Career Advancement Awards

 

Career Advancement Awards

Application round: 
September 2024 for research undertaken in 2025

Background

The Career Advancement awards aim to provide a major career benefit to the awardee through receipt of funds and recognition by ASI. These awards allow for a broad scope and flexibility to apply for support as needed.

Applicants can apply to support their research (examples are below), with the exception that the Career Advancement Awards do not cover travel. Requests for travel are via the ASI Travel Awards.

There are 3 categories available:
  • Career Advancement Award - Postgraduate
  • Career Advancement Award - Postdoctoral
  • Career Advancement Award - Mid Career

Postgraduate Career Advancement Award

Purpose:

The purpose is to recognise and further advance the research of student members of ASI at a critical point in their career. The use of the prize money is determined by the awardee but must directly support their research, with a focus on career benefit. Please note that Higher Degree students, Honours students and Research Technicians are all eligible to apply for Postgraduate Career Advancement Awards.

Examples include, but are not limited to:-

  • Up to AUD 7,000 for PhD completion funding or Post-PhD gap funding (equivalent of ~3 month extension)
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for reagents for experiments which are not already covered
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for publication costs
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for work-life balance support e.g. childcare cover or to buy out annual leave
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for attendance of online workshops, training courses
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for software or computer* please include justification for why your institute/university  does not already supply the software or computer

Eligibility:

  • Higher Degrees students, Honours students and Research Technicians are eligible to apply. 
  • Applicants must have been full (not interim) Ordinary or Student members of ASI in the year preceding the application.
  • Applicants must have paid their membership subscription before 1st April of the year of application. 
  • Applicants who have previously received a Postgraduate Career Advancement Award are ineligible.
  • Applicants cannot apply for multiple items in the same application.
  • Applicants must include a clear budget in the application, if successful this is the amount awarded.

Application procedure:

  1. Click here to download the Postgraduate Career Advancement Award application form.
  2. Save your file as "LASTNAME YYYY_Postgrad”
  3. Log in to your member profile, click on 'Applications' and follow the prompts. 

Assessment Criteria:

  • Degree to which funds and recognition by ASI will make a major difference to career advancement
  • Scientific excellence and clarity of abstract
  • C.V. and publication record, taking into consideration any career disruptions and relative to opportunity

The committee reserves the right not to make an award.

Value:

As per the budget outlined in the application.

Successful Recipients - how to claim your ASI Award:

Please log in to your member profile to submit your e-Newsletter contribution (or brief testimonial), provide receipts to support your claim, and to initiate the reimbursement process.  For PhD gap funding or post-PhD gap funding, a timeline and letter of support from your supervisor is required to claim your award.

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Postdoctoral Career Advancement Award

Purpose:

The purpose is to recognise and further advance the research of early-mid career members (up to 6 years postdoctoral) of ASI at a critical point in their career. The use of the prize money is determined by the awardee but must directly support their research, with a focus on career benefit. 

Examples include, but are not limited to:-

  • Up to AUD 7,000 for PhD completion funding or Post-PhD gap funding (equivalent of ~3 month extension)
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for reagents for experiments which are not already covered
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for publication costs
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for work-life balance support e.g. childcare cover or to buy out annual leave
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for attendance of online workshops, training courses
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for software or computer* please include justification for why your institute/university  does not already supply the software or computer

Eligibility:

  • Postdoctoral investigators with up to 6 years post-doctoral research experience (counted at application deadline). Some career disruptions (such as maternity leave) may be taken into account. Please provide details if you feel that you are eligible to apply.
  • Applicants must have been full (not interim) Ordinary or Student members of ASI in the year preceding the application.
  • Applicants must have paid their membership subscription before 1st April of the year of application. 
  • Applicants who have previously received an ASI Postdoctoral Career Advancement Award are ineligible
  • Applicants cannot apply for multiple items in the same application.
  • Applicants must include a clear budget in the application, if successful this is the amount awarded.

Application procedure:

  1. Click here to download the Postdoctoral Career Advancement Award application form.
  2. Save your file as "LASTNAME YYYY_Postdoc”
  3. Log in to your member profile, click on 'Applications' and follow the prompts. 

Assessment Criteria:

  • Degree to which funds and recognition by ASI will make a major difference to career advancement
  • Scientific excellence and clarity of abstract
  • C.V. and publication record, taking into consideration any career disruptions and relative to opportunity

The committee reserves the right not to make an award.

Value:

As per the budget outlined in the application.

Successful Recipients - how to claim your ASI Award:

Please log in to your member profile to submit your e-Newsletter contribution (or brief testimonial), provide receipts to support your claim, and to initiate the reimbursement process. For PhD gap funding or post-PhD gap funding, a timeline and letter of support from your supervisor is required to claim your award.

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Mid Career Advancement Award

Purpose

The purpose is to recognise and further advance the research of mid career members (6-14 years postdoctoral) of ASI. 
Mid-career researchers (6-14 years post-PhD) are invited to apply for the Mid Career Advancement award. The use of the prize money is determined by the awardee but must directly support their research, with a focus on career benefit.

Examples include, but are not limited to:-

  • Up to AUD 3,000 for reagents for experiments which are not already covered
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for publication costs
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for work-life balance support e.g. childcare cover or to buy out annual leave
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for attendance of online workshops, training courses
  • Up to AUD 3,000 for software or computer* please include justification for why your institute/university does not already supply the software or computer

Eligibility:

  • 6 to 14 years postdoctoral experience. Some career disruptions (such as maternity leave) may be taken into account. Please provide details if you feel that you are eligible to apply.
  • Applicants must have paid their membership subscription before 1st April of the year of application
  • Applicants must hold continually financial membership for at least 2 years prior to the year of application
  • Applicants who have previously received an ASI Mid Career Advancement Award are ineligible.
  • Current members of the ASI Executive Committee are not eligible to apply, however, previous recipients of Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Career Advancement Awards may apply. ​
  • Applicants cannot apply for multiple items in the same application.
  • Applicants must include a clear budget in the application, if successful this is the amount awarded.

Application procedure:

  1. Click here to download the Mid Career Advancement Award application form.
  2. Save your file as "LASTNAME YYYY_MidCareer”
  3. Log in to your member profile, click on 'Applications' and follow the prompts. 

Assessment Criteria:

  • Degree to which funds and recognition by ASI will make a major difference to career advancement
  • C.V. and publication record, taking into consideration any career disruptions and relative to opportunity

The committee reserves the right not to make an award.

Value:

As per the budget outlined in the application.

Successful Recipients - how to claim your ASI Award:

Please log in to your member profile to submit your e-Newsletter contribution (or brief testimonial), provide receipts to support your claim, and to initiate the reimbursement process.

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