Overview
The Capstone Enhancing Early Profession Tutorial Analysis Grant for Girls offers as much as A$5,000 for one tutorial per yr to help with the prices related to a analysis undertaking of her selecting main in the direction of a publication.
The grant can be utilized to cowl any prices associated to the analysis undertaking, equivalent to conducting a subject journey; buying books, software program or gear; hiring a translator; journey to be taught new strategies in a lab interstate or abroad; small lab gear; key reagents to finish a undertaking; performing surveys or interviews; and tutorial enhancing, equivalent to for journal articles, manuscripts and convention papers. The grant can be used to cowl bills that the majority college funding doesn’t cowl, equivalent to these associated to the necessity of educational ladies to safe paid little one care to help them to fulfill their work tasks and analysis objectives, as a result of continued prevalence of conventional gender roles round caring within the dwelling.
As a part of the applying, it’s essential to define the scope of your analysis undertaking and what you propose to make use of the funds for, and supply proof of the prices concerned.
Why we wish to assist
Regardless of their predominant numbers on the undergraduate and graduate ranges, ladies typically stay under-represented in academia. This is named the ‘pipeline impact’, during which ladies pursue tutorial development post-PhD at a decrease fee than males, with many declining to take up tutorial positions. This impact, though under-studied, seems to be the results of the extremely aggressive nature of academia, which adversely impacts ladies in each their resolution to embark on an instructional profession and their improvement inside that profession.
Tutorial workloads in any respect ranges are sometimes extreme, with unrealistic expectations relating to analysis output and the unpaid time beyond regulation that’s essential to work competitively. Ninety per cent of full-time teachers work over 40 hours per week, together with 51 per cent who work over 50 hours per week (and this will imply wherever as much as 80 hours per week). Given the continued social expectations and structural components that lead to ladies usually assuming the majority of the duty of assembly the calls for of parenthood and different caring roles, these workloads are fairly merely not possible for a lot of feminine teachers to maintain. Regardless of the progress that many tutorial establishments have made relating to caring’s impact on tutorial work, it’s simple that total there’s a systemic failure to recognise all of the ways in which caring, significantly motherhood, can profoundly alter a feminine tutorial’s profession.
How we may help
For early profession ladies teachers, there are sometimes prices related to working longer hours to fulfill each their diverse tasks and their analysis objectives. Whereas working exterior of regular hours is just not a apply that we encourage, it’s one that’s extensively acknowledged (and generally even anticipated) to happen in academia. Typically a girl’s further childcare tasks, for instance, are a barrier to her performing this extra work, placing her at an obstacle compared to colleagues with out those self same tasks. In providing this grant, Capstone Enhancing acknowledges the larger difficulties confronted by feminine teachers in growing and persevering with their careers and seeks to ameliorate this example with sensible, monetary assist.
Eligibility
Earlier than making use of for this scholarship, please examine your eligibility in opposition to these standards:
You should be a girl.
You should be employed as an instructional employees member ready that includes analysis at an Australian or New Zealand college (i.e. employees in teaching-only positions will not be eligible {and professional} employees will not be eligible).
You might be employed on a unbroken or fixed-term foundation. (Informal employees will not be eligible.)
You might be employed half time or full time.
You should be an early profession tutorial. That is outlined as somebody who holds a PhD, and has graduated from their PhD inside the previous six years or who has begun persevering with or fixed-term employment in an instructional place for the primary time inside the previous two years.
The analysis undertaking should be one supposed to result in publication. That is outlined as a analysis undertaking for which one of many anticipated outcomes is publication of a peer-reviewed journal article, e book chapter or e book. It’s recognised that tutorial analysis is extremely diverse and that some analysis will end result clearly and shortly in a publication whereas different analysis may not result in a publication for a while. A part of the aim of this grant is to help ladies to beat limitations to their profession development, and publication is essential to this. That’s the reason one of many objectives of the analysis undertaking must be publication. You’ll be able to specify in your software the kind of publication you might be aiming for and the way it’s associated to your analysis undertaking.
Earlier recipients of this grant could not apply once more.
Earlier unsuccessful candidates could reapply yearly if they want.
You can’t apply in case you are an worker or contractor of Capstone Enhancing (or a member of the family of an worker or contractor).
Utility course of
Functions are at the moment OPEN. Examine our previous winners: Dr Tamaki Mihic (2018), Dr Claire Henry (2019), Dr Fiona Foley (2020), Dr Tin Kei Wong (2021) and Dr Nicole Hayes (2022).
Functions are open from 10 August 2022 to 24 June 2023.
The grant can be awarded on 25 July 2023.
The Capstone Enhancing Early Profession Tutorial Analysis Grant for Girls is awarded on the idea of each tutorial benefit and monetary want. Every software can be fastidiously assessed. The profitable applicant can be chosen on the sole discretion of Capstone Enhancing, and this resolution is remaining.
To use, please full the applying type under.
You probably have any questions, please first go to the Scholarship and Grants Program part of our FAQs.
In case you nonetheless have questions or require any additional data after studying our FAQs, you’ll be able to electronic mail [email protected].
Apply
To use for this scholarship, merely full this manner and supply your supporting paperwork. Please guarantee you’ve got checked your eligibility in our phrases and situations. For particulars on how Capstone Enhancing protects your private data, please learn our privateness coverage.
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