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RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellowships

Great minds. Real world impact.

Learn more about VCIRF

Each year, RMIT brings on the world’s best and brightest researchers and teams to undertake transdisciplinary applied research that creates positive impact for society, the economy and the environment.

For this round, our focus is on building a supportive, embracing, and safe environment for researchers, and transdisciplinary capability in Regenerative Futures, MedTech Innovation, and Digital Innovation. Positions are available for Indigenous Principal Research Fellows, Indigenous Senior Research Fellows, Indigenous Research Fellows, and Indigenous Postdoctoral Research Fellows.

Great minds. Real-world impact.

Applications for RMIT’s Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellowships Program are now CLOSED.

Learn more about VCIRF

Global challenges

The RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowships program enables Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers to flourish and make a difference in areas that matter for our communities and our future. If you are ambitious and enjoy working in team environments to achieve impact from your excellent research, we invite you to apply to become an RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow.

Acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s care for Country over millennia, we live in a world that is undergoing great change and uncertainty. Over the coming decades, we will live and work through complex challenges in climate, security, inequality, health and wellbeing, technological evolutions, and emerging social movements. RMIT University is committed to work with our partners and communities to find new solutions and apply transdisciplinary approaches to help society navigate through these complex challenges.

Applications are now open at Academic levels A-D in three Strategic Research Priority Areas, as follows:

Regenerative futures

Going beyond ‘sustainable’ practices to restore, renew and revitalise social, economic, and environmental systems.

MedTech innovation

Revolutionising health outcomes and health expectations through innovation in medical technologies.

Digital innovation

Advancing world-leading and multidisciplinary digital innovation research for a prosperous and secure digital future.

Learn about the Strategic Priority Research Areas

Fellowships and benefits

Who is RMIT?

University Values

Our values are the heart of RMIT. They guide what we do, how we make decisions, and how we treat each other.

Learn about our values

RMIT Indigenous Research Plan 2023-2025

Our Knowledge with Action strategy commits RMIT to developing a research and innovation ecosystem that recognises and integrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ perspectives, world views and lifeways as important knowledge systems for driving impact.

Download RMIT Indigenous Research Plan (PDF 9.4 MB)

RMIT Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Employment Plan

The plan strengthens our commitment to providing a safe work environment that is equitable and inclusive of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander employees and prospective employees.

Download Indigenous Employment Plan (PDF 6.9 MB)

Who can apply?

RMIT’s Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowships are open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers who are outstanding in their field and who meet the eligibility and selection criteria.

Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowships are not available to RMIT employees with current ongoing academic appointments.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

Additional eligibility criteria may apply. Please refer to the specific eligibility criteria under each of the Fellowship categories.

Applications close

Applications closed on 2 September 2025 at 12:00 pm.\

Apply now

Applications for the RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellows are now CLOSED.\

Meet some of our existing fellows

Dr Eugenia Flynn

Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Dr Erica Kuligowski

Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in the School of Engineering.

Dr Nasir Mahmood

Vice-Chancellor's Fellow in the School of Engineering.

Dr Simone De Luca

Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Health and Biomedical Sciences.

Find out more about our research fellows

Contact us

If you have any questions about the fellowship or application process, please contact the Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellowships Coordinator using the email below.

Email: researchfellowships@rmit.edu.au.

Learn more about VCIRF

About RMIT University

RMIT is a multi-sector university of technology, design and enterprise. The University’s mission is to help shape the world through research, innovation and engagement, and to create transformative experiences for students to prepare them for life and work. For more information on RMIT University explore the links below.

Our three main campuses in Melbourne are located in the heart of the City, Brunswick and Bundoora. Other locations include Point Cook, Hamilton and Bendigo, two campuses in Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) and a centre in Barcelona, Spain. RMIT is a truly global university.

We are also committed to redefining our relationship in working with, and supporting, Indigenous self-determination. Our goal is to achieve lasting transformation by maturing our values, culture, policy and structures in a way that embeds reconciliation in everything we do. We are changing our ways of knowing, working and being to support sustainable reconciliation and activate a relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous staff, students and community. Our three campuses in Melbourne (City, Brunswick and Bundoora campuses) are located on the unceded lands of the people of the Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation.

This initiative supports the HR Excellence in Research Award, which is recognised by the European Commission for institutions that make progress in aligning their human resources policies to the European Charter for Researchers and The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The standards support researchers and includes general principles on the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of researchers, employers and funders, and a commitment to the advancement of research.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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