September 2019
Research Bulletin
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the September edition of the Research Bulletin. In this edition we have information on:
Big Bids: Call for Expressions of Interests open
Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe – Seeking your assistance
Grants news
Research Integrity news
Platform Archives 2 Day Bootcamp – Bendigo
Research Impact news
Research Week Wraps up
PRIME Update news
Research Seminar: Failure to Prevent Harms and Attributions of Organisational Liability
All the best
Alistair Duncan, MaryAnne Aitken and Megan Fisher
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Big Bids: Call for Expressions of Interest open
The Big Bids program is now open for Expressions of Interest. The 2019 cut-off to request
financial support for bid development is close of business Thursday 3 October.
Development funds are capped at $25,000 per bid. Expressions of interest need to be
submitted to BigBids@latrobe.edu.au
The Framework is a coordinated development program that supports research teams
developing or participating in large-scale complex funding applications for the following
schemes:
mailto:BigBids@latrobe.edu.au
• ARC Centres of Excellence (CoE);
• ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hubs (ITRH);
• ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centres (ITTC);
• NHMRC Centres of Research Excellence (CRE);
• NHMRC Synergy Grants (Synergy);
• Cooperative Research Centres (CRC); and
• Cooperative Research Centre Projects (CRC-P).
The program provides project management support from ideation to submission, targeted
peer-review advice, assistance with engagement activities, and access to financial support
for developing bids. Researchers can request support from the program by completing an
expression of interest form and submitting it to the Big Bids team at
BigBids@latrobe.edu.au.
About the Expression of Interest process
The Framework is set up as a rolling program but there is an annual cut-off for financial
support. This means that to access development funds, researchers must complete an
expression of interest form and submit it to by close of business Thursday 3 October.
Researchers who do not wish to draw on development funds and support can lodge their
expressions of interest outside of this annual call but at least two months prior to the
external submission deadline.
Expressions of interest are received by the Oversight Committee, bringing together key
institutional stakeholders from the Research Portfolio and the Colleges, and assessed by
the Academic Advisory Panel, assembling in-house and external members of the
professoriate who have been involved in the development of big bids in an academic or
research leadership capacity. Based on the recommendations, development funds and
support will be allocated to select research teams.
Contact
If you have any questions or bid ideas in the pipeline, we encourage you to contact the Big
Bids team led by Dr Dora Horvath via email at BigBids@latrobe.edu.au or phone at 9479
3729. You can also access further information on the program on the following Intranet
page.
Research Focus Areas: Funding round is open until 30 September
mailto:BigBids@latrobe.edu.au
mailto:BigBids@latrobe.edu.au
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The 2019 RFA funding round is open for applications for the Grant Ready and
Collaboration Ready schemes.
The Funding Guidelines and Applications Forms are available on the RFA Unite site, and
applications can be lodged via the RFA eForm in ResearchMaster. For information on RFA
research themes and list of projects funded in the 2018 rounds, please check the RFA
Intranet pages. The round remains open all throughout September, and closes on Monday
30 September. We encourage all researchers who are RFA members to apply!
If you have any questions about the funding round or the RFAs more generally, please do
get in touch with us via the RFA mailboxes:
• Building Healthy Communities - BHC@latrobe.edu.au
• Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation - SER@llatrobe.edu.au
• Securing Food, Water and the Environment - SFWE@latrobe.edu.au
• Transforming Human Societies - THS@latrobe.edu.au
• Understanding Disease - UD@latrobe.edu.au
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Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe – Seeking your assistance
Dear colleagues,
The Celebrating Gender Equality at La Trobe event is on Friday the 4th of October.
As you know, gender equality is everyone’s business but we’re finding that the majority of
people who attend these events are women. We’d love you to help change this by asking a
male colleague to come along. They can register for the event here.
The event will showcase what we have done, where we are at, and where we are going
regarding gender equality at La Trobe and an opportunity to hear from our senior leaders,
including the Vice-Chancellor, Professor John Dewar.
Let’s work together to make La Trobe University a leader in gender equality and diversity.
Many thanks and warm regards,
Tasha Weir and Gina Pederick (SAGE Athena SWAN Program Managers)
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mailto:BHC@latrobe.edu.au
mailto:SER@llatrobe.edu.au
mailto:SFWE@latrobe.edu.au
mailto:THS@latrobe.edu.au
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Grants news
Major Grants Development Support Program
The pitching sessions for ARC Discovery Projects and Discovery Indigenous Projects have
commenced and will continue throughout September. We have currently held 7 pitching
sessions which has involved 21 panellists and have heard pitches from 13
researchers. The feedback the Grants Team have received from panellists and pitchers has
been very positive and encouraging and we look forward to hearing from the researchers
yet to pitch their proposals in the coming weeks.
Can we please remind researchers that are yet to pitch to send through their project
summary, slides and CVs of the investigators on their team to
researchgrants@latrobe.edu.au at least five business days prior to their pitch. Panellists
require these documents ahead of the pitching session in order to provide the best
possible feedback.
Fellowship Support Program
One hundred and three Fellowship support program nominations were received and 71
applicants (new applications and resubmissions) have been supported by schools across
the university to participate in the program and submit applications in the next round (ARC
Future Fellowship and NHMRC Investigator in November 2019 and ARC DECRA in March
2020).
Last week, applicants and their mentors have received guidance materials to support their
mentoring relationship. If you are an applicant part of this program and have not yet been
matched with your mentor, please contact researchgrants@latrobe.edu.au as soon as
possible.
The next events for the fellowship support program will be on Wednesday 18 and 25 of
September.
Grants recently submitted
School/Centre Funder & Scheme Total funding
applied
Allied Health The CASS Foundation -
Medicine/Science Grant
$247,097
mailto:researchgrants@latrobe.edu.au
mailto:researchgrants@latrobe.edu.au
Allied Health Stroke Foundation - Early
Career Seed Grant
$49,796
Humanities & Social
Sciences
Creative Victoria $39,120
Humanities & Social
Sciences
Regional Arts Victoria $15,000
Humanities & Social
Sciences
ARC Linkage $175,472
La Trobe Law School Australian Department of
Foreign Affairs and Trade -
Developmental Leadership
Program
$87,553
Life Sciences The CASS Foundation -
Medicine/Science Grant
$436,288
Life Sciences Norman Beischer Medical
Research Foundation -
Innovation Grant
$52,541
LIMS The CASS Foundation -
Medicine/Science Grant
$958,321
Nursing & Midwifery Nurses Board of Victoria Legacy
Limited (NBVLL) – Major Grant
$343,004
Psychology & Public
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