Crawford Fund Student Awards
Overview
Title
Crawford Fund Student Awards
College
Opening date
23-03-2026
Closing date
12-05-2026
Scholarship value
Up to $5000
Scholarship duration
Payment term
Student type
Domestic students
Level of Study
Undergraduate, Honours, Postgrad Coursework
Description
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!
Application Information
We strongly encourage you to contact the coordinator in the State/Territory in which your university is based with any queries, or to talk through your ideas, as per the contact details below. They are best placed to advise you on about how to connect to a project or identify an organisation on which to focus your project application on.
- South Australia – Dr Kathy Ophel Keller PSM – Email: kathy.ophelkeller@crawfordfund.org
Web: www.crawfordfund.org/training/state-programs/sa-committee/
You can also 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 centres 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.
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.
