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Annual Giving

$29.9M

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La Trobe University is a leading higher education institution located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, focusing on a diverse array of undergraduate and postgraduate programs. They emphasize research innovation and community engagement, actively contributing to various fields including health, education, and technology.

Tips for Applicants

Prospective applicants should clearly align their proposals with La Trobe University's strategic vision and demonstrate tangible community or educational impacts.

Giving Philosophy

La Trobe University’s approach to giving integrates support for educational scholarships, research initiatives, and community development, with a commitment to fostering a sustainable and equitable future. They believe in empowering students and researchers while addressing pressing societal challenges.

ACNC Financial History

Year	Grants Given	Revenue	Total Assets	Net Assets
FY2023	$29.9M	$866.7M	$2.1B	$1.4B
FY2022	$26.9M	$817.1M	$2.0B	$1.4B
FY2021	$25.3M	$738.3M	$2.0B	$1.4B
FY2020	$31K	$786.2M	$2.0B	$1.3B
FY2019	$25K	$867.4M	$1.8M	$1.4M
FY2018	$25.7M	$804.0M	$1.7B	$1.4B
FY2017	$26.7M	$770.8M	$1.6B	$1.3B
7yr total	$134.5M	Source: ACNC Annual Information Statements

La Trobe University

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Grants in Database (98)

A flow cytometry suite for multiscale biosorting . The proposal aims to establish a state-of-the-art flow cytometry suite that will allow for the first time in Australia at one site, the separation of

Do predators shape the sleep of their prey? This project aims to investigate how sleep is affected by fear/stress by studying invasive and native rat species, historically exposed to different predati

SARS-CoV-2-induced dead cell fragments drive viral uptake and inflammation. This project will apply advanced cell biology and imaging techniques to investigate how macrophages, which lacks a canonical

An atom-scale fabrication technique for diamond quantum microprocessors. This project aims to develop an atomically-precise fabrication technique for the production of diamond quantum microprocessors

The Great Disruption of COVID-19: Re-imagining the work-family interface. This project aims to highlight new possibilities to re-imagine and reduce parents’ work-family conflicts. Covid-19 brought an

NanoMslide: plasmon-enhanced ptychographic phase microscopy. This proposal aims to combine recent advances in metamaterials and quantitative phase imaging to probe the near-surface refractive index pr

Promoting Long-Term Employment of Autistic Individuals . Autistic adults tend to have poor employment outcomes and poor well-being, but these outcomes have mostly been treated separately. This project

Random fields: non-Gaussian stochastic models and approximation schemes. The project aims to address important problems in the theory and statistics of stochastic processes and develop new methodology

The control of cell signalling by membrane remodelling. Cells secrete signalling molecules called growth factors to drive critical developmental processes such as growth, differentiation and death. Th

Low-cost Sensing Methods and Hybrid Learning Models. This project aims to revolutionise the theory and practice of sensing and monitoring by developing novel Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Th

Lost Mines: The Troubled Legacies of Former Mining Landscapes. This project aims to investigate how historical mining activities in Victoria have left a toxic legacy of heavy metals in soil and water

Alcohol and tobacco use among lesbian, bisexual and queer identifying women. This project aims to examine practices of alcohol and tobacco use among lesbian, bisexual and queer-identifying (LBQ) women

Motoring On? A New History of the U.S. Car Industry since 1900. This project aims to provide a new history of the U.S. car industry between 1900 and 2020. America was the industry’s birthplace, and th

How is the plant genome reactivated and controlled during seed germination? This project aims to determine the mechanisms by which plant genomes are regulated during seed germination. The genomes of c

Addressing gender and sexuality in drug education. This project aims to generate new knowledge on the relationship between young people’s concerns about drugs and the priorities informing drug educati

Early desert settlement of Arabia following out-of-Africa human dispersals. This project aims to improve our understanding of the nature, timing and climatic context of early human expansion into SW A

Next generation high throughput lipidomics using adaptive modelling. This project aims to develop a unique high-throughput method to capture the lipidomic profile of human plasma suitable for large hu

In depth characterisation of the gamma delta T cell immune synapse. This project aims to comprehensively characterise the activation principles of gamma delta T cells. These cells have an understudied

Using pollinators to optimise plant conservation translocation. This project aims to address the low success rate of conservation translocations of threatened orchids. While pollinators are critical f

