Indigenous Graduate Research Support Grant

Benefits

This support grant provides up to $10,000 for candidates enrolled in a doctoral degree and up to $5,000 for candidates enrolled in Master by Research.

You will be able to access the grant multiple times during your candidature until you have used your grant allocation.

Funding can be accessed for activities that fall within one or more of the following categories:

Academic networking and collaboration

Activities that are related to your research, such as attending or presenting at a conference, building community partnerships, or undertaking cross-institutional engagement that builds national networks and peer connections between Indigenous graduate researchers at other research institutions.

The grant can cover expenses such as travel, accommodation, registration fees.

Professional development

Activities that enhance your research training skills or improve connections to culture, such as leadership programs or language learning.

The grant can cover expenses such as course or program fees, learning materials or equipment, travel and accommodation costs.

Cultural or family obligations

Support for maintaining cultural or family links

The grant covers travel costs and/or a period of paid leave from your graduate research course. Additional special leave of up to 20 days (doctoral) or 10 days (masters research) across candidature is available

Research translation and community engagement activities

Assistance for planned impact and engagement activities that are noted in the research plan.

The grant covers cost related to holding community meetings, developing or editing resources, publications.

The grant covers costs related to community engagement activities where the primary purpose is to involve the community in decisions around the purpose, design, conduct and use of your research. This could include covering expenses such as those associated with holding community meetings, developing or editing resources and publications.

However, the grant does not cover costs related to engaging community members as participants in your research. For example, it does not cover expenses for community members to participate in surveys, interviews, or focus groups when the purpose is to produce data for you to analyse through your research. This should be managed separately as a research project cost and as part of the ethics approval process. Find more information on human ethics (SSO login required).

Honoraria for advisors on research

Payment to an Elder or senior knowledge holder who has supported your research project and/or thesis.

An honorarium is a token of appreciation to an Elder or senior knowledge holder. It is not a payment for services. Honorarium payments can only be made for support or advice that has already been contributed by an Elder or senior knowledge holder to your research project and/or thesis, not in expectation of future contribution.

There is a limit of $3,000 for Honorarium payments across candidature, with a maximum of $1,500 per person.

What the grant cannot be used for

The grant will not cover expenses that are not research training related, including but not limited to: holidays, repayment of bills or debts including credit cards or loan debts, purchasing vehicles, housing bonds, rent or residential college fees, fines or penalties, clothing or apparel, medical expenses, or any unspecified costs.

Application

How to apply

You must complete the Indigenous Graduate Research Support Grant (IGRSG) Application Form to access the grant. You will be asked to provide a brief outline of how you intend to use the funds.

Each request for funding should be for a minimum of $1000, except in the case of an honorarium payment, which does not require a minimum amount. You will be able to access the grant multiple times during your candidature until you have used your grant allocation.

To request the honorarium payment, you will need to complete the IGRSG Honorarium Request Form, which must be signed by your Advisory Committee Chair and attached with your IGRSG Application Form.