John Allwright Fellowship Program 2027 – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2026

Applications are open for the John Allwright Fellowship Program 2027. The John Allwright Fellowship (JAF) is a aggressive, advantage-primarily based program accessible to scientists or economists from accomplice international locations at present or not too long ago concerned in ACIAR analysis tasks. It affords the OPPORTUNITY to acquire formal postgraduate {qualifications} at an Australian tertiary establishment. The major intention of the Fellowship is to strengthen scientific analysis functionality and institutional hyperlinks in ACIAR accomplice international locations to undertake excessive-high quality and impactful analysis.

The JAF program is the most important funding within the ACIAR Capacity Development Program. It offers Masters by Research or PhD scholarships to agricultural researchers, administered via the Australia Awards system. ACIAR offers extra pastoral care and improvement alternatives to strengthen the various and transferrable abilities of members throughout their scholarship to assist bridge the hole between study and the following levels of their careers.

Benefits

The JAF is obtainable for the minimal interval needed for the person to finish the tutorial program specified by the Australian increased schooling establishment, together with any preparatory coaching.

The following advantages usually apply:

• Full tuition charges
• Return air journey – cost of a single return, economic system class airfare to and from Australia, by way of probably the most direct route
• Establishment allowance – a as soon as solely cost as a contribution in direction of lodging bills, textbooks, study supplies
• Contribution to Living Expenses (CLE) – a fortnightly contribution to primary residing bills paid at a charge decided by the division.
• Introductory Academic Program (IAP)–a obligatory program previous to the graduation of formal educational research masking info on residing and finding out in Australia
• Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC) during the award (for award holder solely) – offered to cowl the scholar’s primary medical prices (apart from pre-current circumstances)
• Pre-course English (PCE) charges–if deemed needed PCE could also be accessible for college kids for in-nation and/or in-Australia coaching
• Supplementary educational help could also be accessible to make sure a scholar’s educational success or improve their educational expertise
• Fieldwork could also be accessible for eligible analysis college students for one return economic system class airfare by way of probably the most direct path to their nation of citizenship or inside Australia

Eligibility

• You should not be a citizen of Australia, maintain everlasting residency in Australia or be making use of for a visa to reside in Australia completely
• You have to be a citizen of the nation by which you might be working
• You are endorsed by your present employer, ACIAR Project Leaders (Commissioned Organisations and Country Collaborators) and your major supervisor
• You are at present employed on a everlasting or lengthy-time period contract foundation
• You are a scientist or economist who’s actively concerned in an ACIAR analysis challenge or small analysis exercise inside the final 24 months. ACIAR might contemplate supporting researchers from “advanced pipeline” tasks
• Your Research Proposal addresses the gender fairness and social inclusion, local weather change and challenge contribution to the event precedence of your nation
• You maintain {qualifications}, equal to no less than an Australian Bachelor diploma, in a self-discipline that’s related to the proposed space of postgraduate study
• You have not too long ago undertaken an English language testing program, i.e. IELTs, TOEFL, PTE or are ready to take the take a look at on receipt of application end result

Application

The following supporting paperwork are obligatory and have to be uploaded together with your application. Not offering these paperwork might influence your eligibility.

• Proof of citizenship (Birth certificates)
• An id doc (passport will need to have an expiry date greater than 6 months from the application date)
• Certified copies of diploma certificates
• Certified copies of educational transcripts
• Research proposal (contemplate how the proposed analysis will deal with gender fairness and social inclusion, local weather change, in addition to the challenge contribution to the event precedence of your nation).
• Employer endorsement letter (Template accessible)
• Australian Project Leader referee report (Template accessible)
• Collaborating Country Project Leader referee report (Template accessible)
• Primary Supervisor endorsement letter (This generally is a formal letter or copy of electronic mail correspondence)

In addition, they extremely advocate you present the next extra paperwork to strengthen your application: 

• Current curriculum vitae (CV)
• English Language Details (if relevant, IELTs/TOEFL/PTE official report)
• Statement from college that English is the language of instruction
• List of publications (if relevant)
• Any different related paperwork in help of your application.

Applications for the John Allwright Fellowship are submitted via the Online Australia Scholarships Information System (OASIS). You should register an account in OASIS, which can allow you to logon, create and full an application kind. When beginning an application you’ll need to pick the ACIAR John Allwright Fellowships award program.

For extra info, go to John Allwright Fellowship.