1. Grant Funding – How to find it!
Steven Oswald, Manager, Grants & Contracts
Maya Roberts, Senior Grants Officer
Research Services Office

2. Definition of Research
Research is defined as:
‘creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge – including knowledge of humankind, culture and society – and to devise new applications of available knowledge.’
For an activity to be an R&D activity it must satisfy five core criteria:
To be aimed at new findings (novel),
To be based on original, not obvious, concepts and hypotheses (creative),
To be uncertain about the final outcomes (uncertain),
To be planned and budgeted (systemic), and
To lead to results that could be possibly reproduced (transferable and/or reproducible).
Source: 2017 Higher Education Research Data Collection Specifications for the collection of 2016 data

3. Funding Categories Research income falls into one of four categories:
Category 1: Australian competitive grants
Schemes listed on the Australian Competitive Grants Register (ACGR) including the ARC, NHMRC
Category 2: Other public sector research income
Category 3: Industry and other research income
Category 4: Cooperative Research Centres research income
The income received across these categories is a metric used in driving the allocation of the Australian Government block grants.

4. Research Funding Sources – the big two
Australian Research Council
National Competitive Grants Program
Discovery Program
Linkage Program
National Health and Medical Research Council
Current
Grants to Create New Knowledge
Grants to Accelerate Research Translation
Grants to Build Australia's Future Capability
Grants to Work with Partners
New grant scheme
For funding commencing in 2020
Applications from late 2018

5. Research Funding Sources - other
ACGR – other schemes
Australian (non-category 1), State and local government schemes
Industry funding
Philanthropic funding e.g. Brain Foundation
International schemes e.g. NIH
Crowdfunding
Government tenders e.g. AusTender
Word of mouth
Medical Research Future Fund

6. Internal University Schemes
Innovation Partnership Seed Grants - encourage new partner organisation-linked research and provide seed-funding to assist in developing long-term research engagement with partner organisations leading to high quality external grant applications
Conference Travel Fellowship Carer Support - assists researchers who would have difficulty attending and presenting at research conferences due to carer responsibilities.
Visiting International Research Fellowship - provides funds to Schools to attract a visiting international researcher
Re-Entry Fellowship - assists researchers in re-establishing their research career after time away from research due to parental leave
Faculty Schemes – research project, student, travel and other grants specific to each Faculty

7. Tools to find funding Research Professional Grants Bulletin
a powerful funding opportunities search engine and database
allows you to create and save your own custom searches for national and worldwide funding opportunities
searches can be filtered by funder, funder type, deadline, discipline, keyword etc.
Grants Bulletin
regular bulletin with funding opportunities ed to Flinders researchers
Scholarships database
comprehensive list of student scholarships
International funding databases
including Euraxess UK, Proposal Central and GRANTS.GOV
Google!

8. Found an opportunity - now what?
Are you eligible?
Check eligibility rules for institution, CI and partners
Is your project a good fit?
Check objectives of the scheme
Max/min funding available
Are you competitive?
Check assessment criteria and assessment process
Success rates
Previous projects funded

9. Good Luck!
Contact:

10. What is Crowdfunding?
“Crowdfunding is the practice of funding a project or cause by raising money from a large number of people, typically through the Internet. It is a form of peer-to-peer fundraising that harnesses the power of social networks to raise awareness and draw donations from around the world for online campaigns.”

11. How does it work? Provider hosts website platform e.g. www.pozible.com
Usually has inbuilt “create or build campaign” function
Build your project – upload text, video clips etc directly
Once finalised – campaign goes live
Share campaign via social media (Facebook, Twitter, )

12. How does it work?
Donations direct through site – usually credit card pledges
Donations attract “rewards” – staged at different $ values
Two models – “All or nothing” or “All raised”
Once closed, if successful funds transferred less provider fee (5-15%) and relevant credit card fee (3-5%)
Results are published/disseminated as promised

13. What type of projects work?
Generally…
There has to be real outreach or impact or benefit
“Wow factor” is good: is it cute/scary/odd/trending etc.
It has to be not too expensive to carry out (average $9k)
It has to be realistic and achievable
Interesting science “for the sake of it” will not fly…
Works best where there is a community who feel strongly on the issue addressed by the campaign

14. Crowdfunding @ Flinders

15. Research Professional – a closer look
Go to Research Professional