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Digital Health Week 2025 SPARK Prize

The SPARK Prize is designed to encourage Early and Mid-Career Researchers to connect with a researcher they meet at Digital Health Week 2025. The Award will provide $1500 to develop an early-stage research idea in collaboration with another researcher they meet for the first time as part of participation in networking sessions and other activities in the Digital Health Week 2025 (February 4th – 6th 2025) program. Successful Awardees will receive:

  • $1500 prize money
  • A $100 gift voucher for both the successful applicant and their nominated collaborator.
  • Mentorship from senior digital health leaders associated with the Digital Health and Informatics Network in the 12 months post-award.

Key Dates​

Applications Due: Wednesday, 9th April 2025

Application Outcome: May 2025

Eligibility​

Applicants applying for the Spark Prize must meet the following eligibility criteria:

  • Be a Higher Degree Research (HDR) student or an early (< 5 years post PhD) or mid-career (5 - 10 years post PhD) researcher at The University of Sydney (at least 0.2 FTE).
  • Be a member of the Digital Health and Informatics Network.
  • Not be a member of the Digital Health Week 2025 Organising Committee
  • Have registered for Digital Health Week 2025 and have attended at least one Digital Health Week 2025 Networking Sessions. Have listed a collaborator on my Award application the applicant met at Digital health Week 2025 and has not previously collaborated with on a research project.
  • Submit a fully completed SPARK Prize Award Proposal and submission form by the scheme deadline.
  • Agree to meet all the outputs for the scheme including:
  1. Participation in a proposal refinement workshop with senior digital health leaders at the University of Sydney and members of DHIN Network Leadership Group.
  2. Submission of a progress Update by the end of 2025.
  3. Presentation of a project learnings/outputs presentation to the DHIN.
  4. Submission of a final report no later than two months after the Grant period end date.

Application Form​

Please complete all sections of this application and submit it via this Qualtrics form.

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Award Proposal Form

Contact​

If you have any questions about the prize please email: [email protected]