OCHRe News
21 November 2024
Dear OCHRe Members and Friends
We wish you a safe and happy weekend. If you have news you would like to share, please send it through to the team at ochre@uq.edu.au by Wednesday 2pm AEST.
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NEWS:
From Inquiry to Understanding | 4th Edition
Executive Editor Professor Pat Dudgeon AM and Associate Editors Belle Selkirk and Joanna Alexi
Co-authored and led by established professionals in Indigenous psychology, the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project UWA and Pearson Australia published the 4th edition of Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding. This edition proudly showcases the importance of #decolonisation in research and academic writing. Proudly espousing diversity, equity, and inclusion and actively incorporating the rich knowledge and perspectives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures into the field of #psychology #education. By doing so, it ensures a more accurate, comprehensive and culturally safe learning experience for all students.
Pre-order via Pearson Australia and revolutionise how psychology is taught and practised: https://lnkd.in/gu3X75SB
Training and Development Opportunities
The University of Melbourne Poche Centre
Communication for Community Workshop | 28 November 2024
Sessions will include
the importance of communicating the work we do as Indigenous researchers
how and why, we share our work
how sharing work can lead to positive outcomes for communities, and help to make our work more relevant across contexts
translating our work for different forums, and picking the right forum for your purpose
a writing exercise - bring your laptop and/or notebook
Workshop is open to all Indigenous PhD scholars from any Australian university, working in health and wellbeing, so get your registration in quick!
Support | For Interstate flights and accommodation. Contact warwick.padgham@unimelb.edu.au.
Speakers will include
Professor Sean Taylor, Director of Onemda: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing
Associate Professor Shawana Andrews, Director of the Melbourne Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Associate Dean Indigenous, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Dr Carissa Lee, actor, writer, editor and Indigenous Research Fellow, Swinburne University
-Dr Madi Day (they/them) from The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures and Lecturer and Fulbright Scholar, Department of Critical Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University
Location | Woodward Conference Centre, 185 Pelham Street Carlton / Naarm
More information is available at Communicating for Community Workshop
OCHRe Network online learning bursaries - Closing Soon!
Courses on offer are:
· Introduction to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research
· Introduction to Indigenous Knowledge Translation
· Introduction to Evaluation in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Contexts
· Introduction to Ethics in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research
· Community Data Literacy: Foundations
For more information, click here.
Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference 2025 10 – 12 June 2025 Adelaide Convention Centre
Scholarship opportunity for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Key Dates
· Applications opened Thursday 31 October 2024
· Applications close at 11:59pm AEST, Wednesday 9 April 2025
· The successful applicant(s) will be notified by mid-April 2025
For details, click here.
Funding Opportunities
Grant Connect
All Australian Government grant opportunities are advertised on Grant Connect including NHMRC, MRFF, ARC and many other grants.
Below are some current opportunities.
For current list of all grants on Grant Connect here.
Cancer Australia in Partnership with the NHMRC launches
This grant program focuses on improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to enhance equitable cancer care, build research skills among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, and support local leadership in cancer research. It aims to involve communities in designing research for their benefit and strengthen partnerships between communities, health services, and academic institutions. These are key objectives in both the Australian Cancer Plan and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cancer Plan.
Partnerships can be between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led organisations and mainstream organisations (including research groups and cancer services), or between two or more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander-led organisations.
Each research partnership can apply for a grant between $0.8 to $2.5 million over a maximum 3-year grant period commencing June 2025.
How to apply |Grant program is open to applications via NHMRC's grant management system – Sapphire.
Minimum data | due 5pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 4 December 2024.
Application closes | 5pm (AEDT) on Wednesday 12 February 2025
Detailed instructions on how to apply please refer to the grant guidelines available on GrantConnect.
Further information
To find out more about the grants and scholarships available under the Improving First Nations Cancer Outcomes funding measure, visit our website here.
Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)
National Critical Research Infrastructure Initiative
The 2024 National Critical Research Infrastructure initiative invests in research infrastructure to ensure Australian researchers find innovative solutions to complex health problems in areas of unmet medical need. This grant opportunity has four streams.
· Stream 1 – Innovation enablers
· Stream 2 – Digitisation of health care
· Stream 3 – Co-investment partnerships
· Stream 4 – mRNA technology enablers
Applications Close | 31 March 2025 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
For further information, click here.
