UQ Early Career Researcher Development: Knowledge Exchange & Translation (Kx&T) Fund Award

Key dates for UQ Early Career Researcher Development: Knowledge Exchange & Translation (Kx&T) Fund Award

Round opens: Friday 6 June 2025.
Research Office Information Session: Wednesday 11 June 2025 11:30am – 1:00pm
Workshop One: Thursday 26 June 2025 9:00am – 1:00pm
Workshop Two: Thursday 17 July 2025 9:00am – 1:00pm
Applications due to Research Office: by 5pm, Thursday 21 August 2025
Anticipated announcement: by 5pm Thursday 11 September 2025

Overview

The Kx&T Fund supports ECRs develop and build relationships with end-users based on sharing and translation of knowledge and developing mutually rewarding partnerships that improve the impact of research. The scheme aims to develop researchers with expertise and experience in end-user engagement and collaboration for knowledge exchange, impact and innovation. It aims to lay the groundwork for partnership with end-users and to support for ECRs to transition to independent positions and launch competitive research careers within or outside academia.

Application Development Support

To assist UQ researchers in preparing their UQ ECR Kx&T Fund applications, the Research Office will host an Information Session and two professional development workshops aimed at supporting ECRs engage, co-design and pitch to potential partners.

The Information Session will concurrently provide information relevant to the UQ ECR Kx&T Fund applicants & Partnerships.

Registration to attend the workshops is required via this link.

Information session

To assist UQ researchers preparing applications, the Research Office held an information session discussing key aspects of both schemes (UQ Early Career Researcher Development: Knowledge Exchange and Translation (Kx&T) Fund and UQ Indigenous Engagement Partnernerships Fund (IREP) and application components, with an opportunity for Q&A. Session recording and slides available on the Presentations and Slides page.

How to apply

Step 1: Familiarise yourself with the key UQ documentation.
Step 2: Complete your application using the Online Application form

Readership and researcher support

Before applying, we recommend you:

Contact your faculty or institute research manager for advice on peer readership programs.
Join the UQ R&I Mailer to stay up to date with round developments.
Access the UQ R&I Grants Library, a helpful resource of past successful proposals.

Key documents

Templates

Additional resources

2025 UQ ECR Kx&T Master FAQ (PDF, 161.6 KB)
2025 UQ ECR Kx&T Sample Application Form (PDF, 18.5 MB)
2025 UQ ECR Kx&T Previous Round Outcomes Report - TBA

Post-award resources

UQ ECR Kx&T Final report Form - TBA
2025 Letter of Agreement Template (DOCX, 58.2 KB)