Opportunities
This site aims to provide up-to-date information for Australian researchers working in Humanities-related fields of inquiry. The opportunities listed below are open to Australian citizens or permanent residents interested in obtaining grants, fellowships, postdoctoral positions, awards and prizes both in Australia and overseas.
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Funding Opportunities: Australia
Research Grants: Australia
Australian Research Council (ARC)
All applications for 2012 funding now closed
Australian Academy of the Humanities
Publications Subsidy Scheme has been suspended "due to funding considerations"
Crawford Medal will reopen in 2012
Humanities Travelling Fellowships has been suspended "due to funding considerations"
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AITSIS) (2012 Reserach Grants suspended -"the Council has decided that applications for research grants will not be invited for the 2012 year")
Australia International Cultural Council (AICC) (2012 Round closed)
Fulbright Scholar Program (2012 Round closed)
The Prime Minister's Australia Asia Awards for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students. Applications close 30 June 2012
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Research Grants by Institution
Australian Catholic University
Australian National University (ANU)
Bond University
Charles Sturt University
Curtin University
Deakin University
Edith Cowan University
Flinders University
Griffith University
James Cook University
La Trobe University
Macquarie University
Monash University
Murdoch University
Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
RMIT
Southern Cross University
Swinburne University
University of Adelaide
University of Ballarat
University of Canberra
University of Melbourne
University of New England (UNE)
University of New South Wales (UNSW)
University of Newcastle
University of Notre Dame
University of Queensland
University of South Australia (UniSA)
University of Southern Queensland (USQ)
University of Sydney
University of Tasmania
University of the Sunshine Coast
University of Western Australia (UWA)
University of Western Sydney
University of Wollongong
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Philanthropic and Arts Grants
Accelerate: Indigenous Australian Creative Leadership Programme ( National call for Expressions of Interest closes Sunday 29 April 2012)
ACMP Projections, The Pool Grant 2011 (emerging photographers; 2012 round closed)
American Express Cultural Heritage, Leadership & Community Service "Inquiries for funding are accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis throughout the year. "
Arts ACT Fund (2012 round closed)
Arts NSW
2012 Annual Program Funding (2011 round closed)
2012 Project Funding (round closed)
Quick Response (2 May, 8 August, 7 November 2011)
Arts NT (2011 rounds closed; next round TBA late 2011)
Arts Queensland (many grants and closing dates)
Arts SA
New Commissions and Exhibitions (2011 round closed)
Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Arts Development second round closes 7 November 2011
Independent Makers & Presenters (various grant, various rounds and closing dates)
Contemporary Music (various grant, various rounds and closing dates)
Community Arts Development (2011 round closed)
Public Art & Design (various grant, various rounds and closing dates)
Richard Llewellyn Arts & Disability Trust (2011 round closed)
Industry Development (contact Arts SA for closing dates)
Arts Facilities & Equipment (2011 round closed)
2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (various awards; all close 28 October 2011)
Arts Tasmania
Assistance to Organisations (2011 round closed)
Small Museums and Collections program (2011 round closed)
Premier's Arts Partnership fund applications open all year
Aboriginal Arts Fund (2011 round closed)
Artsbridge applications open all year
Assistance to Individuals (2011 round closed
Residencies (2011 round closed)
Artsbridge connect applications open all year
Start-up grants: For Young Artists (2011 round closed)
Arts and Disability (2011 round closed)
Arts Victoria
All applications for 2011 funding now closed, with the exception of Indigenous Travel and Professional Development (various closing dates)
Asialink Arts, University of Melbourne (various initiatives and closing dates; 2012 Arts Residency applications closed.)
Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) (various grants, initiatives, and closing dates)
Australia-China Council (2011 round closed)
Australia Council for the Arts (various grants, initiatives and closing dates)
Australia-India Council will re-open in June 2011
Australia-Indonesia Institute (2011/2012 round closed)
Australia International Cultural Council (2011 round closed)
Australia-Japan Foundation (various initiatives and closing dates)
Australia-Korea Foundation (2011/2012 round closed)
Australian Government Arts and Culture
Australian Government International Exhibitions Insurance (AGIEI) (2011 round closed)
Community Heritage Grants (National Library of Australia) (2011 round closed)
Contemporary Music Touring Program (2011 round closed)
Playing Australia (Round 29 now open; closes on 2 December 2011)
Visions of Australia rounds close 1 April and 1 September
Contemporary Touring Initiative (consult Visions of Australia deadlines)
Festivals Australia (Round 33 closed)
Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Emerging Writers Grants (round closed)
British Council 'Realise Your Dream' program (2011 round closed)
Festivals Australia Round 34 closes 10 February 2012
Government of WA, Department of Culture and the Arts
All Art Forms, Development grants (2011 round closed)
All Art Forms, Distribution & Marketing (2011 round closed)
All Art Forms, Artflight close last Friday of every month
All Art Forms, Creative Development Fellowships (2011 round closed)
Artist in Residence Grants (2011 round closed)
Contemporary Music Grants (2011 round closed)
Ian Potter Foundation
Arts Grants, 2012 closing dates: 30 January, 28 May, 17 September
Travel & Conference Grants, 2012 closing dates: 28 May, 17 September
The Australian Book Review Ian Potter Foundation Editorial Internship Applications due 1 December 2011
NT Film Office grants (2011 round closed)
Philanthropy Australia
Screen Australia (Multiple grants for film, documentary, television, indigenous programs, marketing; various closing dates)
Screen NSW
Screen Tasmania
Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships (2011 round closed. $80,000.00 a year for two years. For an individual to be considered for a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, they must be nominated by another individual or organisation. Individuals cannot self-nominate, and nor can they be nominated by a member of their family.)
South Australian Youth Arts Board (Carclew) (Various grants for people aged 26 and under; various closing dates)
Theatre Works (St Kilda) (Submit a proposal to Theatre Works to be considered for inclusion in the 2012 Theatre Works SELECTED WORKS Season or IN THE WORKS Program. Applications close 2 September 2011)
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Fellowship Opportunities
AGL Shaw Summer Research Fellowships, State Library of Victoria (for Victorian residents enrolled in undergraduate, honours or postgraduate study)
ALTC Teaching Fellowships (Not available in 2011)
ANU Centre for European Studies Visiting Fellowships (2011-2012 round closed)
ANU Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program, 2013 Theme: Cities, Imaginaries, Publics. Applications close 15 March 2012
ARC Fellowships
Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA)
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA)
Australian Laureate Fellowships
Future Fellowships
Australian Academy of the Humanities, Humanities Travelling Fellowships will reopen in 2012
Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship (applications must be in by 30 March for summer expeditions)
Australian National Internships Program (Semester 2, 2011 round closed)
Australian Prime Ministers Centre at the Museum of Australian Democracy Fellowships (2011 round closed)
Australian Religious History Fellowship, State Library NSW
C.H. Currey Memorial Fellowships, State Library NSW
Churchill Fellowships, Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. For Australians to travel overseas for research purposes. 2012 applications close 29 February 2012 for travel between 1 September 2012 and 31 August 2013
David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship, State Library NSW
Dr Joseph Brown AO Fellowship, State Library of Victoria (Not offered in 2011-2012)
Georges Mora Foundation Fellowship, State Library of Victoria (Not offered in 2011-2012)
Harold White Fellowships, National Library of Australia (2012 applications closed)
H.C. Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship, ANU (2011 round closed)
James Sykes Battye Memorial Fellowship, State Library of WA (Not offered in 2011)
Japan Fellowship, National Library of Australia (2012 applications closed)
John Oxley Library Fellowship, State Library of Queensland
John David Stout Research Fellowship, University of Wellington, New Zealand (2011 round closed)
La Trobe Society Fellowship, State Library of Victoria (Not offered in 2011-2012)
Nancy Keesing Fellowship, State Library NSW
National Archives of Australia Research Fellowships (2011 round closed)
National and State Libraries Australasia and Library Council of NSW Honorary Fellowships, State Library NSW
National Centre of Biography Fellowships
National Folk Fellowships, National Library of Australia (2011 round closed)
Ray Koppe Young Writers Residency (For writers under the age of 30; 2011 round closed)
Redmond Barry Fellowship (2011 round closed)
Religion, Church & Missions Fellowship, State Library NSW
State Library of Victoria Creative Fellowships (2011 round closed)
Varuna Fellowships for Writing Retreats (2011 round closed)
Varuna Publisher Fellowships open 1-30 November 2011
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Postdoctoral Fellowships
Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (2011 round closed)
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Bill Cowan Barr Smith Library Fellowship (For postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers; applications open 1 October - 10 December each year)
University of Western Australia Re-entry Postdoctoral Research Fellowship closes 21 October 2011
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International Funding Opportunities
Research and Arts Grants - International
Australia-Malaysia Institute Grants (The Australia-Malaysia Institute (AMI) provides financial support to selected projects which aim to promote and enhance bilateral links between Australia and Malaysia. 2011 round closed.)
