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Annual Giving

$19.5M

Avg Grant

$10K

About

Flinders University is a leading Australian university dedicated to providing lifechanging educational opportunities and conducting impactful research. With a focus on innovation and community service, it is home to one of the largest university art collections in Australia and fosters emerging researchers through funding and support.

Tips for Applicants

Applicants should clearly demonstrate the community impact of their proposed research and align their project with the university's strategic objectives.

Giving Philosophy

Flinders University believes in empowering individuals and communities through education, research, and the arts. They prioritize support for early career researchers to facilitate innovative projects that tackle pressing societal challenges and contribute positively to the community.

ACNC Financial History

Year	Grants Given	Revenue	Total Assets	Net Assets
FY2023	$19.5M	$629.5M	$1.5B	$972.4M
FY2022	$16.4M	$555.9M	$1.3B	$954.9M
FY2021	$15.1M	$547.8M	$1.1B	$893.4M
FY2020	$18.8M	$530.2M	$1.0B	$821.0M
FY2019	$14.8M	$518.3M	$979.3M	$776.2M
5yr total	$84.6M	Source: ACNC Annual Information Statements

Flinders University

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ACNC Financial History

Grants in Database (129)

A National Facility for the 3D Imaging of the Near Surface. This proposal aims to fund the establishment of a National Facility for the 3D Imaging of the Near Surface. It aims to provide Australian re

SA Spectromicroscopy Facility: From Band Mapping to Atomic Scale Imaging. This proposal aims to establish Australia’s first advanced spectromicroscopy facility capable of energy filtered momentum spac

Solar-Driven C-H Functionalization Reactions. This project aims to investigate the functionalization reaction of unreactive C-H bonds using light as the source of energy. Light is a transformative cha

AusStage LIEF 7: The international breakthrough . The aim of AusStage LIEF 7 is to enhance the world's oldest and most extensive national dataset on live performance. The project expects to maximise r

Polymer technologies for oil spill remediation and slow-release fertilisers. This project aims to evaluate a patented sulfur polymer in commercial oil spill remediation and slow-release fertilisers. K

Materials for Sustainability Analysis Facility. This project aims to commission two instruments for characterising materials used in sustainable technologies: a state-of-the art photo-induced force mi

New technologies for e-waste recycling. This project aims to provide commercially viable methods for recycling electronic waste (e-waste), with a focus on plastic recycling and precious metal recovery

Quantifying the long-term resilience of Australian mammal communities. This project aims to use the fossil record of mammals and new methods to study how mammal communities in Australia have changed o

Using facial recognition for bird conservation management. Long-term monitoring of reintroduced species is essential to measure conservation success. This project aims to use a novel and non-invasive

Nanoengineering of Biomaterial Surfaces to Tailor Innate Immune Responses. The overarching aim of this project is to provide a mechanistic understanding of how surface nanotopography affects inflammat

Revitalising NMR facilities in South Australia - Stage 2. The determination of molecular structure using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) is a fundamental and powerful technique that is utilised by re

How do cells survive nutrient stress? Insight into mechanisms. This project studies cell survival under nutrient stress in eukaryotes. Building on extensive preliminary data that identifies novel TOR

Confronting everyday harms: preventing abuse of people with disability. The findings of the Disability Royal Commission necessitate new approaches to prevent violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.

Coastal Bathymetry with Advanced Technologies (CoastBAT). This proposal will fund Coastal Bathymetry with Advanced Technologies (CoastBAT), a facility that will provide high resolution bathymetry in n

Unusual trisulfide chemistry. This project aims to investigate the mechanism of an unexpected reaction of trisulfides with common amide-containing solvents. Specifically, these solvents (such as dimet

Prospecting for Australia's Submerged Landscapes through Machine Learning. This project aims to apply machine learning to image-based seabed surveys to prospect for submerged Aboriginal archaeological

Quantitative Metagenomics. This project aims to revolutionize our view of the microbial world once more by transforming microbiome studies from relative counts of organisms to actual numbers of microb

Develop materials for stable and efficient printed polymer solar cells. The project aims to develop strategies to overcome current limitations of polymer solar cells by enhancing the thermal stability

Australian Microarchaeology and Palaeosciences Facility (AusMAP). The Australian Microarchaeology and Palaeosciences Facility (AusMAP) aims to revolutionise our understanding of the human and environm

