In keeping with Professor Mulvaney’s deep commitment to Indigenous people and cultures, the John Mulvaney Fellowship is an award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students working in any area of the humanities. 

The recipient of the John Mulvaney Fellowship will receive $4000 towards undertaking research or fieldwork in Australia or overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and connecting with researchers and networks.

Criteria

• Applications will be assessed on the rigour and significance of the research, its likely impact within a specialist field, and its potential to engage and/or benefit the wider community.
• Nominees/Applicants will need to demonstrate the relevance of the project to the Nominee/Applicants academic career development and be able to show evidence of this through either traditional or non-traditional research outputs.

Eligibility

• Fellows and non-Fellows can nominate, or individuals can self-nominate. The Nominator must obtain the permission of the Nominee before nomination.
• Nominees/Applicants must be Citizens or Permanent Residents of Australia who are residing in Australia at the time of nomination.
• Nominees/Applicants must be citizens who are of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent.
• The Fellowship is open to early career researchers (ECRs) and PhD students currently enrolled in an Australian institution.
• Nominations/applications will be accepted from independent scholars holding a PhD as well as those working in institutional settings.
• ECR Nominees must be in the early stages of their careers, which will be determined, inter alia, by how recently a PhD was conferred. In normal circumstances it should have been conferred no more than five years prior to the closing date for applications.
• ECR Nominees who have received their PhD more than five years ago but who can demonstrate a significant, commensurate period of career interruption (such as maternity or parental leave, carer’s responsibility, illness, unemployment, or non-research employment) may be considered eligible. This includes disruptions caused by COVID-19. A justification for the career interruption must be submitted as part of the proposal.
• Nominees/Applicants must be working in the Humanities, defined as those discipline areas by which the Academy is structured – Archaeology; Asian Studies; Classical Studies; English; European Languages and Cultures; History; Linguistics; Philosophy and the History of Ideas; Religion; Cultural and Communication Studies; and The Arts. Applicants working on projects in Indigenous Studies; Digital Humanities; and Environmental Humanities will also be eligible to apply.
• Interdisciplinary work is encouraged, provided that it includes a substantial proportion of work in the Humanities.

• Phone: (02) 6189 6982
• Email: grants@humanities.org.au