Australian Academy of Science

INITIAL REPORT
GUIDELINES

DUE: 30 DAYS AFTER TRAVEL

THE ADAM J BERRY MEMORIAL FUND

in conjunction with

THE FOUNDATION FOR THE 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, USA

Please send your report electronically to grants@science.org.au

Your report may be used for promotional purposes.  Your report also assists the Academy to meet its reporting obligations to the Commonwealth and the Berry family.  The Academy would like to provide brief details of your visit on the Academy’s website.  We would like to include your email address to enable interested researchers to contact you.  Do you agree to the Academy providing this information?

	 YES

	 NO

NAME AND TITLE:	     

YEAR TRAVELLED:	     

1. Your name, business address and email address

     

2. Current status

	 Masters student	 PhD student		 Postdoctoral researcher

3. The title of your research project

     

4. The name and address of your host(s)

     

5. What is the primary motive for your participation in the program?

	 To gain specific knowledge related to your current research

	 To work with a particular researcher at a particular laboratory

	 To work on a particular research project

	 To acquire international research experience

6. It is expected that your participation in the Adam J Berry Memorial Fund program would enhance your research experience and promote international collaborative opportunities. Please indicate if and how your visit achieved these outcomes and if there were other immediate benefits of the visit to your personal research work, such as access to global science and technology not available in Australia, new techniques learnt, papers expected to be published, presentations given, etc.

     

7. Were the pre-departure communications useful to you in preparing to participate in the program?

	 Useful				 Not useful

If you chose ‘not useful’, please explain:

     

8. How often did you exchange research options or ideas with researchers other than your host?

	 Daily		 Often	 Occasionally		 Seldom

9. How do you evaluate the degree to which you achieved your research objective?

	 Beyond expectation			 Fully accomplished

	 Satisfactory				 Unsatisfactory

If you chose ‘unsatisfactory’, please explain:

     

10. What aspects of the program were the most valuable and interesting to you?

     

11. How do you evaluate the overall program?

	 Excellent		 Good	 Satisfactory		 Unsatisfactory

12. Having experienced research and life overseas, what do you think the possibility is of your conducting future research overseas?

	 Would like to create opportunities

	 If a favourable opportunity arises

	 Not interested

13. Please add your comments (if any)