Crawford Fund Student Awards

Overview

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!

Benefits

Up to $5,000

Eligibility

The conditions and requirements for the State and Territory Committees’ awards differ in terms of study levels needed, citizenship/residency requirements, award amounts provided and the number of awards available, as set out below:

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.