Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Honours Scholarships

The Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Honours Scholarships will be offered again in 2013.  40 scholarships will be made available across all Faculties and Research Centres to current honours students.  Applications are open to Australian citizens, Australian permanent residents and New Zealand citizens.  The scholarship provides a $1,000 lump sum payment to successful applicants of high academic achievement who are likely to achieve Honours Class One and who intend to commence a postgraduate research higher degree in 2014. 

In addition to the lump sum payment benefit, successful candidates also receive an automatic three year postgraduate research scholarship (2014-2016) of $24,653 p.a. subject to receiving an offer of admission for a Master of Philosophy or PhD at the University of Newcastle and Honours Class One.  To be eligible for this additional benefit an application for admission must have been received in the Office of Graduate Studies by 31 October, 2013.

How to apply


Applications for these honours scholarships are handled by each Faculty and the first point of contact is the Faculty Research Training Officer.  Note:  each Faculty will have a different closing date and different application form.  The Faculty web pages also have useful information on research programs.

Business & Law:  Wendy Jones – wendy.jones@newcastle.edu.au
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/faculty/business-law/for-students/current/rhd/

Education & Arts:  Amanda Hall-Griffin – amanda.hall@newcastle.edu.au
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/faculty/education-arts/research/

Engineering & Built Environment:  Chanel Hopkinson – chanel.hopkinson@newcastle.edu.au
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/faculty/engineering/research/faculty-rhd-information/

Health:  Shirley Savy – shirley.savy@newcastle.edu.au
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/faculty/health/research/research-higher-degrees.html

Science & IT:  Lina Bozinovska – lina.bozinovska@newcastle.edu.au
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/faculty/science-it/research/students/

Wollotuka:  Luke Halvorsen – luke.halvorsen@newcastle.edu.au
http://www.newcastle.edu.au//wollotuka/


You will need to consider which Faculty you should apply through based on the research program you wish to do in 2014 as many of the Research Centres cross over multiple Faculties.  If you are not sure which Faculty your intended research program belongs to, please contact research-admissions@newcastle.edu.au.