The Australian Research Council Presented at Science 50:50 event 8 March 2016 Dr Fiona Cameron, Executive Director for Biological Sciences and Biotechnology
Commonwealth Investment in R&D 2015–16 (%)
National Competitive Grants Programme Area of box represents funding over the period 2011–2015. N.B. - Centres of Excellence, SRIs, not awarded in every year. - ITRP and DECRA only funding since 2012 Discovery Programme Linkage Programme
Australian Laureate Fellowships The ARC has two special female Laureate awards that celebrate the work of two pioneering women in Higher Education in Australia (Georgina Sweet and Kathleen Fitzpatrick) Image: Veena Sahajwalla working in the UNSW SMaRT Lab Image courtesy: Professor Veena Sahajwalla
Success in Grants by Gender
Joanne Whittaker: Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart 2013 L'Oréal for Women in Science Fellows ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher (DECRA) Image: Joanne Whittaker, marine geoscientist from the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies at the University of Tasmania Image courtesy: L'Oréal Australia/sdpmedia.com.au
Cleo Loi Story courtesy: Story reported on The Sydney Morning Herald website, 1 June 2015
Real-time imaging of plasma tubes in the Earth’s ionosphere
Researchers by sector of employment
ARC’s Industrial Transformation Research Programme: Opening Training Centres around the country
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