Deadline: 21-Nov-22
The Lowitja Institute is pleased to announce the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Major Research Grant.
At the Lowitja Institute, their aim is to ensure that the research they commission is of high impact for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, that it represents value for money, it is led and owned by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and has direct benefit to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples. Knowledge Translation is the action of moving the research and findings into practical and clinical use to effect positive change.
The Lowitja Institute Research and Knowledge Translation team are here to support bringing this vision to life through ensuring ongoing collaboration with the grant recipients, including training and education.
Their team provides high quality support to all aspects of the research program, with focus on providing support to the organisation in their knowledge translation and action activities.
Objectives
- Investing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community driven best practice health research.
- Enhance and grow the capability of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workforce, and Mobilise research knowledge for effective translation.
Thematic Areas
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The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Major Grants for 2022–23 will support the research of new ideas that align to one of the Lowitja Institute Research Agenda themes:
- Empowerment – This theme seeks to address the ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can take responsibility for, and control of their everyday lives to support decision making and behaviour change that contribute to self-determination and social transformation.
- Sovereignty – This theme seeks to address the ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can celebrate and improve sovereignty over their health and wellbeing. This can be interpreted as concepts such as agency and control, access to services, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership.
- Connectedness – This theme seeks to address Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ relationship and belonging to environment and country for strong health and wellbeing and the way belonging, environment and country is reflected and strengthened through knowledge translation.
- Cultural safety and respectful systems – This theme seeks to address the ways that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ unique physical, mental, social, spiritual, and cultural needs are embedded at all levels of health care from policy development and implementation to health service management and delivery, research and education and training to improve health system quality and safety.
Funding Information
- The funding of the grant is for two years.
- The research projects must be no longer then the funding timeframe, and the maximum amount available per project is $200,000. An additional grant of up to $20,000 will be offered to each project that is successful in the grant round, for knowledge translation.
- This will be offered after 12 months of the project is completed and will assist in getting the right message to the right audience to achieve impact for Aboriginal and Torres Strait lslander communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Major Grants are for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled organisations only.
- Organisations are not expected to have research experience for the Major Grants. Organisations that do not have existing relationships with researchers or internal research expertise are welcome to contact them if they are interested in discussing how they might assist in pairing them with a suitable researcher.
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For more information, visit https://www.lowitja.org.au/page/research/majorgrants