Deadline: 28-Apr-23
Can you help the Australian Academy of the Humanities spread the word? If yes, they are looking for exceptional Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students working in any area of the humanities!
In keeping with Professor Mulvaney’s deep commitment to Indigenous people and cultures, The John Mulvaney Fellowship is an award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students working in any area of the humanities.
Use of Funds
- The Fellowship is valued at a maximum of $4,000 and is to be used to support outstanding research and/or fieldwork in Australia or overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and/or to connect with researchers or networks.
- Funds may be spent on economy class travel, accommodation, living and research expenses. Due to the ongoing restrictions on international travel, successful applicants may also use the funds for expenses including but not limited to:
- Domestic and international research assistance; including hiring an assistant to access the designated archives and research material on behalf of the researcher in cases where they are unable to travel to their intended destination.
- Ordering and scanning archival and/or source material; including expenses associated with inter-library loans and other lending schemes (digital and hard copy).
- Carer’s work; including expenses for childcare (e.g., hiring a carer, nanny, or paying for additional childcare) to enable the parent to conduct the research, and other caring work including care of a dependent child or family member due to illness or disability. If a child or dependent needs to travel with the applicant in order for the research to be undertaken, these expenses can be included in the application
- Successful candidates will be expected to provide evidence of their expenditure and a concise acquittal report once the research activity is completed.
- Fellowships are not available to attend conferences or to enrol in any course of study, although conference attendance incidental to research activity will not be penalised.
- Successful applicants will be required to attest that they accept the conditions of the award and provide bank account details to the Academy by 30 June of the year in which the award was made, to ensure the expedient payment of funds.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.
- The Fellowship is open to early career researchers (ECRs) and PhD students currently enrolled in an Australian institution.
- Applicants must be Citizens or Permanent Residents of the Commonwealth of Australia, whose principal place of residence is Australia.
- Applicants must be working in the Humanities, defined as those discipline areas by which the Academy is structured – Archaeology; Asian Studies; Classical Studies; English; European Languages and Cultures; History; Linguistics; Philosophy and the History of Ideas; Religion; Cultural and Communication Studies; and The Arts. Applicants working on projects in Indigenous Studies; Digital Humanities; and Environmental Humanities will also be eligible to apply.
- Interdisciplinary work is encouraged, provided that it includes a substantial proportion of work in the Humanities.
- Applications will be accepted from independent scholars holding a PhD as well as those working in institutional settings.
- ECR applicants must be in the early stages of their careers, which will be determined, inter alia, by how recently a PhD was conferred. In normal circumstances it should have been conferred no more than five years prior to the closing date for applications.
- Recipients of a Humanities Travelling Fellowship offered by this Academy are ineligible.
- Applicants must submit a complete application in order to be assessed for eligibility.
- The decision of the Awards Committee upon the eligibility of an application is final.
For more information, visit Australian Academy of the Humanities.