ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants
The ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants are being established by the Academic portfolio to accelerate the University’s program of educational renewal to deliver on the goals of ANU by 2025 and to deliver a student experience equal to the world’s best.
The intent of the grants is to accelerate education renewal aligned to the strategic initiatives approved by the Academic Board: the ANU Learning & Teaching Strategy, the Curriculum Framework and ANU Graduate Attributes.
See the ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Guidelines for more information.
2024 Phase 2 Grants applications:
The ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants program will open for its second round on June 4, with applications closing on August 5.
2024 Information sessions
Two information sessions will be held.
Register to the ONLINE session: Tuesday 18 June 11am to 12pm
Register to the IN-PERSON session: Monday 1 July, 1pm to 2pm
2024 Collaboration opportunities
If you are a project lead with a current idea for a project and looking for collaborators, please complete the below form. Your project information will be added to ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Collaboration SharePoint Site.
2024 collaboration request form
If you are interested in joining a project team, please visit the ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Collaboration SharePoint Site and select your area(s) of interest.
2024 Grant priorities
Applicants are encouraged to consider alignment to the following priority areas, including proposals for projects addressing specific topics as outlined below.
Phase 2 Priority areas:
- Strengthening authentic learning & assessment
- Strengthening formative assessment for learning
- Strengthening Industry engagement in learning & teaching
- Strengthening Graduate Attributes in curriculum and through non-curricular activities
- Enhancing First Year pedagogy
- Growing STEM skills development
- Growing Research skills development
Specific projects are sought to address:
- Alternatives to exams
- Reimagining large course delivery
- Program-level auditing and implementation of WIL
- Program-level approaches to assessment in response to AI adoption
- Creation of modules to operate within the new Transdisciplinary courses
We are seeking applications that can ultimately lead to transformation and impact at scale. While proposals focusing on individual courses may be submitted, they should demonstrate how the work proposed can ultimately lead to models or exemplars that can be shared and successfully scaled up. Transformative proposals focused on first year learning and assessment experiences are particularly welcome. Individual and team-based proposals for work at the discipline or program level are encouraged.
Scale and impact can be generated by building on and/or extending work undertaken in previous grants, and applicants are strongly encouraged to engage with recipients from Phase 1 to discuss the potential for collaboration and further work.
Applicants need not necessarily present fully articulated solutions to the issues identified; applications can be exploratory and designed to develop and share innovative solutions to common issues.
2023 Grants Phase 1 Recipients
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Congratulations to the following applicants:
| Tier | Project Name | Project Lead(s) | College of the Project Lead(s) | Project Members |
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| Tier 1 | ANU Indigenous Perspectives Network | Dr. Alison Kevan | Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor | Ms. Sara Rowley Dr. Sophie Constable |
| Tier 1 | Great Writers Festival: Transformative Authentic Assessment in English Literary Studies | Dr. Claire Hansen | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences | |
| Tier 1 | Enhancing Applied Epidemiology Education through Real-World Scenarios | Dr. Davoud Pourmarzi | ANU College of Health & Medicine | Dr. Emma Field Dr. Florian Vogt Dr. Md Rezanur Rahaman Dr. Tehzeeb Zulfiqar Professor Tony Stewart |
| Tier 1 | Embedding Indigenous Perspectives in Engineering | Dr. Jeremy Smith | ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics | Associate Professor Fiona Beck Ms. Jenny Simmons Associate Professor Marnie Shaw Ms. Nyssa Miller |
| Tier 1 | Enhancing the Involvement and Experience of First Nations Students and Communities in ANU Work-Integrated Learning Initiatives | Dr. Nghia Tran | ANU College of Business and Economic | Ms. Carlyn Waters Associate Professor Ying-Yi Chih |
| Tier 2 | Case Studies as a Problem Solving Pedagogy | Dr. Andrew Carr | ANU College of Asia & the Pacific | Dr. Alexander Lee Dr. Emily Robertson |
| Tier 2 | Co-designing Inclusion in Work-Integrated (WIL) Learning Programs | Dr. Anne Ozdowska | ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics | Ms. Bruna Contro Pretero Associate Professor Penny Kyburz Associate Professor Ying-Yi Chih |
| Tier 2 | Social Impact Studio: Preparing to Collaborate Pilot | Dr. Chris Browne | Academic Portfolio | Dr. Ehsan Nabavi Associate Professor Geoff Hinchcliffe Ms. Jenny Simmons Dr. Jeremy Smith Dr. John Debs Dr. Katerina Kormusheva Dr. Maya Haviland Dr. Merryn McKinnon Dr. Naomi Hay Associate Professor Penny Kyburz Dr. Rachael Rodney-Harris Dr. Sally Curtis Mr. Sejul Malde |
