Changes to Funding
Rules
Future Fellowships commencing in 2014
Future Fellowships commencing in 2015
Objectives
New objective to ensure that outstanding
mid-career researchers are recruited and
retained, by Administering Organisations in
continuing academic positions (B3.1.1b)
This change was proposed in the Funding
Rules consultation process and was
supported by the feedback.
c. support research in national priorities that
will result in economic, environmental,
social, health and/or cultural benefits for
Australia; and (4.2.1c)
Amended wording:
d. support research in national priorities that
will result in economic, environmental,
social, and/or cultural benefits for Australia;
and (B3.1.1d)
Selection Criteria
Future Fellowship
Candidate
Selection criterion ‘Future Fellowship
Candidate’ has been divided into two
categories related to the salary level applied
for. (B3.2.1a)
This change was proposed in the Funding
Rules consultation process and was
supported by the feedback.
Target Priority Areas
Target Priority Areas have been removed
Strategic Statement
The Administering Organisation must
provide a strategic statement within the
Proposal which:
The Administering Organisation must
provide a strategic statement within the
Proposal which:
a. details the existing and/or emerging
research strengths of the Administering
Organisation;
a. indicates that this area is a core or
emerging area of research strength and
describes the level of resources to be
provided to support the successful candidate
(for example, include project costs, PhD
students, or salary top-up);
b. describes how the Future Fellowship
Candidate aligns with and/or complements
the staffing profile of the Administering
Organisation;
c. outlines plans for integration of the Future
b. outlines plans to retain the successful
Future Fellow in a continuing position,
Changes to Funding
Rules
Future Fellowships commencing in 2014
Future Fellowships commencing in 2015
Fellowship Candidate into the ongoing
activities of the organisation at the end of
the Future Fellowship; and
subject to appropriate performance during
the Fellowship;
d. is signed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Research), Chief Executive Officer or
equivalent. (4.4.1)
c. where the Future Fellowship candidate is
an existing employee of the Administering
Organisation, describes how the salary that
was previously provided by the
Administering Organisation will be used; and
d. is signed by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Research), Chief Executive Officer or
equivalent. (B3.3.1)
Budget Items Supported
b. expenditure on Fieldwork essential to the
project, including technical and logistical
support for the Future Fellowship Candidate
only (5.2.1b)
Expenditure on Field Research may now also
be funded for support personnel. (B4.2.1a)
No higher degree by research stipends
One higher degree by research stipend per
Proposal can be funded. (B4.2.1b)
Host Organisation Requirements
The Future Fellow may conduct research at
the Host Organisation(s), provided that it is
in the best interests of the research and its
outcomes, and is of national benefit to
Australia, for a period or periods of up to:
a. twelve (12) months in total, over the life
of the Future Fellowship, at Host
Organisations that are not Eligible
Organisations; or
Timing restrictions for conducting research
at Host Organisations have been removed.
(B5.1.4)
b. twenty-four (24) months in total, over the
life of the Future Fellowship, at Host
Organisations that are Eligible Organisations.
(6.2.4)
Limits on Projects and Proposals
A Future Fellow may only receive funding
concurrently for a maximum of two
Discovery Projects. If two Projects are
funded concurrently under the Discovery
Limits have been aligned with the other
Discovery Program schemes.
Within the Discovery Program a researcher
Changes to Funding
Rules
Future Fellowships commencing in 2014
Future Fellowships commencing in 2015
Projects scheme only one can be as sole CI.
(9.1.5)
can be funded for a maximum of:
Researchers cannot submit a Future
Fellowships Proposal for funding
commencing in 2014 and the following
regardless of the time of proposal
submission:
a. a Discovery Early Career Researcher
Award (DECRA) for funding commencing in
2015;
b. a Discovery Outstanding Researcher
Award (DORA) within a Discovery Projects
Proposal for funding commencing in 2015;
a. two Projects as a CI, or
b. one ARC Fellowship or ARC Award, and
one Project as a CI. (A6.2.1)
Limits also introduced for cross-holding
Future Fellowships and funded Centres of
Excellence and Industrial Transformation
Research Hubs and Centres (A6.2.2)
This change was proposed in the Funding
Rules consultation process in mid-2014 and
was supported by the feedback.
c. an Australian Laureate Fellowships
Proposal for funding commencing in 2014; or
d. a Fellowship or other career award on a
NHMRC proposal for funding commencing in
2014 or 2015. (9.1.4)
Salary Levels
A Future Fellowship salary may be requested
and awarded at one of three salary levels
(2014$) (plus salary-related (on-cost)
funding), which is either equivalent to or
higher than the academic salary level of the
Future Fellowship Candidate as at the closing
time for submission of Proposals. (8.1.1)
The Future Fellowship salary must be
requested and will be awarded at the
academic level one step higher than the
Future Fellowship Candidate’s academic
level (or equivalent) at the closing time for
submission of Proposals. (B6.4.1, Table 1)
This change was proposed in the Funding
Rules consultation process in mid-2014 and
was supported by the feedback.
Future Fellowship Candidate and Role
The Future Fellow must be employed by the
Administering Organisation for the duration
of the Future Fellowship. (7.1.8)
The Future Fellow must be an employee at
the Administering Organisation for the
duration of the Fellowship. (B6.2.1)
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Rules
Future Fellowships commencing in 2014
Future Fellowships commencing in 2015
The Future Fellow is expected to spend a
minimum of 20 per cent of her/his time on
activities at the Administering Organisation.
(B6.2.2)
Eligibility Exemption Requests
To be considered a mid-career researcher
for the purposes of the Future Fellowships
scheme, a Future Fellowship Candidate
must:
b. have obtained approval from the ARC, via
the submission of an Eligibility Exemption
Request pursuant to the process outlined in
section 9.3, for the:
Recognition of a research qualification
equivalent to a PhD is no longer included in
the Eligibility Exemption Request process. It
is the Administering Organisation’s
responsibility to certify that the Future
Fellowship Candidate holds a research
qualification which meets the level 10
criteria of the Australian Qualifications
Framework Second Edition January 2013.
(B6.3.3)
i. recognition of research experience or a
research qualification equivalent to between
5 and 15 years research experience since the
award of a PhD (7.2.2 b i)
Types of career interruption have been
updated in line with DECRA (B6.5.4)