Nearly all applications for public research grants – 86 per cent – go unfunded. So a businessman has taken matters into his own hands to get quality research the money it needs. George Crones is founder and leader of crowdfunding ...

The Australian Research Council has splashed out $38.6 million to 50 new research projects via the latest round of the Future Fellows scheme. The scheme allocates money to provide four-year fellowships to mid-career researchers. The federal education minister, Simon Birmingham, said this ...

The University of New South Wales has received a multimillion-dollar grant to develop a centre for cyber-security and into its flagship quantum computing project. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has established a $1.6 million, five-year partnership with UNSW to develop a ...

Universities are supporting the government’s innovation agenda, and Labor has said of the sector that its “political judgement’s not always been the strongest”. Labor Senator Kim Carr, shadow minister for higher education, said yesterday’s innovation policy announcement was underwhelming and ...

Research funds should be allocated based on commercialisation success as well as quality, the new chair of Innovation Australia has said. Speaking to Campus Review, Ferris reiterated the federal government’s message of establishing a more innovative nation. He said roughly ...

A pioneer in neuroscience credited with the critical discovery of brain stem cells 23 years ago fears a scarcity of funding could affect future breakthroughs. Professor Perry Bartlett, the founding director of the Queensland Brain Institute, lamented the fact that ...

The authors of a new report indicating that Australian universities are using billions in teaching revenue to subsidise research have questioned the benefit to student learning or services. The report, The Cash Nexus: how teaching funds research in Australian universities, released ...

The University of Adelaide and the Australian Research Council have launched a major new research hub focused on Australia’s copper industry. Funded by a $2.52 million ARC grant, the ARC Research Hub for Cooper-Uranium aims to test and commercialise new, safe and cost-effective ...

Funding stability and a long-term outlook are key to ensuring a bright research future for Australia, a senior researcher told a conference yesterday. Speaking at the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit in Melbourne, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and University of ...

Universities must be prepared to take risks, provide greater long-term employment security and back younger researchers if Australia is to successfully nurture the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, a higher education conference has been told. Speaking as part of ...