Birdz

Hello everyone! I'm new to gradafe and just found this thread - I applied to a research grant to Australia, to the new one that's based at Western Sydney U. Anyone else here who applied to one of the special programs (Anne Wexler, Nat Geo, etc.?) The WSU grant is new this year and I was torn between applying to that or to the general grant... but the researchers I wanted to work with were at WSU I went for it. Not sure if the award will be more or less competitive since its new? I noticed with Nat Geo they got a higher volume of applicants the first year but I'm thinking with this WSU grant it wasn't really publicized as much. On the down side I also know Australia is among the toughest places to get a research grant (7% acceptance rate or something like that) so I'm not holding my breath. And, Australia doesn't have a track record of awarding creative research grants ... ugh. Is anyone else having this ongoing conversation with themselves in their head lately?