Resources
We play a national and international leadership role by providing support for those undertaking Australia-related research. We are passionate about encouraging and producing the next generation of scholars working on Australian related studies. To add an opportunity to this page, please email us.
Resources - New
New
Indigenous Governance Awards
The Indigenous Governance Awards share the success of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations from around Australia. The awards are held every two years and are proudly presented in partnership by Reconciliation Australia and the Australian Indigenous Governance Institute, with support from the BHP Foundation.
Applications close 11:59pm AEDT Friday 6 March 2026
Resources - Networks and Centres
Networks and Centres
- Association for the Study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA)
- Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL)
- Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America (ANZSANA)
- Australian Historical Association (AHA)
- Australian Studies Association of Japan (ASAJ)
- Australian Studies Centre, Universitat de Barcelona
- Australian Studies Centre, Beijing Foreign Studies University
- Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN)
- Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Nanzan University, Japan
- Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, University of Texas
- Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies (CANZPS), Georgetown University
- Centre for Australian, Aotearoa and Pacific Studies (CAAPSt), University of Cologne
- Committee on Australian Studies, Harvard University
- Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)
- European Australian Studies Association (EASA)
- Foundation for Australian Studies in China (FASIC)
- German Association for Australian Studies (GASt)
- International Australian Studies Association (InASA)
- Menzies Australia Institute, King’s College London
- National Foundation for Australia-China Relations (NFACR)
- The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
- The Australian Studies Centre, Thammasat University
Resources - Academic Appointments
Academic appointments
The Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University
Each year Harvard University appoints a distinguished scholar to the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies. Persons wishing to be considered should submit an application through the Harvard ARIeS system here. Applications will be accepted until October with a final notification being made in February the following year.
BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Studies at Peking University
This senior position is based in the School of International Studies at Peking University in Beijing. The Australia-China Council of the Australian Government created the BHP Chair of Australian Studies in collaboration with Peking University in 2011 to facilitate the growth of the study of Australia within Chinese tertiary institutions in China. The appointment is for up to two years.
BFSU-FASIC Colin Mackerras Chair in Australian Studies Program
Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras at Griffith University is a specialist in Chinese history, musical theatre and ethnic minorities, as well as Australia-China relations and Western images of China. He has also worked frequently at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), the first time from 1964 to 1966. He won a Friendship Award from the Chinese government in 2014. From the 1980s to recent years, Professor Mackerras taught at BFSU more than a dozen times and offered courses such as Australia-China Relations, Political Issues in Australia and Western Images of China at undergraduate and graduate levels. To honour the great contributions of Professor Mackerras to the educational and intellectual exchanges between China and Australia, the BFSU Australian Studies Centre and Foundation for Australian Studies in China (FASIC) agreed to establish the BFSU-FASIC Colin Mackerras Chair in Australian Studies Program (“Colin Mackerras Program” and “Chair”) in 2024.
Annual Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Centre for Pacific and American Studies at the University of Tokyo
The Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies was created in 1999 by the Centre for Pacific and American Studies, The University of Tokyo, to promote a deeper understanding of Australia and its regional engagement. The position is supported by the Australia-Japan Foundation. The Visiting Professor in Australian Studies is required to teach at undergraduate and graduate levels; to present conference papers; to conduct research; and to participate in promoting Australian Studies within Japan. The appointment is for a period of approximately 10 months.
Resources - Prizes and Grants
Prizes and Grants
Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) PhD Prize
The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand is pleased to offer an opportunity for recently graduated PhD students to share their research and be considered for the $1,000 prize supported by Taylor and Francis. In 2023 the annual PhD Prize was reviewed by the AAANZ Prize Committee in consideration of feedback received from the judging panel. In 2024 the PhD Prize was split between research-based PhDs and practice-led PhDs, alternating each year, with the eligible application period being extended to the previous two years. The AAANZ PhD Prize is judged on the merits of the final submitted thesis or exegesis and documentation.
Australia-China Joint Action Program
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) are proud to administer the ASSA-CASS Joint Action Program. This research funding program is intended to provide Australian and CASS researchers the opportunity to collaborate in areas of shared interest. It is suited to early-career researchers who wish to pursue research opportunities with an international colleague, with the intention that this may lead to larger research projects. To apply, researchers must submit a proposal to conduct research with an overseas partner having similar interests. Each application must contain at least one researcher from Australia and one from CASS. As the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia encourages the participation of early-career researchers, one researcher involved in the project must be fewer than eight years beyond the completion of their PhD. The work undertaken on the project may involve online or in-person meetings. Proposals with an interdisciplinary character are encouraged.
