Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellowships

The Gledden Fellowships are part of the estate bequeathed to The University of Western Australia by the late Robert John Gledden (1855-1927) to promote and encourage education and research at the University in the fields of applied science, engineering, mining or cognate subjects. The purpose of this Fellowship is to support global research collaborations by providing funding to bring outstanding researchers to UWA to conduct research with a UWA host.

Gledden Visiting Fellowships are open to researchers who have doctoral degrees or equivalent qualifications or experience, and who are mid-career or senior researchers. Previous Fellowships have been awarded to researchers in diverse research fields, including chemical and material engineering, soil science and mining restoration, freshwater ecosystems, urban and development geography, and geophysics.

Remuneration

The Gledden Visiting Fellowship offers up to $25,000 for a maximum 16-week residency.

The award provides funding support to assist with:

a round-trip economy class airfare (capped at $5,000),
cost of Visa for travel to Australia, and
a living allowance of AUD$1,250 per week, inclusive of accommodation expenses.

Key Dates

Applications Open: Monday, 12 May 2025
Submission Deadline: 5pm AWST, Friday, 1 August 2025

Apply

Applications must be lodged by a UWA-based Academic who will act as the Gledden Visiting Fellow's host for the duration of their visit to UWA.

For detailed information about eligibility, selection criteria, and application form, please download the documents below:

History of the Gledden Visiting Fellowship

In 1927, the University received about £55,000 from a public benefactor, Mr Robert John Gledden (1855-1927). Mr Gledden moved to Australia in 1890 and was licensed as a surveyor in Queensland. He came to Perth in 1892, and after practising for a few months as a surveyor, was asked by the then Minister of Lands, W. Marmion, to take charge of mining surveys at Coolgardie. He made a preliminary survey there and about a year later laid out the site of Kalgoorlie. He retired in 1900 and spent much time travelling with his wife Maude, before settling at Caulfield, near Melbourne.

After his wife died in 1921, he continued to travel but kept his interest in Western Australia. He was a good businessman and made money largely out of investing in land in Western Australia. He died in Perth on 5 November 1927.

With no heirs, Mr Gledden's will provided that the whole of his residue estate should go to the University in trust to provide scholarships beginning ten years after his death. As far as it is known, he had no previous contact with the University before his death.

Robert Gledden stipulated that the income from his estate should be used "for the promotion and encouragement of education at such University to provide for scholarships in applied science, more particularly relating to surveying, engineering, mining or cognate subjects". He also expressed the hope that "one at least of such scholarships will be a travelling scholarship". The bequest initially provided for two annual travelling science fellowships of £750. They were named the Robert and Maude Gledden Travelling Fellowships in honour of himself and his wife. The first Gledden Fellowship was awarded in 1939. It would not be awarded again until 1945 due to the Second World War.

Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellows Awarded in 2024

13 Gledden Visiting Fellowships were awarded in 2024 for visits in 2025.
The Institute of Advanced Studies is pleased to announce the following scholars as 2025 Gledden Visiting Fellows:

Professor Marek Behr, RWTH Aachen University.
UWA Hosts: Winthrop Professor Karol Miller and Professor Adam Wittek, Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory, School of Engineering

Dr Amanda Cavanagh, University of Essex UK
UWA Host: Professor Martha Ludwig, School of Molecular Sciences

Professor Todd Dawson, University of California Berkeley
UWA Hosts: Associate Professor Sally Thompson, Centre for Water & Spatial Science & Department of Civil, Environmental & Mining Engineering and Associate Professor Erik Veneklaas, School of Agriculture & Environment

Professor Pradip Dutta, Indian Institute of Science Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research
UWA Hosts: Professor Kandadai Srinivasan and Professor Hui Tong Chua, School of Engineering

Professor Denwood Vaughan Griffiths, Colorado School of Mines
UWA Host: Professor Yuxia Hu, School of Engineering

Dr Jorgen Hals Todalshaug, CorPower Ocean AB, Sweden
UWA Hosts: Dr Hugh Wolgamot and Dr Jana Orszaghova, School of Earth Sciences

Associate Professor Daniel Ethan Horton, Northwestern University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, USA
UWA Hosts: Dr Derrick Lopez, School of Population & Global Health and Dr Merran Smith, Population Health Research Network

Professor Monica Agnieszka Kusiak, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences
UWA Hosts: Dr Anthony Kemp, School of Earth Sciences and Dr Martin Laure CMCA (SIMS Platform leader)

Professor Wieslaw Nowinski, Sano Centre for Computational Personalised Medicine
UWA Hosts: Winthrop Professor Karol Miller and Professor Adam Wittek, Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory, School of Engineering

Professor Yoko Saito, Hokkaido University
UWA Host: Associate Professor Ram Pandit, School of Agriculture & Engineering

Professor Chi K Michael Tse, City University of Hong Kong
UWA Hosts: Professor Herbert Lu and Professor Michael Small, School of Physics, Maths and Computing

Professor Naoufel Werghi, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi
UWA Host: Winthrop Professor Mohammed Bennamoun, School of Physics, Maths & Computing Science & Software Engineering

Dr Marek Wojtyra Warsaw University, Poland
UWA Hosts: Winthrop Professor Karol Miller and Professor Adam Wittek, Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory, School of Engineering

