Applications for Natural Hazards Research Australia’s 2023 Early Career Researcher Development and Industry Fellowships open today.
The Fellowships are designed to support the career development of late-stage PhD students, early career researchers and researchers employed in industry. Recipients will have the opportunity to further build their research credentials and pursue new research collaboration.
The Centre offers two different Fellowship opportunities:
- Early Career Researcher Development Fellowships are available for up to $15,000 to PhD-qualified researchers employed in research positions in research institutions or universities, for up to five years after their graduation. It is also open to full-time PhD students who have successfully completed the equivalent of two years of full-time study.
- Early Career Researcher Industry Fellowships are available for up $7,500 to PhD-qualified researchers employed in industry (where their employer is a member of the Centre), for up to five years after their PhD graduation.
Multiple Fellowships may be awarded to either category.
The Fellowships recognise the value that can be achieved by supporting early career researchers to expand their research networks, create strong local and international collaborations, and to have the opportunity to compare the opportunities and challenges for natural hazards research in different geographic, societal, cultural and climatic settings.
Dr Phillipa McCormack (University of Adelaide) completed her ECR Development Fellowship in 2022. Her research focuses on climate change adaptation law and governance, and used her Fellowship to establish new collaborations between US and Australian fire law scholars by presenting at the International Association of Wildland Fire’s Climate and Fire Conference 2022 in Pasadena, California and Melbourne, Australia. Read more about her experience here.
Applications close on 30 October 2022. Successful applicants will be notified in early December. For detailed eligibility criteria, information on how to apply and frequently asked questions, visit the Early Career Researcher Development and Industry Fellowships page.