


Our Grants Make Research Happen
Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation has supported South Australia's world-class medical research and service organisations for 45 years
Research undertaken in community-based studies, clinical studies, and basic science projects in all areas of children’s health, education and welfare are supported, with extra weighting given in the grant review process to the Foundation’s priority areas of child protection, mental health, the effects of obesity and understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development.
Explore Our Recently Funded Projects And The Outcomes Achieved
2021 Research Grants


Children’s problematic sexual behaviour in schools: Identifying and addressing collaborative responses to incidents
Chief Investigator: Dr Lesley-anne Ey Research Area: Improving child protection and its effects. Community-based study Funding Year: 2021 Funding Amount:
Promoting child and adolescent gut health through supplementation of novel fibre-clay hybrid biomaterials
Chief Investigator: Dr Paul Joyce [Early Career Researcher] Research Area: Reducing childhood obesity and its impacts. Basic Science Funding Year:
Supporting mental health and wellbeing for children from migrant and refugee backgrounds with disability
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Anna Ziersch Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Community Based2020 Research Grants
Can robotic technology assist children with cerebral palsy after botulinum toxin injection?
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Remo Russo Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders. Clinical StudyUnderstanding outcomes in child protection: Exploring a capability approach to change the conversation for Aboriginal families
Chief Investigator: Dr Michelle Jones Research Area: Improving child protection and its effects. Community Based Study Funding Amount: $93,258 Recipient:Young parents and child protection: the intergenerational story
Chief Investigator: Dr Catherine Chittleborough Research Area: Improving child protection and its effects. Community-based Study Funding Amount: $96,571 Recipient: TheProtein Misfolding in Pregnancy
Chief Investigator: Dr Amy Wyatt Research Area: Basic Science Funding Amount: $98,038 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: There is evidence that2019 Research Grants
Role of refugee parents’ educational aspirations on their children’s academic outcomes
Chief Investigator: Dr Hannah Soong Research Area: Understanding the social determinants of childhood health and developmentCommunity Based Study Funding Amount: $ 33,452Lactation as a window of opportunity for reversing cardiometabolic programming
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Beverly Muhlhausler Research Area: Reducing childhood obesity and its impactBasic Science Funding Amount: $ 75,000 Recipient: The UniversityClinical trial of orally-administered Emu Oil to protect against ulcerative colitis in children
Chief Investigator: Dr Suzanne Mashtoub Research Area: Clinical Study Funding Amount: $ 74,970 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: UlcerativeOptimising Delivery of Trauma Therapy for Children and Adolescents with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
Chief Investigator: Professor Reginald (Reg) Nixon Research Area: Improving children’s mental health and the impact of developmental disorders.Clinical Study Funding Amount: $74,7952018 Research Grants
Developing a new culturally responsive e-mental health resource: The Aboriginal and Islander Mental Health Initiative for Youth (AIMhi-Y)
Chief Investigator: Ms Josey Povey Funding Amount: $33,503 Recipient: Menzies School of Health Research Overview: Indigenous youth are disproportionality exposedCan school based mindfulness programs prevent mental health problems in adolescents?
Chief Investigator: Professor Tracey Wade Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: Flinders University Overview: Given one in four Australians aged 16-24 haveImpact of overweight on cardiovascular risk in children with type 1 diabetes: a longitudinal study of 5000 Australian children with type 1 diabetes
Chief Investigator: Professor Jenny Couper Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: University of Adelaide Overview: Heart and blood vessel disease is the2017 Research Grants
2016 Research Grants
A randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a nurse-moderated group-based internet support program for mothers with comorbid mild to moderate depression and parenting problems.
Chief Investigator: Professor Michael Sawyer Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: This study will utilise a randomisedUnderstanding the contribution of parental mosaicism to the causes of childhood genetic epilepsies.
Chief Investigator: Dr Sarah Heron Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: University of South Australia Overview: This project will help to accuratelyChildhood oral health and disease – a multifactorial model
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Toby Hughes Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: The University of Adelaide Overview: Tooth decay is the mostStudies into the mechanisms that progress protracted bacterial bronchitis to bronchiectasis in children, and therapeutic targeting of these processes
Chief Investigator: Professor Sandra Hodge Funding Amount: $75,000 Recipient: Hanson Institute Overview: Inadequate diagnosis and treatment of recurrent Protracted BacterialWant to Be A Champion of Children's Research? Enquire With Us Today!
Our 2022 Research Grant Program
EOI submissions for the 2022 Grant Round is now CLOSED. Shortlisted applicants will be notified by 19 May.
Each year, our grant program provides funding to support research into all areas of children’s health, education and welfare, and with a particular focus on mental health, obesity, protection and understanding the social determinants of childhood health and development.
Grants may now be awarded up to a maximum of $100,000 per project, or Early Career Grants up to a maximum of $40,000 per project, and may be completed over 1 year or 2 years.

Professor Jozef Gécz
Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability
The Channel 7 Children’s Research Foundation Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability is a comprehensive multi-disciplinary research program focused on defining the origins and early diagnosis of childhood disability. Based in Adelaide and led by International Human Genetics expert, Professor Jozef Gécz, the five-year program was established in 2016 to understand more about the genetic basis of early childhood learning and movement disabilities, intellectual disabilities, early onset epilepsies, and autism.

A BRAND NEW INITIATIVE
CRF Fellowships
A CRF Fellowship presents an exciting opportunity for mid-career researchers to pursue ground-breaking advances into childhood health, education and welfare, in South Australia.
The focus of the CRF Fellowship program is Prevention and/or Management of Childhood Disability and Disease.
Applications have now closed, and we look forward to announcing our inaugural CRF Fellows shortly!