Australia-France Grant Program
The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia is proud to administer the Social Science Collaborative Research Program (delivered in partnership with the Embassy of France in Australia) and the Pacific Social Sciences Academic Grants (supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-France Indo-Pacific Studies Program). Grants available through this program are for a maximum of $5,000 AUD and are aimed at providing seed funding to foster the development of a larger research program. Funding is available to support activities within a two year (24 month) time frame, activities outside of this period should seek funding from subsequent rounds.
Australian Academy of Science Awards
The Australian Academy of Science awards honorific medals, conference funding and research and lecture grants to champion, celebrate and support excellence in Australian science, promote international scientific engagement and to build public awareness and understanding of science.
Australian Academy of the Humanities Awards
The Australian Academy of the Humanities offers a series of prestigious grants and awards to foster and promote the highest quality humanities research and support the next generation of scholars and practitioners.
Australian Historical Association (AHA) Awards and Prizes
The Australian Historical Association administers a range of prizes and awards annually and biennially. The Association is proud of their partnership with the National Archives of Australia to offer scholarships to postgraduate students, and the Copyright Agency to offer postgraduate bursaries associated with their annual conference and an ECR mentorship scheme.
Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH) Early Career Research Award
The Australian Institute of Art History (AIAH) at the University of Melbourne is collaborating with the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) on a new annual award. The aim is to foster new and innovative research and public engagement by early career professionals. The AIAH Early Career Research Award (ECRA) is funded by the Australian Institute of Art History and administered jointly with AAANZ. The value of the ECRA is $25,000.
Australian Museum Eureka Prizes
The Australian Museum Eureka Prizes are the country’s most comprehensive national science awards, honouring excellence across the areas of research & innovation, leadership, science engagement, and school science. Presented annually in partnership with some of the nation's leading scientific institutions, government organisations, universities and corporations, the Eureka Prizes raise the profile of science and science engagement in the community by celebrating outstanding achievement. View winner archive.
Co-Lab Honours Grant
The Co-Lab Honours Grant offers $9,500 in funding for exceptional students to focus on leading research projects with real-world impact, greatly enhancing their student experience and career opportunities. Grants are available to students undertaking a research project that aligns with Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) research interests during their Honours year. The fields of study include: Computer Science, Engineering, Languages, Linguistics, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics. Cross-disciplinary projects will also be considered favourably.
Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Prizes
The Australia Prizes honour distinguished achievements by Australians working, studying, or training in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) sector, including academics, researchers, practitioners, philanthropists, policy makers, and students. Applications normally open in March and close in June. Recipients are announced in October.
Create NSW Cultural Grants Program
The Cultural Grants Program is a Create NSW devolved funding program administered by the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) on behalf of the NSW Government. This grants program assists historical research and publication of local, community and regional history projects. The Society would like to thank Create NSW for funding the Cultural Grants Program, which supports local history and heritage projects, facilitating an understanding of the history of the people and places of NSW.
Criminology Research Grants (CRG) program
The Criminology Research Grants (CRG) program supports policy-relevant research in the area of crime and criminal justice. Applications that address any of these subjects are welcome: coercive control within abusive intimate relationships, overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the criminal justice system, or sexual offence victim/survivor experience of the criminal justice system. Organisations or collaborative teams may apply.
Donna Coates Book Prize
The Donna Coates Book Prize (named after a leading scholar of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies) is administered by the Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN). It is awarded annually to a monograph published by an Early Career Researcher and/or someone who has published their first book, that looks at least two countries of the focus of the network, i.e. Australia and Canada or Canada and Aotearoa New Zealand. Submissions normally close on 31 December each year.
Early Career Research (ECR) Publication Subsidy Scheme
The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) Early Career Research (ECR) Publication Subsidy Scheme assists early career researchers working in Australian Studies. The award value is up to $1,500.
Early Career Research Small Grants Scheme
The ANU Freilich Project offers up to three grants of $5,000 each to emerging scholars to assist research into the causes, the histories and the effects of ethnic, cultural, religious and sexual bigotry and animosity, and to explore how such intolerance can be combatted, and co-existence promoted. Applications are open to PhD students enrolled at Australian tertiary institutions, and Early Career Researchers (as defined by the Australian Research Council) employed at Australian tertiary institutions or other research-focused institutions. The grant may be applied for jointly if all named applicants are individually eligible to apply for the grant. The grant is available to Australian residents regardless of citizenship, in all research disciplines. The grant may be issued irrespective of other research funding or awards.
