Grant Programs

Current Grant Programs

June 2025

Small project grants of up to $20,000 for the RPH Imaging Research Fund can be applied for at any time for radiology-related research.

Round #7 of the major grants, offering up to $80,000, open in March 2026.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible, the application must meet ALL the following criteria:

  • At least one of the Principal Investigators in the research proposal must be in clinical practice at Royal Perth Hospital (RPH) or another WA Health Service imaging teaching site as a:
    • Radiologist
    • Nuclear Medicine Physician
    • Medical Imaging Technologist
    • Nuclear Medicine Medical Imaging Technologist
    • Sonographer
  • The research project must be based and/or conducted within WA.
  • Applicants may submit applications as Principal Investigator in any financial funding round.
  • The Principal Investigator should not submit applications for funding for more than three projects at any one time.
  • All investigators involved in the project must be listed and sign the application and note their primary location.
  • The project must address an area of research in Clinical Imaging or Basic Imaging Health Sciences.

Application

Download the Application Form

Submission

The completed application should be sent as an email attachment to: RPHImagingResearchCommittee@health.wa.gov.au.

Please ensure that your email is less than 20mb in total.

The Committee

The RPH Imaging Research Committee was established on 1 October 2019 to manage and distribute the annual budget to Imaging Research.

Its responsibilities are to:

  • receive applications for expenditure of funds for Imaging Research in WA
  • assess applications and distribute funds according to the research funding principles.

Membership

  • Director of Clinical Services, Royal Perth Bentley Group (Chair)
  • Head of Department of Radiology, RPH
  • Head of Department of Radiology, FSH
  • Cook Steering Committee – Radiology representative
  • WA Radiology Training Network Director
  • RPH Research Foundation representative
  • Consumer representative
  • Senior Academic Curtin University School of Medical Imaging Technology
  • RPH Chief Medical Imaging Technologist
Last Updated: 13/06/2025