Formation and clearance of endothelial cell-derived exophers. This project aims to investigate how cells that line the blood vessels release cellular wastes and their subsequent removal by immune cell

The future of the Pacific: youth leadership and civic engagement. This project aims to investigate how youth in the Pacific develop and demonstrate the forms of leadership and civic engagement needed

Multi-functional probes for global analysis of proteome stress in cells. This project aims to create a suite of multi-functional chemical probes to identify damaged proteins that undergo unfolding or

Cave microbial metabolism as a missing biogeochemical sink. The aim of this project is to unveil the microbial biodiversity, novel metabolic capabilities and chemosynthetic primary production of subsu

Taking control: variations in forced psychiatric treatment in the community. This interdisciplinary project aims to produce a comprehensive understanding of the drivers underpinning variations in the

Outfoxing the fox: new cost-effective ways to protect threatened species. This project aims to address the damage caused by invasive foxes by applying new methods of protection for threatened species.

The prevalence and impact of digital alcohol exposure. This project aims to use artificial intelligence to quantify the amount of alcohol people are exposed to in digital media (e.g., social media, st

Social buffering of fear inhibition in adolescent rats. Adolescence is an important time when individuals learn to manage stress-related emotions like fear. Peers can help, or hinder, individuals to r

Using AI to reveal the true extent & context of alcohol exposure in videos. This project aims to extend an artificial intelligence algorithm to automatically identify and quantify alcohol prevalence i

Fish Jenga: metapopulation management for coastal river fish. This project aims to address the escalating threats to coastal freshwater fish from drought, fire, and other disturbances. The project exp

New knowledge on internalised prejudice for same-sex attracted Australians. This project aims to conduct the first nation-wide investigation of internalised sexual prejudice – a key factor driving the

From mainstream to margins: The denormalisation of underage heavy drinking. This mixed-methods study aims to investigate changes in, and contemporary experiences of, heavy drinking for underage young

Family Violence Triage in Family Courts: Safety, Efficacy and Benefit. Domestic and family violence (DFV) risks are highest during relationship separation, elevated further for parents and children in

Impact of humoral immunity on nanoparticle–biological interactions. This project aims to improve the biological applications of nanomaterials by understanding their fundamental interactions with prote

Knowledge Graph-driven Software Vulnerability Risk Discovery and Assessment. This project aims to alleviate cyberattacks which are increasingly being crafted to attack software vulnerabilities and wea

Reclaiming Child Rights: Activism, Public Inquiries and Social Change. This project aims to develop an historical sociology of activism against institutional child abuse from the 1990s to the present.

Intraepithelial lymphocyte development and function in the intestine. This study aims to better understand the homeostatic maintenance and essential repair processes in the intestine. This project wil

How is the blood cell population size controlled? Macrophage-like cells are an ancient animal blood cell lineage critically important for development, immunity, and homeostasis. This fellowship seeks

New Bail Regimes: Reconceptualising Risk to Reduce Remand Imprisonment. More than one in three prisoners in Australia are on remand, double that of two decades ago. This project aims to investigate ho

Trust in Pacific Healthcare: Transforming research, policy and practice. Medical trust is vital to building positive healthcare engagement and improving health outcomes, yet is poorly understood in no

Supporting the inclusion of siblings when a family is in crisis . This project aims to explore the inclusion experience of siblings during a significant family crisis – a child’s critical illness. Exc

Aboriginal Exemption: Truth-telling, History, and Healing. This project aims to develop accessible, Indigenous-led knowledge about little known twentieth-century Australian policies that caused pain a

Quantifying climate change impacts for wetlands in agricultural landscapes. This project aims to quantify the impacts of changed water availability on wetland biodiversity. Research will focus on high

Next Generation Fluorescent Tools for Measuring Autophagy Dynamics in Cells. This project aims to create new molecular tools for detecting a crucial cell survival process called autophagy. Specificall

Resource Struggles and International Law: Navigating Global Transformations. This project will examine how international law both shapes, and is shaped by, struggles over natural resources in periods

Fast Reconstruction and Real-time Rendering of Immersive Light Field Video. This project aims to develop new learning-based methods for reconstructing and rendering 3D immersive videos from multi-view

Understanding the role of cosmeceuticals in health, gender and ageing. Cosmeceuticals are a new category of product at the intersection of cosmetics and pharmaceuticals taken to prevent and treat the

