There are six categories for research funding:
Intervention Research grants
- Funding up to $200,000 per year for up to three years
Exploratory Research grants for formative or exploratory studies
- Funding up to $100,000 between one to two years.
- EOIs (Stage 1) will be assessed in consultation with relevant research experts and external agencies at the discretion of Healthway
- Following the EOI assessment, successful applicants will be invited to submit a full request (Stage 2)
- All invited full requests (Stage 2) will be assessed by relevant research experts outside WA. External agencies and additional experts may also be consulted at the discretion of Healthway. Healthway may conduct further shortlisting of requests following the external review process
- Healthway’s Research Assessment Committee will assess the full (stage 2) shortlisted requests and participate in a panel discussion to identify fundable projects
- All funding decisions will be made by the Healthway Board. The Board may contact any person or organisation when seeking information on which to base its decisions.
- Projects approved for funding by the Board also require the Minister for Health’s approval for disbursement of funds.
Requests will be assessed in consultation with Healthway’s Research Assessment Committee and relevant research experts, where appropriate. External agencies and proposed partners may also be consulted at the discretion of Healthway.
- The candidate’s referees (2) will be contacted by Healthway to discuss the applicant and their ability to conduct the proposed study program
- Shortlisted applicants may be invited for an interview with a panel of Healthway staff and Research Assessment Committee members.
- All funding decisions will be made by the Board. The Board may contact any person or organisation when seeking information on which to base its decisions.
- Projects approved for funding by the Board also require the Minister for Health’s approval for disbursement of funds.
- Please see the guidelines for the assessment criteria for each scheme.
- A “four-grant rule” remains for Intervention Research grants, meaning that an EOI cannot be submitted for an Intervention Research grant if four grants are currently active, only one EOI can be submitted if three grants are currently active and so on. Please note that a grant remains currently active until Healthway has received and acknowledged all reports specified in the funding agreement and all funds have been fully acquitted.
- Scholarships and Fellowships are excluded from the four-grant rule, and there are no restrictions on the number of EOIs that can be submitted for Exploratory Research grants.
- Please read the guidelines for each scheme for more information on eligibility.
- The level of feedback provided by us will be dependent on the number of EOIs, full requests being processed, and the capacity of Healthway staff.
- Healthway staff will communicate the outcome of the EOIs to the research offices.
- Applicants will have the opportunity to contact Healthway for high level feedback following notification of the outcome of an EOI or full request.
Yes. The request should be made in writing within 60 business days of receiving formal advice of the funding decision to the attention of the Executive Director, Healthway and signed by your organisation’s legal signatory(ies) or authorised delegate. Please include the reason for the review. We will advise you of the outcome as soon as possible but no later than 60 business days of the date of your formal request.
A request for review will not impact the consideration of any future grant requests.
All organisations applying for a Healthy Research grant are required to legally execute a relevant Agreement that formally describes the responsibilities of the recipient of any funding from Healthway. If your request is successful, you will receive a letter of approval and agreement via the Healthway grants portal (Fluxx) which will be received by the relevant research office contact. Please review the example Agreements on our website
Healthway Conditions of Funding, Letter of Offer, Agreements, and acquittal documentation must be signed by the persons legally able to enter into contracts on behalf of your organisation. We refer to them as the legal signatories. Where your organisation is an incorporated association, this document must be signed by the organisation’s Chairperson/President and another committee member. Where your organisation is a company/corporation, this document is signed in accordance with section 127 of the Corporations Act 2001 or section 99.5 of the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (whichever is applicable) by:
(a) two Directors; or
(b) a Director and a Company Secretary; or
(c) as our company/corporation has only one Director, that Director.
Your organisation’s legal signatory may choose to give this responsibility to someone else within your organisation – we refer to this person as the ‘Delegated Authority’. If this is the case for your organisation, you must complete the Delegated Authority for Healthway and/or Lotterywest grants form. You only need to complete this form once and it will remain on our records for future funding applications. If your legal signatory or ‘Delegated Authority’ changes, you will need to complete this form again.
- Healthway has developed a Knowledge Translation Guide to support Healthy Research Program requests. The guide will also help applicants develop and implement their own knowledge translation plan for their research projects.
- The guide is available on our website.
Below is a rough guide of timelines for progression of applications and our assessment and approval processes.
Please note Healthway is subject to caretaker conventions during state and national elections and during these times the Healthway Board is unable to make funding decisions which can affect assessment time periods. Healthway will communicate this when applicants will potentially be impacted.
- Exploratory and Intervention grants – 8-9 months following submission of the initial EOI.
- Research Fellowships – 5-6 months following submission.
- Research Training Scholarships – 4-5 months.
- Aboriginal Research Training Scholarships – 4-5 months.
- Visiting Fellowships 4-5 months following submission.