Ecological Society of Australia (ESA) Student Research Awards
Postgraduate and honours students conducting ecological research may apply for these Student Research Awards to cover expenses such as field travel, research assistance, equipment or consumables. The maximum individual award is $1,500. Ten awards of up to $1,500 are generally offered in each year. Applications open 1 September and close 31 October each year.
Eric Fry Labour History Research Grant
Every year the Grant offers a $1,000 payment to an honours or postgraduate student to complete a thesis on a labour or social history related theme, making use of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre at the ANU in Canberra. The Canberra Region Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) and AuSI are co-sponsors of this grant.
Lane Cove Historical Society (LCHS) Lane Cove History Prize
The aim of the LCHS Lane Cove History Prize is to stimulate interest in local history by encouraging original research into the history of Lane Cove and its environs which extends and enriches knowledge of the area and its people, both past and present. The Prize was awarded annually from 2016 till 2023, after which it was declared that it would be awarded biennially. Entries to the Prize can be a work of written history (in essay form of 5,000 to 7,000 words); an oral history (audio or video of 30 to 45 minutes); or a documentary style video of (7 to 20 minutes) on an aspect of local history. The winner of the 2025 LCHS Lane Cove Local History Prize will receive $1,500.
Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize
The biennial Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize celebrates excellence in PhD research in the interdisciplinary field of Australian Studies. The International Australian Studies Association (InASA) is honoured to offer this $1,000 prize which Professor Ryan is generously sponsoring to support emerging scholars in Australian Studies.
McMichael Award
The McMichael Award supports research and career development through a global network of mentors and through leaders connected to the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) through the late Emeritus Professor McMichael’s legacy. Up to $30,000 will be offered to the successful applicant to contribute to their agreed-upon research over 12 months.
Publication Subsidy Fund
ANU provides publication subsidies for eligible authors whose work has been accepted for publication by ANU Press. Subsidies are awarded by the Publication Subsidy Committee, which is chaired by ANU University Librarian Roxanne Missingham. The Committee meets three times a year to consider the applications. ANU Press administers the Publication Subsidy Fund and provides secretariat services to the Committee. The Publication subsidy scheme is currently under review.
Stanner Award
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) Stanner Award is presented biennially to the best academic manuscript submitted by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author. The Stanner Award is open to all Indigenous authors, scholars and academics; however, submissions must not be under consideration by other publishers or simultaneously entered in to other awards, and no more than 20 per cent of the submission previously published.
State Library of Queensland Awards
The State Library of Queensland offers a suite of fellowships, awards and residencies annually.
The ANU Gender Institute Grants
The ANU Gender Institute actively promotes and supports projects which advance gender and sexuality research, and take feminist and intersectional approaches to research. They look to endorse research which aims to inform gender-related public policy and promote gender equity. They do this through various funding schemes. Each year, we run grants, scholarships, awards, and prizes. They also encourage their members to contact them regarding projects pertaining to gender outside of these grants, as they can often support in other ways and promote ANU gender-related events and research through their newsletter.
The Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme
The Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme is an initiative of Universities Australia and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)—Germany’s national agency for the support of international academic cooperation. It fosters research collaboration of the highest quality and supports exchanges of researchers from member universities to spend time at partner institutions in Germany, and for collaborating German researchers to spend time at Australian universities. Researchers must be working on a joint research project with their German counterparts, rather than furthering their individual research in Germany. The inclusion of early career researchers (ECRs) is a significant focus of this scheme.
The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies
The Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies (funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) is awarded to Australian academics and professionals, with aims to advance scholarship in the priority fields of strategic studies, technology, and innovation. The grantee will promote the exchange of ideas, research collaboration, and cultural understanding between Australian and American scholars as well as the institutions that host them. The program was established in 2001 by the Australian Government, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) as a contribution to Australia’s ANZUS 50th Anniversary commemorations. The aim for establishing this exchange is to contribute in a practical way to contemporary scholarship on the Australian-U.S. alliance relationship. It is a condition of the scholarship that the recipient produces a tangible contribution to contemporary debate in their area of specialisation in the format of a report, which can be used by DFAT, and/or published with an appropriate accreditation.