Understanding the role of trauma in alcohol and other drug-related problems. This project aims to investigate the relationship between trauma and alcohol and other drug (AOD)-related problems. Using a

Shaping International Law in Global Transformations: Australian Experiences. This project aims to examine how Australia influences the development of international law in times of global transformatio

Outcomes of specialist disability housing for people with disability. This project aims to systematically investigate the experience, outcomes and economic impact of people with disability moving int

Sensory and bioengineering approaches to predict hearing abilities in fish. This project aims to understand the factors responsible for the extraordinary diversity in the shape and size of fish ears a

Scalable fabrication of diamond quantum microprocessors . Quantum computing is rapidly emerging, bearing transformative economic and security implications for Australia. This project leverages experti

Linking movement and animal vision to uncover functions of dynamic colours. This project aims to address a fundamental biological question: what drives the extraordinary diversity of colours in nature

Addressing the opportunities and risks of HIV elimination in Australia. This project aims to provide the first critical analysis of public policy related to HIV ‘elimination’, including the emerging n

Addressing reproductive violence in migrant and refugee communities. This project aims to address a critical gap in knowledge about migrant women’s experience of a serious form of family violence: rep

Finding the limits of oxidative capacity in hypervalent iodine chemistry. This project aims to develop new ways to convert simple hydrocarbon feedstocks into value added fine chemicals, through the de

Sustainable working conditions: Requirements to enable long working lives? This project aims to build a contemporary post-covid model of sustainable work, through examining the necessary workplace con

Modelling the energy transition: the making of socio-technical futures. This project aims to investigate how energy system planning and modelling processes are increasingly being used to guide the com

Critical moments in responses for children affected by family substance use. This project aims to study the experiences, trajectories and risks for the one in five Australian children who are affected

The sounds of Papua. This study investigates speech in the Papuan languages spoken to the immediate north of Australia, which have very simple consonant and vowel systems, but which have been consiste

Creating Safer Sport Communities from Rural to Urban Australia. Sport is intrinsic to Australian culture, particularly in rural and regional communities. However, sport cultures can also perpetuate ge

Assessing risk of toxic methylmercury in the Australian marine environment. This project aims to address the impact of mercury contamination on marine ecosystems by advancing our understanding of how

Supporting Trauma-Informed Legal Services: A Stepped-Wedge Multi-Site Study. Trauma-informed practices are widely recognised for their effectiveness across various service sectors. This project would

Innovative materials and manufacturing for flexible pressure sensing system. This project aims to develop a flexible pressure sensing system using soft electronics technology with high sensitivity, fa

A Human Rights Implementation Assessment for Mental Health Law and Policy. This project aims to develop an implementation assessment framework to assess Australia’s compliance, in mental health law, p

Chemoreception in fishes: Anthropogenic impacts on brain and behaviour. This project aims to assess the impacts on fishes of increasing numbers of chemical pollutants entering Australia's waterways. C

Industry Scale Extracellular Vesicle Customisation and Analytics. This project focuses on developing methods for loading small molecules into tiny particles naturally released by cells, called extrace

Developing strong, robust and high performing women football players. Women drop out of Australian football at a higher rate than men, often due to concerns about their physical capabilities and perfo

Solving a mercurial mystery: the evolutionary origin of mercury methylation. This project aims to investigate the evolutionary origin of microbial mercury methylation, testing a possible link with ars

Unveiling Spatial and Temporal Regulation of Subcellular Protein Disorder. This project aims to develop innovative molecular tools to capture protein folding states within organelle proteomes in livin

Out In Suburbia: Improving LGBTQ wellbeing in outer suburban Australia. LGBTQ people living in Australia's outer suburbs experience significant barriers to wellbeing. This project aims to understand h

Micro and nanoplastics: measurement, toxicokinetics and cardiac impacts . This project aims to address the biological effects of micro- and nanoplastic (MNP) exposure by investigating their toxicokine

Revealing the role of gut-bacterial amyloids in human ageing. The biology of ageing is dependent on various biochemical processes. Recent evidence suggests that gut-bacteria can influence these ageing

Carboranes as a scaffold for next generation hypervalent iodine oxidants. This project aims to invent methods to directly convert simple C-H hydrocarbons into value added fine chemicals by inventing a

Virtual Reality and Knowing What It Is Like. This project aims to investigate the idea that virtual reality (VR) is an ‘empathy machine’ that can simulate the experiences of other people and thereby g