| Tier 2 | Cultivating Transdisciplinary Problem-Solvers through the Innovative Collaborative Project-Based Learning (CPBL) Pedagogy | Dr Dana Hanna Associate Professor Ying-Yi Chih | ANU College of Business and Economics | Mr. Dale Newbery Dr. Katerina Kormusheva |
| Tier 2 | Authentic Employability Skill Assessment Framework for ANU Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Initiatives | Dr. Katerina Kormusheva | ANU College of Business and Economics | Dr. Dana Hanna Associate Professor Penny Kyburz Associate Professor Ying-Yi Chih |
| Tier 2 | Strengthening Foundations and Connections in Linguistics Learning and Teaching | Dr. Ksenia Gnevsheva Dr. Rosey Billington | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences | Associate Professor Carmel O’Shannessy Professor Catherine Travis Associate Professor Danielle Barth Dr. Jennifer Hendriks Dr. Susy Macqueen |
| Tier 2 | MATLAB Grader Enhanced Assessment and Feedback | Associate Professor Linda Stals | ANU College of Science | Associate Professor Adam Piggott |
| Tier 2 | Data Maker-space, Data Literacy, Acquisition, Visualisation | Professor Louis Moresi | ANU College of Science | Dr. Callum Shakespeare Dr. Chengxin Zhang Ms. Honor McGregor Professor Malcolm Sambridge Dr. Rebecca McGirr |
| Tier 2 | Preparing MA Students for Authentic Learning | Associate Professor Lucy Neave | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences | Associate Professor Ruth Morgan Associate Professor Yujie Zhu |
| Tier 2 | Interactive Visual Learning to Enhance 1st Year Statistics Literacy | Dr. Matt Thompson | ANU College of Science | Professor Adrian Machenzie Associate Professor Anne Aimolo Davies Dr. Bronwyn Loong Dr. Yuan Gao |
| Tier 2 | Exploring Pathways for Cultivating Entrepreneurship at ANU | Associate Professor Penny Kyburz | ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics | Associate Professor Birgit Muskat Mr. Chris Dennis Ms. Kerry-Ann Hugo Dr. Nico Klenner Dr. Samira Nazar |
| Tier 2 | Developing a Generative Machine Intelligence to Support Teaching and Learning in a First Year Business Information Systems Course | Professor Sigi Goode | ANU College of Business and Economics | Dr. Amir Riaz Mr. Devin Clementi Dr. Patrick L'Espoir de Costa |
| Tier 2 | Major Renovations: Enhancing the Marketing Major with Content and Assessment Mapping | Dr. Patrick L'Espoir DeCosta Dr. Stephen Dann | ANU College of Business and Economics | |
| Tier 3 | Holistic Redesign of First-Year Mathematics at ANU | Associate Professor Adam Piggott | ANU College of Science | Dr. Asilata Bapat Dr. Griff Ware |
| Tier 3 | Building Cross-university Capacity to Embed the Indigenous Perspectives Graduate Attribute | Dr. Alison Kevan | Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor | |
| Tier 3 | THE ANU ESCAPE ROOM HUB – enabling meaningful and authentic learning through engaged experience | Dr. Bernardo Pereira Nunes | ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics | Ms. Bruna Contro de Godoy Dr. Tiago Silva |
| Tier 3 | The ASTUTE Program: An Inclusive Approach for Overcoming Social Anxiety and Improving Employment Outcomes Among ANU Students | Professor Elizabeth Rieger | ANU College of Health & Medicine | Professor Bruce Christensen Associate Professor Davide Berle Dr. Helen Maxted Dr. James Brann Dr. Junwen Chen Dr. Lou Farrer Associate Professor Merryn Mckinnon Mr. Reshad Heckbarally |
| Tier 3 | Decolonisation and Indigenisation of the Master of Philosophy (Applied Epidemiology) Program Curriculum | Dr. Emma Field | ANU College of Health & Medicine | Dr. Davoud Pourmarzi Ms. Fiona Cornforth Dr. Md Rezanur Rahaman Dr. Rosalina Sa'aga Banuve Dr. Samantha Colquhoun |
| Tier 3 | Cementing ANU’s Leadership in Education for Transdisciplinary Problem Solving: Strengthening Teamwork and Scoping Other Characteristics | Professor Gabriele Bammer | ANU College of Health & Medicine | |
| Tier 3 | Artificial Intelligence in Health & Well-being Education | Associate Professor Alexandra Webb Dr. Julia Ellyard | ANU College of Health & Medicine | Dr. Andrew Mathieson Associate Professor Boris Bizumic Dr. Danish Ahmad Professor Hanna Suominen Dr. Kathleen Miles Dr. Kathryn Smith Dr. Kayla Smurthwaite Associate Professor Krisztina Valter-Kocsi Dr. Tehzeeb Zulfiqar Dr. Woei Ming (Steve) Lee |
| Tier 3 | Cross-discipline Modules on Sustainability | Dr. Edwina Fingleton-Smith Dr. Katerina Kormusheva | ANU College of Science
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| Tier 3 | Developing Transdisciplinary Health Humanities Education at the ANU | Dr. Bonnie McConnell
| ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences ANU College of Health & Medicine | Associate Professor Alexandra Webb Associate Professor Anna Olsen Dr. Brett Scholz Dr. Claire Hansen Associate Professor Christopher Sainsbury Dr. Georgia Pike-Rowney Dr. Keren Hammerschlag Professor Kim Cunio Dr. Kristen Murray Associate Professor Krisztina Valter Dr. Riemke Aggio-Bruce Mr. Sejul Malde Dr. Stacey Ward Dr. Trang Ta |
| Tier 3 | CASS IPGA 3C Project | Dr. Sarah-Jane Burton | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences | Associate Professor Geoff Hinchcliffe |
See the ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Guidelines for more information.
