Australian Laureate Fellowships
Information on recently announced grant outcomes under the Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme is on the following pages:
- Selection Report: Australian Laureate Fellowships 2023
- Funding announcement kit: Australian Laureate Fellowships Announcement 2023
The Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme reflects the Australian Government’s commitment to excellence in research by supporting world-class researchers to conduct research in Australia.
The objectives of the Australian Laureate Fellowships scheme are to:
- attract and retain outstanding researchers and research leaders of international reputation, with exceptional ability to lead, collaborate, mentor and supervise, and enhance their capacity to create an enduring legacy
- build focus and scale in research by forging new links among researchers, the international research community and/or industry and other research end-users
- support a program of innovative and ground-breaking research that addresses a significant problem or gap in knowledge
- create a cohesive research program and implementation plan that represents value for money
- provide an excellent research training environment and exemplary opportunity to nurture early or mid-career researchers
- produce new or advanced knowledge resulting from the outcomes of the research with economic, commercial, environmental, social and/or cultural benefits for Australia, and to enhance research in Australian Government priority areas.
Up to 17 five-year Australian Laureate Fellowships may be awarded each year, providing funding for Australian Laureate Fellow salary towards a Professional Level E (or equivalent) salary, funding for 2 Postdoctoral Research Associates (5 years), 2 Postgraduate Researchers (4 years), and up to $300,000 per year project funding.
Project funding may be used for:
- personnel, postdoctoral research associates and research assistants, technicians and laboratory attendants
- access to research and infrastructure facilities and technical workshop services
- essential field research
- expert third party services
- equipment and consumables
- publication and dissemination of project research outputs and outreach activities
- specialised computer equipment and software
- travel costs essential to the project
- web hosting and development
- workshops, focus groups and conferences, and
- reasonable essential costs for researchers who are carers or who themselves require care.
Preference is given to researchers who will play a significant, sustained leadership and mentoring role in building Australia's internationally competitive research capacity.
Australian Laureate Fellowships include fellowships allocated to exceptional female researchers who will also undertake an ambassadorial role to promote women in research and to mentor early career researchers, particularly women, to encourage them to enter and establish a career in research in Australia.
One call for submission of Australian Laureate Fellowships applications is made each year.
Two named Australian Laureate Fellowships may be awarded to successful female Australian Laureate Fellows. A Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship will be available to a highly ranked female candidate from the humanities, arts and social science disciplines, and a Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship will be available to a highly ranked female candidate from the science and technology disciplines. Please visit the profile page for Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellows for further information on their research, ambassadorial and mentoring role.
How are the Georgina Sweet and Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellowships assessed?
The assessment for these prestigious Fellowships takes place in two stages. Applicants who have indicated interest in either a Georgina Sweet or Kathleen Fitzpatrick Fellowship must first be successful as an Australian Laureate Fellow. Only when the Selection Advisory Committee has recommended them as Australian Laureate Fellows will an applicant be assessed for a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship or a Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship.
The Selection Advisory Committee considers how the applicants will deliver their ambassadorial role based on a description of the activities that will be undertaken to promote and support women in research. Only candidates who can clearly demonstrate their capacity to promote women in research, mentor early career researchers, particularly women, and encourage them to enter and establish careers in research in Australia will be recommended for a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship or a Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship.
Key Documents and Information for Australian Laureate Fellowships 2024
- Discovery Program Grant Guidelines - Fellowships (2023 edition)
- Documentation available via: Australian Laureate Fellowships 2024 Current Grant Opportunity View—GO6408
- Important dates for Australian Laureate Fellowships 2024 grant application process
- Discovery Program Grant Guidelines: Laureate Fellowships 24 Information Session
2023 Australian Laureate Fellows
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Xuemei Bai
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Jacqueline Batley
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Janeen Baxter – 2023 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Joshua Cinner
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Terry Flew
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Gary Froyland
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Matthew Hornsey
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Jane McAdam
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Nam-Trung Nguyen
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Sarah Pink
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Catherine Stampfl – 2023 Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Willy Susilo
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Gene Tyson
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Shaobin Wang
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Geordie Williamson
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Yusuke Yamauchi
- 2023 Laureate Profile: Professor Alpha Yap
2022 Australian Laureate Fellows
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Timothy Bedding
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Larissa Behrendt – 2022 Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship recipient
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor David Bowman
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Cyrille Boyer
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Anne Castles
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Simon Driver
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Joanne Etheridge – 2022 Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship recipient
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Alexander Fornito
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Andrew Hassell
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Mark Krumholz
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Lidia Morawska
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Michael Stumpf
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Karen Thorpe
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Matt Trau
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Peter Veth
- 2022 Laureate Profile: Professor Nicolas Voelcker
2021 Australian Laureate Fellows
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Matthew Barnett
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Axel Bruns
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Helen Byrne
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Kishan Dholakia
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Jeffery Errington
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Sharon Friel
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Kliti Grice
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Zaiping Guo
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Dayong Jin
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Yun Liu – 2021 ARC Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Dena Lyras
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Alexander McBratney
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Michael Milford
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Sundhya Pahuja – 2021 ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Robert Parton
- 2021 Laureate Profile: Professor Andrew White
2020 Australian Laureate Fellows
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Alison Bashford
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Ross Buckley
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Dennis Del Favero
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Maureen Dollard—2020 ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship recipient
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Elaine Holmes
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor David James
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Loeske Kruuk
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Catherine Lovelock—2020 ARC Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship recipient
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Andrew Millar
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Jochen Mueller
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Martina Stenzel
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Kari Vilonen
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Toby Walsh
- 2020 Laureate Profile: Professor Huanting Wang
2019 Australian Laureate Fellows
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Kaarin Anstey
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor David Bellwood
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Debra Bernhardt
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Marcela Bilek
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Liming Dai
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Sara Dolnicar
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Andrew Dzurak
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Rupert Grafton
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor John Grundy
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Jie Lu
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Belinda Medlyn
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Barry Pogson
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Lynette Russell
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Enrico Valdinoci
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Lianzhou Wang
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Nina Wedell
- 2019 Laureate Profile: Professor Yi-Min (Mike) Xie
2018 Australian Laureate Fellows
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Jonathon Barnett
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Christine Beveridge—2018 ARC Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellowship recipient
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Tamara Davis
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Marilyn Fleer—2018 ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellowship recipient
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Stephen Foley
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Julian Gale
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Karl Glazebrook
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Distinguished Professor Hong Hao
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Jolanda Jetten
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Distinguished Professor Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Bostjan Kobe
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Dan Li
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Hanns-Christoph Nägerl
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Madeleine van Oppen
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor Peter Visscher
- 2018 Laureate Profile: Professor James Whisstock
2017 Australian Laureate Fellows
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Ann McGrath—Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Christopher Barner-Kowollik
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Colin MacLeod
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Dacheng Tao
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Edward Holmes
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Fedor Sukochev
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Geoffrey McFadden
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor George Willis
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Gottfried Otting
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Jill Bennett
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Mathai Varghese
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Michelle Coote—Georgina Sweet Australian Laureate Fellow
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Paul Griffiths
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Shizhang Qiao
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Svetha Venkatesh
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Xiu Song (George) Zhao
- 2017 Laureate Profile: Professor Zhiguo Yuan