Regular ABS Grants
Applications (closed)
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How:
Members must submit a completed application form outlining the project’s objectives, methodology, timeline, budget details and contribution to the conservation and/or knowledge of bats in Australasia. When:
Assessment of applications:
The assessment process will be double-blind, and all applications will be anonymised prior to being passed onto the assessment panel. Applicants can choose to either anonymise applications themselves by removing their names and other details which may make them readily identifiable, or upon receipt of the application the ABS Secretary will anonymise the application. Applicants will be given the option to review the changes that the Secretary makes. Applications will usually be assessed by the selection panel of three people, derived from the ABS executive (including the extended executive). At times, if needed, the ABS may call on additional experts to assist in determining a project application, or the Secretary may need to contact applicants to gather more information. |
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All applications will be assessed on merit; that is, how well the project matches our objectives, its viability and expected conservation improvements, the project’s potential to receive funding from other sources, and how the project compares with other funding proposals. Only applications determined by the selection panel to be suitable for funding will be eligible to receive funding.
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Note that sometimes, good projects fail to win a grant simply because the application is incomplete or poorly constructed. To this end, we have compiled a document with advice to applicants to provide guidance to give applicants the best chance of success:
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Notification:
Successful applicants will be notified within four weeks of the closing date of submissions.
Successful applicants will be notified within four weeks of the closing date of submissions.
Payment of funding:
Successful applicants will be required to sign an assistance agreement that describes the ABS’s commitment to your project and asks you, in turn, to agree to meet the conditions of assistance (set out below). The assistance agreement must be signed and returned to the ABS in order to receive funding.
On receipt of the assistance the successful applicant will receive 80% of the total amount granted. The final 20% will be paid on receipt of the article to the Australasian Bat Society Newsletter regarding the project (see conditions of assistance below).
Successful applicants will be required to sign an assistance agreement that describes the ABS’s commitment to your project and asks you, in turn, to agree to meet the conditions of assistance (set out below). The assistance agreement must be signed and returned to the ABS in order to receive funding.
On receipt of the assistance the successful applicant will receive 80% of the total amount granted. The final 20% will be paid on receipt of the article to the Australasian Bat Society Newsletter regarding the project (see conditions of assistance below).
Conditions of assistance:
To receive assistance successful applicants must agree to:
To receive assistance successful applicants must agree to:
- Submit an article to the Australasian Bat Society Newsletter about the project and its achievements.
- Make freely available the results of ABS funded work wherever possible.
- Acknowledge the support of the ABS in publications or public presentations etc. about the project.
- Indicate that they have obtained (or will obtain) the necessary permits to carry out the project.
- Offer to an approved public zoological collection, any specimens which may be collected as a result of support by the fund.
Submissions:
Applications should be sent to secretary@ausbats.org.au, in Word format (not PDF) to ensure that identifying details may be removed, before the end of the closing date.
The ABS reserves the right not to accept submissions that are sent after the closing date.
Applications should be sent to secretary@ausbats.org.au, in Word format (not PDF) to ensure that identifying details may be removed, before the end of the closing date.
The ABS reserves the right not to accept submissions that are sent after the closing date.
Past Projects
2023 Projects
2022 Projects
2020 - 2021 Projects
2019 Projects
2017 Projects
2016 Projects
2015 Projects
2014 Projects
2013 Projects
2012 Projects
2011 Projects
- Kerry Borkin - Determining trophic discrimination factors for us future diet and habitat use research of threatened New Zealand bats.
- Kate Koel - Protect our pollinators.
- Jessica Mitchell - Are there hitchhiking haemoplasmas circulating in flying foxes: Implications for conservation and public health.
- Amy Rowles - Use of Pilchers Cave System by Chalinolobus dwyeri.
2022 Projects
- Sarah Orchard - The Response of Insectivorous Bats to Fire on K’gari.
- Elsa Kohane - Multi-scale factors influencing bat box usage in urban reserves.
- Hannah Robinson - Uptake of artificial roosts by an urban population of long-tailed bats (Chalinobus tuberculatus) in Hamilton City, New Zealand.
2020 - 2021 Projects
- Alicia Dimovski - Investigating the physiological impacts of night-time light pollution on insectivorous bats.
- Ncola Gallher - Understanding daily and seasonal patterns of movement of Miniopterus orianae oceanensis in an urban environment.
- Rebecca West - Do fenced reserves benefit resident arid microbat species?
2019 Projects
- Vanessa Gorecki - The roosting ecology and roost selection of Large-footed Myotis (Myotis macropus) in culverts in Brisbane.
- Elizabeth Parker - The big bat and wildlife festival.
- Sarah Judge - Cultural engagement with bat conservation at Yellomundee Aboriginal Place Yarramundi NSW.
2017 Projects
- Bradley Clarke-Wood - Insectivorous bats and spatial subsidies across a land-use gradient in north-eastern Victoria’ as a part of ‘Longitudinal trends in land-use, spatial subsidies and food-webs of north-eastern Victorian perennial streams.
- Anita Freudmann - Foraging ecology and behaviour of Eastern Tube-nosed Bats (Nyctimene robinsoni).
- Danielle Eastick - Sex and the city: Investigating the reproductive ecology of a successful urban species, the Gould’s wattled bat (Chalinolobus gouldii), in greater Melbourne.
2016 Projects
- Kayla Asplet: Investigating the sensitivity of Myotis macropus (Large-footed Myotis) to heavy-metal pollution in urban waterways, Sydney, New South Wales.
- Erin Westerhuis: The importance of riparian woodland for insectivorous bats and their prey in central Australia.
2015 Projects
- Tyrone Lavery and Michael Pennay - Bat calls of the Solomon Islands: a reference call library and identification key to the bats of the Solomon Archipelago.
- Toni Mitchell - Enhancing caring standards for bats and raising awareness for deadly hazards in our environment.
- Julie Broken-Brow - The roosting preferences of Saccolaimus mixtus and Critically Endangered Saccolaimus saccolaimus nudicluniatus in Cape York.
2014 Projects
- Jane Hall - Developing non-invasive methods for the detection of toxic heavy metals (e.g. Cadmium) in the Christmas Island Flying-fox (Pteropus melanotus natalis), using the Grey-headed flying-fox (P. poliocephalus) as an analogue.
- Cathy Hartley - Improving mortality rates in Juvenile Grey-headed Flying-foxes during Heat Stress Events.
2013 Projects
- Lisa Cawthen - King Island Bat Survey.
2012 Projects
- Stephen Griffiths - Efficacy of artificial bat-boxes as a tool in the conservation of tree-roosting insectivorous bats.
- Ian Gill, Keiran Stone, Gavin Collis, Sarah Evans, Tim Shaw - John Paul High School: Mauria Forest bat survey, New Zealand.
2011 Projects
- Julie Broken-Brow - The abundance, species diversity and habitat usage of microbats in coastal mangroves of South-East Queensland.
- Cory Toth - The breeding ecology of the Lesser Short-tailed Bat (Mystacina tuberculata).
- Jenny Maclean - Tolga Bat Hospital: Assistance with Spectacled Flying Fox rescue and care during 2011-12 tick season.
