Intellectual climate fund for graduate researchers
2019 fund information and application guidelines
Sponsored by the Graduate Research School and the Associate PVC (Research) of ASSC and SHE - over 20 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 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 refreshing your research community in the new two-college university structure. Graduate researchers may organise academic activities such as conferences and symposia, visual exhibitions, seminars, master-classes 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).
Benefits
Graduate researchers can additionally gain valuable experience in event organisation, grant application writing, project management and leadership. 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 2019. Proposals should seek to secure additional financial support for the activity from departments, schools or external bodies.
Enquiries about the scheme can be sent to red.grs@latrobe.edu.au Or you can call Dr Tseen Khoo, Lecturer Research Education and Development on 03 9479 1794.
2019 applications have now closed
If you are keen to apply in the next round, get together with other graduate researchers in your community and come up with an idea and plan. Consult widely, be creative and think about what would make a difference to the intellectual climate in your community! You might like to speak to your GRC or DGR or other academics in your area too.
2019 Intellectual Climate Fund awardees
| Lead applicant's name | Lead applicant's school | Project title | Brief project descriptions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shannon Young | Humanities and Social Sciences | Art camp retreat | The ICF project is an Art Camp Retreat for Visual Art students on Bundoora, Bendigo and Mildura Campuses. |
| Karen Strojek | Humanities and Social Sciences | Innovations in research data management | This one-day forum will bring together HUSS graduate researchers, staff, and several external speakers, to share knowledge about new developments in storing, cataloguing, visualising and disseminating research outputs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. |
| Louisa Walsh | Psychology and Public Health | Participatory research methodologies within postgraduate research - building a learning network at La Trobe | This project is an initial half-day participatory research symposium to establish an ongoing network. |
| Keaton Crosse | Physiology, Anatomy and Microbiology | Careers in science | This event will invite academics, researchers, members of industry, patent attorneys/legal officers and journalists/publishers from the scientific community to discuss their careers in science as part of a panel. |
| Stevie Lebhers | Education | HDR challenges and successes | This project, consisting of 2 focused workshops, examining the challenges and successes of graduate researchers and providing peer-based insights into the changing nature of their study throughout candidature. |
| Charlotte Roelofs | Cancer Medicine | Workshop on mental health for PhD students at the ONJCRI | This seminar on mental wellbeing aims to initiate conversations around these issues, and inform graduate researchers of support services that are available to them. |
| Sandy Connor | La Trobe Rural Health School | Research by the river 2019 | This local, off-campus event showcases graduate researcher work and promotes La Trobe’s research activities to our regional community. It is a public gathering to network and promote our graduate research. |
| Mici Boxell | Humanities and Social Sciences | Creative workshop | A creative workshop led by a prominent Australian emerging artist. |
| Corina Modderman | La Trobe Rural Health School | Journal Club | This project proposes to set up a journal club that will bring together graduate researchers on the Shepparton campus and those studying a higher degree in the wider Shepparton and Goulburn Valley region. |
| Caitlin Finlayson | Humanities and Social Sciences | Research for Development Impact Student Forum | The Student Forum is a full day event run in conjunction with the Research for Development Impact Conference, hosted by the Institute for Human Security and Social Change. The event is directly targeted at graduate research students with an interest in the topic of leadership for inclusive development. |
Application form
Complete all sections of the Application form and submit it to red.grs@latrobe.edu.au when applications reopen. Applications will be assessed based on the strength of the proposal, and anticipated impact on your research culture.
Draft your application. Complete all the details on the Application form. Get the account details from your DGR and have them sign the form.
Conditions
- Grants are available for projects run for and by graduate researchers.
- Applicants must be currently enrolled.
- All projects must take place before the end of 2019.
- 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.
- Awardees of previous schemes who did not lodge an activity report are ineligible to apply.