Career-starts from the ARC

The Australian Research Council announces 50 Early Career Industry Fellowships

The fellowships are “for new and emerging researchers to work with highly experienced, leading professors and shoulder-to-shoulder with Australian industry to help solve industry challenges.” As such they appear a starter version of the MCR fellowships, announced last month (CMM April 26).

What is different is the success rate – 8 per cent for the MCRs and 13.9 per cent for the early career awards. The overall success rate for the ARC’s Discovery Programme last year was 20 per cent.

The big ECR Industry Fellow winners are, Monash U and Uni Queensland (both eight), another 22 universities shared the rest.