2024 awards and funding opportunities

The Australian Academy of Science offers two types of opportunities for scientists. Our honorific awards recognise outstanding contributions to the advancement of science at the early, mid and career levels. Our funding opportunities support scientists to undertake research projects as well as travel and lectures at a national and international level.

This page lists the 2024 funding opportunities that are now open. The information below is also available as a downloadable PDF.

Academy funding opportunities

Applications close 1 June 2023

Research awards

Travelling fellowships

Research conference funding

Academy honorific awards

Nominations closed 1 May 2023

Premier awards

Career awards

Mid-career awards

Early-career awards

2024 Academy funding opportunities

Applications for research awards, travelling fellowships and research conference funding close 1 June 2023

Research awards

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Award
• Margaret Middleton Fund for Endangered Australian Native Vertebrate Animals
• Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award
• Thomas Davies Research Fund for Marine, Soil and Plant Biology

Travelling fellowships

• Graeme James Caughley Travelling Fellowship for ecologists resident in Australia or New Zealand to travel to overseas scientific centres
• Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship for Australians or overseas scientists to visit Australian scientific centres and to deliver lectures
• Selby Fellowship for overseas scientists to visit Australian scientific centres

Research conference funding

• Boden Research Conference in the Biological Sciences
• Elizabeth and Frederick White Research Conference in the Physical Sciences
• Fenner Conference on the Environment

2024 Academy honorific awards

Nominations for the Academy's prestigious honorific awards for scientific excellence closed 1 May 2023

Premier awards

• Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture (biological sciences)
• Ruby Payne-Scott Medal (any branch of the physical and biological sciences)

Career awards

• David Craig Medal and Lecture (chemistry)
• Haddon Forrester King Medal sponsored by Rio Tinto (mineral exploration)
• Ian Wark Medal and Lecture (applied sciences)
• Mawson Medal and Lecture (Earth sciences)
• Suzanne Cory Medal (biomedical sciences)

Mid-career awards

Mid-career awards are for researchers 8 to 15 years post-PhD in the calendar year of nomination.

• Gustav Nossal Medal (global health)
• Nancy Millis Medal for Women in Science (any branch of the physical and biological sciences)

Early-career awards

Early-career awards are for researchers no more than 10 years post-PhD in the calendar year of nomination.

• Anton Hales Medal (Earth sciences)
• Christopher Heyde Medal (pure mathematics, applied, computational and financial mathematics)
• Dorothy Hill Medal (Earth sciences)
• Fenner Medal (biology, excluding biomedical sciences)
• Frederick White Medal (physical, terrestrial and planetary sciences)
• Gottschalk Medal (medical sciences)
• John Booker Medal (engineering sciences)
• Le Fèvre Medal (chemistry)
• Pawsey Medal (physics)
• Ruth Stephens Gani Medal (human genetics, including clinical, molecular, population and epidemiological genetics and cytogenetics)

See all our awards: science.org.au/opportunities