These grants are intended to provide 12 months support an investigator who has been successful in securing external peer-reviewed, competitive grant support in the past; whose concurrent grant application to ARC or NH&MRC has been ranked highly but was insufficient to secure funding.
These grants are intended to complement the existing UNSW Gold Star Awards scheme designed to provide interim support for high quality grant proposals that just miss out on an ARC or NH&MRC grant in the latest funding round and these awards are given on the understanding that the recipients reapply to these funding agencies in the very next funding round.