Webinar: Applying for Research Practitioner Grants 27 Aug 24

Each year, a panel of the AASW’s National Research Committee (NRC) oversees the promotion and selection of the AASW competitive research grant program: two $10,000 and one $5,000 smaller start-up grant.

At least one $10,000 grant is dedicated to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander social workers and/or research projects.

This webinar will outline the importance of practice research to our discipline, provide information about previously successful grants and offer tips on applying for the grants available in 2024/2025.

About the presenters -

Professor Bindi Bennett (she/her) is a K/Gamilaroi woman, mother, and social worker and is a Professorial Research Fellow at Federation University living, playing and working on Jinibara lands. S

She is a social justice scholar, a compassionate radical and activist requesting transformational change who is committed to improving and growing cultural responsiveness; re-Indigenising Western spaces; understanding and exploring Indigenous Knowledge Systems in research; and exploring the human-animal bond.

Bindi is on the National Research Committee and is co-convening the Panel for the AASW Practitioner Research Grants 2024/2025. She was a member of last Year’s Practitioner Research Panel.

Dr Sue Gillieatt (she/her) is a non-Indigenous woman and lives and works on Wadjuk Noongar boodjar, Booroloo (Perth). She is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Curtin University and her work experience includes a combination of social work practice in health, leadership and management, tertiary teaching, and research and evaluation in social work and international health.

Sue is also the Convenor of the AASW National Research Committee (NRC) which provides leadership, coordination, and strategic focus in social work research. With the ongoing impact of colonisation, the Committee, has focussed in the last year on leadership in re-Indigenising research and practice-based social work research.

The NRC manages the three AASW Practitioner Research Grants ($25,000) and Sue is co-convening this year’s Panel with Professor Bindi Bennett.

Date: August 27 2024

Time: 12.30 p.m. - 1.30 p.m. (AEST)

Venue: Live online (Zoom details to be emailed on the day of the webinar)