Crawford Fund Student Awards Application Form

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The Crawford Fund For Food Security Student Awards

The Crawford Fund is calling for applications for its 2026 Crawford Fund Student Awards from students attending Australian universities.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 12 May 2026.

Our Student Awards help you bring an international component to your university experience and enable you to gain valuable practical experience in a developing country. We accept applications from students in Australian universities studying agriculture, animal production, fisheries, forestry, natural resource management or any area related to food and nutrition security.

These awards have been developed specifically to enable your practical, feet-on-the-ground, involvement in an overseas project as part of your university studies. In 2025, our State Committees supported 18 Crawford Fund Student Awards.

We strongly recommend you read the general background information insert FINAL 2026 backgrounder before you start your application.

This short online application form will require you to attach a brief CV, the signatures of, or a supporting note from, the Authorised Officers approving your application, and details of at least one referee. Your health and safety are paramount to us so you will be asked to provide details of relevant arrangements for this purpose too. A budget template for your application is available here: https://www.crawfordfund.org/crawford-fund-budget-template/.*

The conditions, requirements and amounts of the State and Territory Committees’ awards differ. Please check arrangements for each committee’s awards, provided in the general background information as above and contact our coordinators as per below with enquiries you may have.

Our State/Territory Committee Coordinators welcome your enquiries.

ACT - Mr David Shearer - Email: David.Shearer@anu.edu.au

NSW - Hon Associate Professor Helen Scott-Orr - Email: hscottorr@gmail.com

NT - Ms Tania Paul - Email: tania.paul@crawfordfund.org

QLD - Prof Bob Lawn - Email: bob.lawn@crawfordfund.org - for specific QLD eligibility requirements, key selection criteria and reporting requirements please use this backgrounder: https://www.crawfordfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Crawford-in-QLD-Student-Award-guidelines.pdf

SA - Dr Kathy Ophel Keller - Email: kathy.ophelkeller@crawfordfund.org

TAS - Dr Neville Mendham - Email: n.mendham@utas.edu.au

VIC - Mr Bill Lewis - Email: bill@welewis.com.au

WA - Professor Lyn Abbott - Email: lyn.abbott@crawfordfund.org

*If you have trouble with these links - please cut and paste the link in your browser. Please download the budget template, complete it and save it on your system. Attach to this form when requested.

This is a saveable form.

Simply click the 'Save & Continue Later' option underneath the question you are working on.

You will be emailed a link that you can use to return to your saved information at a later date.

You will also be able to update your application after submission by clicking the "Edit your application" link at the top of your submitted information email from JotForm.

All the best of luck.
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Project title and ID number (if there is one) of host project* This field is required.
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