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Application forms are only available during an open Award Round.
Our online Portal allows you to save applications in progress as a draft. A draft application may be accessed and amended throughout the open Award Round before submitting. There is no limit to the number of draft applications that can be created. Drafts must be successfully submitted by the Award Round closure to be considered for assessment.
Application limits differ between Awards.
Applicants may submit up to two (2) Applications for the Conjoint Grant and Clinical Research Grant (though only one per applicant can be awarded at any given time).
The Senior Fellowship is limited to one Application per Institutional department.
For all other Awards offered during an Award Round, there is no upper to the number of Applications that may be submitted by a single applicant – however – the Foundation recommends that no more than one application be submitted per Applicant for these schemes in any given Award Round.
Please read the Terms and Conditions of Award for full details.
As such, providing useful feedback that will result in an increased chance of success the following year is almost impossible. We appreciate your understanding.
The Foundation’s Board of Directors undertake the task of assessing Applications.
Directors come from a range of medical and non-medical backgrounds – including outside of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery – as specified by the Foundation’s Trust Deed.
Applications should be understandable by assessors who are not necessarily experts in the subject matter of the proposal and additional clarification beyond what is written in the Application should not be required.
Applications (draft or submitted) may be exported as a .pdf, which an Applicant may choose to then share with Research Office staff.
It is at the discretion of the Applicant whether or not they choose to share unique Portal login details with Research Office staff. As per our Privacy Policy, the Foundation will not share personal information such as Portal login details, nor force an Applicant to share this detail.
Research Office staff may register for a Portal account to view blank Application forms during an Award Round.
CV requirements are detailed in the Instructions for Applicants. Be sure to read these thoroughly, as requirements are found in two key places:
Download the Instructions for Applicants via our Award Pages.
Extensions will not be granted once the Award Round has closed. Applications submitted after the deadline are ineligible for assessment.
Extensions may be considered for Applicants who have logged an issue with the office ahead of the Award Round deadline. Reasons may be:
If you anticipate any issue which may impede timely submission of your Application, Log An Issue.
We recommend submitting your application well before the Award Round deadline, in case you need to Log An Issue.
A work or Institution email is strongly encouraged, as it offers proof of eligibility and is preferred for official documentation and correspondence.
If you do not currently hold a work or Institution email (or you are soon to be changing your Institution email), please advise the Foundation.
For regular communications, you are welcome to advise the Foundation of a preferred email address.
Largely, referee contact details will be required for scholarship and fellowship applicants.
This information will be requested within the application form where required. Further details are noted in the Instructions for Applicants.
Ideally a nominated Referee should be someone who themselves will not benefit (financially or otherwise) should the Applicant be successful. This includes the intended Supervisor.
However, if the Applicant has a limited pool of appropriate Referees from which to choose, please note the chosen Referee(s) must declare any actual, potential or perceived conflict of interest within the Referee Form.
The Foundation cannot advise you directly as to the appropriateness of your chosen Referees, however it is recommended that you seek Referees who can best speak to your experience, balanced against any actual or potential conflict of interest.
See the ‘Information for Referees’ page of the Instructions for Applicants for further details.
These Awards sit outside of the annual Award Round, and do not use the online Portal application system. For more details, please see the relevant Award page:
We strongly advise reading the full Terms and Conditions of Award for the Award for which you intend to apply.
Eligibility requirements are outlined within these Terms and Conditions of Award and are made available at the beginning of each Award Round.
Each of our our Awards has different requirements for allocation to expenditure. Please refer to the Terms and Conditions of Award, for the Award for which you wish to apply.
Each Award has different funding requirements. Funding is disbursed annually according to the approved budget. Funding agreements for successful applicants will contain a payment schedule for the life of the Award.
When applying for an Award, please check the Terms and Conditions of Award for the preferred Award, to find detail of funding available.
We provide definitions for many of our terms in the Awards Documentation Glossary.
Find the Glossary for download via our Award pages.
Awards are on offer to Australian or New Zealand citizens, permanent residents (PR), and those who have the right to study/work in Australia and New Zealand. If you have applied for citizenship or permanent residency, please include detail of this in your application for consideration.
Please refer to the award specific Terms and Conditions of Award for further detail.
All required documentation must be complete and uploaded before submitting. Incomplete applications will be deemed ineligible.
Exceptions may be made for Applicants whose research includes non-AU/NZ components. Please contact the office via the Contact Us form as soon as possible with any concerns.
For Awards where a Letter of Offer is required as part of the application, please include a signed letter from the nominated supervisor, with as much detail as possible in support of the applicant’s likelihood to receive an offer, including the date the Institution confirms offers to candidates.
A Letter of Offer is an offer of admission from the proposed Administering Institution, into a Doctor of Philosophy program.
The letter should be on the proposed Administering Institution’s official letterhead, and signed by an appropriately authorised representative. It should confirm the candidate’s name, the offer of admission into a Doctor of Philosophy program, and date of commencement (month/year).
We encourage a paper-free application, which includes digital signatures.
Both digital and written signatures are acceptable methods when signing your Terms & Conditions supporting document, as part of your application.
The Instructions for Applicants document is made available during an open Award Round via:
1. The online Portal, under “Supporting Documentation”
2. Award Pages
It is essential that applicants fully read and follow these instructions. Failure to comply with these instructions may result in an application being ineligible for assessment
Terms and Conditions of Award are made available during an open Award Round via:
1. The online Portal, under “Supporting Documentation”
2. Award Pages
Please note that terms and conditions vary between each Award.
The following checks should first be conducted to ensure a user error is not the cause:
If, after all user error checks, you are still having problems submitting, Log an Issue, using one of the three methods provided in the Instructions for Applicants.
You will receive an email confirming your issue has been logged and the office will aim to resolve your issue as soon as they are able. Issues logged after the Award Round closure will not receive assistance.
If you do not receive a confirmation email that your issue was logged, please check your spam folder.
Office opening hours: Mon-Thurs, 9am-5pm
No further edits are permitted following submission of an Application.
If the Award Round is still open, you may submit a new Application.
You may also request that your previous application not be considered for assessment. Use the Contact Us form, subject “APPLICATION/PORTAL: Log an issue”
Firstly, please ensure the email has not been filtered into spam. If this is not the case, you must Log an Issue with the Foundation, using one of the three methods provided in the Instructions to Applicants.
You will receive an email confirming your issue has been logged and the office will aim to resolve your issue as soon as they are able. Issues logged after the Award Round closure will not receive assistance.
If you do not receive a confirmation email that your issue was logged, please check your spam folder.
Office opening hours: Mon-Thurs, 9am-5pm
The Portal will automatically block users whose activity seems suspicious. Two key triggers are:
If you have experienced the above, please wait an hour and try the Portal again.
If you continue to experience difficulties accessing the Foundation website during an open Award Round, please notify us as soon as possible.
Complete the Contact Us form, selecting “APPLICATIONS/PORTAL: Log An Issue” as the subject line. Include as much information as possible, such as timestamps, IP address details and screenshots of error messages.
If you cannot our website at all, please email office@gprwmf.org.au
Each Application in the Portal should be unique.
As such, the Portal does not support multiple files with the same filename; if you upload a file with the same filename as one previously uploaded, the Portal will add a digit to the end of its filename. This is still a valid filename.
The Portal will also not support multiple Applications with the same Project Title. If you use the same Project Title for multiple Applications, the Portal will automatically delete older versions from your Dashboard.
For assistance with deleted or missing Applications, please Log An Issue as per the Instructions for Applicants.
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