3Interpretation

3                          Interpretation

3.1.1               In these Funding Rules, unless the contrary intention appears:

Adjunct Appointment or equivalent means that an Eligible Organisation has a formal agreement in writing with a researcher which is publicly acknowledged and which establishes an ongoing association with the Eligible Organisation, of the nature of a conjoint, emeritus or honorary academic, or visiting fellow. It would be expected that the person’s association would be listed in an official organisational publication and/or web site.

Administering Organisation means an Eligible Organisation which submits a Proposal for funding under Federation Fellowships and which will receive and be responsible for the administration of the funding if the proposed project is approved for funding.

Applicant means the Administering Organisation. Funding under Federation Fellowships is provided to Administering Organisations, not to individual researchers.

ARC means the Australian Research Council, as established under the ARC Act.

ARC Act means the Australian Research Council Act 2001.

ARC Centre means a research centre wholly or partly funded by the ARC and includes ARC Centres of Excellence, ARC Centres and ARC Special Research Centres.

ARC Fellowship means a position held by a researcher where the salary is supported wholly or partly by the ARC and where the researcher has been nominated in a Proposal to hold a Fellowship. An ARC Fellowship may be awarded at a number of levels and in various ARC schemes. ARC Fellowship includes ARC Federation Fellowship (FF), Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD), Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry) (APDI), Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (CSIRO) (APDC), Australian Research Fellowship (ARF), Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship (QEII), and Australian Professorial Fellowship (APF).

ARC’s Web Site is http://www.arc.gov.au.

Australian Postdoctoral Fellow means a researcher whose salary is wholly or partly supported under an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (under the ARC Discovery Projects scheme).

Australian Postdoctoral Fellow (Industry) means a researcher whose salary is wholly or partly supported under an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry) (under the ARC Linkage Projects scheme).

Australian Professorial Fellow means a researcher whose salary is wholly or partly supported under an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship (under the ARC Discovery Projects scheme).

Australian Research Council International Fellow means a researcher whose salary is wholly or partly supported under an Australian Research Council International Fellowship (under the ARC Linkage International scheme).