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The Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success acknowledges Indigenous peoples across Australia as the Traditional Owners of the lands on which the nation’s campuses are situated. With a history spanning more than 60,000 years as the original educators, Indigenous peoples hold a unique place in our nation. We recognise the importance of their knowledge and culture, and reflect the principles of participation, equity, and cultural respect in our work. We pay our respects to Elders past, present, and future, and consider it an honour to learn from our Indigenous colleagues, partners, and friends.

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Practitioner Resource Grants Program

We provide funding for equity practitioners to design, develop, test, and deliver resources that can be utilised by practitioner teams in Australian universities.

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The Practitioner Resource Grants Program is intended to fund a variety of resources, such as:

  • guidelines
  • manuals
  • activities
  • surveys and instruments
  • explainers
  • practice guides
  • procedures
  • digital resources
  • evaluation plans
  • data matrices
  • learning modules.

It is envisaged that funded resources will impact one or more elements of the student lifecycle—from pre-access activities through to attainment and transition out initiatives.

The program is focused on funding proposals that do one or more of the following:

  • Produce resources that can be readily adopted by other universities.
  • Ensure that resources draw on the existing practice knowledge base on equity issues in Australian higher education, building on previous work undertaken or funded by ACSES (and formerly the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education or NCSEHE).
  • Ensure that resources can be applied at the national level and/or enable outcomes that are potentially portable across institutions and scalable across Australian higher education equity practice.

The proposed resource must include an evaluable element, that is information and direction on how institutions adopting the resource can evaluate its efficacy, in reference to the Student Equity in Higher Education Evaluation Framework (SEHEEF).

Apply for funding

SUBMISSIONS NOW CLOSED.

Maximum funding available per project is $25,000 (excluding GST).

Proposals from individuals or teams should be led by practitioners from universities listed in Table A of the Higher Education Support Act 2003 (Table A providers) and submitted through the listed institution.

Due date: Applications closed on 4pm (AWST) on Friday 25 July 2025.

The 2025-26 Practitioner Resource Grants Program Guidelines are available for download below in either PDF or Word format, the Application Pack is available in Word format only.

Information session

An online information session was held on Wednesday, 18 June 2025. A recording of the session can be viewed here. The slide deck from the session can also be downloaded here [PDF, 352 KB].