Title page
Contents
Overview 3
Assessment 5
Assessment criteria 5
Applications assessed 5
Summary of Outcomes 7
Funding awarded 7
Outcomes by broad research area 10
Outcomes by Fields of Research 11
Outcomes by states and territories 12
Outcomes by Eligible Organisation 13
Characteristics of Chief Investigators 16
Gender of CIA 16
Years post-PhD of CIA 17
First Nations investigators 18
Size of investigator teams 18
Gender of investigator teams 18
Years post-PhD of investigator teams 19
Appendix A. Table of grants awarded 20
Appendix B. The MRFF Early to Mid-Career Researcher Initiative 22
Focus of the 2024 Early to Mid-Career Researchers Grant Opportunity 22
Glossary 24
Table 1. Grants awarded 7
Table 2. Number of applications, applications considered by GAC, and grants awarded per stream 8
Table 3. Grants awarded by broad area of research per stream 10
Table 4. Applications by broad area of research and funding rate by broad research area 11
Table 5. Number of applications (Apps) for Fields of Research per stream 11
Table 6. Number of applications for Fields of Research where no grants were awarded 12
Table 7. Applications and grants by states and territories 13
Table 8. Applications and grants by Eligible Organisation 13
Table 9. Gender of CIA on applications (apps) and awarded grants 16
Table 10. Gender of CIA on applications (apps) and awarded grants by stream 16
Table 11. Years post PhD of CIA (without career disruption) 17
Table 12. Years post PhD of CIA (without career disruption)11 on applications (apps) and awarded grants by stream 17
Table 13- Team size on applications (apps) and awarded grants by stream 18
Table 14. Gender of the CI 19
Figure 1. Number of applications at each stage 6
Figure 2. Funded rate of applications per stream post GAC assessment 8
Figure 3. Number of grants awarded per stream 8
Figure 4. Proportion of funding awarded by different characteristics 9
Figure 5. Proportion of funding awarded per Eligible Organisation 15
Figure 6. Years post-PhD of CI team members on awarded grants, unadjusted for career disruption 19