Purpose of the 2023 BEST/ACHLR Seed Funding Initiative
The purpose of the 2023 BEST/ACHLR Seed Funding Initiative is to create new research partnerships for early career researchers (ECRs) and mid-career researchers (MCRs) on topics of relevance to the Centre of Behavioural Economics, Society and Technology (BEST) and the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) that lead to publications and future
funding proposals.
The seed-funding initiative aims to achieve:
- Development of new and/or fostering of collaborative relationships between members of the two
lead Centres on real-world topics related to behavioural economics and health law for the basis of
future funded projects; - The generation of new data that leads to a journal submission;
- Active sponsorship between senior and junior/mid-career members of the Centres.
The Initiative
The initiative will commence with a morning tea that brings together ECR and MCR members from both Centres who have an interest in behavioural economics and health law topics. Members will form teams and design a pitch for a project to receive seed funding. Each team will have a month to create their project idea, develop a three-page proposal and the winners will be selected, by a panel. All funds will need to be expended by 26 November 2023 and the journal article will need to be submitted by 30 April 2024.
Details of the initiative – including the pitch winners – will be posted on BEST and ACHLR Initiative pages, along with links to the final published article.
This initiative provides a seed funding pool, up to a max. of $10k per project for ECRs and MCRs of the Centres to undertake innovative research projects that promote research skill and development and enable the generation of new preliminary data to support tangible research outputs aligned to the Centres’ objectives. It is expected that the data generated from this scheme will result in publications and a research grant or fellowship application to a funding body within 18 months.
Timeline of Key Dates
6 June: Initiative Networking Morning Tea
10 July: Teams submit grant application to the panel
18 July: Commencement of project after approval
15 October: Status report update
26 November: Project funds be expended
30 April 2024: Journal article submitted
Guidelines
2023 BEST/ACHLR Small Grants Scheme Guidelines