Margaret Middleton Fund
Margaret Middleton Fund for endangered Australian native vertebrate animals
Applications for this award are closed.
The Margaret Middleton Fund offers support for research into the conservation biology of vertebrate animals native to Australia, with the objective of better understanding the causes of their decline and the means for their recovery.
Grants of up to $15,000 are available.
Criteria
- Applicants should be biologists normally resident in Australia with a proven record of relevant research.
- Preference will be given to independent research workers whose research is not funded, or is only partially funded, by a university or other institution.
- Applicants undertaking Masters and particularly PhD studies should ensure that their application identifies clearly the discreet aspect or research component of that larger study for which they are seeking funding support from this fund.
- Successful applicants will be required to provide evidence of appropriate Ethics Committee approval for the research.
- Successful applicants will also be required to provide reports on the progress and final outcome of the research funded by the grant.
Applications
Applications should be addressed to the ‘Selection Committee, Margaret Middleton Fund’ ‘, and be limited to five pages. It should contain a description of the project including major aims and significance of the research; a short curriculum vitae; a list of publications relevant to the research; and a proposed budget and timeline for the project. As this fund may support successful projects in whole or in part, a breakdown of the budget’s components is useful.
Two referees’ reports should also be attached to the application and are not part of the five page limit. The reports should be addressed to the ‘Selection Committee’ and be no more than two pages in length and indicate the referees’ knowledge of the research and the researcher’s ability to carry out the project successfully.
Applications should be sent in electronic format to awards@science.org.au.
Grants are offered to successful applicants in early December each year for projects to be carried out in the next year.
Areas of research funded to date include:
- The phylogeography and population genetics of the long-nosed
- How do dingoes provide conservation benefits for the dusky hopping
- Towards an effective conjugate vaccine to combat debilitating chlamydial disease in the koala
- Sea turtles threatened by marine debris: do they have a choice in the matter?
- Restoring ecosystem function from the top
- Sea snake declines and extinctions on Australia’s coral reefs
- Population genetics and captive breeding – red-finned blue-eye and the Edgbaston goby
- Immunogenetics of pardalote species in south-eastern Australia
- Ecology of the kultarr
- Fire, genetics and the eastern chestnut mouse
- Conservation biology of the purple-crowned fairy-wren
- Myxozoan parasite in the green and golden bell frog
- Bridled nailtail wallaby – evaluating the mesopredator release theory
- Irwin’s turtle – locating and protecting nesting sites
- Pygmy blue tongue lizard – long term conservation
- Spotted-tailed quoll – habitat use of the species and its interactions with wild dogs
- Dingo – Australia’s top terrestrial predator and its role protecting the remaining native small mammal fauna
- Tasmanian devils and population decline from Devil Facial Tumour disease
- Maximising captive breeding success and conservation in the southern dibbler and dunnart species
- Changes in telomere length re the determination of the ages of free-living chondrichthyan populations
- The population and epidemiological dynamics associated with decline of woylies in Australia
- Wildlife general – protecting the prey with chemical camouflage
- Dispersal patterns and swimming behaviour of hatchling flatback turtles
- How to support malleefowl recruitment in a fragmented landscape
- Monitoring extinction of the northern quoll
For more information contact awards@science.org.au