ERC: European Research Council (ERC grants are open to all nationalities in all research areas including social sciences and humanities, with particular on emphasis on the frontiers of science, scholarship and engineering. In particular, proposals of an interdisciplinary nature which cross the boundaries between different fields of research, pioneering proposals addressing new and emerging fields of research or proposals introducing unconventional, innovative approaches and scientific inventions are encouraged, as long as the expected impact could be significant.)
ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grant
ERC Advanced Investigators Grant
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
European Commission EURAXESS (lists PhD, postdoctoral and fellowship opportunities within Europe)
Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology cooperation (FEAST) (Includes Humanities-based opportunities)
The Getty Foundation Residential Grants (USA) (Open to international scholars.)
Gladys Krieble Delmas Grants (For travel to and residence in Venice. Not offered in 2011.)
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Grants
MacArthur: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (USA) (Support for Digital Media and Learning)
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
Theodora Bosanquet summer residence grant for History / English Literature women graduates (London, UK) close 31 October 2011
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Fellowships - International
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany)
Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (Doctorate completed less than 12 years ago)
Fraunhofer-Bessel Award (Researchers from non-European countries with doctorates completed less than 18 years ago)
Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange (Outstanding humanities scholars and social scientists from abroad who, as multipliers in and through the field of academic studies, have made an exceptional contribution to the enduring promotion of bilateral relations between Germany and their own countries, are eligible to be nominated for the Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange.)
American Council of Learned Societies (Various fellowships available to non-US residents)
American Philosophical Society (Most grants are for US citizens but international applicants can apply for funding for humanities projects based in the US.)
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Fellowships (Yale University)
Bellagio Center Residential Fellowships (The Rockefeller Foundation) (For researchers and creative artists; closes 1 December 2011)
British Academy Visiting Scholars Fellowships
Center for the History of Collecting in America: Scholars' Program (Frick Collection)
Charles Pick Fellowships (University of East Anglia, Creative Writing) Applications for 2012-2013 round close 31 January 2012
Dumbarton Oaks Fellowships (Harvard University) (Residential fellowships in three areas of study: Byzantine Studies including related aspects of late Roman, early Christian, Western medieval, Slavic, and Near Eastern studies, Pre-Columbian Studies.)
Folger Shakespeare Library Research Fellowships (USA) (2011-2012 round closed)
Go8 European Fellowships **This fellowship is designed to bring European ECRs to Go8 institutions in Australia, not to send Australian researchers to Europe** 2012 round opens August 2011
Go8-DAAD: Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme (2011 round closed)
Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships in the Humanities (University of Texas) closes 1 February 2012
Huntington Library Fellowships (Various short term and long term fellowships; all close 15 December 2011)
International Institute for Asian Studies Fellowships (Netherlands) open September 2011
Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship (CUNY) (2011 round closed)
National Humanities Center (USA) (Applications open to non-US residents; 2011 round closed)
Oxford University Visiting Research Associate Scheme (Christ Church, Merton College and St John’s College)
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships (Harvard University) (Research and creative fellowships; 2012-2013 round closed)
Stanford Humanities Center (USA)
External Fellowships Applications for 2012-2013 closed
International Scholars Visiting Fellowships (Not offered in 2011)
Arts Practitioners/Writers Fellowships Applications for 2012-2013 closed
Winterthur Research Fellowship Program (USA) close 15 January each year
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Postdoctoral Fellowships - International
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (Germany) Applications open all year
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania (USA) 2011 round closed
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University (USA) Applications for Fall 2012 close 15 November 2011
Churchill College, Murray Edwards College, Selwyn College and Trinity Hall Joint Application Scheme for Junior Research Fellowships, Cambridge University (UK) (2011 round closed)
Columbia University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Database (Primarily lists fellowships from non-Columbia sources. Anyone interested in consulting the database is welcome to do so.)
