The OLT Fellowships program advances learning and teaching in higher education by supporting a group of leading educators to undertake strategic, high-profile activities in areas of importance to the sector. In 2016, $1.5 million (indicative) has been allocated to fellowships.

There are two types of OLT Fellowships:

• National Senior Teaching Fellowships, up to $250,000
• National Teaching Fellowships, up to $90,000 

National Senior Teaching Fellows are outstanding scholars in their fields, recognised by their home institutions for their existing and continuing leadership roles in university learning and teaching. They are usually senior academics or senior people with expertise in higher education practice and scholarship, and a record of institutional or disciplinary leadership.

National Teaching Fellows are prominent scholars in their disciplinary fields, recognised by their home institutions for their capacity to make significant contributions to educational leadership into the future. They are normally early or mid-career academics engaged in the scholarly practice of learning and teaching in higher education.

The OLT will seek to select fellows who have identified an educational issue of relevance across the higher education sector, either within a discipline or across disciplines, and who have designed a program of activities with the capacity to draw widespread attention and create significant impact and influence.

The 2016 Information and Nomination Instructions are available here.

For more information please visit the OLT website.

Internal due date: Tuesday 26 January 2016

If you are interested is applying please contact Denyse MacNish D.Macnish@murdoch.edu.au in the Centre for University Learning and Teaching (CUTL).