Your support is fuelling discovery
Deakin’s Early Career Researcher Fund ensures emerging researchers aren’t overlooked. Traditional funding often goes to established researchers, which limits the resources available to researchers at the start of their career. Your gift helps turn promising ideas into real impact and gives the researchers of tomorrow the chance to prove their groundbreaking ideas today.
Because of you, we can:
- get ideas off the ground by providing pilot funding that gives new theories the chance to be tested and proven
- open doors for emerging researchers by offering a critical foothold for early career researchers at the stage when support matters most
- bridge the gap from concept to impact by helping promising projects move from initial idea through to solutions that make a real difference
- build the next generation of research leaders by equipping emerging talent with the resources and confidence to shape their fields for years to come.
In 2025, only 17.9% of applicants for Australia’s national Discovery Early Career Research Award were funded.* Deakin’s Early Career Researchers Fund helps close this gap – ensuring that emerging researchers can pursue the bold ideas that lead to breakthroughs.
Together, we can back the people who’ll lead the discoveries of tomorrow.
Together, our community is empowering students, driving discoveries and strengthening communities locally and globally.
Deakin researchers are making a difference
The challenges that matter most to you – healthier communities, a sustainable environment, a fairer society – are the ones Deakin’s researchers are working to solve.
Let’s make the wonderful possible, together
Discover Together, Deakin’s call to imagine what’s possible and make it real.
At Deakin, bold ideas and collective action are creating a fairer, more sustainable future. Our alumni, partners and donors are changing lives through supporting education and powering research that’s helping solve local and global challenges.
