Melbourne Research Fellowship (Career Interruptions)
Life can sometimes get in the way of a science career: the joy, but also endless nappies, constant feeding and care of a baby in its first year of life, or the time and energy required to care for a partner recovering from a serious operation. Dr Siddall's advice to fellow researchers: "Hang in there!"
Applications for the 2012 funding round of the Postgraduate Scholarships are now open.
Categories of Postgraduate Scholarship awards available are: Dora Lush Biomedical, Public Health, Medical/Dental, Primary Health Care, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health.
How well people with newly diagnosed epilepsy respond to their first drug treatment, may signal the likelihood that they will continue to have uncontrolled seizures according to University of Melbourne Chair of Neurology Professor Patrick Kwan.
Early bird registration is now open for the Metastasis Research Society's meeting: MRS2012.
The Metastasis Research Society will be holding its 14th Biennial Congress from the 2nd-6th of September, 2012, at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.
An Australian first and world leading study, into the overall health and wellbeing of children of same-sex attracted parents is being led by the University of Melbourne.
Research Collaboration Grants provide funding to stimulate and facilitate collaboration with external organisations. Grants of up to $20,000 will be available for one year. They require applicants to collaborate on their project with an external organisation with a view to submitting an ARC Linkage Project grant (or similar) application or engaging in some other form of collaboration within two years of receiving the award.
The objective of the Melbourne Research Fellowships (Career Interruptions) Program is to enable eligible researchers who are University of Melbourne staff to enhance or re-establish their academic research careers. Applications are invited from staff who do not have a continuing tenured research position whose careers have been severely interrupted, delayed or otherwise constrained by chronic illness, child bearing, child rearing or other caring duties. Applicants must have completed a PhD degree in their field at least three years prior to application.
It’s a struggle, indeed it’s a battle, but Oprah Winfrey, Kirstie Alley and our own MagdaSzubanski ‘won’ their weight loss battles...at least for a time. But, they did not ‘win’ the war, and each regained the weight they’d lost.
