Grant Programs

Current/Open Grant Programs

The RPH Imaging Research Fund is now seeking applicants for research grants for radiology related research.

The Fund is seeking applications for round #2 research grants under a formal application process up to a value of $80,000.

Applications must be submitted by 28 May 2021. Applications will be assessed in June 2021 with funding made available from July 2021.

Small project grants of up to $20,000 may be applied for at any time.

Applications for the 2022 Turab Chakera Research Grant Fellowship will open in September 2021 for submission by 30 November 2021

• The Turab Chakera fellowship is for medical/non-medical PhD candidature intending to undertake original radiology research.

For application forms and more information, please visit the Grant Programs webpage.

For further details contact 9224 1069 or email RPHImagingResearchCommittee@health.wa.gov.au

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for consideration, the application must meet ALL the following criteria:

• At least one of the Principal Investigators in the research proposal must be in clinical practice at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) or another Western Australian Health Service imaging teaching site as a:
  • Radiologist
  • Nuclear Medicine Physician
  • Medical Imaging Technologist
  • Nuclear Medicine Medical Imaging Technologist
  • Sonographer
• The research project must be based and/or conducted within Western Australia.
• Applicants may submit applications as Principal Investigator in any financial funding round. The Principal Investigator should not submit applications for funding for more than three projects at any one time.
• All investigators involved in the research project must be listed and sign the application and their primary location noted on the application.
• The project must address an area of research in Clinical Imaging, or Basic Imaging Health Sciences.

Application

Download the Research Grant Application Form (PDF 402KB).

Completing the application

• All sections must be completed.
• Please complete the application electronically in Microsoft Word.
• To insert text in the answer fields simply click in the box which will automatically extend as you type.
• The completed application should be sent as an email attachment to: RPHImagingResearchCommittee@health.wa.gov.au
• Ensure that the Declaration on page 7 is signed and dated when submitting the application.
• The Terms and Conditions are attached to the application Page 8-10.

Submission

The completed application should be sent as an email attachment to: RPHImagingResearchCommittee@health.wa.gov.au.

Please ensure that your email is less than 20mb in total.

The Committee

The RPH Imaging Research Committee was established by a steering committee on 1 October 2019, for the purpose of management and distribution of the annual budget to Imaging Research.

The functions and responsibilities of the Committee are to:

• Receive applications for expenditure of funds for Imaging Research in Western Australia.
• Assess applications and distribute funds according to the research funding principles.

Membership

• Director of Clinical Services, Royal Perth Bentley Group (Chair)
• Head of Department of Radiology, RPH
• Cook Steering Committee – Radiology representative
• RANZCR BEO representative
• RPH Research Foundation representative
• Consumer representative
• Senior Academic Curtin University School of Medical Imaging Technology
• RPH Chief Medical Imaging Technologist