2027 VU Research Fellowship Program

IMPORTANT: Please read the information below to assist you in completing your submission.

Welcome to VU Research Fellowship (VURF) 2027 application portal.

Before commencing, please ensure you are familiar with the Research Fellowship SharePoint site and the guidelines.  Click here.

Before you apply

Applicants should ensure they have:

• Confirmed they meet the eligibility requirements
• Read the Fellowship guidelines
• Discuss their application and proposed research allocation with their Line Manager and/or Associate Dean Research and Research Training (ADRRT)
• Reviewed their Research Performance Framework (RPF). Please note assessment will be based on both the information provided in this application and your RPF.

For all application and system queries please contact: research.fellowships@vu.edu.au

Academic-related questions (including questions about your research plan and research performance) should be directed in the first instance to your Associate Dean, Research and Research Training:

Professor Pushpa Sinnayah - First Year College (FYC)
Professor Andrew McAinch – College of Science, Health, and Engineering (CoSHE)
Professor Mary-Rose McLaren – College of Arts, Business, Law, Education, & IT (CoABLEIT)

Or the relevant Institute Executive Director:

Professor Alex Parker – Institute for Health and Sport (IHES)
Professor Khalid Moinuddin – Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (ISILC)

Navigating through the form

On every page of the form you will see a Form Navigation panel. This links directly to each page of the form, so you can click a page name to jump directly to the page you want.

You can also click 'Next Page' or 'Previous Page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the form.

Please ensure you save your form as you go.

Saving a draft

Your form will save each time you click ‘Next Page’, ‘Previous Page’, or any page name on the Form Navigation panel.

If you wish to leave a partially completed form, click 'Save and Close' and log out.

You can reopen your draft form and continue where you left off. When you log back in and click on the My Submissions link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any submissions you have started or submitted. Click the submission number or the arrow icon to expand the list of associated forms, and click on the form name to continue filling it out.

You can also download any form, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. In the ‘My Submissions’ area of your account click on the submission number, then click the red PDF icon beside the form you want to download or, while filling out the form, click on the ‘Download PDF' button located at the top and bottom of the last page (’Review and Submit').

Submitting your form

You will find a Review and Submit page listed at the bottom of the Form Navigation panel. You need to review your form before you can submit it. You will not be able to submit your form until all the required fields are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have reviewed your form and corrected any errors you can submit it by clicking on the Submit button at the top or bottom of the screen.

Once you have submitted your form no further editing or uploading of supporting documents is possible.

Attachments

You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a storage device.

You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.

Session time-out warning

For security reasons, your login session will expire after 20 minutes of inactivity. Saving your form or navigating to another page resets the timer.

You’ll be prompted 90 seconds before your session expires, with the option to extend your session or log out. If you don’t respond to the prompt in time, your form will be automatically saved before your session ends.

Even so, we recommend saving your form regularly – especially when working on longer responses – to avoid losing any work.

Kind regards

Research Fellowship Team