A new set of Linkage Grants was announced Friday, with 20 universities sharing over 60 awards
The universities of Melbourne (eight), NSW (eight) and Queensland (seven) are the big winners.
This continues last year’s allocations – the Australian Research Council released Friday its 2018 Linkage selection report.Of 140 grants, UNSW received 15, Uni Queensland 16 and Uni Melbourne 17.
Of universities winning 10 or more grants last year the highest success rates were; UNSW (26 per cent), Uni Sydney (28 per cent), Uni Queensland (37 per cent), Monash U (40 per cent) and Uni Melbourne (33 per cent).
Overall some 31 per cent of proposals were funded. The gender split for chief investigators on funded projects was, males 94 from 292 proposals and females 46 from 155.