Warratyi: Cultural Innovation in the Indigenous Settlement of Australia. This project aims to determine the role of cultural innovation in the Indigenous settlement of Australia's arid zone 50,000 yea

Molecular movies using time-resolved momentum spectroscopies. This project aims to use time-resolved momentum spectroscopies to take snapshots of chemical and physical processes as they evolve in time

The cost of keeping gruesome images from the world. This project aims to investigate one of society’s most invisible ‘frontline’ trauma workforces—the online content moderators responsible for limitin

Circadian photoreceptor sensitivity and impacts of modern lighting on sleep. Light has powerful non-visual effects, including effects on sleep. These non-visual effects are mediated by cells in the ey

Understanding vicarious trauma in Australian foster care. This project aims to investigate experiences of vicarious trauma in Australian foster care. This project expects to generate new knowledge abo

Towards 'zero hunger': improving food relief services in Australia. This project aims to improve the effectiveness of the food relief sector in meeting the needs of >5m Australians experiencing food i

How do protein quality control mechanisms maintain neuronal ageing? This project aims to interrogate how mechanisms of protein quality control act in the brain - an organ that is particularly vulnerab

The first English speakers in their own words. This project aims to produce the first comprehensive study of the attitudes in the earliest English literature. The project expects to generate new knowl

Strategic Friendship: Anglo-German Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region. This project aims to investigate the untold history of Anglo-German cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region through hitherto n

Sustaining intensive agriculture through droughts and floods. This project aims to develop state-of-the-art conceptual and numerical models of river-soil-groundwater interactions to address complex an

High shear fluid flow driving carbon foundry for advanced manufacturing. This project aims to develop versatile continuous flow thin film microfluidic device technology for harnessing contact electrif

Pair bonding: is it all in the brain? This project aims to understand the interaction between classic pair bonding neural circuits, parasites, and the immune system in sleepy lizards. Social bonds are

Understanding the relationship between the social environment and cognition. The predominant theory for the evolution of intelligence, the social intelligence hypothesis (SIH), posits that within-grou

A home-centred approach to support children and young people in state care. This project aims to determine how conceptions of home can enhance an understanding of and responsiveness to young people’s

A femtosecond beamline for time-resolved momentum microscopy. This project aims to obtain a femtosecond high-harmonic generation beamline that will be integrated with a photoemission electron microsco

Defining how gut bacteria regulate metabolism: a role for gut serotonin. This project aims to understand how serotonin-producing cells in the gut interact with gut bacteria (the microbiome), using a c

Hiding in Plain Sight: 'Associated Entities' and Australian Democracy. Associated Entities (AEs) are organisations that are formally linked to political parties. This project aims to examine how AEs i

Veteran suicide: investigating the historical and social dimensions . This project aims to address veteran suicide by conducting an historical and cultural analysis of the ways government, the militar

The Devonian Gogo Fauna: Diversity, Palaeoecology and Global Significance. The late Devonian Gogo Formation (380 million years old) is undoubtedly one of the richest and best-preserved assemblages of

Re-imagining Humanities through Indigenous Creative Arts. This project will develop an Indigenous Creative Arts Framework to reimagine and transform the Humanities across Australian Universities. It w

Sulfur-based materials for infrared optics and thermal imaging. This project aims to investigate novel sulfur polymers for use in infrared optics and thermal imaging. Current thermal imaging lenses ar

Post-parental housing transitions among adults with intellectual disability. This project aims to address the urgent issue of growing numbers of older people with intellectual disability (ID) outlivin

Reuniting cargoes: Underwater Cultural Heritage of the Maritime Silk Route. Beginning in the mid 1400s the Maritime Silk Route witnessed the largest known expansion of global trade. But the legacy of

Folding polymers for high-performance energy storage. This project aims to address the current bottleneck of energy storage capability in polymers by developing new compact structures through programm

Quantifying trophic niches to measure the resilience of marine predators. This project aims to pair global movement with feeding ecology datasets to characterise relationships between space use and di

Evolution. Morphodynamics and History of the Younghusband Peninsula. This project will examine the history and evolution of the Sir Richard-Younghusband Peninsula (SRYP) complex barrier in SA. The aim

Designing successful genetic-rescue approaches for threatened species. This project aims to determine how threatened populations of inbred native species can be 'genetically rescued' by introducing ge

Young People with Disability & Young Carers: Opportunities & Contributions. This project aims to examine opportunities that young people with disability and young carers (aged 12-24) value and access,

