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Awards and opportunities

Central to the purpose of the Academy is the recognition and support of outstanding contributions to the advancement of science.

Medals and awards

The honorific awards were established to recognise outstanding contributions to the advancement of science at the early, mid and career level. Career awards recognise life-long achievement. View a list of previous awardees.

Grants and lectures

The Academy supports scientists to undertake research projects as well as travel and lectures at a national and international level. We also maintain a list of external sources of recognition.

Conference funding

The Academy supports research through the sponsorship of research conferences that focus on rapidly developing fields of research.


Browse through the awards by name, status, or category below:

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Grants and lecture funding
2025 Early- and Mid-Career Researcher Mobility Grants

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Award
This award provides funding to support research by outstanding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PhD students and early- and mid-career scientists.

Closing date: 1 June 2025
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Career Award
Academy Medal

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Early-Career Award
Anton Hales Medal
The Anton Hales Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research in the Earth sciences.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Grants and lecture funding
APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education (ASPIRE Prize)

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Australia–India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) Early- and Mid-Career Fellowships 2020

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Conference funding
Boden research conferences
This fund supports a series of small specialist conferences in the biological sciences to enable active research workers in rapidly advancing fields to discuss current advances and problems.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Early-Career Award
Brian Anderson Medal
The Brian Anderson Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research in Information Communications Technology.

Closing date: 1 May 2025
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Early-Career Award
Christopher Heyde Medal
The Christopher Heyde Medal recognises outstanding research in the mathematical sciences. The 2025 fields of award are Pure mathematics, applied, computational and financial mathematics.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Career Award
David Craig Medal and Lecture
The David Craig Medal and Lecture recognises outstanding contributions to research of any branch of chemistry by active researchers.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Grants and lecture funding
David Vaux Research Integrity Fellowship Award
To recognise individuals who have led efforts in their or other institution(s) to foster and promote integrity in science.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Early-Career Award
Dorothy Hill Medal
The Dorothy Hill Medal recognises outstanding research in the Earth sciences, by women researchers who have the potential to further contribute to a better understanding of Australian Earth science.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Conference funding
Elizabeth and Frederick White research conferences
This fund supports a series of research conferences in the physical and mathematical sciences related to the solid Earth, the terrestrial oceans, Earth's atmosphere, solar-terrestrial science, space sciences and astronomy.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Grants and lecture funding
Falling Walls Lab Australia

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Conference funding
Fenner conferences on the environment
This fund supports a series of environmental conferences on the environment and conservation issues in Australia and its environs.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Early-Career Award
Fenner Medal
The Fenner Medal recognises outstanding contribution to research in biology (excluding the biomedical sciences).

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Early-Career Award
Frederick White Medal
The Frederick White Medal recognises the achievements of scientists in Australia who are engaged in research of intrinsic scientific merit in the areas of research are physics, astronomy, chemistry, and the terrestrial and planetary sciences.

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Geoffrey Frew Fellowship
Geoffrey Frew Fellowships are awarded to distinguished overseas scientists to participate in the Australian Spectroscopy Conferences and to visit scientific centres in Australia

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Global Science and Technology Diplomacy Fund - Strategic Element

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Early-Career Award
Gottschalk Medal
The Gottschalk Medal recognises outstanding contribution to research in the biomedical sciences.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Grants and lecture funding
Graeme Caughley Travelling Fellowship
For ecologists resident in Australia or New Zealand to travel to overseas scientific centres.

Closing date: 1 June 2025
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Mid-Career Award
Gustav Nossal Medal
The Gustav Nossal Medal for Global Health recognises the contributions made to fields of cellular immunology, antibody formation and tolerance and vaccine research

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Career Award
Haddon Forrester King Medal, sponsored by Rio Tinto
Recognises original and sustained contributions to Earth and related sciences of particular relevance to the discovery, evaluation and exploitation of mineral deposits, including the hydrocarbons.

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Hannan Medal
The Hannan Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research in any of the fields of statistical science, pure mathematics, applied mathematics and computational mathematics and is made in one of those three areas in turn at two-yearly intervals.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Grants and lecture funding
Heidelberg Laureate Meetings

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HOPE meeting with Nobel Laureates

Closing date: 6 September 2021
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Career Award
Ian Wark Medal and Lecture
The Ian Wark Medal and Lecture recognises research that contributes to the prosperity of Australia where that prosperity is attained through the advancement of scientific knowledge or its application, or both.

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International Geological Congress travel grant scheme

Closing date: 30 October 2020
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J G Russell Award
The J G Russell Award is aimed at financially helping talented younger researchers in the basic sciences. Applications are not sought for this award.

