Alumni Pride Scholarship
This scholarship will open in December 2025.
- Enrolment status
- Future UQ student, Current UQ student
- Student type
- Domestic, International
- Study level
- Undergraduate, Honours, Postgraduate coursework
- Study area
- All study areas
- Scholarship focus
- Diversity, Financial hardship
- Scholarship value
- $4,500 (limited to the annual income from the fund)
- Scholarship duration
- 1
- Number awarded
- 1
- Applications open
- December 2025
- Applications close
- March 2026
Eligibility
You're eligible if you:
- are or will be enrolled in an Approved Program;
- can demonstrate and provide documentary evidence of financial hardship;
- identify as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community; and
- have not previously held the Scholarship.
How to apply
Currently not open for applications.
You will also need to include supporting documentation that demonstrates your eligibility, such as:
- references to support commitment to LGBTQIA+ communities
- most recent Centrelink Allowance Statement (Youth Allowance, ABSTUDY etc)
- Australian Taxation Office Assessment Notice, for the previous financial year, and/or evidence of income from other sources
- current academic transcript/studies report, secondary studies results
- any other evidence you feel supports your application.
Use our tips for putting together a great application to help you through this process.
Selection criteria
The Scholarship is awarded to the student showing the greatest merit based on –
- evidence of identifying as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community;
- evidence of financial hardship
- demonstrated commitment to the LGBTQIA+ community; and
- any other matter that the selection committee considers to the relevant to the applicant’s future success in their studies.
About this scholarship
Established in 2024 through a gift from Alumni Friends, Professor Heather Zwicker and collective donors under the Queensland Commitment scheme and maintained by income generated from an underlying endowment fund. Alumni Friends of The University of Queensland dates back to 1967, when UQ sponsored the formation of an association to foster relationships with UQ alumni.