The Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN) offers grants for assistance in undertaking projects of significance to AuSPEN. The AuSPEN Research Committee has awarded successful grants since 2006.

AuSPEN Research Grants Application

The Australasian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (AuSPEN) offers grants to society members for assistance in undertaking projects of significance to AuSPEN. The AuSPEN Research Committee has awarded successful grants since 2006 to conduct projects of significance to the field of clinical nutrition. Clinical significance is determined by the potential of a project idea to further our understanding of clinical nutrition, impact service delivery, or improve nutrition support practices with a primary focus on artificial nutrition support.

AuSPEN offers grants for novice researchers (a clinician who does not have an established research track record or a higher degree in research) to assist them to conduct clinical projects of significance to the field of clinical nutrition. In 2025, there is a maximum of up to $30,000 (ex-GST) to be offered to one or more Novice Researcher Project(s). 

Grant applications for 2025 are CLOSED.

Important Dates:

• Applications Open: April 4, 2025

• Application Deadline: August 15, 2025

• Notification of Results: Week of October 24, 2025

Previous Grant Winners

• 2025 - Alice Jay

  Nutri-MAP: Nutrition Management and Assessment in Pelvic Exenteration Surgery: A Multicentre Period Prevalence Study

• 2023 - Elizabeth Viner Smith
  Enhancing dietAry inTake during Non-Invasive Ventilation: a feasibility randomised controlled trial (EAT-NIV)

• 2022 - Matthew Summers
  Skeletal muscle and recovery following augmented protein during critical illness (SMART-PRO)

• 2021 - Clare Ferguson
  Nutrition Practices Across Hospitalisation in Adult Patients requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in Australia and New Zealand - A National, Registry Embedded, Prospective Cohort Study

• 2020 - Julia Kuypers
  Nutrition support use and clinical outcomes in patients with myeloma undergoing autologous stem cell transplant (SCT

• 2020 - Kate Lambell
  Prevalence of malnutrition in survivors of critical illness and validation of the new Global Leadership on Malnutrition (GLIM) criteria for diagnosing malnutrition: a prospective observational study

• 2019 - Jessie Varghese
  Optimising energy and protein provision: A feasibility pilot study of a volume-based enteral feeding protocol across neurosciences.

• 2019 - Irene Deftereos
  The impact of a nutrition care pathway on the nutritional status and outcomes of patients undergoing resection for upper gastrointestinal cancer. A mixed methods observational cohort study.

• 2018 - Ra’essa Doola
  Nutritional impact on oxidative stress and inflammatory markers in the ICU budget

• 2018 - Stijn Soenen
  Acute effects of whey protein ingestion on plasma gut hormone concentrations in obese and healthy older individuals

• 2018 - Louise Becroft
  Body composition assessment in morbidly obese bariatric surgery patients, a prospective longitudinal cohort study

• 2017 - Lee-anne Chapple

• 2017 - Elena George

• 2017 - Cherry Koh