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Annual Giving

$47.6M

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The University of Adelaide is a leading research institution located in South Australia, known for its high academic standards and commitment to innovation in education. It supports various initiatives through grants, engaging with communities and fostering research excellence.

Tips for Applicants

Focus on alignment with the university's mission and demonstrate the potential impact on education and research outcomes.

Giving Philosophy

The University is dedicated to enhancing the educational experience and research output through financial support, fostering collaboration between the university and the community, industry partners, and alumni to create meaningful societal impacts.

ACNC Financial History

Year	Grants Given	Revenue	Total Assets	Net Assets
FY2023	$47.6M	$1.1B	$2.8B	$2.2B
FY2022	$39.5M	$995.0M	$2.7B	$2.1B
FY2021	$39.4M	$1.1B	$2.5B	$2.0B
FY2020	$41.8M	$975.8M	$2.3B	$1.7B
FY2019	$41.5M	$937.5M	$2.3B	$1.7B
FY2018	$43.7M	$915.1M	$2.0B	$1.6B
FY2017	$40.4M	$898.8M	$2.0B	$1.6B
7yr total	$293.9M	Source: ACNC Annual Information Statements

The University Of Adelaide

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Grants in Database (167)

Integrated In situ Characterisation Facilities for Energy Studies. This project aims to establish a new capability to reveal catalytic behaviour of materials under practical working conditions at mult

Investigating the Genetic Basis of Human Intrinsic Capacity. Intrinsic capacity is a new concept introduced by experts at the World Health Organisation to promote healthy ageing. It is defined as the

Advancing 4D fluorescence microscopy within Australia. This multi-institutional proposal aims to establish a state-of-the-art Lightsheet microscope facility in South Australia with enhanced analysis i

Multiscale Design of Electrocatalysts for On-Demand H2O2 Production. The aim of this project is to design advanced single-atom catalysts at multiscale for efficient and selective electrocatalytic redu

Running Hot: Increasing the Availability of World-Class Precision Timing . Precision clocks are a key enabler for many important technologies including navigation, radar, distributed computing and com

Mass spectrometry for mass geochronology. This project aims to establish a new facility for developing and applying novel geochronological and geo/biochemical techniques to a diverse range of rock and

Enhancing the SA Regional Facility for Molecular Ecology & Evolution. This project seeks to enhance and upgrade the equipment of the South Australian Regional Facility for Molecular Ecology & Evolutio

Facilitating control of Queensland fruit fly and other insect pests. This project aims to address the need for a Queensland fruit fly male-only sterile release strain for the national Sterile Insect T

Structure Determination Pipeline Capabilities for South Australia. This project aims to complete a high-throughput, automated pipeline for biomolecule crystallisation and provide enhanced X-ray struct

Revitalizing facilities for nuclear magnetic resonance in South Australia. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the single most powerful spectroscopic tool for determining molecular struct

Open-world computer vision by detecting and tracking hierarchical objects. This project examines the problem of detecting and tracking objects using computer vision. A fundamental limitation of curren

Designing Multi-Metallic Compound Electrocatalysts for Chemicals Production. This project aims to design highly active, specifically selective, satisfactorily stable catalysts based on advanced ionic

Cobalt-free nickel-based lithium-ion battery cathodes for electric vehicles. Current electric vehicles encounter challenges related to range anxiety and price premiums, primarily stemming from the lim

Geometric reasoning in computer vision with using only 2D supervision. The aim of the project is to build a geometric reasoning system that can exhibit human like performance. Advances in autonomous s

Addressing social and ecological constraints to expand marine restoration. This project aims to improve social and ecological outcomes of marine habitat restoration by increasing community and industr

Agave; a new Australian crop with a resilient spirit. This project aims to set the foundations to establish Agave as a sustainable, versatile and climate-proof Australian crop, supporting production o

How Republics Die: Rome's democratic breakdown in the first century BCE. This project aims to use recent political science scholarship on democratic breakdown and the threat of a competitive authorita

The immune response as a determinant of female reproductive investment. Aims: This project will define how ‘cryptic female choice’ affects reproductive outcomes through immune recognition of embryo hi

Quantum Nanostructure Positioning for Breakthrough Quantum Photonics. The integration of quantum nanostructures in optical devices has been proposed to improve the efficiencies of existing optical dev

Bioinspired photo–iontronic membranes for smart neuron-mimicking systems. The project aims to address key fundamental questions about the development of bioinspired artificial nanochannels that can pr

