Teaching Innovation Grants

UQs Teaching Innovation Grants provide funding for staff to investigate, develop and/or implement creative and innovative initiatives in teaching and learning that enhance the experiences and educational outcomes of students.

The University has committed up to $1 million in funding for Teaching Innovation Grant projects that commence in 2025 and 2026. A minimum of 5% of the total funding, will be made available to Early Career Academics.

Please refer to the Application Guidelines for Teaching Innovation Grants in 2025.

Key dates

Date	Action
25 July 2025	Closing date for submission to Associate Dean (Academic) for application endorsement
15 August 2025	Closing date for final applications to ITaLI
End September 2025	Announcement of successful projects

Aims of the Teaching Innovation Grants

Teaching Innovation Grants are intended to bring about substantial change in learning and teaching for students and staff at UQ and aim to encourage and empower creativity and innovation in teaching and learning at UQ. 

Projects should: 

promote systemic change at UQ for the enhancement of learning and the student experience
develop effective mechanisms for the identification, development, dissemination and embedding of good individual and organisational practice, including addressing particular contextual barriers to taking on the identified good practice.

Priority areas

All projects supported by Teaching Innovation Grant funding are expected to demonstrate a commitment to fostering inclusive, diverse, and exceptional educational experiences that support UQ students at every stage of their journey and integrate key skills and attributes into our students' education.

In 2025, Priority Areas are aligned with the Lead through Learning Strategy (2025 – 2027) and Learning and Student Experience Roadmap, with particular interest in projects that explore:

Transformative curricula, pedagogies and assessment that emphasise maintaining the integrity of the learning process and ensuring that academic standards are upheld through secure and credible assessment practices.

Preparing students for responsible AI use. Equipping students with ethical, practical AI skills they can use in their studies, careers, and communities, and preparing them to lead and shape the future of AI integration in their fields.

Developing high impact and effective learning experiences using accessible and ethical AI systems.

Transformative and/or immersive learning experiences with sustainable, scalable impact that embed Indigenous perspectives and pedagogies and are guided by the principles of Country, Relationships, Respect, Cultural Capability, Reciprocity, Truth, and Benefits.

Project Impact

Teaching Innovation Grants are intended to explore and develop new ways of teaching; they may bring about substantial change in learning and teaching for students and staff at UQ.

Applicants must plan for and outline the expected impact or transfer of their project’s interventions in the application. A strong application will make a compelling case about anticipated project impact at UQ, may consider impact that extends beyond the University, and will provide a planned approach for the translation of project outcomes.

Eligibility

Application is open to UQ staff and all projects must be led by an academic staff member.

At the time of application, and for the duration of the grant, the Project Lead (PL) must hold a salaried Teaching Associate, Teaching Focused, Teaching and Research, or Clinical Academic appointment at UQ.

Professional Staff members and Research Focused Academics may form part of a project team but may not be the Project Lead.

Preparing an Application

Read the Application Guidelines. These offer a thorough and comprehensive explanation of the Selection Criteria.
Consult within your school or faculty including Head of School, Teaching and Learning Chair and Associate Dean (Academic).
After consultation within your faculty and proposed project team, seek further consultation based on what is appropriate for your planned project idea. This might include consultation with ITS, Learning Designers within your school or faculty and other relevant business units. Please contact ITaLI for advice on who to approach for consultation if you need additional guidance.
Attend ITaLI Support Offerings (Developing a Successful Grant Application workshop) and engage with Faculty Support.
Complete the application template complying with word limits and style guidelines responding to the assessment criteria.
Seek Head of School approval. All applications must have received Head of School approval, prior to being submitted to the Faculty Associate Deans (Academic) for their consideration and endorsement.

How to Submit

Step 1:

Submit the HoS supported application in Word Document format to the administering Faculty’s Associate Dean (Academic) for review and endorsement prior to 12noon, Friday 25 July 2025.

All applications should be emailed to teaching.grants@uq.edu.au by the deadline to facilitate this process.

Per the application form, applicants are required to incorporate and address feedback offered by the Faculty AD(A) in finalising their application.

Step 2:

All applications must be uploaded in PDF Format into the application portal by 12noon, Friday 15 August 2025.

An email confirming receipt of the application will be sent to the nominated email address of the project lead only. Please ensure that this is correctly included in the application form.

All word limits and application requirements are outlined in the Application Template.

Submit your Final Application Here

Late applications

Late applications will not be accepted except in extenuating circumstances and must be approved in writing prior to the closing date by the Chair of the Selection Panel.

Support

Pitch Your Idea

This session will provide applicants an opportunity to test their project idea in front of a panel of experts across the scheme’s priority areas for 2025.

Date: 9 July 2025
Time: 11:00am–1:00pm
Location: 47A-241 (Sir James Foots Building, Saint Lucia Campus)

Each presenter may pitch for up to 10 minutes.

1:1 Consultations

ITaLI provides 15 minute 1:1 consultations for staff. These consultations are provided for the purposes of discussing the application requirements and are not suitable for review of draft applications. If you’d like to discuss a project idea, you are welcome to do so in these sessions.