Opportunity profile: A fuel injection for dementia research

Nearly A$5 million is available through the Dementia Australia Research Foundation, largely for junior researchers

Top tips

• People with lived experience of dementia must be involved in the project in a meaningful way.
• Applications fall down on not being easy enough to understand, so work on the plain English summary.
• Lead applicants don’t need to be dementia specialists if there’s a strong team.
• The range of potential topics is wide and the funder encourages ideas from other fields.

Substantial research grant schemes offered outside government agencies are few and far between in Australia, so what marks out the Dementia Australia Research Foundation’s grant programme is its generosity.