SHAPE Futures 2025 Annual Convention

Navigating the Funding Landscape

Join us for an afternoon to explore the often-daunting and unpredictable world of grants and funding. The SHAPE Futures 2025 Convention will provide SHAPE EMCRs with the opportunity to discuss, as a community, the realities of building a sustainable research career while sharing practical strategies and hearing honest accounts from those who have “been there”. You’ll gain insight into movements underway in research funding in Australia and beyond; hear from colleagues who have navigated different funding pathways; and take away ideas to strengthen your own approach. The Convention will be followed by a complementary catered networking event where you will get the opportunity to connect with peers who, like you, are trying to make sense of an ever-shifting funding terrain.

Register for all or some of the day:

2:30 – 4:00 pm: Keynote panel (Jim Potter Room)
4:00 – 5:00 pm: SHAPE Networking Function (Jim Potter Room)

Event Speakers

Prof. Lisa Given, Director of the Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University

Prof. Sally Young, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne

Dr Alexandra Ridgway, Lecturer in Criminology and Justice Studies, RMIT University

Travel Bursaries

Click here to apply for a travel bursary