Australia Awards - John Allwright Fellowship

Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) awards the John Allwright Fellowship for university post-graduate studies in Australia. Applicants are citizens of priority partner countries who are engaged in an ACIAR collaborative project at the time of application. Each awardee pursues research at an Australian tertiary institution relevant to the project in which the awardee is engaged. 

To be eligible for selection, a candidate must:

• At the time of applying, hold qualifications that would be assessed to be equivalent to at least an Australian bachelor’s degree in a discipline that is relevant to the proposed area of postgraduate study
• Be a scientist or economist from the developing country partner, who is actively involved in a collaborative research project supported by ACIAR at the time of application (in some cases, ACIAR will consider supporting researchers from “advanced pipeline” projects, i.e. in cases where a full project proposal has been approved by ACIAR)
• Be jointly supported in the application by the Australian and partner country Project Leaders;
• Obtain approval from the employing institution who must agree to the absence of the candidate should he/she receive a Fellowship for the period involved in obtaining the postgraduate qualification; and
• Demonstrate that he/she is employed on a permanent rather than short-term contract basis.