Structure and metabolism of bioactive carbohydrates from brown algae. Brown algae produce a diversity of species-specific carbohydrates in their cell walls that exhibit a variety of biological activit

Mass Analysis Facility for Precision Molecular Science. This project aims to address a critical analytical gap in South Australia by establishing a high-resolution mass spectrometry facility for molec

Rockshelters and Rock Art in the River Murray Gorge: New Data and Syntheses. This project, undertaken in partnership with the River Murray and Mallee Aboriginal Corporation, aims to explore Aboriginal

Submerged Environments Survey and Sampling Suite. The Submerged Environments Survey and Sampling Suite includes two marine geophysical sonar sensors and one marine geotechnical coring platform. Togeth

Molecular control of memory traces. This project aims to understand how particular molecules help encode memories in the brain for future retrieval. Individual memories are encoded in brain cells thro

An SA in-situ Scanning Electron Microscopy facility for Advanced Materials. This proposal aims to establish Australia’s first open access in-situ scanning electron microscope with Raman. The custom-b

How Spinal Afferent Neurons Control Appetite and Thirst . This project aims to provide major new insights about how the gut communicates with the brain, to regulate how much food and fluids have been

Indigenous Living-Legacy Archives: Memory Story Innovations for our Time. This project aims to investigate Indigenous community and colonial archives as powerful sites of social and cultural memory, a

A genomic toolkit to future-proof the seaweed industry. This project will combine genomics, artificial intelligence and experimental ecology to develop guidelines and technologies that maximise the gr

New Horizons in Quinonedimethide Chemistry. Quinonedimethides (QDMs) are organic molecules with a notorious reputation for instability, hence they are poorly understood and an underexploited resource.

EFR3: Novel gatekeeper of cell proliferation. This interdisciplinary, cross-institutional project uses leading-edge mass spectrometry and the yeast genetic model to enhance knowledge of fundamental si

Dead Heart Beating? Landscape, Climate and People in Desert Australia. This project aims to undertake the first detailed investigation of the archaeology, landscape history and paleoenvironment of dry

Beyond Inclusion: Belonging and Racial dignity for Africans in Australia . This project aims to investigate why Black Africans in Australia experience significant challenges of integration in comparis

Quantifying the economic and social impacts of drought in rural Australia. Climate-change research predicts drought is likely to increase its frequency, duration and severity, drastically challenging

Benchmarking the neurophysiology of human cortex models in vitro. This project aims to improve human brain models in vitro by developing an analytical tool benchmarking biophysical similarities to the

Impacts of changing water ownership and reforms on Australian water markets. Water markets play a critical role in helping Australia’s food bowl survive periods of severe drought. This project aims to

Programmable Ferroelectric Nanoelectronics for In-memory Computing. The project aims to explore and develop the next-generation ferroelectric memory addressing the energy and speed issues of computers

Threats to the water quality and ecosystem of Coffin Bay, South Australia. Coffin Bay (South Australia) is experiencing worsening environmental conditions despite its major economic and ecological imp

Partnering with aged care providers to develop accessible outcome measures. This project aims to develop evidence-based tools designed for Aged Care organisations to drive inclusivity in self-reportin

Optimal circadian timing: Wearable light device and customised technology. Maintaining circadian rhythms is vital for optimal sleep, alertness, safety, and performance but circadian misalignment is ve

Understanding communication about advance care planning across the lifespan. This project aims to understand how people communicate about advance care planning for children, adolescents, and adults. T

What makes a memory? Identifying learning molecules in a simple brain. This proposal aims to dissect the minimal chemical requirements for learning and memory formation in the compact, experimentally-

At the intersection: Sleep disorders, shift work and young driver safety. Young workers are highly vulnerable to road safety accidents and fatalities. Two key factors that likely contribute to accid

Understanding Ageism in Australia. Ageism refers to stereotypes, prejudice and discrimination towards people based on their age. This project aims to generate new knowledge in relation to older Austra

From Baskets to Boomerangs: Knowledges, Lifeways and Colonial Legacies. This project aims to transform our understanding of Australian Aboriginal lifeways by undertaking a comprehensive study of objec

Unlocking latent reactivity in chemical synthesis via electrochemistry . This project seeks to establish new methods for the efficient preparation of organic compounds using direct inputs of electrici

Advancing soil health assessments with ecoacoustics. This project aims to create and test the effectiveness of a tool for soil health by undertaking comprehensive field and controlled lab studies of h