Future Fellowships

The Future Fellowships scheme objectives are to:

1. support outstanding mid-career researchers, with demonstrated capacity for high-quality research, leadership, research training and mentoring;
2. support excellent basic and applied research by outstanding mid-career researchers to be recruited and retained by universities in continuing academic positions;
3. foster national and international research collaboration;
4. support excellent and innovative research that addresses a significant problem or gap in knowledge and represents value for money;
5. create new or advanced knowledge resulting from the outcomes of the research with economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia, and enhances the scale and focus of research in Australian Government priority areas.

Future Fellowships will be awarded funding in 2025 for a period of up to 4 years on a full time-basis. A researcher may only apply for up to 3 FTs over the period in which they are eligible.

FT25 is open to applicants who have been awarded a PhD on or between 1 March 2010 and 1 March 2020, or have an award of PhD date together with an allowable period of career interruptions that would be commensurate with an award of PhD date on, on or between 1 March 2010 and 1 March 2020. The allowable career interruptions set out and the period allowed for each are in Table 5 of the Discovery Fellowships Grant Guidelines 2023 edition.

A Future Fellowship may be requested at one of three salary levels, dependent on the candidates academic level.

Level A and B: $170,848 (including 30 per cent on-costs)

Level C: $206,818 (including 30 per cent on-costs)

Level D and E: $242,783 (including 30 per cent on-costs)

An administering organisation may be awarded up to $60,000 of project funding per annum.

amounts based on FT24, FT25 TBC

1. Read the Grant Guidelines, Instruction to Applicants and FAQs.
2. Liaise with your Mentor and faculty/institute to determine if you are competitive and internal nomination processes.
3. Complete an On-line NOIS form.
4. Research Funding Services (RFS) ARC team will liaise with faculty/institutes to finalise the list of supported applicants.
5. Supported applicants will receive further information on the next steps in the process from the RFS ARC team.
6. Contact the Deakin Library team via this form to assist with Research Metrics.
7. Applicants to commence application in ARC Research Management System - RMS.
8. Use the Deakin University templates provided below and liaise with the RFS ARC team as necessary.
9. Complete submission of your application in RMS to the Research Office for compliance checking and forward your Organisational statement to the RFS ARC team

The ARC will no longer publish scheme specific documents on its website, but will make these available through GrantConnect. Links to scheme specific documents can be found below.

Policies and Strategies can still be found on the ARC website.

Templates

• B4 Research load (non-ARC Grants and Research)
• B8 ROPE - Details of the Future Fellowship candidate career
• C1 Project Description
• C2 Administrating Organisation Letter of Support (Guidance Sheet and Template)
• D2 Justification of non-salary funding from ARC
• D3 Details of Administering Organisation contributions

Deakin University Salary Calculator

General Guidance for Completing ARC Project Budgets

Deakin University Data Management advice

Form to access library of successful Future Fellowship applications

Compliance Checklist

Deakin Library Research Metrics Request Form *NEW*