The Angus Foundation, Angus Youth is pleased to announce applications are now open for the 2023 Angus Foundation Research Grant.
The Angus Foundation is a mechanism which is designed to encourage and assist the involvement of young people in the Australian beef industry, providing professional development opportunities for young beef breeders, and assisting in conducting research, development and educational programs for the benefit of Angus breeders and the wider Australian beef industry.
The Angus Foundation Research Grant is awarded, through eligible Australian universities, research providers and individual businesses, to undergraduate and post-graduate students to enable them to undertake research towards higher degrees in disciplines able to be applied to the Australian beef industries with the purpose to enhance and promote the value of Angus genetics and beef.
The Angus Foundation Grant may be used to extract extra findings from an existing project the individual or institution has already commenced or a completely new project.
The value of the Research Grant is up to a maximum of $20,000AUD. Angus Australia may award an alternate value if more than one suitable application is received.
According to Angus Australia Extension Manager Jake Phillips, the Angus Foundation Research Grant “aims to allow eligible undergraduate and postgraduate students to undertake research towards higher degrees in disciplines able to be applied to the Australian beef industries with the purpose to enhance and promote the value of Angus genetics and beef.”
“We have seen some exceptional research conducted by our previous grant recipients, which is playing a part in various in roads of research and development across the beef industry that we hope will contribute to the future of more efficient beef production.”
2021 Angus Foundation Research Grant Recipient, Brianna Maslen from Charles Sturt University (CSU) credits working with Angus Australia and access to the Research Grant for strengthening her project.
“From the start, my project was only possible due to Angus Australia’s Angus Sire Benchmarking Program. This collaboration came about because the Angus herd at CSU is annually benchmarked by Angus Australia, and we saw this as a good way to combine our resources and essentially design a better PhD project. As this was successful, I was able to access CSU’s Angus cattle herd, sample faecal matter during benchmarking and get data for my project, including weights and immune response phenotypes,” said Brianna.
Applications for the Angus Foundation Research Grants close Friday October 27. For further information or to apply, please visit the Angus Australia website.
-Angus Australia