Forrest Research Foundation Fellowships 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Forrest Research Foundation Fellowships 2026. Forrest postdoctoral fellows are extra than simply intellectually good. They are adventurous, curious, open to concepts from wherever. They embrace uncommon approaches to drawback-fixing and take dangers that others could not. They get pleasure from breaking with conference – the trail much less travelled is interesting as a result of new frontiers provide new alternatives for discovery. They are intellectually beneficiant and take time to know and problem concepts, collaborating to enhance outcomes for the group and the world.

Forrest Fellowships are supplied to early-stage postdoctoral researchers who’ve excellent tutorial profiles and who’ve already made vital private analysis contributions inside and past their self-discipline. Forrest Fellows may have been among the many high performing college students of their undergraduate and graduate cohorts. They will have already got gained excessive-degree analysis expertise by way of finding out and researching in a number of completely different establishments, and their progressive doctoral analysis will likely be recognised nicely past their present institutional home. Forrest Fellows will want to lengthen their postdoctoral analysis nicely past the main target of their doctoral dissertation and can purpose to take action in a means that builds mental bridges inside and between disciplines. Forrest Fellows are additionally dedicated to speaking their analysis to others, to have a optimistic affect on the world round us.

Benefits

The Forrest Research Foundation will present funding for:

• Salary: Salary according to a Level A Step 8 appointment (for instance, the University of Western Australia wage for this appointment is $108,362 in 2025) plus 17% superannuation
• Accommodation Allowance: An lodging allowance of $25,116 every year in 2025 (topic to marginal tax price)
• Research and journey allowance: A as soon as-off analysis and journey allowance of $12,000. This allowance is on the market for authorized analysis-associated bills, abroad analysis and convention journey.
• Relocation allowance: All interstate and worldwide Fellows can apply for a relocation allowance, together with an economic system airfare to Perth, which will be mentioned with the Director if profitable.

Forrest Fellows will assist the overall mission of the Forrest Research Foundation which may embody offering mentoring, ambassadorial and management to Forrest Scholars, Forrest Hall and the Forrest Research Foundation. Appointments at Level B will likely be thought of if supported by the using college.

Eligibility

• To be eligible to apply candidates should be of their closing 12 months of PhD or not more than two years publish PhD conferral. 
• For functions submitted in 2025 – with Fellowship graduation in 2026 – candidates should have had their PhD conferred on or after 1 January 2023 or may have efficiently accomplished all the necessities for the award of their PhD by 31 December 2025.

Application

Applications shut 30 June 2025, 11.59pm AWST.

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For extra data, go to Forrest Research Foundation Fellowships.