
Explore the Australian Research Council Future Fellowships for mid-career scientists, a four-year program with salary support, research funding, mentorship, and guidance on proposal preparation, budgeting, and project planning.
Discover the eligibility criteria, mentorship by an Australian professor, and templates for the ARC future fellowship; learn to navigate university deadlines, budgeting, and internal reviews to submit a strong application.
Explore how to describe your active research career, opportunities, achievements, and leadership to support a future fellowship, including mentoring, collaborations, and research income.
Covers writing a maximum three-page university support letter for the Australian ARC Future Fellowship, detailing applicant qualifications, mentor strengths, university resources, and capacity-building plus post-fellowship retention plans.
Draft a ten-page ARC Future Fellowship project description (font 12, no links) with a ten-word title, detailing aims, feasibility, collaboration, a Gantt chart, and communicating results.
The ARC Future Fellowships scheme provides research funding in nationally important areas of science and technology. The ARC Future Fellowship program supports promising mid-career researchers to undertake high-quality research in Australia. The fellowship provides the way to conduct important research, start teaching and potentially, continue fix-term and permanent employment at Australian Universities. Annually up to 100 fellowships are granted by ARC for scientists (5–15 years after PhD). Future Fellowships are supported for four consecutive years on a full working contract time basis. Salary is awarded at one of 3 salary (I, II, III) levels. ARC Future Fellowships provide 4 years (salary + $60,000/year grant that covers personnel, equipment, travel, field research and additional needs) for outstanding Australian and International mid-career scientists. Typically, university provides additional $60,000 and at the end of 4th year Fellowship universities offer additional 3-5 years fixed term contract. At the end, Fellows can be permanently recruited and retained by universities in continuing academic positions. Australian universities provide support during preparations of ARC Future Fellowships. However, international applicants, who apply from abroad, ask many questions and experience many difficulties during application. Please note: this course does not provide an official advice from the ARC organization. The instructor of this course shares his personal experience of successful application for the ARC Future Fellowship. The instructor of this course is an experience scientist with a record of achievements and international research grants.