KJ McPherson Education & Research Foundation
Sponsored Grants
Paramedics Australasia Student Scientific Grants - $2,000 
These grants, sponsored by the Paramedics Australasia (formerly know as ACAP) Queensland, are offered by the KJ McPherson Education & Research Foundation to encourage paramedic students at participating universities to strive for excellence during their course.
Paramedics Australasia Queensland sponsors a series of awards for two categories (total prize pool $2,000):
- best scientific posters; and
- best scientific papers.
Second and third year Paramedic studies students from participating Universities, currently Queensland University of Technology, University of Sunshine Coast and Australian Catholic University, Central Queensland University and University of Queensland are encouraged to apply for these small grants through their course coordinators. Posters and papers must both be completed as part of the course for participating students. Papers and posters must be submitted to the KJM Foundation Secretariat by the Course Coordinators of participating Universities with 3 entries in each category permitted for each university.
The grants will be provided to assist the student/s to further their clinical studies, competencies and or general ambulance knowledge.
Grant recipient/s are shortlisted by the participating university.
Applicants will be requested to sign a waiver to allow their submission to be entered for this grant, should it qualify for short listing.
Contact your course co-ordinator for details of submission dates.
Winning posters will be displayed at the annual KJ McPherson Education & Research Foundation Clinical Symposium.
Presentations will be made on the same evening at the Patron’s Dinner and Grants Presentation at the Royal on the Park Hotel.
The final selection is then made through a competitive assessment process by a panel constituted by the KJM Foundation.
Themes
The preferred themes are Ambulance Educational, Clinical or Operational Systems. The title should be sufficiently clear to reflect which theme/s is being addressed.
Guidelines
Submissions should have a research focus and be produced at a professional standard. The content must be of benefit to ambulance clinical practice or operations.
The assessment and judging criteria are as follows:
- Academic standard: method/logic, structure and presentation
- Relevance of paper or poster proposal to the profession
Papers must use the Paramedics Australasia Response Author guidelines as a benchmark for your entries. These are published on the Paramedics Australasia website: www.paramedics.org.au select the menu option “Resources” and then select “Submissions to Response” from left hand menu.
Further information on preparing your poster entry
Previous Winners and their Topics
For further information on eligibility, suitability, judging criteria and performance criteria please click on this link for the Grants Info Table and see the current Commissioner’s Memo on the KJM Foundation Grants.
Caution
The KJ McPherson Education & Research Foundation reserves the right to alter procedures, guidelines or awards described herein at any time, should the need arise. Should it do so, the KJM Foundation will modify these communications media and abide by its published criteria from a period no less than 14 days prior to the deadline for student submissions published annually.
Last updated 29 February 2012
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