The Matthew McLennan and Richard Howes Outstanding Honours Collaboration Scholarship

  
      Enrolment status
      
            Current UQ student
      
      Student type
      
            Domestic,
                International
      
      Study level
      
            Honours
      
      Study area
      
            Business and economics
      
      Scholarship focus
      
            Academic excellence
      
      Scholarship value
      
            $7000
      
      Scholarship duration
      
            Awarded for Semester 2 only 
      
      Number awarded
      
            Two
      
      Applications open
      
            1 June 2026
      
      Applications close
      
            31 August 2026

Eligibility

You're eligible if you:

are enrolled full-time in an eligible program offered by the Schools of Business or Economics
are in the final year of your honours program
do not hold another scholarship deemed to be similar
submit your application, including a research article proposal, by the closing date.

Eligible programs include:

Honours year programs for:

Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
Bachelor of Business Management (Honours)
Bachelor of Economics (Honours)

or the final year of:

Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)
Bachelor of Advanced Finance and Economics (Honours)
Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics (Honours).

How to apply

You will be asked to submit a proposal for a collaborative research article.

Apply now

Use our tips for putting together a great application to help you through this process.

Selection criteria

A scholarship will be awarded to one applicant from UQ Business School and one applicant from the School of Economics. The successful applicant in each School will be the one who has shown the greatest merit as demonstrated by:

academic achievements in the first semester of honours (and prior undergraduate studies)
the quality of their proposal for the collaborative article
other evidence as deemed relevant.

What happens next

The Director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics will review the article submissions along with the selection criteria. Applicants will be notified of the outcome.

About this scholarship

This scholarship encourages collaboration and teamwork between high-performing Honours students from the UQ Business School and School of Economics at The University of Queensland.