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Queensland Health Clinical Research Fellowships (QHCRF) Round 6 (2024)

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Key Dates for Queensland Health Clinical Research Fellowships (QHCRF) Round 6 (2024)​

  • Round 6 opening date:  19 August 2024
  • UQ R&I NOI Close: 30 September 2024
  • Applications due to UQ R&I:  30 September 2024
  • Full Applications due:
    • Official external deadline: 21 October 2024 (11:59pm AEST)
    • Deadline for UQ certification: 21 October 2024 (9:00am AEST)
    • Please see important information regarding submission below.
  • Outcomes anticipated: December 2024 / January 2025

Overview

The Clinical Research Fellowships (CRFs) are intended to support Queensland Health clinician researchers undertake research linked to their practice. The program recognises that clinician researchers (including doctors, nurses, dentists, allied health practitioners and clinical scientists) are uniquely placed to identify clinical issues that can benefit from further research, lead patient focused research discoveries and facilitate improved patient care through research translation.

The specific objectives of the program are to:

  1. Support the career development of Queensland Health’s emerging clinician researchers and research leaders, particularly toward securing competitive research funding from national agencies and other funding sources.
  2. Support health and medical research projects that have real potential to lead to better health outcomes for Queenslanders.
  3. Build collaborative linkages between Queensland Health and the wider Queensland health and medical research sector to support the translation of research discoveries into frontline healthcare.
  4. Build health and medical research capacity across all of Queensland, including in rural and remote areas.

To encourage more applications from researchers located in regional, rural, and remote areas, and promote equity of funding distribution across Queensland, applications by researchers from these locations will be eligible for additional weighting to their final panel score.

There will be three award categories to provide a pipeline of support for clinician researchers at various career stages:

  • Emerging Researcher (>0-2 years of research participation years*) – In their first 2 years of full-time equivalent research activity – up to $100,000 over 1-2 years.
  • Early-Career Researcher (>2-5 years of active research participation*)– up to $200,000 over 2-3 years.
  • Mid-Career Researcher (>5-10 years of active research participation*)– up to $250,000 over 2-3 years.

* Research participation years above refer to those engaged in research on a continuous basis full time or greater than half-time. Full-time equivalency should be considered for those that have engaged in research half-time or less or not continuously. Applicants do not require a PhD.

How to apply

Internal notice of intent process

Researchers intending to submit an application for which UQ will be the administering organisation OR a partner organisation are required to submit a mandatory internal Notice of Intent. NOIs will be collated centrally and distributed to Faculties and Institutes in order to provide maximum support to the UQ research community.

UQ as partner organisation

Researchers submitting applications on which UQ is a partner organisation should send the following documents to UQ R&I at grants@research.uq.edu.au, as soon as possible:

  • Draft application responses (see Application Summary below)

  • UQ letter of support (templates below)

  • Completed and fully signed FAC

  • Evidence of any UQ cash contributions

Please note that unfortunately the UQ Research Office does not have capacity to provide feedback on applications on which UQ is a partner organisation.

UQ as lead organisation

Step 1:  Scheme information

  • Familiarise yourself with the key Queensland Health and UQ documentation (see links below).

Step 2: Compile application documents for review

  • Draft application responses (see Application Summary below)
  • Draft letters of support (templates below)
  • Completed and fully signed FAC
  • Complete UQ Costing and Pricing Tool
  • Evidence from Head of School/Institute/Centre or relevant budget holder that any salary gap will be covered (e.g., email confirmation, incl. gap amounts by year)

Draft application responses can be provided either in the Application Summary document (noting that final responses will need to entered into  RedCap) or as a PDF printout of the RedCap application

Step 3: UQ R&I internal review and feedback

  • Ensure all required documentation is complete and certified, where necessary.
  • Email your application documents to UQ R&I at grants@research.uq.edu.au, cc’ing your local research support team.

Step 4: Final submission

  • Applications must be completed in RedCap.
  • Prior to submission, applications must be signed by you and by the UQ Research Office.
  • To prepare your application for signature by the Research Office, follow our guide (see below).

Important information regarding final submission: The official external deadline for applications is 11:59pm on Monday 21 October, which is outside UQ Research Office’s contact hours. Please send your application for signature to UQR&I by 9:00am on 21 October, so that we can certify the application and return it to you before close of business at 5pm.

    Readership and researcher support

    Before applying, we recommend you:

    Application Briefing Sessions for CRF Round 6

    Queensland Health have scheduled two briefing sessions for prospective applicants to understand the new online application process and to ask any questions.

    • Session 1: 12pm-1pm, Friday 30 August 2024.
    • Session 2: 12pm-1pm, Wednesday 11 September 2024.

    Key documents​

    Queensland Health

    UQ

    Contact UQ R&I

    Scheme queries

    Round coordinator
    Dr Jonathan Devine