Scholarships

The Maali Hub Indigenous EMCR Health Research Related Support Fund is available to support Early to Mid-Career Researchers with project costs, health research related training, international and national conferences.

This is a continuous Open Round which opens on 1 March 2025  and closes on 30 November 2025.

Research support funding offered includes:

$10,000 Research support costs
$5,000 Training

$5,000 International conference attendance

$2,500 National conference attendance 

If you wish to be considered, please review the Funding Guidelines and then complete the Funding Application form.

Please submit your application to maalihub@ecu.edu.au.

Download the Guidlelines HERE

Aurora Foundation

Summer Program

Aurora Internship Program | Paid internships that build your career and your impact

Are you a First Nations university student or graduate looking to take the next step in your career?

The Aurora Internship Program offers paid placements with purpose – giving you the chance to gain experience, grow your confidence, and contribute to work that matters.

Interns are placed in organisations working to improve outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. From grassroots nonprofits to research institutes, government, and the private sector. You don’t need to have it all figured out, just bring your curiosity, commitment, and lived experience.

Closes | 31/12/2025

APPLICATIONS OPEN:  aurorafoundation.com.au

(And if you’re unsure or have questions, the Aurora team is here to help.)

There are many scholarship opportunities, both in Australia and overseas, advertised through the Indigenous Pathways Portal on the Aurora Foundation Website on the link below. 

Indigenous Pathways Portal | Aurora Foundation

Indigenous Early / Mid Career Researchers | Health Research Related Support Fund Item

The Maali Hub Indigenous EMCR Health Research Related Support Fund is available to support Early to Mid-Career Researchers with project costs, health research related training, international and national conferences.

This is a continuous Open Round which opened on 1 March 2025 and closes on 30 November 2025.

Research support funding offered includes:

·       $10,000 Research support costs
·       $5,000 Training
·       $5,000 International conference attendance
·       $2,500 National conference attendance 

Please submit your application to maalihub@ecu.edu.au.

The UQ Poche Centre are seeking a PhD candidate for the project Preventing non-communicable diseases (PreventNCD) among Indigenous children and youth in major cities of Australia.This project is working alongside Professor Abdullah Mamun. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are eligible for a living stipend of up to $53,900 tax free annually. 

Enquiries can be submitted to a.mamun@uq.edu.au or poche.hdr.support@uq.edu.au

This grant opportunity offers funding to support medical research and medical innovation programs of research that deliver a ‘moonshot’ by creating a treatment for a currently serious and incurable health condition, through a series of linked projects. The program of research can propose to develop novel health technologies and/or re-purpose existing health technologies in a novel way.

We expect that expressions of interest will close on 31 March 2026, with the last grants awarded by 30 June 2027.

Total Amount Available (AUD): $400,000,000

Estimated Grant Value (AUD):     $25,000,000

For further information, click here.

2025 Maternal Health and Healthy Lifestyles Grant Opportunity

- Stream 1 (TCR): develop, implement and/or evaluate interventions to prevent or manage perinatal mental ill-health 

- Stream 2 (TCR): develop, implement and/or evaluate holistic approaches that support healthy development for children aged 2-5 years 

- Stream 3 (TCR): develop, implement and/or evaluate new co-designed and scalable health and wellbeing promotion and/or preventive health approaches to address modifiable risk factors in: 

Minimum Data | Closes 19/11/2025 5:00pm ACT Time

Application closes | 03/12/2025 5:00pm ACT Time

For further information, click  here.

The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that develop novel approaches to reduce treatment toxicity and adverse effects of brain cancer treatment for patients, to minimise the short- and/or long-term negative impacts for patients and carers.  

Minimum data closes | 21/01/2026   5:00pm ACT Time

Application closes |        04/02/2026   5:00pm ACT Time

For further information, click here.