Our 2025 Crawford Fund Student Awards – study, travel, make a difference
November 1, 2024
Are you studying in any field broadly related to food and nutrition security? If so, we can help you add an international focus to it. You can study, travel and make a difference while developing a career in international agriculture.
The Crawford Fund’s 2025 Student Awards are now open!
As part of the Crawford Fund’s NextGen program, each of our State and Territory Committees support these awards to enable students to gain valuable experience and expertise by bringing an international component to their studies and research. This usually involves travel and immersion in a research project, country and culture.
If you are a university student undertaking a degree in agriculture, animal production, fisheries, forestry, natural resource management or any area broadly related to food and nutrition security, but not traditionally ‘agriculture’, this award could open a whole new world of experience and career opportunities. This is because international agricultural research needs people with skills beyond agriculture science. If you are studying social sciences, gender, health, communication, AI, data analytics, business, finance… it needs you too!
The conditions and requirements for the State and Territory Committees’ awards differ in terms of study levels needed, citizenship/residency requirements, award amounts provided and the number of awards available, as set out below:
* Please note that the Crawford Fund has undergraduate student awards – The Crawford Fund Henzell Awards – which are open to Australian citizens and permanent residents in their second year of university or beyond. More details here.
We encourage you to contact the coordinator in the State/Territory in which your institution is based with any queries, or to talk through your ideas, as per the contact details below.
If you are unsure about how to connect to a project or organisation on which to focus your project application on, our advice is, in the first instance, identify staff at your university who are already involved in international agriculture for development associated with the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) or any of the international agricultural research centers in the CGIAR or AIRCA. Another strategy is to search on the ACIAR website for projects associated with your area of interest, or for projects in which your university is engaged.
The closing date for our 2025 Student Awards is 12 May 2025.
We also strongly recommend you read the general background information before you start your application. The short online application form will require you to attach:
- a brief CV
- a budget outline
- the signatures of, or a supporting note from, the Authorised Officers approving your application
- details of at least one referee.
Apply online here, and take a look at the suggested reporting guidelines for an idea of what is expected once the experience is over.
Note that any travel associated with these awards will need to comply with DFAT travel advice for safety and health purposes.
Any questions?
Our State/Territory Committee Coordinators welcome your enquiries:
- Australian Capital Territory – Mr David Shearer
Email: [email protected] - New South Wales – Hon Associate Professor Helen Scott-Orr PSM
Email: [email protected] - Northern Territory – Ms Tania Paul
Email: [email protected] - Queensland – Prof Bob Lawn FRSB FTSE FAIA
Email: [email protected] (for specific QLD eligibility requirements, key selection criteria and reporting requirements please use this backgrounder: https://www.crawfordfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Crawford-in-QLD-Student-Award-guidelines.pdf) - South Australia – Mr Roger Wickes PSM FAIAST
Email: [email protected] - Tasmania – Dr Neville Mendham FAIAST
Email: [email protected] - Victoria – Mr Bill Lewis FAIA
Email: [email protected] - Western Australia – Professor Lyn Abbott FAIAST
Email: [email protected]
If you are an Australian citizen or permanent resident and in your second or subsequent year of an undergraduate degree, we also have awards tailored to your needs! Click here to read about our NEW Crawford Fund Henzell Awards, which also close on 12 May 2025.
As part of the Crawford Fund network, the opportunities, friendships and support you gain to develop your experience and expertise in international agriculture for development are limitless.
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All the very best of luck!
