B3Grant eligibility criteria

B3.             Grant eligibility criteria

B3.1                The Organisation role available under the Future Fellowships grant opportunity is an:

B3.2                The named participant role available under the Future Fellowships grant opportunity is a:

1. Future Fellowship candidate.

B3.3                To be eligible, Your Future Fellowship application must:

1. nominate only one Future Fellow candidate; and
2. have the correct Future Fellowship salary level selected for the candidate.

B3.4                An individual must not be nominated for more than one Future Fellowship in a grant opportunity.

Future Fellowship candidates

B3.5                A previous recipient of a Future Fellowship is not eligible to apply for another Future Fellowship.

B3.6                An individual who has been nominated for a Future Fellowship on three previous occasions, over the period in which the candidate is eligible, is not eligible to apply for another Future Fellowship. This includes applications that were withdrawn after the grant opportunity closing date and applications that We deemed ineligible.

B3.7                To be eligible, the candidate must, as at the grant opportunity closing date:

1. have an award of PhD date on or between the grant opportunity eligibility dates listed on the ARC website; or

b.              have an award of PhD date together with an allowable period of career interruption that would be commensurate with an award of PhD Date on or after the grant opportunity eligibility dates listed on the ARC website. The allowable career interruptions set out, and the period allowed for each are in Table 6.

B3.8                Where the Future Fellowship candidate holds a higher research degree that is not a PhD, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) or equivalent must certify that the qualification meets the level 10 criteria of the Australian Qualifications Framework Second Edition.

B3.9                Where the Future Fellowship candidate holds a professional equivalent to a PhD which is relied upon as the relevant qualification, this must be certified by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) or equivalent.

B3.10            The allowable career interruptions, and the period allowed for each are set out in Table 6. Each period of career interruption must be:

1. significant and not overlapping;

b.              for a period of greater than one month; and

c.              certified by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research).