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Mid-Career Award
Jacques Miller Medal
The Jacques Miller Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research in experimental biomedicine.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Career Award
Jaeger Medal
The Jaeger Medal recognises investigations of a high order into the solid Earth or its oceans carried out in Australia or having some connection with Australian Earth science.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowships

Closing date: 4 November 2024
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Early-Career Award
John Booker Medal
The John Booker Medal in Engineering Science recognises outstanding contributions to research in engineering mechanics that addresses problems in the static and dynamic response of physical systems within engineering and applied mathematics disciplines.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Early-Career Award
Le Fèvre Medal
The Le Fèvre Medal recognises outstanding basic research in chemistry.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings

Closing date: 16 September 2024
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Lloyd Rees Lecture
The Lloyd Rees lectures are a series of lectures by distinguished researchers in chemical physics. Applications are not sought for this award.

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Premier Award
Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture
The Macfarlane Burnet Medal and Lecture recognises scientific research of the highest standing in the biological sciences.

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Premier Award
Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture
The Matthew Flinders Medal and Lecture recognises research of the highest standing in the physical sciences and is one of the most prestigious career awards of the Academy.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Career Award
Mawson Medal and Lecture
The Mawson Medal and Lecture recognises outstanding contributions to earth science in Australia.

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Grants and lecture funding
Mike Smith Student Prize for History of Australian Science or Australian Environmental History

Closing date: 2 February 2024
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Early-Career Award
Moran Medal
The Moran Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research in one or more of the fields of applied probability, biometrics, mathematical genetics, psychometrics and statistics.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Mid-Career Award
Nancy Millis Medal
The Nancy Millis Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research in the physical and biological sciences by women researchers who have established an independent research program and demonstrated exceptional leadership.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Early-Career Award
Pawsey Medal
The Pawsey Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research in physics.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Regional Collaborations Programme

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Regional Collaborations Programme COVID-19 Digital Grants

Closing date: 14 December 2020
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Premier Award
Ruby Payne-Scott Medal and Lecture for women in science
The Ruby Payne-Scott Medal and Lecture recognises research of the highest standing by women researchers in the physical and/or biological sciences and is one of the most prestigious career awards of the Academy.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Grants and lecture funding
Rudi Lemberg Travelling Fellowship
For Australians or overseas scientists to visit Australian scientific centres and to deliver lectures.

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Early-Career Award
Ruth Stephens Gani Medal
The Ruth Stephens Gani Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research in human genetics, including clinical, molecular, population and epidemiological genetics and cytogenetics.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Selby Fellowship
These fellowships are awarded to distinguished overseas scientists to visit Australia for public lecture/seminar tours and to visit scientific centres in Australia.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Career Award
Suzanne Cory Medal
The Suzanne Cory Medal recognises outstanding research in all of the biological sciences

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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The 25th International Geological Congress Fund

Closing date: 5 August 2024
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The Douglas and Lola Douglas Scholarship in Medical Science
The scholarship is offered as a ‘top up’ scholarship to PhD candidates awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Scholarship in one of the areas of Indigenous or primary health care. Applications are not sought.

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The Margaret Middleton Fund for endangered Australian native vertebrate animals
This fund offers annual grants of up to $20,000 to support field-based, conservation-based vertebrate animal research in Australian ecosystems.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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The Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award
This fund offers annual grants of up to $20,000 to support interdisciplinary approached biological science research

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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The Moran Award for History of Science Research
This fund offers grants biennially of up to $10,000 to support research access to archives that record the history of science in Australia.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Grants and lecture funding
The Ukraine-Australia Research Fund
To offer practical support to enable the continuation of research and technology activities by Ukrainian scientists

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The Ukraine-Australia Research Fund: Facility access (Activity 2)
Ukrainian researchers can access leading infrastructure capabilities in Australia

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The Ukraine-Australia Research Fund: Short-term visits (Activity 1)
To support Ukrainian researchers to participate in short-term visits to Australia

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The WH Gladstones Population and Environment Fund
This fund offers research grants of up to $24,000 to support empirical research into how the size, distribution, material aspirations and other characteristics of Australia’s population are likely to affect Australia.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Conference funding
Theo Murphy Initiative (Australia) Funding Streams

Closing date: 1 October 2024
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Grants and lecture funding
Thomas Davies Research Grant for Marine, Soil and Plant Biology
This fund offers annual grants of up to $20,000 to support research in the field of marine, soil and plant biology.

Closing date: 1 June 2024
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Career Award
Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal
The Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal recognises outstanding contributions to research by a scientist in Australia for research in mathematics or physics.

Closing date: 1 May 2024
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Visit to the National Institutes of Health in the USA by a junior scientist

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