Deadline: 11-Mar-25
The Postgraduate Psychology Incentive Program aims to support higher education providers who have created additional postgraduate psychology places in courses which lead to general registration and can lead to relevant areas of practice endorsement.
Objectives
- The program objectives include:
- support higher education providers creating additional postgraduate places in relevant psychology courses;
- allow more students to study postgraduate psychology; and
- boost the psychology training pipeline by training more students that can go on to work in the mental health sector upon graduation.
Funding Information
- Total Amount Available (AUD): $14,525,500.00
Outcomes
- The intended outcomes of the program are:
- to increase the availability of postgraduate places in relevant courses to support provisional psychologists to obtain general registration; and
- provide interim actions to immediately address some of the known bottlenecks in the postgraduate psychology training pathway.
- They administer the program according to the Commonwealth Grant Rules and Principles (CGRPs).
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply for funding under this grant opportunity you must:
- have an Australian Business Number (ABN);
- be registered for the purposes of GST;
- have an account with an Australian financial institution;
- be an Australian higher education provider approved to: offer Commonwealth Supported Places; and
- offer postgraduate psychology courses which lead to general registration and can lead to the following areas of practice endorsement
- be one of the following entity types:
- an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006);
- company;
- corporate Commonwealth entity;
- non-corporate Commonwealth statutory authority;
- corporate state or territory entity;
- non-corporate state or territory Entity;
- non-corporate state or territory statutory authority;
- partnership; or
- unincorporated association.
For more information, visit Australian Government.
