Victoria University provides various funding schemes to support research and research activities in attracting research grants, research publication outputs and supervising higher degree research completions.
| VU Research Funding Schemes | ||
|---|---|---|
| Scheme | Purpose | Source |
| VU Research Support Fund | Provided for recognition and support of excellence in research and to drive increased research and research-training outputs across strategically important areas. Funding Model |
IGS |
| VU Research Development Grant Scheme | The scheme aims to provide research funding to support VU Early Career Researchers, showing clear evidence of high research capacity, and newly appointed staff without research funding. | |
| Near Miss Grants | To partially support projects that were 'near-miss' for a substantial external competitive grant. | |
| VU Out-Of-Cycle Grants Scheme | To enable established researchers to respond quickly to opportunities as they arise, leading to demonstrated research outputs associated with the new opportunity; To develop research outputs that will enable high quality applications to be submitted to external grant awarding agencies. | |
| VU Grant Preparation Support Scheme | These are small grants designed to assist researchers at Victoria University to prepare applications for external research funding involving two or more institutions or significant University collaboration with industry. | |
| Faculty Research Performance Fund | Funds distributed to Faculties based on research outcome performance. Distribution calculation is based on: 75% of absolute performance as measured by the Consolidated Research Index (CRI) and 25% on relative prior annual performance. | Faculty Operating Grant |
| Postgraduate Research Scholarships to Faculties and Institutes |
The Research Training Scheme (RTS) provides block grants, on a calendar year basis, to eligible HEPs to support research training for students undertaking Doctorate and Masters degrees by research. | RTS |
| Research Infrastructure | Research Infrastructure Block Grant (RIBG) provides block grants, on a calendar year basis, to eligible Higher Education Providers (HEPs) to enhance the development and maintenance of research infrastructure. | RIBG |
Additional Internal Research Support provided for:
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IGS | |
| The IGS is managed by the Department of Innovation, Industry Science and Research. It supports the higher education institutions’ research and research training activities, and allows them to fund their activities in accordance with their own strategic judgements. Funding is allocated on the basis of formula that takes into account each researcher’s success in attracting research students (30% of funding), in attracting research income (60%) and in the quality and output of its research publications (10%). |