Conversion of biowastes to porous carbon materials for green catalysis. This project aims to develop a family of biowaste-derived porous carbon and single-atom-anchored porous carbon catalysts for the

Gravitational wave detectors for observing the Cosmic Dawn. This project aims to build upon Australia’s already pioneering research into the workings of the universe by addressing challenges facing fu

A multi-environment phenotyping site for biotech plants. This project aims to establish two unique facilities that aid evaluation of genetically modified or gene edited crop plants and grain. The firs

Developing Resilient Housing for Low Socio-Economic Older People. The project aims to advance knowledge about housing design and indoor environment to improve the wellbeing of older people with low so

Re-purposing shelved 'antibiotics' in the search for new herbicides. This project aims to identify target-specific herbicidal compounds that inhibit amino acid biosynthesis pathways to tackle herbicid

A customized surface chemistry study system in realistic working condition . This proposal aims to establish a purpose-built X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) with a dedicated operando sample sta

Imaging the spatial distribution of forces that bind quarks to a proton. This project will perform supercomputer simulations to resolve the distribution of forces acting on quarks inside the proton. N

Glauconite: Archive Recording Timing and Triggers of Cambrian Radiation . This project aims to constrain the timing and speed of the Cambrian radiation of complex animals, and to test potential envir

The Australian Rental Monitor: A Data Infrastructure. Rental is Australia’s emerging tenure. Each year the proportion of Australians who rent increases, many of us will rent for life, and for the fir

Metal-organic Framework (MOF) Superstructure Catalysts. The development of new catalyst technology is crucial to uncovering energy-efficient strategies for valorising chemicals. Although the designabl

Integrated facility for underground hydrogen storage research. The aim is to establish a state-of-the-art national research facility for hydrogen flow in porous media. Large amounts of underground hyd

Adaptive Optics for Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors . This project will create a full scale facility for testing optical aberration correction schemes for the world's gravitational wave detector

An ion mobility-mass spectrometry based platform for structural proteomics. This project aims to establish a nationally unique facility dedicated to structural proteomics, combining high resolution io

Pioneering seed solutions for the industrial hemp industry. This project aims to develop the next generation of elite industrial hemp cultivars, grown for their seed with high protein and oil contents

A soil ecological approach to increasing Australian crop productivity. The objective of this project is to use emerging genomics technologies to identify and characterize soil bacteria that allow the

Mapping sites of visceral convergence connecting the colon and bladder. This project aims to develop multiple neuroanatomical approaches to identify where in the central nervous system the sensory sig

How mammalian males indirectly control transmission of paternal traits. This project aims to address how environmental insults in males prior to conception are able to modify phenotype of subsequent o

Harnessing dynamic materials to produce better heterogeneous catalysts. This project aims to investigate an emerging class of catalysts featuring dynamic reaction sites using innovative computational

Finding the missing links in salt and water transport in plants. Grain crops and horticultural plants use proteins called aquaporins to move water across cell membranes, but a group of these proteins

Micro-photoluminescence (µ-PL) Facility for unique materials identification. There is demand for robust, field-deployable material characterisation technologies in multiple industries, e.g., mining &

Accelerating Consolidation and Closure of Mine Tailings Storage Facilities. All mining operations involve the production of waste. Many regard such waste (tailings) and their environmentally acceptabl

Designing advanced Zn-ion batteries towards practical applications. Aqueous Zn-ion batteries (ZIBs) are much safer and cheaper than current Li-ion batteries due to the water-based electrolyte and abun

Bio-inspired nanomaterials with tunable drug loading and controlled release. This project aims to develop new platform technologies for making bio-inspired nanomaterials with tunable drug loading and

Heterogeneous Molecular Catalysts for Carbon Dioxide Conversion. This project aims to develop a series of structure-tailored, activity-enhanced and selectivity-oriented heterogeneous molecular catalys

Developing advanced potassium-sulfur batteries for scalable energy storage. Potassium-sulfur (K-S) batteries are recognised as a promising energy storage technology for large-scale applications, due t

Empowering terahertz sources with silicon antennas. This Project aims to create dielectric antennas for high-frequency terahertz sources, i.e., resonant tunnelling diodes. Motivated by their end-use,

Developing CRISPR Prime Editing for highly efficient precise gene editing. This project will further develop a recent breakthrough in gene editing technology named CRISPR prime editing to improve its

Reconstructing the Beetaloo/Greater McArthur Basin System . This project aims to build a stratigraphic and water chemistry framework for the greater McArthur Basin—a rock system that covers northern A

