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FPA Australia Research Scholarship
Cynthia Banham Burn Injury Research Fellowship
2026 Melissa Murdoch Burns Nursing Award
The Melissa Murdoch Burns Nursing Award is an annual award celebrating a Perth Children’s Hospital Burns Service nurse who embodies Melissa’s values of friendship, teamwork, mentorship, and clinical excellence.
Type: Annual Recognition Award
Pillar: Advancing Care / Clinical Excellence
Eligible Recipients: Nurses within the Perth Children’s Hospital Burns Service
Cynthia Banham Burn Injury Research Fellowship
The Cynthia Banham Burn Injury Research Fellowship is an initiative between The Ian Potter Foundation, Cynthia Banham, and the Fiona Wood Foundation. The Fellowship supports clinically relevant burn injury research undertaken by an early-career researcher (within 10 years of their initial qualification) under the supervision of Professor Fiona Wood.
Cynthia Banham, former Sydney Morning Herald foreign affairs and defence journalist, was critically injured in the Yogyakarta air disaster in March 2007 while travelling with a delegation led by the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Alexander Downer MP. Following her treatment by Professor Wood and the Royal Perth Hospital burns team, this Fellowship was established to honour her recovery and to advance research that improves long-term outcomes and quality of life for survivors of severe burn trauma.
The Fellowship aims to develop the next generation of burn care specialists by enabling early-career clinical and non-clinical researchers (including junior medical officers, service registrars and higher-degree research candidates) to undertake clinically relevant burn injury research as part of their broader career development.
The Fellowship may be conducted alongside ongoing clinical or academic practice, and may be structured as either a part-time project or a block of time as a full-time equivalent.
Applications are invited for the Cynthia Banham Burn Injury Research Fellowship, valued at $100,000 per annum and awarded annually. One Fellowship is awarded in each application round, and the duration is up to one year.