Women in Leadership Scholarship Program for MCRs - Closed
Are you:
A mid-career researcher working in women’s health and research translation?
Currently in a leadership position and want to enhance your skills?
Thinking about moving into leadership but not quite sure if it’s for you?
Wanting to participate in an evidence-based, engaging and transforming leadership development program that rates as career changing on formal evaluations?
Answered yes? Then apply now for the WHRTN ELF Program 2024 scholarship offering to participate in Monash University’s Women in Leadership Program.
Applications for the Women in Leadership Scholarship Program for MCRs are now closed.
Normally $1,500, WHRTN is offering 30 scholarships and will cover $1,250 of the fee with a residual cost of only $250. WHRTN will also cover the costs of travel, meals and accommodation (as required) for day three of the Program, which is held face to face in Melbourne.
The Monash University Women in Leadership Program
The Monash University Women in Leadership Program is expertly led, experience-driven and evidence-based. It’s a three-day program designed to inspire, encourage and support women in health and medical sciences research to reach their full career potential.
The program includes a group mentoring session with WHRTN CI Professor Helena Teede and a group mentoring session with WHRTN Chair Professor Deborah Turnbull.
Read more about the program on the Monash University website here.
Program Dates
28 August 2024, one-hour Program orientation, via Zoom
5 September 2024, one-hour group mentoring session one, via Zoom
1 October 2024, one-hour group mentoring session two, via Zoom
12 November 2024, full day leadership program day one, via Zoom
13 November 2024, full day leadership program day two, via Zoom
15 November 2024, full day leadership program day three, in-person, Melbourne
Program Inclusions
Accommodation, evening meal, breakfast, flights and Melbourne airport return transportation, for interstate and regional Victoria participants
Program facilitation materials and catering in day three, held in Melbourne
Not included: your location’s airport return travel.
Eligibility Criteria
Mid-career researchers (MCRs), who identify as a woman, working in women’s health and research translation.
A mid-career researcher is defined as a researcher with a PhD and post-graduate research experience with the equivalent of five (5) to fifteen (15) cumulative years, allowing for professional or personal career interruptions.
Employee or affiliate of an NHMRC accredited Research and Translation Centre; or employee or affiliate of an organisation partnering or affiliated with an NHMRC accredited Research and Translation Centre.
See AHRA.org.au, for the 14 Centres nationally, which cover almost all Universities and most MRIs.
Australian citizen or permanent resident of Australia.
Pursuing women’s health research or translation.
Have not received a WHRTN EMCR Award or Emerging Leader Fellowship.
Able to attend the full days of the three-day Women in Leadership Program. (Refer to the Program Dates.)
Agree to pay (or have their employer pay) the substantially reduced registration fee of $250. If this tax-deductible expense is a significant financial barrier, and you or your employer are unable to fund this, a waiver may be made on application. To be considered for a waiver on financial grounds, you will be asked to provide a justification in your application.
Applications
Applications will be acknowledged via email.
Applications will be assessed against eligibility criteria and application form information on relevance to career trajectory.
Applications close 13 June 2024 and offers made on 5 July 2024.
Applications for the Women in Leadership Scholarship Program for MCRs are now closed.
Further Information
Contact linda.skinner@monash.edu, WHRTN Workforce Development Project Manager, if you have any questions.