ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures Top-Up Scholarship

  
      Enrolment status
      
            Future UQ student
      
      Student type
      
            Domestic,
                International
      
      Study level
      
            Postgraduate research (HDR)
      
      Study area
      
            Arts, humanities and social sciences, Business and economics, Education, Health and medicine, Law
      
      Scholarship focus
      
            Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander,
                Academic excellence
      
      Funding type
      
            Top-up
      
      Scholarship value
      
            $20,000 per annum; $5000 per annum research support funds
      
      Scholarship duration
      
            Up to 4 years
      
      Number awarded
      
            May vary

About this scholarship

The Indigenous Futures Centre is excited to support the next generation of Indigenous researchers. In addition to offering an attractive top-up scholarship and research support funds, the Centre provides its PhD candidates with training, mentoring and career opportunities.

The first of its kind, the Centre's research program will take an expansive transdisciplinary approach to address Australia's most pressing, persistent, and challenging social research issues.

Our research program conceptually shifts away from deficit-based approaches and modelling, which emphasises 'lack', toward accentuating Indigenous self-determination.

Projects will align with the Centre's three interconnected research themes:

Law and Justice
Education and Economics
Health and Wellbeing

Research environment

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures aims to transform the lives of Indigenous Australians through an innovative Indigenous-led, transdisciplinary research program that works with community and stakeholders across sectors to produce evidence-based, impactful, and meaningful results to fundamentally change the development and implementation of Indigenous policies and programs. The team of Chief Investigators and Partner Investigators are leading experts in their fields from across Australia and around the world, bringing a remarkable track record to the Centre.

The Centre's comprehensive Indigenous leadership, mentoring, and capacity building program is designed to foster the success of the future generation of Indigenous researchers in a range of disciplines.

Eligibility

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons: evidence of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status.
Maori persons: evidence of Maori status; evidence of New Zealand citizenship (where applicable)

You must be in receipt of or apply for and be awarded a living allowance scholarship of at least the Research Training Program rate to be eligible for this scholarship. You apply for this scholarship when you submit an application for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). You don't need to submit a separate scholarship application

How to apply

Please submit your expression of interest via the Centre's PhD Scholarships page
For EOI enquiries, contact Arielle Henaway ifc.graduatestudy@uq.edu.au

Your application will be assessed on a competitive basis.

We take into account your:

previous academic record
publication record
honours and awards
employment history.

A working knowledge of Critical Indigenous Studies would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

A background or knowledge of Indigenous Theory and Methodologies is highly desirable.