The Indigenous Languages Grants Program
The Indigenous Languages Grants Program supports projects and cultural activities that preserve, maintain and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Grants of up to $15,000 (exclusive of GST) per activity are available for Queensland-based activities that support the preservation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Indigenous Languages Grants are provided to activities that preserve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages in recognition of the role language plays in strengthening culture and community. A range of cultural initiatives incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages may be eligible for an Indigenous Languages Grant, including art, drama, music and film projects, Yarning Circles, audio recordings, workshops, signage, books, posters and brochures.
Resources - Fellowships
Fellowships
ANU Australian Studies Institute Visiting Fellowship Program
The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) Visiting Fellowship Program brings early and mid-career researchers to the ANU campus to conduct and share research that promotes the study of Australia or transnational and comparative research involving Australia. Each Visiting Fellow will be provided with AUD$6,000 (domestic-based) and AUD$12,000 (international-based) maximum allowance in costs towards economy-class travel and accommodation in Canberra.
Australian Parliamentary Fellowship
The Australian Parliamentary Fellowship provides support to an early career scholar to research and write a monograph for publication. The research must relate to the way Parliament functions, the way senators and members operate, or examine how a broad issue in national politics is dealt with in the Parliament. The Fellowship is offered periodically and is of flexible duration (up to six months full-time with provision for part-time or broken periods of employment).
Creative Australia Fellowships
Creative Australia Fellowships of $80,000 support outstanding, established artists’ or arts workers’ creative activity and professional development for a period of up to two years. There are nine Fellowships offered in the areas of: Arts and Disability; Community Arts and Cultural Development; Dance; Emerging and Experimental Arts; First Nations; Literature; Music; Theatre; Visual Arts. If you are successful, the payments will be made in two tranches: $75,000 on acceptance of the funding contract, and $5,000 on acquittal.
John Mulvaney Fellowship - The Australian Academy of the Humanities
In keeping with Professor Mulvaney’s deep commitment to Indigenous people and cultures, the John Mulvaney Fellowship is an award for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander early career researchers and PhD students working in any area of the humanities. The recipient of the John Mulvaney Fellowship will receive $4000 towards undertaking research or fieldwork in Australia or overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and connecting with researchers and networks.
Humanities Travelling Fellowships - The Australian Academy of the Humanities
The Humanities Travelling Fellowships, awarded annually, are one of the Academy’s longest standing awards and were first awarded in 1985. These Fellowships support early career researchers with costs of up to $4,000 to undertake research overseas, including accessing archives and other research materials and connecting with international researchers and networks. Incorporated into the Humanities Travelling Fellowships is the David Philips Travelling Fellowship. Preference is given to proposals that contribute to the advancement of knowledge of racial, religious or ethnic prejudice. Offered biennially, this Fellowship is made possible thanks to a generous bequest from Mrs Joan Philips. This Fellowship is named after her late son, Dr David Philips, who was a historian and Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne.
Creative Arts Fellowship - National Library of Australia
This Fellowship offers $35,000 to support practising writers to develop new creative work using or inspired by the National Library’s collections. It offers a writer the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in the collections, including music, maps, rare books or ephemera, or original sources like pictures, manuscripts, oral histories and folklore recordings.
National Library of Australia Fellowships
The Library’s Fellowships offer experienced researchers an opportunity to undertake deep and sustained research at the National Library using the Library’s collections. Fellowships are available to researchers who require onsite access to the Library’s uniquely held or extensive collections to advance their research towards publication or other public outcomes. Applicants may work in any field or discipline where the Library's collections have appropriate depth and breadth to support the desired outcomes. Fellows will receive $35,000 to support a sustained research residency at the National Library. Funding is based on 12 weeks at the National Library.
State Library of New South Wales Fellowships
The State Library of New South Wales offers a number of prestigious and competitive fellowships to support the study, writing and teaching of Australian history and culture.
Applications for 2027 open on Monday, 11 May 2026 at 9 am AEST.
black&write! Writing Fellowships - State Library of Queensland
Each year black&write! offers two Fellowships for First Nations writers, awarded through an unpublished manuscript competition open to any First Nations writer currently living in Australia. Two winners will each receive $15,000 prize money, editorial development with the black&write! team, and a publication opportunity with University of Queensland Press.
State Library Fellowships - State Library of Queensland
State Library's Fellowships support researchers and creatives to explore, interpret and contribute to the significant collections of John Oxley Library. By deeply engaging with the collections, fellows generate fresh insights into Queensland’s history.
Applications usually open annually between June and July.
