FASTS update: ARC Grant Announcements
A quick snap shot of Discovery grants shows
- Average project duration has increased from 3.18 years in 2006 to 3.3 years in 2010
- Average first year funding decreased from $116,055 in 2009 to $109,179 in 2010
- There were 4085 proposals (down from 4164 in 2009)
- Success rates were 22.7% up from 20.4% in 2009 (but lower than 24.5% in 2006).
- There were 925 projects funded – up from 845 in 2009
- Success rates for Biological sciences was 22%; engineering & env sciences 23.2%; humanities and creative arts $24.9%; Maths, Info and Comms 21.6%; Physics, Chem & earth 22.5% and Soc & behavioral 22.5%
- average funding per grants was 62.9% of funds requested up from 55% last year (perhaps suggesting more ‘realistic’ funding requests)
- 90.7% were identified as addressing a National Research Priority (oh really)
- Success rates for ECR proposals was 15.5% (with success rates ranging from 11.4% in humanities to 19.6% in biology)
- success rates for proposals including al least one ECR was 19.9% (including ECR only)
- success rates by gender -
women 21.2% men 25.3% (women were 24.5% of
applicants)
A quick snap shot of linkage grants shows
- Success rates for round 1 2010 were 44.9% (ranging from 42.7% for biology to 54.2% for physics, Chem and earth) which is within the range of 42.9% - 49.4% of the past 3 years
- Average allocation in year 1 is $104.265 up from $96.131 in 2007 (but assume about 3% CPI and it is essentially static in real terms)
- Average project life allocation was 70.6% of request which is marginally up on the previous 3 rounds (at about 68%)
- Total ARC funding over life
of projects is $66.8m and leveraged funding from other organisations/firms is
$121.3m (a leverage ratio of 1.8 which is same as last round and trending up
from 1.3 or 1.4 5 years ago.
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