Previous Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellows

2024 Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellows - Awarded in 2023
18 Gledden Visiting Fellowships were awarded in 2023 for visits in 2024.
- Professor Jeffrey Vervoort, Professor of Isotope Geochemistry, Washington State University
  UWA Host: Associate Professor Anthony Kemp, School of Earth Science
- Professor Huanyu (Larry) Cheng, Penn State University
  UWA Host: Professor Xiaozhi Hu, Mechanical Engineering
- Professor Martin Whitehouse, Swedish Museum of Natural History
  UWA Host: Associate Professor Anthony Kemp, School of Earth Science, Centre for Exploration Targeting
- Associate Professor Maciej Bartosiewicz, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Science
  UWA Hosts: Professor Anas Ghadouani Dr Leah Coggins, Engineering
- Dr Duncan Hickman, Tektonex Ltd
  UWA Host: Professor Dilusha Silva, Engineering
- Professor Derek Elsworth, Penn State University
- Professor Quan Gan, Chongqing University
- Professor Enzhi Wang, Tsinghua University
- Professor Wancheng Zhu, Northeastern University
  UWA Host: Professor Jishan Liu Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering
- Dr Suruchi Roychoudhry, University of Leeds, UK
  UWA Hosts: Professor Ryan Lister & Dr James Lloyd - School of Molecular Sciences, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants of Space
- Professor Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, University of Florida
  UWA Host: Professor Charitha Pattiaratchi, Coastal Oceanography, Oceans Graduate School & The UWA Oceans Institute
- Dr Jonathan Warrick, Pacific Coast & Marine Science Centre, U.S Geological Survey
  UWA Host: Associate Professor Jeff Hansen, School of Earth Sciences, Oceans Institute
- Dr Nestor Bosch, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  UWA Host: Professor Thomas Wernberg, Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre, School of Biological Sciences
- Associate Professor Zhengshun Cheng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  UWA Host: Dr Wenhua Zhao, Oceans Graduate School
- Professor Mohamed Darouach, University de Lorraine
  UWA Host: Professor Tyrone Fernando, Engineering/Power and Clean Energy (PACE) Research Group
- Professor Sitikantha Roy, Department of Applied Mechanics & School of Artificial Intelligence
  UWA Host: Winthrop Professor Karol Miller, Intelligent Systems for Medicine Laboratory
- Associate Professor Bin Bin Li, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen International Graduate School, Institute for Ocean Engineering
  UWA Host: Dr Wenhua Zhao, Oceans Graduate School
- Associate Professor Daniel McGehee, Driving Safety Research Institute
  UWA Host: Professor Teresa Senserrick, WA Centre for Road Safety Research, School of Psychological Science
2023 Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellows - Awarded in 2022
- Associate Professor Ashlee Dere, University of Nebraska Omaha
  HOST: Dr Talitha Santini, School of Agriculture and Environment
- Professor Elhem Ghorbel, CY Cergy Paris Université
  HOST: Professor Ali Karrech, Engineering
- Emeritus Professor Jeffrey Gordon, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
  HOST: Professor Hui Tong Chua, Chemical Engineering
- Associate Professor Ludek Hyncik, University of West Bohemia
  HOST: Professor Adam Wittek, Mechanical Engineering
- Dr Aurelien Ponte, researcher, Physical Oceanography, French Institute of Research for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER)
  HOST: Associate Professor Nicole L Jones, UWA Oceans Institute
- Dr Elena Vedmedenko, Department of Physics, University of Hamburg
  HOST: Professor Mikhail Kostylev, Physics
2022 Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellowships - Awarded in 2021
Only one award was made in 2021 due to constraints caused by COVID-19 precautions.
- Jing (Jin) Jiang, Ph.D., P.Eng. Distinguished University Professor, NSERC/UNENE Senior Industrial Research Chair in Control, Instrumentation, and Electrical Systems, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario
  HOST: Professor Ho Ching Iu, School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering
2021 Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellowships - Awarded in 2020
- Dr Georges Beaudoin, Professor of Economic Geology, Université Laval, Québec Canada
  HOST: Associate Professor Marco Fiorentini, School of Earth Sciences
- Mohamed Darouach, Professor of Exceptional class 2 (Distinguished Professor), University of Lorraine
  HOST: Professor Tyrone Fernando, School of Engineering
- Dr James L. Hench, Associate Professor of Oceanography, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
  HOST: Dr Ryan J. Lowe, UWA Oceans Institute, School of Earth Sciences
- Professor Stefan Pfeiffer, University of Bayreuth
  HOST: Professor Carolyn Oldham, School of Engineering
- Dr Johanna Rosman, Associate Professor, Physical Oceanography, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  HOST: Dr Nicole L. Jones, Associate Professor, UWA Oceans Institute Graduate School
2020 Robert and Maude Gledden Visiting Fellowships - Awarded in 2019
- Dr Cayelan Carey, Virginia Tech
  HOST: Associate Professor Matt Hipsey, School of Agriculture and Environment
- Professor Mark Thompson, The University of Southern California
  HOST: Professor George Koutsantonis, School of Molecular Sciences
- Professor Griffiths, D. Vaughan, Colorado School of Mines
  HOST: Professor Yuxia Hu , School of Engineering, Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering

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