Cornell University Graduate School Database
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Information for 2012-2013 TBA
Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), closes 15 October each year
Hindle Fellowship in the History of Technology (USA), Biannual fellowship: Applications for 2012 will not be accepted until winter 2011-2012
Newberry Library (Chicago)
Long-Term Fellowships close 12 December 2011
Short-Term Fellowships close 6 February 2012
Special Awards and Fellowships Various fellowships; closing dates 12 December 2011 and 6 February 2012
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts Postdoctoral Fellowships (Princeton University) various fellowships; 2012-2015 round closed
UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies Postdoctoral Fellowships 2011-2012 round closed; next round open late 2011
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Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
Adelaide Graduate Centre Postgraduate Scholarships
Albert J. Beveridge Award in American History
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Sofja Kovalevskaja Award (Germany) The Sofja Kovalevskaja Award allows you to spend five years building up a working group and working on a high-profile, innovative research project of your own choice at a research institution of your own choice in Germany.
A.O. Capell Scholarship, Stella Mary Langford Scholarship & Henry James Williams Scholarship, Melbourne University close 31 October 2011
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Change Program Scholarships (University of Adelaide) Applications ongoing
Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand, Undergraduate Essay Prize and Postgraduate Travel Award
Australian Book Review
Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay 2012 entries close 1 December 2011
Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize entries closed
Peter Porter Poetry Prize entries close 21 November 2011
Australian Prime Ministers Centre Summer Scholarships 2011-2012 round closed
Cecile Parrish Memorial Scholarship for Research Excellence in English Literature, Monash University 2011 round closed
Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago (visiting scholar status)
Charlie Perkins Scholarships (two scholarships for Indigenous postgraduates to study at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge for up to three years) 2011 round closed
Charles Allan Seymour Hawker Memorial Scholarship (Postgraduate study at University of Cambridge) Open for applications from December 9, 2011 until January 6, 2012
Dobbie Literary Award
Fryer Library Award (University of Queensland) 2011 round closed
Gates Cambridge Scholarships (postgraduate study and research at the University of Cambridge) close 1 December 2011
General Sir John Monash Scholarships 2011 round closed
George L. Mosse Prize (Cultural History of Europe since the Renaissance) 2011 round closed
Getty Foundation Library Research Grants close 1 November 2011
HarperCollins Varuna Awards for Manuscript Development 2011 round closed
Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History nominations close 22 July 2011
Italian Australian Institute Scholarships round closes 28 February each year
J. Russell Major Prize (French history) 2011 round closed
James Henry Breasted Prize (Any field of history prior to CE 1000) 2011 round closed
Jean Arnot Memorial Fellowship/Prize (State Library of NSW)
Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women’s History 2011 round closed
John E. O’Connor Film Award (Historical films) 2011 round closed
John H. Dunning Prize (US history) 2011 round closed
John K. Fairbank Prize (East Asian history) 2011 round closed
Joint Academic Scholarship Online Network (JASON): Up-to-date source for Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts Scholarships & Prizes; primarily postdoctoral and/or graduate level.
Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers
Kerouac Project Residencies close 1 April 2012 (for 2012-2013 residencies)
Kibble Literary Award
Lemmermann Foundation Scholarship 2011 round closed
Leo Gershoy Award (17th – 18th century western European history) 2011 round closed
Magarey Medal for Biography 2011 details TBA late in the year
Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship
Max Afford Playwrights’ Award
Melbourne University Rae & Edith Bennett Travelling Scholarships (postgraduate study in the UK) close 30 June 2012
Melbourne University Sir Arthur Sims Travelling Scholarship (postgraduate study in the UK) close 30 June 2012
Merewether Scholarship (State Library of NSW)
Miles Franklin Literary Award
MLA Publication Awards and Biennial Prizes (Multiple prizes; all 2011 rounds closed)
Morris D. Forkosch Award (British, British Imperial, or British Commonwealth history) 2011 round closed
Summer Scholarships at the National Library of Australia 2011 round closed
National Biography Award (Australia) 2011 round closed
Penguin Varuna Development Scholarship 2011 round closed
Portia Geach Memorial Award 2011 round closed
Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2012 Entries open 1 December 2011 - 1 February 2012
Primio Del Rey Award (Spanish history) 2011 round closed
Ramsay & Reid Scholarships (State Library of Victoria) 2011 round closed
Rhodes Scholarships 2011 round closed
Thelma Afford Award
Victoria University Alumni Awards 2011 round closed
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