Apply for a 2025 CRADLE Fellowship Now!
13 March 2025
Apply by 6pm Friday 11 April 2025
Applications for CRADLE’s Fellowship Scheme for 2025 are now open! Apply to be part of CRADLE’s research agenda and enjoy the benefits of developing your academic profile with a CRADLE Fellowship.
If selected, you can undertake up to 18 months’ research with the support and mentorship of CRADLE’s leading higher education researchers. If you’re a current Deakin academic staff member interested in higher education research in assessment and/or digital learning, this is the opportunity for you.
CRADLE welcomes applications from postdoctoral researchers at every career stage, from early career to senior scholars. Applicants must be a current Deakin staff member and be on a continuing or fixed-term position at Deakin as an academic staff member with more than two years remaining on their contract. All applicants must be able to demonstrate the relevance of their proposed research to CRADLE’s current research themes and programs of research.
CRADLE Research Themes
Assessing for Learning
Learning in a digital world
Learning through, and for, work
CRADLE Programs of Research
| Academic security and academic integrity. | Assessment design (including self/peer, authentic and programmatic). |
| Feedback and feedback literacy. | Developing evaluative judgement. |
| Assessment in a digital world. | Digital identities. |
| Inclusion and belonging in a digital world. | Learning in, and for, work. |
| Representation in and beyond assessment. | Quality and standards. |
CRADLE Fellowships offer funding of $15,000 to support each Fellow’s collaborative research program for research activities, and in some instances, to buy out teaching time. For example, the funding can be utilised for:
- direct costs associated with research, such as salaries of research assistants,
- research dissemination at national or international conferences, or
- professional development, such as methodological training.
