UQ Early Career Educational Research Grants

The ECER Grants encourage new members of TF, T&R or CA staff to engage in Educational Research and to identify teaching and learning issues, within or across disciplines, and facilitate an approach to addressing these issues.

The ECER scheme supports projects that are both aligned to UQ’s institutional priorities, as identified in the UQ Student Strategy 2016-2020 and UQ Strategic Plan 2018-2021, and innovative teaching and learning in higher education.

In previous years, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) encourages applications which seek to innovate teaching and learning and address one or more of the following areas:

• Target innovative teaching in large classes.
• Investigate innovative or authentic assessment, and feedback practices.
• Increase the flexibility of modes of study.
• Experiential learning, that is learning through direct experiences linked to applied contexts
• Increase active learning, including but not limited to collaborative learning, for an enriched student experience.
• Deepen our understanding of data about learner activities, and stimulate the development of learning analytics tools that support research on student learning and retention.
• Expand the adoption and outcomes of existing tools, innovations or initiatives, including to a different discipline or context.

A future call for applications will offer details about how to apply for an Early Career Educational Research Grant. In the meantime, you may like to familiarise yourself with prior versions of the Application Guidelines (PDF, 296.2 KB) (PDF, 275.7 KB) and Conditions of Award (PDF, 139.1 KB) (PDF, 139.1 KB).

The Developing a Successful Teaching Grant Application Workshop and Pitch Your Idea sessions have been cancelled in 2020. Please check back for possible dates in future rounds.

Pitch your Idea sessions

ITaLI typically hosts five 'Pitch your Idea' sessions to provide applicants with the opportunity to pitch their idea and receive valuable feedback and advice on their project design prior to submitting an application.

There will be a maximum of 4 pitches per session. Each ‘pitch’ is allocated 15 minutes, comprising:

• A 5 minute presentation on the rationale of the project and the proposed approach (no more than 2 slides).
• 10 minutes of Q&A.

These sessions are not compulsory. Places are limited.

Information session

Developing a Teaching and Learning Grant Application Workshop​

This workshop is aimed at staff who are interested in applying for teaching and learning focussed grants. This session does not focus on a particular grant scheme, but rather provides advice and tips common to all. It takes time to develop an application and this session serves as an opportunity to start that process.

Participants will:

1. Understand how to structure an effective application 
2. Hear from previous successful grant applicants and how they pitched their grant idea and commenced planning for their application 
3. Find out who to contact for help and advice, and
4. Network.
 

For current grant recipients, links to progress and final report templates can be found here:

• Progress report
• Final report (DOCX, 1.1MB)

If you require an extension to your Early Career Educational Research Grant, please complete the Grant Variation/Extension Request Form (DOCX, 62KB) and email it to teaching.grants@uq.edu.au.