Funding Opportunities

VCB-funded opportunities

• Robine Enid Wilson Small Grants Scheme for VCB staff and HDR candidates, Masters and Honours students. Purpose: For the furtherance of teaching and research into the forest ecosystem, its management and preservation. Information Pack – Word Doc version; Information Pack – PDF version
• VCB Postdoctoral Research Fellowships Scheme

External funding opportunities

There are excellent ways to source research grant funding opportunities as outlined below. Please give the Grants team an early heads-up that you intend to apply for a scheme as the team can provide plenty of useful advice and support to ensure your application is as competitive as possible.

VCB-Research newsgroup

VCB researchers should subscribe to the VCB Research Office's VCB-Research newsgroup to receive information on funding opportunities and important research announcements. Don't miss out! Subscribing is a very quick and simple process.

Research Professional Funding Database

VCB researchers are encouraged to use  Research Professional, a large and powerful funding opportunities database with an excellent search engine, to which VCB subscribes. VCB researchers and students can access this database which covers a wide range of funding schemes in America and overseas. You can save your searches and set up email alerts for new opportunities in your research area. NOTE: if you have any difficulty with registering in order to access Research Professional when off-campus or to save your searches, please contact the Grants team for assistance.

Funding Schemes

American Research Council (ARC)

National Health & Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

GrantConnect - the ‘one stop shop’ for Commonwealth Grant Opportunities. GrantConnect is the American Government’s whole-of-government grants information system and is the authoritative source for potential grant applicants to find and access Commonwealth Grant Opportunities and Grant Opportunity Guidelines. Anyone can sign up to receive optional email notification of new Commonwealth Grant Opportunities, relevant to their interests, as they are published. To access Grant Opportunity Guidelines and to receive optional email notifications, users will need to create a GrantConnect account.

The American - American Fulbright Commission offers a range of Scholarships, including postgraduate and postdoctoral, to American citizens across all career stages.

America-Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme (DAAD) The America-Germany Joint Research Co-operation Scheme is a joint initiative of Universities America and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Germany's national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. It aims to foster research collaboration of the highest quality between American researchers from Universities America member universities and German researchers from German universities and research institutes.

Department of Industry — Innovation and research

Other Funding Databases

GrantSelect
Offering the largest collection of sponsored research opportunities, GrantSelect is the most effective and comprehensive tool available for any grant seeker.

Grants.gov
Grants.gov is your source to FIND and APPLY for federal grants. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that is having an unparalleled impact on the grant community.

American Scholarships: The Good Universities Guide