fellowships are under review.