Department of Health and Aged Care
Integrated Multidisciplinary Models of Primary Care Grant Opportunity
This Grant Opportunity will support medical research and medical innovation projects that evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of new or existing models of integrated, multidisciplinary team-based primary care for people who would most benefit from this type of care, including but not limited to First Nations Australians, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with disability including intellectual, children, older populations (either in residential aged care homes or those ageing at home), or those with social disadvantage or multiple chronic conditions.
Grant Value (AUD) | Up to $2,000,000
Minimum Data closes | 5:00pm (ACT Local Time) 5 March 2025
Close Date & Time | 2-Apr-2025 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
Details here.
Centre Research Excellence 2025
The objectives of the CRE scheme are to improve health outcomes and promote or improve translation of research outcomes into policy and/or practice. The CRE scheme will also support researchers in capacity building activities, including in specific areas of need identified by NHMRC.
Minimum data closes | 17:00 ACT local time 20 November 2024
Application closes | 17:00 ACT local time 4 December 2024
Grant value | $3,000,000
Information about the pilot question, ‘How does your application benefit Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health and contribute to Closing the Gap targets?’ can be found in the Fact Sheet - https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/about-us/resources/fact-sheet-benefit-aboriginal-torres-strait-islander-health-question-cre-pilot
For further information, click here.
Genomics Health Futures Mission Futures
(GHFM) Grant Opportunity
The MRFF – GHFM | 2024 Genomics Health Futures Grant Opportunity will provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that develop and/or implement novel genomic methods to improve diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, for infectious diseases, common and complex conditions and cancers, and develop and/or implement pharmacogenomic approaches to reduce medication harm and adverse side effects.
This grant opportunity includes six funding Streams.
Grant value | Up to $3,000,000,000
Minimum Data | closes at 5:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 22 January 2025.
Application closes | 5 Feb 2025 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time)
Details here
New South Wales Health
Aboriginal Health Grants | Closes 13 December 2024
The Aboriginal Heart Health Grants fund high impact Aboriginal-led research. The $5 million in funding is part of the Cardiovascular (CV) Research Capacity Program and aim to:
- improve CV health outcomes for Aboriginal peoples
- increase the number of targeted Aboriginal CV research projects being undertaken in NSW, and
- build the capacity of Aboriginal communities and researchers in CV focused research.
Who can apply
All projects must be led by a Chief Investigator who identifies as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Applications are encouraged from Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations, Aboriginal Medical Services, Aboriginal peak bodies, local health districts, specialty health networks and other public health organisations.
Researchers from universities, medical research institutes and not-for-profit organisations are also eligible to apply.
For further information, click here.
Events and Opportunities
Australian Health Research Alliance | Events
Good Clinical Practice Refresher
22 November, 12pm-2.30pm AEST (online) by Monash Partners
5th National Human Research Ethics Committee Conference
27-29 November, 8.30pm-5.30pm AEST (online) by Health Translation Queensland
For the full program, click here HTQ-National-HREC-Conference-Program-2024.pdf
See the full range of AHRA events here.
Australian Stroke and Heart Research
Accelerator seminar series 2024
Developing novel IRAP inhibitors to target fibrotic CVD:
Navigating the path from basic research to commercialisation
Presenter | Associate Professor Tracey Gaspari – Founder, Inosi Therapeutics;
Head, IRAP Pharmacology Lab, Monash University.
When | Thursday 21 November 1:00pm – 1:50pm
Tracey leads the IRAP Pharmacology Group in the Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, where she pioneered the novel concept of targeting the enzyme, Insulin Regulated Aminopeptidase (IRAP) in cardiovascular disease, with a particular focus on reversal of fibrosis.
Zoom link: https://georgehub.zoom.us/j/81834921189
Brisbane Cancer Conference | 11th Annual Conference
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre | 28 & 29 November 2024
Supported by Health Translation Queensland, PA Research Foundation
For further information and registration, click here.
Sydney Studios of NITV / SBS
Indigenous Media Mentoring program | 9 & 10 April 2025
Following on from the successful Indigenous Media Mentoring Program held at the Sydney studios of National Indigenous TV / Special Broadcasting Service in early April 2024, they have announced the next two day program will be 9 & 10 April 2025.
The AusSMC (Australian Science Media Centre) is passionate about encouraging Indigenous scientists to engage with the media. By sharing their knowledge, expertise and stories, Indigenous scientists can inspire others to follow in their footsteps.
Interested? Send an expression of interest now, including your CV and a short paragraph describing your current research interests, to the Australian Science Media Centre (immp@smc.org.au).
Deadline for expressions of interest is: Sunday 1 December 2024
For further information, click Indigenous Media Mentoring program - AusSMC
