CHARM 2025 - Rising Star Award

Welcome to the CHARM 2025 RISING STAR AWARD Submission Form

IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.

NOMINATION CRITICIAL DATES:

Call for nominations opens 9am Wednesday, 12 March 2025.

Nominations close 5pm Wednesday, 30 April 2025.

PURPOSE:

The CHARM 2025 RISING STAR AWARDS aim to recognise and showcase specific achievements of developing researchers across Canberra Health in the past 3 years, and contribute to a positive research culture which supports and acknowledges progress and development in research capacity and capability.

DEFINITIONS:

For these awards, developing researchers means early research career, typically clinician-researchers, or early to mid career in academic contexts. Developing researchers may or may not have higher degree qualifications (e.g. Masters, PhD). Researchers who are full Professors are not eligible for individual awards, but can be included in teams.

There are 5 award categories:

GUIDELINES:

• An individual nominee can be supervised by a Professor (e.g. Masters or PhD students). If nominating for a team award, the lead member of the team must meet the above definition of ‘developing researcher’.
• For the clinical researcher award, this can be won by someone with a health background who is employed in a role related to clinical service delivery (i.e. not a researcher employed by an academic institution).
• Research ‘achievements’ can be interpreted broadly, but could include a grant, publication, presentation, workshop or promotion of research activity in the media.
• Nominations can be made by self or others (e.g. supervisors, peers).
• Nominees could be employees of any institutions related to CHARM (e.g. CHS, ACT Health, ANU, UC, UNSW, ACU etc) or the wider health workforce in Canberra
• The same individual/ team can be nominated in more than 1 category, however winners for 1 category will be deemed ineligible to win any other categories. (There will be 5 separate winners).
• Nominations will be reviewed by a panel of 3 judges who will shortlist all applications to the top 5 nominees for each category, and select 1 overall winner.
• The judges comprise the 2 co-chairs of CHARM, plus an invited reviewer relevant to each category. Across the 5 panels the judges will include representation across ACT Health, CHS, ANU, UC as well as medical, nursing and allied health professions. No judge will be eligible for the category which they are assessing, and will declare any conflicts of interest. The judging process will remain confidential and the judges’ decision is final, no further correspondence will be entered into. Feedback will not be provided to nominees.

OUT OF SCOPE:

• Achievements / outcomes delivered prior to 2023
• Projects that are in the quality improvement domain only.
• Researchers who do not primarily practice within Canberra / ACT.

AWARDING PROCESS:

Awards: Rising Star Awards session on Monday 16^th June

• All finalists will be advised via email by and encourage to attend, but winners will not be announced until this session at CHARM.
• Each nominee for each category will be mentioned with a single powerpoint slide which includes a photo (supplied by researcher) and a brief description of their research achievement (e.g. 10 seconds per nominee).
• The winner will be announced by the chair, prize awarded by Minister
• Winner of each category has 1 minute to speak about their project / achievement
• Winners will be awarded a small prize by the Minister as a recognition of their achievement

To submit a nomination to the CHARM 2025 Rising Start Awards, select the “start a submission’ icon at the top of the screen to start your submission.

Please note:

• If you haven’t used this platform before, you will be asked to register.
• If you wish to submit more than one nomination you can do so via the original link.

You may begin anywhere in this application form. Please ensure you save as you go.

If you require any assistance completing this form, please send an email to CHARM@act.gov.au.

NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM

On every screen (page of the form) you will find a Form Navigation contents box, this links directly to every page of the application. Click the link to jump directly to the page you want.

You can also click 'next page' or 'previous page' on the top or bottom of each page to move forward or backward through the application.

SAVING YOUR DRAFT APPLICATION

If you wish to leave a partially completed application, press 'save and close' and log out. When you log back in and click on the 'My Submissions' link at the top of the screen, you will find a list of any applications you have started or submitted. You can reopen your draft application and start where you left off.

You can also download any application, whether draft or completed, as a PDF. Click on the 'Download PDF' button located at the bottom of the last page of the application form.

SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION

You will find a Review and Submit button at the bottom of the Navigation Panel. You need to review your application before you can submit it.

Once you have reviewed your application you can submit it by clicking on 'Submit' at the top or bottom of the screen or on the navigation panel. You will not be able to submit your application until all the compulsory questions are completed and there are no validation errors.

Once you have submitted your application, no further editing or uploading of support materials is possible.

When you submit your application, you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your submitted application attached. This will be sent to the email you used to register.

If you do not receive a confirmation of submission email then you should presume that your submission has NOT been submitted.

Hint: also check the email hasn't landed in your spam or junk email folder.

ATTACHMENTS AND SUPPORT DOCUMENTS

You may need to upload/submit attachments to support your application. This is very simple, but requires you to have the documents saved on your computer, or on a storage device.

You need to allow enough time for each file to upload before trying to attach another file. Files can be up to 25MB each; however, we do recommend trying to keep files to a maximum of 5MB – the larger the file, the longer the upload time.

COMPLETING AN APPLICATION IN A GROUP/TEAM

A number of people can work on an application using the same log in details as long as only one person is working at a time. Ensure you save as you go.

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