The AAG Research Trust established a separate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Review Panel to lead and support the selection of Indigenous-led grant applications. In its inaugural year of focus, 2020, five Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander led applications across two funding rounds were received, which represents 10% of all applications across the two programs. Examples include:
In 2020, the AAG Research Trust’s Hal Kendig Research Development Program funded $20,000 for a project on ‘Supporting psychosocial wellbeing with older Aboriginal Australians: Listening to community members' knowledge about Culture and connection’ by Dr Louise Lavrencic, who is a non-Aboriginal researcher at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA).
In 2021, Biripi woman Lauren Poulos from Neuroscience Research Australia was awarded a Strategic Innovation Program grant of $30K, which represented 24% of all funding available over the two rounds. Lauren’s project focuses on ‘Evaluating the culturally responsive elements, effectiveness and transferability of online dementia education and training with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities’.
We will soon update this page, to share and celebrate the projects undertaken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers, or projects that are related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ageing.
31/07/2023
2023 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander grant recipients