Vice-Chancellor's Fellowships

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DR MEAGAN TYLER SPEAKS: I think you have to keep in mind it's not an ordinary fellowship. I think there's a lot of add-ons that you get here that you don't necessarily get taking fellowships elsewhere.

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DR MARY TOLCOS SPEAKS: I think in the last year and a half that I've been here, I've probably done a lot more for an institute and for a university than I had before.

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TEXT ON SCREEN: The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellowships.

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DR LEONORA RISSE SPEAKS: The VC Fellowship offers a wonderful opportunity for a researcher like myself to immerse ourselves in our research.

TEXT ON SCREEN: Dr Leonora Risse, Applied Microeconomics, College of Business.

VISUAL: Dr Rohit Ashok Khot is being interviewed in a room with a blue curtain and black back lighting. He looks towards the camera and speaks.

TEXT ON SCREEN: Dr Rohit Ashok Khot, Human Computer Interaction, College of Design and Social Context.

DR ROHIT ASHOK KHOT SPEAKS: It's quite beneficial for an early career researcher, particularly when they are starting their career. Usually when you go for a post-doctoral position in universities, it's usually one year, or two year, but this fellowship is for three years.

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DR MARY TOLCOS SPEAKS: VC Fellowship gave me that opportunity to apply for a fellowship that gave me freedom to really grow my research program and recruit new people, recruit PhD students and just to really start expanding that area of research.

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TEXT ON SCREEN: Dr Mary Tolcos, Brain Development and Brain Injury, College of Science, Engineering and Health

VISUAL: Dr Meagan Tyler is being interviewed in a room with a blue curtain and black back lighting. She looks towards the camera and speaks.

TEXT ON SCREEN: Dr Meagan Tyler, Feminist Theory, College of Business

DR MEAGAN TYLER SPEAKS: Having the freedom to work with other younger scholars and sort of support them in coming up with me as a research group, and I think that really stands out as something exceptional that we were able to do that I don't think I would have been able to achieve elsewhere.

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DR LEONORA RISSE SPEAKS: Gives us the resources, the funding, the time, the opportunity to become absorbed in our research, to engage in industry. RMIT is very supportive of researchers being highly collaborative.

VISUAL: Dr Rohit Ashok Khot is being interviewed in a room with a blue curtain and black back lighting. He looks towards the camera and speaks.

DR ROHIT ASHOK KHOT SPEAKS: I think that encouragement and support is quite beneficial of this fellowship programme. It allows you to take bigger risks and come up with creative solutions to problems.

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DR MARY TOLCOS SPEAKS: As an institute, I really like the way RMIT does support its staff and its researchers. And it provides people with a lot of career development opportunities as well as professional development opportunities.

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DR MARY TOLCOS SPEAKS: There's nothing to be lost in applying for it, and if anything it will really give you that extra bit of leverage in your career and in your career progression that RMIT can offer you.

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DR ROHIT ASHOK KHOT SPEAKS: I think definitely go for it; it's a great opportunity.

VISUAL: Dr Leonora Risse is being interviewed in a room with a red curtain and black back lighting. She looks towards camera and speaks.

DR LEONORA RISSE SPEAKS: Identify how your research can make an impact on the lives of people, and use that to pitch and highlight your research, because at the end of the day, that's what matters for researchers and that's what matters for an institution like RMIT.

VISUAL: Dr Meagan Tyler is being interviewed in a room with a blue curtain and black back lighting. She looks towards the camera and speaks.

DR MEAGAN TYLER SPEAKS: There's a lot of openings at RMIT, particularly for scholars maybe doing slightly unusual research or research that really does have impact in the real world. And if that sounds like you, I think it's a wonderful place to be, so I'd highly recommend it.

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TEXT ON SCREEN: RMIT Research Fellows

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Applications are now open and close on 10 September 2017.

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