Funding initiatives
Seed funding 2022: Call for applications
20 May 2022
CAR is providing seeding grants for interdisciplinary research on air pollution, energy and health related projects or systematic reviews supervised by CAR investigators.
There will be a maximum of five seed grants available.
The maximum amount will be up to $20,000 per project.
These projects must be completed by 31 December 2022.
Applications close 30 June 2022.
CAR Postdoctoral training grant - AWARDED
14 July 2021
DInh Bui from the University of Melbourne has been awarded the CAR postdoctoral training grant to undertake two training courses:
1. Group-Based Trajectory Modelling for the Medical and Social Sciences
2. Latent Class/Cluster Analysis and Mixture Modelling
Total Funding $5,500.
PhD Top-up funding: Call for Applications - AWARDED
11 May 2021
Two PhD Top Up scholarships have been awarded: (i) Rongbin Xu and (ii) Wenhua Yu both are from Monash University. We look forward to welcoming both scholars into our CAR team.
The PhD Top ups of $10,000 per year are awarded to those scholars who have already secured a PhD Scholarship, who are interested in a career in air pollution and energy transition and health research, and who are supervised or co-supervised by CAR investigator(s) at participating institutions.
SEED funding: Call for Applications - AWARDED
26 April 2021
Six seed funding applications have been awarded to CAR researchers:
(i) Ascertaining neighbourhood variation in wood heater emissions in Sydney: a case study
Prof Guy Marks and Dr Christine Cowie, University of New South wales, Woolcock Institute of Medical Research
(ii) Driving technological innovation to reduce air pollution from wood heaters: can Australia benefit from successful approaches pioneered in New Zealand?
Prof Fay Johnston, University of Tasmania
(iii) Creating an Australian wood heater emissions inventory and calculating the annual mortality burden
Prof Johnston and Dr Borchers-Arriagada, University of Tasmania
(iv) Estimating high-resolution global daily ambient and wildfire-related PM2.5 using machine learning models
Prof Yuming Guo and Dr Shandy Li, Monash University
(v) The health burden due to source specific pollutant emissions in Sydney and Melbourne.
Prof Geoff Morgan, University of Sydney
(vi) Transition to hydrogen energy and related health risks and health co-benefits: production, storage, transportation (a review)
Prof Geoff Morgan and Prof Bin Jalaludin, University of Sydney and University New South Wales
For this round, there is a focus on three strategic themes:
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no safe level of air pollution;
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bushfire smoke; and
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wood heaters.
The grant proposals are for work that is relevant to implementation or late-stage of translation of evidence into policy or practice.