Research GrantsFunding and Support

At the 2015 AGM, ALS decided to establish a research grants scheme. The scheme offers grants of up to $5,000 for research in any area of linguistics.The ALS offers a range of schemes to support linguistics research, including research grants, scholarships and prizes, and as well as publication support and conference attendance support.

The ALS Research Grants scheme offers grants of up to $5,000 for research in any area of linguistics, and funds approximately five projects per year.
The Jalwang Scholarship supports linguists to give back to the community by converting some of their research into materials of benefit to the language community.
The Gerhardt Laves Scholarship contributes to fieldwork expenses for postgraduate student researchers in Indigenous languages of Australia or its immediate region.
The Susan Kaldor Scholarship supports ALS student members to attend an international summer school or institute.
The Michael Clyne Prize (awarded jointly with the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia) is awarded for the most outstanding postgraduate research thesis in immigrant bilingualism and language contact.
The Barb Kelly Prize is awarded for the most outstanding postgraduate research thesis in any area of linguistics.
The Publication Support Grants provide support for publication costs, with a priority given to open access costs.
The Indigenous Conference Attendance Support scheme assists Indigenous presenters to attend the ALS annual conference.
The Student Conference Attendance Support scheme assists ALS student presenters to attend the ALS conference.

Note: as a Not For Profit organisation, the ALS does not pay institutional Indirect Costs relating to funding it awards.

Research Grants

The 2024 Research Grants grantees have now been announced. They are:

Saurabh Kumar Nath from The Australian National University for 'The DoCEA Project'
Andi Syurganda from University of New England for 'Fieldwork Project in Indonesia'
Stacey Sherwood, Dariush Izadi for 'Attitudes and ethnolects: Unpacking the Social Fabric of multicultural Western Sydney '
Rebecca Holt for 'Who’s talking now? Talker discrimination and identification by children with hearing loss'
Eleanor Jorgensen from University of Melbourne for 'The expression of time in signing varieties used in Hawai`i'

The ALS research grants scheme offers grants of up to $5,000 for research in any area of linguistics.

The principal applicant must be a current financial member of ALS at the date of submission of the application. If the principal applicant is not a current financial member of ALS, the application will not be considered.

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Grant to support publication

The 2024 Grant to support publication grantees have now been announced. They are:

Reza Arab for 'Having fun is a matter of taste: Semantics of 'Funny' words in French and Persian'
Alena Kazmaly from Griffith University for 'Applied semantics meets psychological assessment: the “Agreeableness” personality dimension in English and Russian. '

The Australian Linguistic Society calls for applications from any member of the Society for a grant to support publication costs, for example, open access fees. Application deadline Oct 30 2024. Funds up to $2500 can be requested; priority will be given to open access costs, but other publication costs may be considered, for costs incurred during 2024.

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