Honours Scholarship

The honours year is very skills based and builds on the foundation of study in content and research methods provided by the undergraduate degree. It gives the student the opportunity to dive deeper into an area they are passionate about, or have an affinity for, developing specialist research skills and sharing their work and outcomes with their peers and the community

Studying honours successfully provides you with the skills and experience to pursue different career opportunities, particularly a career in research. The Honours program will prepare you for further postgraduate study, such as a Masters and/or PhD.

Honours graduates demonstrate high levels of achievement, critical reading, critical thinking and information retrieval skills, project management skills, scientific writing and presentation.

The objective of the grant is to encourage undergraduate medical and allied health students to engage in the honours program. 

To be eligible, candidates will have completed a bachelors’ degree in the biological or health and medical sciences and have taken subjects appropriate to their project.

• Term of this award will be 1 year and may not be extended or deferred.
• The project must commence by 1st January 2025.
• The research project the training is based on shall be performed within the Adelaide Biomedical Precinct / Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN).
• The recipient must remain enrolled on a full-time basis (i.e. 75% of an equivalent full time study load) in the approved Honours program over the duration of the award.
• A once off payment of $3,000 will be made to successful candidates upon commencement of the Honours program.
• Payment will be made as a single award at the commencement of the Honours year. The recipient will be required to complete the appropriate finance forms. The recipient is advised to seek professional taxation advice as this award may be considered by the Australian Taxation Office as taxable income.
• The award is subject to the applicants’ successful admission to an approved Honours program at a university.  The applicant must be commencing the approved Honours program for the first time in 2025 and evidence of enrolment must be provided.
• The applicants’ supervisor must ensure ethics and governance approvals are in place before commencement of the scholarship and before funding will be made available.
• The principal supervisor must have a clear link to CALHN.
• The CALHN Research Services Grants Team must be notified of any changes.
• A brief report to CALHN Research Services at the conclusion of the Honours year is required and possibly an interview as determined by the CALHN Research Scholarships and Fellowships Panel.
• In accepting this award, the recipient authorises CALHN Research Services to obtain such additional information deemed necessary to ensure that they continue to meet eligibility requirements.
• The recipient agrees to accept responsibility for the performance of the project in compliance with SA Health and University policies and procedures, and in accordance with the Australian Research Code of Conduct.
• Before and during the tenure of this award, the recipient agrees to inform the CALHN Research Services Grants Team in writing of any situation where they may not, or may no longer be able to, abide by these terms and conditions, and agree that this information may be used by the CALHN Research Scholarships and Fellowships Panel to reassess your continued eligibility for this award.

As the form cannot be saved and edited in another session, we recommend that you complete a draft of your response in Word and then cut and paste the final version into the application form prior to submitting.

Check your application for accuracy and ensure all application documents are uploaded before you submit your application.

Please adhere to the specified word or page limits. Content in excess of these limits will not be included for assessment. Where applicable, these limits are indicated under each question on the online form.

Prior to submitting the form, you may select an option to have your responses sent to you.

Upon completion of the form, you will receive an automatic reply that your application has been received. If you do not receive this, or have other questions about this grant, please contact the CALHN Grants Team.

You must also submit a list of attachments via email to the CALHN Research Services Grants Team - see the list at the bottom of this page.

• First name
• Last name
• Position, current employer, university, department and site
• Contact phone number
• Email address
• Are you an Australian Citizen or do you have Permanent Residency?

• Primary supervisor details
  • Name
  • Department
  • Position
  • Institution
  • Phone
  • Email
• Supervisor's publications over the last 3 years.
• Supervisor's external peer-reviewed funding both past and present.

• Is genetic manipulation required for your project?
• Is ethics approval required
  • Yes - type required (human, animal, other)
  • No - justification
• Ethics approval status
  • Not submitted - provide intended date of submission
  • Submitted - provide date and reference number
  • Using existing ethics - justify why this is appropriate
• Please provide ethics and governance reference numbers where applicable, below:
  • Q or R Number
  • HREC Reference
  • SSA Reference
  • MYIP Number

After submitting the application form, please ensure you email the following attachments to the CALHN Research Services Grants Team.

It is preferable that all attachments are within a single PDF file, but multiple PDFs will be accepted: please ensure the applicant's last name is included at the start of each file name, such as 'NAME_Honours scholarship application attachments.pdf'

Attachments required (in a searchable PDF format):

1. (If relevant) Permanent Residency Letter of Confirmation (required for permanent residents).
2. Applicant's academic record
3. Proposed supervisor letter of support - Letter of support endorsed by the nominated supervisor, providing their assessment and approval of the candidate and their willingness to provide supervision during the honours period.

4. Lay Summary of your project (1 A4 page maximum) - This document should contain a description of the project, including:

   4.1 aims
   4.2 hypotheses
   4.3 background
   4.4 experimental plan
   4.5 No more than 5 references should be cited in the summary.
    

5. Ethics and Governance documents - If using existing/current ethics approvals, please provide confirmation from the relevant ethics committee that this new project proposal is covered under the current HREC or AEC approval, along with the relevant approval letters.
6. Head of Department/Division approval - A signed Letter of Certification from the Head of Department/Division certifying that appropriate general facilities will be available to the investigator if successful, and that the project will be carried out strictly in accordance with NHMRC Ethical and Scientific Practice Guidelines.