As part of the 2011 ARCS Australia Ltd AGM, held on the 25th October, Dr Joseph Badolato,  Professional Development Manager with ARCS Australia, was very pleased to announce that in 2011 both scholarships had been awarded by the Scholarship Committee. In line with its vision “To be the leading provider of high quality professional development activities to support therapeutic goods personnel in the Asia Pacific region”, ARCS Australia each year offers for members two $10,000 scholarships, the Osmond-Russell Scholarship (Professional Development Grant) and the ARCS Original Research Scholarship.

The aim of the Osmond-Russell Scholarship is to encourage ARCS members to improve their skills by pursuing study in areas that may be of interest to the ARCS membership, or attending international conferences on topics relevant to the membership.  The recipient of the Osmond-Russell Scholarship for 2011 was Catherine Wilson, INC/Trident Clinical Research for the educational activity titled “Attendance at the 3rd Global QA Conference, Kyoto, Japan”.  

The other scholarship on offer each year is the ARCS Original Research Scholarship, which can be used to support ARCS members undertaking original research projects which contribute to our understanding of the therapeutics development process. The recipient of the Original Research Scholarship for 2011 was Emma Warren, HERA Consulting Australia, for the research project titled “Development of Good Practice Modelling Guidelines for the submission to PBAC”

 

WHY NOT THINK ABOUT APPLYING FOR THE ARCS OSMOND RUSSELL SCHOLARSHIP OR THE ARCS ORIGINAL RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP?

Each year ARCS offers two scholarships to Full Members of the Association. The scholarships are designed to enable Members to undertake a project relevant to their work and to other ARCS members – this may be a professional development project or an original research project. Each scholarship is awarded up to the value of $10,000. So, if you would like the opportunity to undertake a research project, expand your own knowledge, raise your profile within ARCS and help to increase the knowledge of other ARCS members – please apply!

HISTORY OF THE OSMOND RUSSELL SCHOLARSHIP

Andrea Osmond Russell was a very active member of ARCS who volunteered her time to be part of the first Education Subcommittee of ARCS, co-Editor of the newsletter and organiser of many other ARCS gatherings. Tragically Andrea’s life was cut short in a car accident. In her memory, the ARCS Board and members voted, overwhelmingly, to establish a Scholarship in recognition of her very positive contribution to ARCS during the early years.

WHICH ONE SHOULD I APPLY FOR?

  • Osmond-Russell Scholarship (Professional Development Grant)
    The aim of the Osmond-Russell Scholarship (Professional Development Grant) is to encourage ARCS members to improve their skills by pursuing study in areas that may be of interest to the ARCS membership, or attending international conferences on topics relevant to the membership.
  • ARCS Original Research Scholarship   
         The aim of the ARCS Original Research Scholarship is to support ARCS members undertaking original research projects which contribute to our understanding of the therapeutics development process and are therefore relevant to the ARCS membership.

ELIGIBILITY

All ARCS Full Members are eligible to apply for the Scholarships. The challenge is to develop a proposal which will be of individual benefit to you and will also contribute to other ARCS members in some way. All applications must be received by 5pm Monday 12 September 2011 and the winners will be announced at the ARCS Annual General Meeting on 25 October 2011.

WHAT ARE MY RESPONSIBILITIES IF I AM SUCCESSFUL?

The successful applicant should undertake to complete the activity as included in their application. The successful applicant should also be prepared to share their knowledge with the ARCS membership, by way of a presentation to the Membership and an article on the educational activity undertaken, which may be printed in the ARCS Newsletter. It will be left up to applicants to identify other ways they could share their knowledge. The successful applicant will join the selection panel to judge the 2012 applications.

WHERE DO I GET MORE INFORMATION OR AN APPLICATION FORM?

For full details and an application form please click the name of the scholarship (above) you want to apply for. For further information contact Joseph Badolato (ARCS Business Office) at joebadolato@arcs.com.au or on 02 8905 0829.