Intellectual climate fund for graduate researchers
Fund information and application guidelines
Sponsored by the Graduate Research School , the Intellectual Climate Fund (ICF) grants of up to $500 are available to graduate research groups to support your local research community.
Purpose of the scheme
The purpose of this scheme is to encourage graduate researchers to lead a range of academic, social and cultural activities – online or in person - that will seed or enhance a stimulating intellectual climate and supportive network within their local graduate research community. The scheme is not prescriptive about whether the activities take place across schools, departments, physical locations or disciplines; it is really about developing your research community. Graduate researchers may organise academic activities such as conferences and symposia, visual exhibitions, seminars, masterclasses and visiting speakers. This scheme encourages applications that enhance inclusiveness for the graduate researcher community (e.g. from smaller campuses, focused on part-time or international graduate researchers).
This scheme is not intended for recurring events.
You can read about other ICF projects on the RED Alert blog.
Benefits
In applying to this scheme, graduate researchers can gain additional valuable experience in event organisation, grant application writing, project management, communication, and leadership. Successful awardees will have a full briefing about the resources and advice available to them. Other mentorship and support for successful applicants will be available from the RED team in the GRS on request.
Application information
Applicants must be currently enrolled graduate researchers at La Trobe. Events must be produced primarily BY and FOR graduate researchers, and they must be held in the year the funding is awarded. Proposals that seek to secure additional financial support for the activity from departments, schools or external bodies will be well regarded.
Applications will be assessed on:
- The strength of the proposal
- Anticipated impact on intellectual climate
- Whether it enhances inclusion
- Whether additional funding was sought
Enquiries about the scheme can be sent to red.grs@latrobe.edu.au.
2021 successful applicants
| Successful applicants | Lead applicant's school | Project title | Project participation links |
|---|---|---|---|
Aime Sacrez | School of Education | Building a School of Education Research Society (SoERS) community of practice | |
| Ariane Virgona | School of Psychology and Public Health | Tame Your Method – Qualitative Research Tips and Tricks | Event ended: Tame Your Method - Insights into Qualitative Research Methods |
| Fazel Almasi | School of Life Sciences | Application of statistical procedures in biological data | Event ended: Constructing experimental design with the edibble R-package Event ended: Visualising experimental designs with the edibble and deggust R-packages Event ended: Linear mixed models for agricultural researchers with ASReml-R Event ended: Estimating parameters by frequentist and Bayesian approaches Event ended: MCMC methods for sampling posterior distributions Event ended: Approximate Bayesian computation Event ended: Genomic prediction with Bayesian methods Event ended: The causes and consequences of non-normal distributions in parasitology 7 December: Learning sparse log-ratios for high-throughput sequencing data 8 December: Understanding and analysis of proteomic data 9 December: An introduction to meta-analysis with applications in R 10 December: Application of Machine Learning in Agriculture and Livestock Production |
| Jacinta Agius | School of Life Sciences | HDR Speed Networking Event | |
| Louise Falconer | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Unravelling the human histories of medicine | |
| Matthew Hein | School of Molecular Sciences | BioGen, PAM and ONJ Poster Presentation and Social Networking Event | |
| Susannah Ostojic | School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Department of Social Inquiry HDR Retreat | |
| Todd Pickering | School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport | Retreat yourself: Time away to focus on writing |
Conditions
- Grants are available for projects run BY and FOR graduate researchers.
- Applicants must be currently enrolled.
- All projects must take place before the end of 2021.
- A written report must be sent to red.grs@latrobe.edu.au at the conclusion of the activity. A report pro forma can be found here [Word Document 75KB].
- Awardees from previous ICF rounds who did not lodge an activity report are ineligible to apply.