Deciphering the genetic regulation of inflorescence development in wheat. The project aims to identify genes and molecular processes that regulate inflorescence architecture in wheat, using state-of-t

Partial Differential Equations, geometric aspects and applications. The study of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) is a classical and prolific field of research having a fundamental role in the de

Paradigm Shift in Mid-IR Fibre Laser. This project introduces a paradigm shift in 3.5µm mid-IR fibre lasers. A new laser process will be investigated to obtain high-power, simple and robust mid-IR fib

Rebooting the Muse: Post-COVID-19 sustainability in the performing arts . Rebooting the Muse advocates new ways of tackling the urgent challenges facing the Australian performing arts in the wake of t

The Cherenkov Telescope Array - From Production towards Operation. The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a transformational facility in very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. It will be 10 times more sensit

Breaking Gondwana: interplay between tectonics, climate and resources. The project aims to reconstruct 250 million years of landscape evolution in response to rifting and break-up of the Gondwana supe

Development of drought tolerant, high protein legume for arid Australia. The aim of this research is to demonstrate the molecular basis of a non-proteinogenic amino acid toxin accumulation by using ge

Painting Country: the life and legacy of western Arnhem Land rock painters. This project aims to generate new understandings of Australia’s past by exploring the lives and legacies of known Aboriginal

Linking Stress Tolerance to Molecular Evolution of Grass Stomata. Salinity and drought are two detrimental environmental stresses, affecting agricultural productivity and ecosystem health in Australia

National Atomic Layer Etching Facility. This project aims to create Australia’s first and only facility for Atomic Layer Etching, which allows layer-by-layer removal of semiconductor materials with ex

To what extent does Australian food policy consider its health impact. This research will examine how public policies relating to food can be made healthier. The diet of Australians currently contribu

Facilities for Atmospheric Boundary Layer Evaluation and Testing. This proposal aims to establish state-of-the-art stationary and mobile facilities for atmospheric wind, dust and plume measurements wi

Understanding and Addressing Informal Voting in Victoria. Victoria's informal vote rate is high and rising. In order to combat the problem of hundreds of thousands of 'lost votes' at Victorian state a

Novel isotope techniques to explore the Centralian Superbasin, Australia. This project will leverage new advances in analytical instrumentation and isotope techniques to generate improved geochronolog

China’s changing internal migration: patterns, causes, policy implications. China’s massive internal migration is no longer simply rural–urban and circular but highly diversified. The project aims to

Beyond the limits of corrosion detection in inaccessible areas. The project will develop a new technology for medium-range corrosion mapping in inaccessible areas of infrastructure. This will overcome

Fine Tuning: A Reconciliation of Indigenous and Western Musical Traditions. Focusing on central Australian song lines, the project strengthens our knowledge, understanding and application of the intri

All-Optical Upgrade to the Adelaide Atom Trap Trace Analysis Facility. This LIEF will upgrade the University of Adelaide Atom Trap Trace Analysis facility with a state-of-the-art analysis system that

Closing the Gap in Pipe Condition Assessment using Hydro-Acoustic Waves. Worldwide, the deterioration of water distribution pipeline infrastructure is driving an unsustainable explosion in maintenance

Garnet speed dating: Innovation for fast tectonic problem solving. This project aims to develop and apply a novel way to rapidly date the mineral garnet within rocks using the analytical technique of

Pathways for Indigenous and Western knowledge into Environmental Policy. The aim of this project is to identify the ways in which all knowledge, particularly Western and Indigenous knowledges can work

GM Holden and the Mobilisation of Private Industry during World War II. Through a focus on General Motors Holden (GMH), this project aims to explain how Australian industry adapted, diversified, and d

Undocumented Migrants- Unearthing Knowledge on a Key Source of Farm Labour. The Australian horticulture industry has endemic labour challenges, both in terms of labour supply challenges and a systemic

Precision Rulers for the Visible - Chip Scale Optical Frequency Combs. This project aims to create a photonic chip technology that generates hundreds of coherent laser lines in the visible spectrum fr

Earth’s mid-life crisis: recipe for a habitable planet? This project aims to establish the state and nature of the physical Earth systems (climate, topography, geography, erosion, carbon cycle, oxygen

Cooperative Single Atom Catalysts for Zn-CO2 Batteries. This project aims to develop cooperative single-atom catalysts for efficient and selective electrocatalytic CO2 conversion and Zn-CO2 batteries.