Avant Early Career Research Program
Supports Australia's promising young doctors to advance their careers by developing life-changing research that promotes better patient outcomes.
Who can apply?
Avant members in one of these categories: Intern, RMO or Doctor in Training who are:
- An Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident of Australia; and
- Registered with the Medical Board of Australia; and
- For full eligibility criteria, please refer to the terms and conditions
Timings
- Applications open: 1 March 2023
- Applications close: 7 June 2023
- Review of applications: June – September 2023
- Applicants notified of outcomes: August – September 2023
Criteria
The Avant Early Career Research Program has selection criteria that include:
- Personal details
- Education
- Previous work experience
- Past research
- Research project
- Research team and supervisor
- Adherence to specific project evaluation criteria. These can be downloaded below:
Avant Foundation Grants
Expressions of interest
Avant provides funding to support research, education and leadership training programs designed to make a real difference to quality, safety and professionalism in practice.
We use an expression of interest process in order to determine the extent to which applications are aligned with the purpose of the Avant Foundation Grants. After assessment, we will invite selected applicants to submit a more detailed application. These will then be reviewed before funded projects are announced in June each year.
Who can apply?
Avant Foundation Grant Applicants
Avant Foundation Grant applications are open to entities that are charities within the meaning of the Charities Act 2003 (Cth) and are endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) (Charity Criteria).
Avant Foundation Grants are not available for individuals.
Timings
- Expressions of interest: the next round of grants opening date is to be advised.
Criteria
The following are selection criteria for the Avant Foundation and Foundation Grants EOI:
- Relevance of the project to the Foundation’s objectives
- The project type (e.g. research, education)
- The project topic area (e.g. domains of quality improvement, professionalism)
- The leadership experience of the project team
- The design of the project
Avant Grants
Expressions of interest
Avant provides funding to support research, education and leadership training programs designed to make a real difference to quality, safety and professionalism in practice.
We use an expression of interest process in order to determine the extent to which applications are aligned with the purpose of the Avant Foundation Grants. After assessment, we will invite selected applicants to submit a more detailed application. These will then be reviewed before funded projects are announced each year.
Avant Grant Applicants
Avant Grant applications are open to:
- Medical practices that hold a practice medical indemnity policy with Avant Insurance Limited.
- Medical practices that hold a current subscription to PracticeHub and
- Medical practitioners
- who hold a professional indemnity insurance policy with Avant Insurance Limited (excluding Intern/RMO and Doctor in Training policies) in a practitioner category of practice,
- who are an Australian citizen, New Zealand citizen or permanent resident of Australia and living and working in Australia, and
- who are a practising medical practitioner registered with the Medical Board of Australia.
Applying for an Avant Grant, an Avant Foundation Grant or an Early Career Research Program Award
To apply for an Avant Grant, or Avant Foundation Grant, or an Early Career Research Program Grant, complete the appropriate application form and submit it (during the application period), and any additional information requested by Avant or the Avant Foundation (as applicable).
Applications should be made via the online application portal.
No incomplete applications can be included in the review process.
If you would like to find out more about any of the Avant Foundation, Avant's Grants or the Early Career Research Program Awards, fill out and submit this form.