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Career Development Awards
Introduction
The NHMRC Career Development Award scheme aims to:
- help build Australia’s health research skills, with a particular emphasis on clinical, public health and health service research;
- increase knowledge and support the development of evidence based health policies;
- encourage the growth of knowledge-based industries in Australia by helping to bridge the gap between research and industry and fostering an environment that values industry achievement; and
- provide a vehicle for Australian researchers working overseas to return to Australia to continue their career development.
The awards are available to researchers in the early stages of their careers. The proposed research must:
- be internationally competitive;
- develop their capacity for original independent research;
- develop their research leadership skills; and
- help them to establish themselves as independent self-directed health and medical researchers in a research program or as part of a research team.
Categories of award
Career Development Awards
Applicants for one of the Career Development Awards below may also apply for a partnership award..
Biomedical Career Development Awards
These awards are available for biomedical research. They are full-time awards and recipients will normally be expected to be working full-time on the development of their research careers during the term of the award.
Clinical Career Development Awards
Clinical research is research that involves contact with patients or has a direct link to patient outcomes. Applicants must demonstrate medical, paramedical, allied health or public health professional activity. The awards can be full-time or part-time. The part-time awards are for people who want to maintain an active clinical role and continue to provide clinical care.
The part-time awards are available for 30-70% of a full-time position. The value of the award is pro rated accordingly. Applications for part-time awards must be justified in professional terms. Applicants must plan to combine their clinical duties with their research and be able to demonstrate an interface between the two.Population Health Career Development Awards
These awards are available for public health and health service delivery research.
The awards can be full-time or part-time. They are available part-time for researchers who want to maintain an active role in the delivery of public health services or the development of public health policy.
The part-time awards are available for 30-70% of a full-time position. The value of the award is pro rated accordingly. Applications for part-time awards must be justified in professional terms. Applicants must plan to combine their public health or policy development practice work with their research and be able to demonstrate an interface between the two.
Industry Career Development Awards
These awards are full-time awards and are intended to support researchers with a track record of research excellence and commercial interest to spend intermittent time (up to 50%) in industry (in Australia or overseas), followed by the residual proportion at a research institution in Australia. The Industry placement should provide maximum exposure to research at the commercial interface and there should be clear evidence of engagement with industry.
The awards are designed to support development work undertaken in a human health related field, for example, diagnostics, medical devices, pharmaceutical product development, biotechnology, bioinformatics, biomaterials, biostatistics, disease management systems, organic synthesis, fermentation technologies, manufacturing technologies, clinical trials, toxicology etc.
Partnership Career Development Awards
These awards are offered through funding partnerships agreed between the NHMRC and each partner organisation.
Further information on the current Partners can be found at: http://www.nhmrc.gov.au/fellows/apply/granttype/cda/index.htm