State Library Victoria Fellowships
The State Library Victoria Fellowships Program invites artists, writers and researchers across disciplines to immerse themselves in the State Collection and bring it to life in unique and innovative ways. Fellows receive access to Library staff expertise, an office space around the magnificent Dome, a generous stipend and the opportunity to fulfil their creative passions and research ambitions.
Guidelines and FAQs with key details for the 2026 Fellowship Program will be available mid-February 2026.
Lockie Fellowship - University of Melbourne
The Lockie Fellowship offers research support for writers undertaking an original creative or critical project which advances the study of literature within Australia. This fellowship will provide a one-off payment of up to $15,000.
UTS Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowship
The UTS Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowship (CIRF) aims to attract and retain outstanding Indigenous early career researchers. Fellowships are awarded to outstanding early career researchers who wish to develop their research, teaching and learning, management and communication skills to become the next generation of Indigenous academic leaders.
Fryer Library Fellowship - The University of Queensland
The annual Fryer Library Fellowship encourages scholars to visit The University of Queensland and use the collections in the Fryer Library for a research project in areas including: Australian literature; Australian theatre; Indigenous studies; Queensland architecture; Art and design; Australian history and political culture; Women’s studies; and Refugee studies. Successful applicants will receive $20,000 and UQ Library access and digitisation services. They will also have office space, computer access, free copying and full library privileges at UQ St Lucia. This fellowship is available to any scholar from Australia or overseas. It will not usually be awarded to students enrolled in research higher degree programs.
The E.G. Whitlam Research Fellowship - Whitlam Institute
This research fellowship has been established for the purpose of promoting research in Australian politics and public policy guided by the values that oriented Gough Whitlam’s social democratic vision and that demonstrate the contemporary relevance of this vision for 21st century Australia. Each year, the Whitlam Institute will call for applications for the E.G. Whitlam Research Fellowship from candidates with a demonstrable interest in any aspect, historic or contemporary, of the policy agenda of the Whitlam government and/or the Institute’s particular interest in contemporary social democracy. The E.G. Whitlam Research Fellow has the opportunity to work on a project with clear strategic relevance to the Whitlam Institute’s broader public policy program that focuses on issues relevant to a contemporary social democracy, in line with Whitlam’s vision for the Institute to pursue ‘the great and continuing work of building a more equal, open, tolerant and independent Australia’.
Dahl Fellowships - Eucalypt Australia
Dahl Fellowships honour the memory of Bjarne K Dahl. They provide an opportunity for talented and deserving Australians to undertake a project related to eucalypts that is not readily fundable elsewhere. Fellowships of up to $25,000 will be awarded to individual applicants for individual projects that advance the goals of Eucalypt Australia. Priority areas for Fellowships are not limited to, but include: art and literature; development of eucalypt education resources, including indigenous cultural resources; and conservation initiatives. Submissions normally close in August.
Powerhouse Scholars program
Each year the Powerhouse Scholars program develops new research through an annual open call to academics, creative practice-based researchers and independent researchers. Museum staff support scholars to produce innovative projects in dialogue with the Powerhouse Collection and Archives. Their work facilitates new lines of enquiry that expand perspectives on the museum, presented annually at the Powerhouse Scholars symposium.
Applications open in August each year.
Lizard Island Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Lizard Island Postdoctoral Fellowships program has operated since 2008 and 56 awards have been made to date. It is funded by the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation and its donors.
Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowships
The Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowships program supports field-intensive research at Lizard Island Research Station (LIRS) by outstanding PhD students worldwide. Since its inception in 1984, 83 PhD students have been supported. The program is funded by the Lizard Island Reef Research Foundation (LIRRF) through its members and friends including some specific donations.
Resources - UG & PG Scholarships
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Scholarships
Ethel Tory Language Grant for Australian Indigenous, European and Middle Eastern Languages
Each year, the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) may offer a number of awards known as the Ethel Tory Language Grant for Australian Indigenous, European and Middle Eastern Languages. The objective of the Award are to provide funds to cover documented travel costs for eligible students undertaking full-time language study outside Australia, or full-time study of Australian Indigenous Languages within Australia. It supports the study of Australian Indigenous, European, and Middle Eastern languages. Funding for this Award has been provided by the Ethel Tory Endowment Fund.
