ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Funds three-year fellowships for early-career researchers across all disciplines except medical research with salary and project support.
The Discovery Early Career Researcher Award 2027 (DE27) is the current DECRA round under the Australian Research Council's Discovery Program, providing focused fellowship support to outstanding early-career researchers in both teaching-and-research and research-only academic positions. Each DECRA is a three-year fellowship in which the ARC pays the researcher's salary and on-costs directly, in add…
Open across all disciplines except medical research. Supports early-career researchers in teaching-and-research or research-only positions.
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