Deadline: June 30, 2025
Applications are open for the Forrest Research Foundation Fellowships 2026. Forrest postdoctoral fellows are more than just intellectually brilliant. They are adventurous, curious, open to ideas from anywhere. They embrace unusual approaches to problem-solving and take risks that others may not. They enjoy breaking with convention – the path less travelled is appealing because new frontiers offer new opportunities for discovery. They are intellectually generous and take time to understand and challenge ideas, collaborating to improve outcomes for the community and the world.
Forrest Fellowships are offered to early-stage postdoctoral researchers who have outstanding academic profiles and who have already made significant personal research contributions within and beyond their discipline. Forrest Fellows will have been among the top performing students in their undergraduate and graduate cohorts. They will already have gained high-level research experience through studying and researching in several different institutions, and their innovative doctoral research will be recognised well beyond their current institutional home. Forrest Fellows will wish to extend their postdoctoral research well beyond the focus of their doctoral dissertation and will aim to do so in a way that builds intellectual bridges within and between disciplines. Forrest Fellows are also committed to communicating their research to others, to have a positive impact on the world around us.
Benefits
The Forrest Research Foundation will provide funding for:
- Salary: Salary consistent with a Level A Step 8 appointment (for example, the University of Western Australia salary for this appointment is $108,362 in 2025) plus 17% superannuation
- Accommodation Allowance: An accommodation allowance of $25,116 per annum in 2025 (subject to marginal tax rate)
- Research and travel allowance: A once-off research and travel allowance of $12,000. This allowance is available for approved research-related expenses, overseas research and conference travel.
- Relocation allowance: All interstate and international Fellows can apply for a relocation allowance, including an economy airfare to Perth, which can be discussed with the Director if successful.
Forrest Fellows will support the general mission of the Forrest Research Foundation which could include providing mentoring, ambassadorial and leadership to Forrest Scholars, Forrest Hall and the Forrest Research Foundation. Appointments at Level B will be considered if supported by the employing university.
Eligibility
- To be eligible to apply applicants must be in their final year of PhD or no more than two years post PhD conferral.
- For applications submitted in 2025 – with Fellowship commencement in 2026 – applicants must have had their PhD conferred on or after 1 January 2023 or will have successfully completed all the requirements for the award of their PhD by 31 December 2025.
Application
Applications close 30 June 2025, 11.59pm AWST.
For more information, visit Forrest Research Foundation Fellowships.