Minoru Hokari Memorial Grant
Each year the School of History (‘the School’), in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (‘the College’), may offer an award known as the Minoru Hokari Memorial Grant (‘the Award’). There are two awards on offer under this fund, one to support Fieldwork, and another to support Indigenous languages research. The objective of the Award is to provide funding to cover the travel and fieldwork costs of the recipient. Funding for this Award has been provided by various donors, led by Mr Hokari’s sister, Yuki Hokari, to commemorate the life and achievements of Minoru Hokari. Minoru Hokari (1971-2004) made outstanding contributions towards ‘crossculturalising’ historical practice and towards developing a respectful collaborative research strategy with Indigenous Australians. A graduate of Hitotsubashi University and the ANU, Minoru conducted fieldwork amongst Gurindji elders.
Sir Roland Wilson Scholarship
The Sir Roland Wilson Foundation offers three-year full pay PhD scholarships to support high performing EL1 and EL2 (or equivalent) Australian Public Service (APS) and eligible Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA) entity employees to complete PhD research on topics of national significance at The Australian National University (ANU). Scholars and alumni build connections between academia and government, and drive the development of evidence-based public policy.
Pat Turner Scholarship
The Sir Roland Wilson Foundation offers one-to-three year postgraduate scholarships to high performing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australian Public Service (APS) and eligible Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA) entity employees from APS 4 to Senior Executive Service Band 1 (or equivalent). Scholarships enable the development of research, analytical and leadership skills, and support scholars to study topics of national significance and strategic importance to the APS and Commonwealth Public Sector at either The Australian National University (ANU) or Charles Darwin University (CDU). Scholars and alumni build connections between academia and the APS and Commonwealth public sector, driving the development of evidence-based public policy.
BHP Australia China Scholarship
The BHP Australia China Scholarship has been established to encourage and assist students and young professionals to pursue postgraduate and doctoral study, research and experience in priority areas of interest in the bilateral Australia-China relationship. The scholarship is given to encourage students and young professionals to study in China (or Australia) in the following priority areas of interest: Sustainability, including climate change, carbon capture storage, low emissions technology, biodiversity, water stewardship; Governance, including corporate and local community governance, International Regulatory Systems; Economic policy Free Trade; Women in Leadership; and Australian Studies, with the scholarship awarded in this discipline to be known as the BHP David Walker Scholarship in Australian Studies. The Scholarship is administered by FASIC and funding has been generously provided by BHP Group Limited. The Scholarship can have a value of up to A$60,000 per annum and may be payable for up to three years, depending on the successful applicant's course of study. The scholarship is structured to reimburse accepted Scholars for tuition and designated expenses, up to a capped amount.
National Library of Australia Scholarships
The National Library of Australia Scholarships program provides PhD students with the opportunity to undertake research at the Library using its collections. Scholarships are available to researchers who require onsite access to the Library's uniquely held or extensive collections to advance their PhD research. Applicants may work in any field or discipline where the Library's collections have appropriate depth and breadth to support the PhD topic. Scholars will receive $10,000 to support a research residency at the Library. Funding is based on 4 weeks at the Library. Scholars have 24 months to complete their research.
Australian Wildlife Society Wildlife Ecology Research Scholarships
The Australian Wildlife Society Wildlife Ecology Research Scholarship is open to postgraduate research students from three Australian Universities (the University of Technology Sydney, the University of New South Wales Sydney, and the University of Newcastle) undertaking a research project that is directly relevant to the conservation of Australia’s native wildlife (flora or fauna). Scholarship valued at $5,000 for 1 year.
Australian Wildlife Society University Research Grants
The Australian Wildlife Society’s University Research Grants are offered to honours or postgraduate students at Australian universities conducting research that contributes to the conservation of Australian wildlife (flora or fauna). Ten University Research Grants are awarded each year: one $5,000 scholarship and nine $3,000 grants. The Dr Clive Williams OAM Memorial Wildlife Conservation Scholarship is awarded to the highest-ranked applicant of all our University Research Grants. Grants may be used to purchase equipment and consumables, travel expenses related to field research, or attend a conference where the student presents their research.
The Northcote Postgraduate Scholarship
The awards are to enable students normally resident in the UK to undertake a higher degree at an Australian university for up to three years. The Northcote (Postgraduate) Scholarships are awarded by the Northcote Trust, and administered on the Trust's behalf by the Britain-Australia Society. There is no limitation on the field of study. Applicants must be resident in the UK (or one of its dependencies or territories) and need to ascertain their own eligibility for a postgraduate programme (MA or PhD) in Australia. The Trustees will only accept applications for PhDs and Masters programmes with a significant research-based component. Please note the Trust does not support solely professional qualifications for Masters level study.