Applications for the Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award are now open
Details
The Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award is an annual award of up to $20,000 per awardee to assist PhD students or early career researchers in their research. It provides funding support toward the costs of travel, courses or research, or to supplement PhD scholarships with necessary top-up funding.
The award is named in honour of Dr Maxwell Frank Cooper Day AO FAA who is the longest serving Fellow of the Academy and who has spent a lifetime championing entomology, conservation and forestry, and helping other scientists.
Dr Day and his family are generously funding this Fellowship to support scientists early in their careers, acknowledging the support that Dr Day himself received as a young researcher to travel overseas to gain his PhD at Harvard.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be Australian citizens or permanent residents at the time of application.
- Applicants should either:
- be accepted to undertake a PhD (or equivalent) or be currently enrolled in a PhD (or equivalent)
- have held a PhD (or equivalent) for no more than 5 years at the time of the award closing date*.
Applicants must conduct their research in one or more of the natural sciences relating to one or more of the following disciplines:
- conservation of Australia’s flora and fauna
- ecologically sustainable resource use
- environmental protection
- ecosystem services (either provisioning services, or habitat and supporting services).
* Exemptions for career interruptions may be sought from the Academy. Reasons for exemption can include (but may not be limited to) illness, birth of a child or carer responsibilities. To apply for an exemption, please include a short explanation stating why an exemption is being sought and for how long your research career was interrupted.
Applications and referee reports must be emailed to: awards@science.org.au by 9 am AEDT Monday 12 December 2016.
Further information at the Australian Academy of Science
Feature image: Max Day scribbly Gum plaque. Libby Robin
