Teaching Academy Educator Development Grant

In 2026, the Charles Sturt University Teaching Academy offers an annual Educator Development Grant to support scholarly activities in learning and teaching, that enable staff to maintain and extend their currency in learning and teaching (in alignment with the Academic Staff Qualifications and Expectations Procedure, clause 46) and career development.

The scholarly activities that are eligible for funding are outlined below. Please note that support for Advance HE (AHE) fellowship is excluded. AHE fellowships will be covered under a separate scheme that will be announced separately.

2026 applications are now open

2026 Applications open:  20 January 26

2026 Applications close: 9 March 26

Download guidelines

What can funds be used for?

Funding requests can be made for the scholarly activities listed below. Travel related costs are not supported.

  • Professional development in learning and teaching/pedagogical practices (e.g. courses, seminars, conference etc),
  • Small-scale projects related to any area of learning and teaching, and involving design, development, implementation, evaluation or research. Funding can be used to cover salary costs for project/research assistants, costs associated with data collection or analysis, costs of resources/materials required for the project, costs related to resource development; costs associated with participant incentives,
  • Dissemination of scholarly work/research in learning and teaching. Funding can be to cover conference registration and attendance costs, article publication charges for a peer reviewed journal, costs associated with developing a website, digital resource, or podcast, costs associated with running a workshop/seminar.
  • External collaboration or partnership activities related to learning and teaching
  • Support for Advance HE Fellowship – this will be supported via a separate scheme
  • Teaching release
  • Subject development, quality assurance and improvement and other business-as-usual activities that would be covered by existing workload allocations
  • Buy-out of Division of Learning and Teaching staff time
  • Personal computers, mobile devices and similar equipment
  • Organisational overheads
  • Any recurrent costs related to embedding the activity/project outcomes

Guidelines and Application Form

Refer to the Guidelines for expectations and requirements, including the information required in your application.

Download application guidelines

Applications are now open. Apply online.

  • Applications will be assessed per the eligibility criteria outlined in the guidelines.
  • Applications with incorrect or no supporting documentation will be deemed ineligible.
  • Applicants must not have received funding support via the Teaching Academy (Grants and/or Fellowships) in the last three years

Key  dates for 2026

20 January Applications Open

9 March Applications close

March Review of applications and outcomes finalised

Early April Applicants notified of outcomes

Mid April Funding allocated

Late April - Nov Activity/project undertaken

30 November PO/Invoice finalisation

31 January 2027 Activity/project report due

Q1 2027 Outcomes disseminated to the Teaching Academy

Contact us

If you have any questions, please email teachingacademy@csu.edu.au