ARC Future Fellowships

Key dates for ARC Future Fellowships 2025

Release of Grant Guidelines: 8 August 2024
Round Opening: 17 September 2024
UQ R&I Information Session: 26 September 2024
UQ Notice of Intent due to the Research Office: 30 September 2024
Eligibility exemption requests due to the Research Office: 3 October 2024
Applications due to the Research Office: 3 October 2024
Requests Not to Assess due to UQ R&I: 14 October 2024
Requests Not to Assess due to the ARC: 17 October 2024
Applications close with ARC: 31 October 2024
Rejoinder Period: 6 March - 19 March 2025
Anticipated announcement: 8 July to 21 July 2025

UQ Information Session

To assist applicants in preparing their applications, the Research Office will be hosting an Information Session. A recording of this session will be made available on the UQ R&I presentations and slides webpage for those who are unable to attend. The session will feature a scheme overview, key findings from past rounds, the application and submission process, and a Q&A session with ARC College of Expert members.

When: Thursday 26 September 2024, 10.30am - 12.00pm
Where: 01-E302 - Forgan Smith Building (East Wing), Learning Theatre
Zoom: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/87258565557

Overview

The ARC Future Fellowships grant opportunity seeks to retain and attract the best and brightest mid-career researchers to undertake high-quality research programs in areas of national and international benefit. Normally, the scheme provides four-year fellowships, and up to $60,000 in additional non-salary funding per annum, to enhance the scale and focus of Australian research, and promote collaboration across industry, research institutions and other disciplines.

Eligibility

To be eligible, the candidate must, as at the grant opportunity closing date:

have an award of PhD date on, or between, 1 March 2010 and 1 March 2020; or
have a PhD award date together with an allowable period of career interruptions that would be commensurate with an award of PhD date on, or between, 1 March 2010 and 1 March 2020.
The allowable career interruptions set out and the period allowed for each are detailed in the Discovery Fellowship Grant Guidelines (2024 edition).

Eligibility exemption request

If you received your PhD before 1 March 2010 and have allowable career interruptions, you will need to request and Eligibility Exemption through the Research Office by following the below steps:

Please use the UQ FT25 Eligibility Exemption Calculator to calculate your eligible career interruptions.
Complete and certify the UQ FT25 Eligibility Exemption Request Form.
Submit your UQ FT25 Eligibility Exemption Request Form, and evidence for each interruption via email to ARC-Discovery@research.uq.edu.au to request endorsement of your request.
The Research Office will advise you about the outcome of your request.

How to apply

Internal Notice of Intent - due to UQ R&I by 30 September 2024

All researchers intending to submit an ARC Future Fellowship 2025 application are required to submit a mandatory internal Notice of Intent. NOIs will be collated centrally and distributed to Faculties and Institutes to maximise support to the UQ research community. If you would like to discuss your intention to apply with your local area, please contact your Faculty/Institute Research Manager.

NOIs can be completed and submitted here: https://survey.app.uq.edu.au/2025-Future-Fellowships-Notice-of-Intent

Submit UQ Notice of Intent

Step 1. RMS updates and scheme reading

Update your full profile in the RMS ‘Person Profile’. If any team members are new to RMS and need a login/password. We strongly recommend starting this process early.
Familiarise yourself with the key Australian Research Council (ARC) and UQ documentation. It is especially important to familiarise yourself with ARC's Grant Guidelines and Instructions to Applicants documents.

Step 2. Completing the application

Log into RMS and complete the application. Please ensure UQ is listed as the Administering Organisation.
Use the UQ templates available below to draft your documents to be uploaded to your application in RMS (please note that Templates for FT25 will not be available until Instructions to Applicants are released by the ARC).
Complete the application in RMS.
When ready for review, ensure all online components are complete and valid, generate a whole application PDF for your records and select 'Submit to Research Office' in RMS to submit the application.

Step 3. UQ R&I internal review and feedback

To initiate internal review, email your completed Application Certification Form and UQ Pending and Newly Funded ARC grants form to the Research Office at arc-discovery@research.uq.edu.au. Please note that RMS does not alert the Research Office when you create or submit an application in RMS.
If you are lodging a Request Not to Assess (RNTA), please note that applicants should complete the ‘Request Not to Assess’ form in RMS (instructions are available below) and then submit to the Research Office for review by the date stated in key dates above. Instructions for creating a RNTA will be made available on GrantConnect and on the UQ website.
The Research Office will review your application and provide feedback.

Step 4. Final submission

When your application is complete and fully compliant, the UQ Research Office will submit the application to the ARC through RMS.

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.
If offered, attend UQ R&I information sessions and access PowerPoint presentations from presentations and slides.

Key documents

ARC

Before applying, please review the full suite of documents available from GrantConnect, the Australian Government grants information system.

Additional ARC documents

UQ

Mandatory Forms

Templates

Resources

UQ FT25 Eligibility Exemption Request Form (DOCX, 51.4 KB) (Updated 18 June 2024)
UQ FT25 Eligibility Exemption Request Calculator (XLSX, 24.5 KB)

A range of resources and workshops from the UQ library are also available to assist researchers applying for this scheme

Rejoinders and rebuttal

In the ARC assessment and rejoinder process, comments from external assessors may be made available to applicants, and applicants given the opportunity to submit a rejoinder.

Detailed information on the rejoinder process (including instructions for accessing assessment reports and submitting rejoinders) is available from the ARC website. The UQ R&I information session and internal deadlines for assessment review requests and rejoinders are shown under our Key Dates section above.

The Research Office has developed a Rejoinder Tip Sheet with FAQs (PDF, 527.6 KB) to assist you in crafting your rejoinder.

UQ Rejoinder Information Session

To assist you to prepare rejoinders, the Research Office holds rejoinder information sessions involving senior academics who have served on the ARC's College of Experts and posts the session materials when they become available.

Details:

Date: Monday 10 March 2025
Time: 2:30-3:30pm
Venue: 26A-128A - Human Performance, Seminar Room
Zoom Link: https://uqz.zoom.us/j/82433242010