Eligibility
To be eligible for a Strategic Learning and Teaching Grant, applications must meet the following requirements:
- Applicants and all project team members must be current ANU staff members with their employment contract covering the full length of the proposed project. Collaborations between academic and professional staff are actively encouraged.
- The application must be endorsed by the lead applicant’s College Associate Dean in Education or equivalent.
Duration
Grants are expected to run for up to 12 months, however shorter periods are possible.
Funding tiers
The grants are structured into three tiers to reflect different scale of impact that can be generated through each level of funding.
This design is guided by the Impact Management Planning and Evaluation Ladder (IMPEL) framework, a copy of which is available from the Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants website.
| Funding Tier | Amount | Possible Reach of Impact |
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| Tier 1 | Up $15,000 | Positioning for Future Success (Immediate)
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| Tier 2 | Up to $25,000 | Building Capacity (Localised)
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| Tier 3 | Greater than $25,000 | Innovating for Impact (Scale)
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Application process
Please make sure you read the ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Guidelines before you start on your application. A FAQs file is available, please refer to it as needed and contact the CLT if you require further information.
- Download the 2024 application form.
- Complete the application and save it as a single PDF file.
- When saving your PDF, use this naming convention: Your project name (or the first 6 words if long).
- Phase 2 introduces an automated endorsement system.An application and endorsement process guide is available to help you navigate the process before submitting your application.
- Complete the below online cover sheet and submit your application:
Upload your PDF file here. Please submit only one application per project.
Selection process
Applications need to be submitted in accordance with the requirements as published on the ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants website. You will receive an e-mail acknowledging the successful receipt of your application.
A selection panel will review and rank all eligible applications based on the selection criteria listed below. All applicants will receive a formal notification of the outcome and feedback will be made available to unsuccessful applicants.
Selection criteria
Applications will be assessed based on the following criteria:
- clear proposal with strong alignment to strategic initiatives and principles
- appropriate tier selected
- demonstrates innovation and transformation in line with grant priorities
- impact plan demonstrates effectiveness and is feasible in line with tier expectations
Timelines
Phase 1:
Applications Open: 3 July to 1 September 2023
Selection Process: Mid-September 2023
Grant Outcomes and Payments: October 2023
Reporting: Mid-term progress reports were due in April 2024 and final reports will be due based on the individual project finish time.
Phase 2:
Applications Open: 4 June to 5 August 2024
Selection Process: August 2024
Grant Outcomes and Payments: Expected to commence by September 2024
Reporting: Mid-term progress reports are expected in March 2025 and final reports due October 2025 for grants running for the standard length of 12 months. Short-term grants will have amended reporting requirements. A template for reporting will be provided and made available on the ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants website.
Further information
We will be offering online and in-person information sessions throughout June and July to answer questions around the grants and help interested staff in positioning their proposal.
These sessions are also a good opportunity for staff to connect with current grant recipients and explore synergies to develop combined grant applications.
Updates will be posted on the ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants website.
Reference documents
- 2024 Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Guidelines (PDF, 126.51 KB)
- 2024 ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Application Form (DOCX, 63.38 KB)
- 2024 ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants FAQs (PDF, 169.43 KB)
- 2024 ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Application and Endorsement Process (PDF, 275.31 KB)
- 2024 ANU Strategic Learning and Teaching Grants Shareable Modules (PDF, 95.88 KB)
- 2023 L&T Grants Mid-term Progress Report (DOCX, 804.71 KB)
- The Impact Management Planning and Evaluation Ladder (IMPEL) - Department of Education, Australian Government (PDF, 316.41 KB)
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Contact
- Centre for Learning and Teaching (CLT)
- Send email
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