- Minister for Education and Training
The Turnbull Government has boosted funding for Australia’s research universities by $76 million as part of the push to drive greater collaboration between researchers and industry and businesses.
Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the Turnbull Government had committed $1.9 billion to R&D and training researchers in 2017, including more than $1 billion through the Research Training Program which supports over 40,000 Masters and PhD students a year.
“The Turnbull Government’s $76 million boost for Australia’s researchers means we are delivering $1.9 billion in 2017 alone to support the ideas and discoveries that will be vital to our country’s future successes,” Minister Birmingham said.
“The new research block grants include $50 million from the National Innovation and Science Agenda to drive universities to engage more with industry and other innovation systems.
“Australian researchers have no shortage of smart ideas. But Australia needs to become better at taking research and applying it in ways that benefit the broader community, or that turns our best research ideas into new job-creating commercial realities.
“We’ve worked with our research sector on the new funding arrangements, creating a simple, transparent framework that gives universities flexibility in how they support research and research training.”
Minister Birmingham said the research block grants funding arrangement complement other initiatives to strengthen collaboration between Australian industry and researchers, including:
- developing an assessment of university research engagement and impact
- introducing continuous applications and faster decision making for Australian Research Council Linkage Projects grants
- expanding the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute internship program for PhD students to provide 1,400 placements over four years and get them into the workforce
- developing a National Careers Education Strategy for students.
“It’s now one year on from the Turnbull Government’s National Innovation and Science Agenda and we’re starting to see a wave of change that will see universities developing new initiatives and partnerships with businesses, governments and other innovators,” Minister Birmingham said.
For more information please visit: http://www.education.gov.au/research-block-grants
2017 Research Block grant Allocations
Higher Education Provider | State or Territory | Research Support Program | Research Training Program | Total 2017 RBG Funding |
Australian Catholic University | OTHER | $3,542,411 | $3,539,693 | $7,082,104 |
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education | NT | $144,264 | $185,159 | $329,423 |
Bond University | QLD | $1,967,707 | $1,832,534 | $3,800,241 |
Central Queensland University | QLD | $2,463,968 | $3,344,084 | $5,808,052 |
Charles Darwin University | NT | $9,221,705 | $6,965,956 | $16,187,661 |
Charles Sturt University | NSW | $3,722,281 | $6,158,725 | $9,881,006 |
Curtin University of Technology | WA | $18,763,091 | $25,313,035 | $44,076,126 |
Deakin University | VIC | $11,287,335 | $19,016,352 | $30,303,687 |
Edith Cowan University | WA | $4,330,842 | $7,303,241 | $11,634,083 |
Federation University Australia | VIC | $1,634,166 | $2,214,246 | $3,848,412 |
Griffith University | QLD | $16,502,290 | $22,298,546 | $38,800,836 |
James Cook University | QLD | $12,874,794 | $14,163,899 | $27,038,693 |
La Trobe University | VIC | $13,545,965 | $18,163,748 | $31,709,713 |
Macquarie University | NSW | $15,384,458 | $26,180,323 | $41,564,781 |
MCD University of Divinity | VIC | $579,714 | $934,026 | $1,513,740 |
Monash University | VIC | $81,323,864 | $84,190,801 | $165,514,665 |
Murdoch University | WA | $8,247,689 | $10,038,401 | $18,286,090 |
Queensland University of Technology | QLD | $21,882,273 | $30,842,187 | $52,724,460 |
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | VIC | $13,912,836 | $21,615,174 | $35,528,010 |
Southern Cross University | NSW | $3,269,663 | $4,416,449 | $7,686,112 |
Swinburne University of Technology | VIC | $6,806,345 | $11,635,647 | $18,441,992 |
The Australian National University | ACT | $59,617,525 | $55,869,763 | $115,487,288 |
The Flinders University of South Australia | SA | $12,393,556 | $15,599,311 | $27,992,867 |
The University of Adelaide | SA | $42,607,572 | $46,557,477 | $89,165,049 |
The University of Melbourne | VIC | $95,435,242 | $95,721,521 | $191,156,763 |
The University of Notre Dame Australia | WA | $746,456 | $819,281 | $1,565,737 |
The University of Queensland | QLD | $89,915,964 | $94,608,922 | $184,524,886 |
The University of Sydney | NSW | $87,105,182 | $97,441,336 | $184,546,518 |
The University of Western Australia | WA | $47,074,958 | $47,815,138 | $94,890,096 |
Torrens University Australia | SA | $11,561 | $38,869 | $50,430 |
University of Canberra | ACT | $4,144,737 | $5,144,176 | $9,288,913 |
University of New England | NSW | $7,420,249 | $8,912,294 | $16,332,543 |
University of New South Wales | NSW | $78,389,402 | $90,574,420 | $168,963,822 |
University of Newcastle | NSW | $21,038,222 | $23,380,371 | $44,418,593 |
University of South Australia | SA | $15,836,436 | $19,842,577 | $35,679,013 |
University of Southern Queensland | QLD | $3,066,025 | $5,244,427 | $8,310,452 |
University of Tasmania | TAS | $22,203,063 | $24,251,058 | $46,454,121 |
University of Technology, Sydney | NSW | $11,649,898 | $16,686,065 | $28,335,963 |
University of the Sunshine Coast | QLD | $2,725,270 | $2,428,525 | $5,153,795 |
University of Western Sydney | NSW | $7,622,954 | $10,631,804 | $18,254,758 |
University of Wollongong | NSW | $14,112,170 | $22,676,391 | $36,788,561 |
Victoria University | VIC | $4,391,673 | $7,309,232 | $11,700,905 |
TOTAL |
| $878,915,776 | $1,011,905,184 | $1,890,820,960 |