Applying for Higher Education Equity Support Program HEESP funding at UQ

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Applying for Higher Education Equity Support
Program (HEESP) funding at UQ
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Key information sources

• The Equity Office Website
• http//www.uq.edu.au/equity/
• Application forms
• Guidelines
• List of current and previously funded projects
• http//www.uq.edu.au/equity/index.html?page47617
  pid47623
• UQ Equity and Diversity plan http//www.uq.edu.au/
  equity/docs/uq_eq_div_plan0709.pdf
• Teaching Learning Enhancement plan
  http//www.uq.edu.au/teaching-learning/index.html?
  page7421

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Applying for a HEESP Grant
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Purpose

• Seed funding for student equity initiatives
• access, retention, participation and success
• Particular focus
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples,
• low socio-economic backgrounds,
• rural and isolated
• women in non traditional disciplines and
  postgraduate study.

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Key objectives

• assist transition and develop independent
  learning
• into University,
• from undergraduate to postgraduate study.
• Preference given to projects which
• require seed funding as a new initiative
• demonstrate outcomes of longer term
  sustainability
• contain information about other funding sources
• have clearly defined and achievable outcomes and
  
• detail evaluation strategies.
• Funds will not be made available to support
  ongoing salary requirements

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What kind of projects?

• student support
• outreach
• retention
• research
• .

What is the issue ? What outcome are you
seeking? What has been done about it
previously? Who could you collaborate with /seek
advice from? What timeframe? How will you
evaluate it? How will it be continued if
successful? Do you have support?
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Important Matters

• Where possible, the project should take place
  within the year of funding.
• Avoid requesting funds for core business.
• Detail how the initiative will be evaluated and
  on what grounds it will be judged successful.
• Explain how the initiative focuses upon equity
  groups.
• Explain how, if successful, the initiative will
  be sustained and embedded in on-going practice

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Evaluation

• Clearly identify how you will evaluate the
  success (or otherwise) of your initiative.
• Your problem/opportunity defines your outcomes.
• If your problem was attrition, then an outcome
  will be reduction of attrition.
• Your evaluation may involve quantitative or
  qualitative measures, or both.

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and reporting

• Formal reporting requirements
• Project progress report December
• Request to showcase in Diversity Week
• (Equity Office)
• Detailed expenditure by 15th December 2009
  (Academic Registrar)
• All funds expended
• Request for carry over
• Return unexpended funds
• How will you disseminate outcomes of your work
  through UQ?

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Finally

• Ensure you have senior support
• Be clear and not too ambitious small,
  sustainable gains are better than grand failures
• Obtain School or Faculty contribution
• Have clear objectives
• Ensure the rationale is well researched

Good luck