
Research
Advantage
ECR HDR Candidate scholarship
The University recognises the contribution Early Career Researchers (ECRs) make to the University’s research profile and productivity. Research Advantage has partnered with Graduate Research to support and develop ECRs research and research leadership, through the provision of PhD candidate scholarships.
Scholarship opportunities
For a list of current opportunities, visit Graduate Research.
Women in Research STEMM ECR PhD Candidate scholarships
Dr Emma Beckett
Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
This scholarship will allow the development of a project focused on consumer acceptance and perceptions of low alcohol wines, a multidisciplinary project encompassing nutrition and health, food science and consumer science.
- Emma.Beckett@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4348 4158
Dr Renee Goreham
Lecturer
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
This will allow me to continue to grow my research group with an additional student to investigate the synthesis and characterisation of nanomaterials for biomedical applications.
- Renee.Goreham@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4913 8252
Dr Fiona Hawke
Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
We will continue to develop a clinical model to prevent foot and leg complications, including ulceration and amputation, in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with diabetes, and improve cultural capability training in undergraduate podiatry students.
- Fiona.Hawke@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4349 4549
Dr Melinda Hutchesson
Senior Lecturer
School of Health Sciences
The student will have a specific focus on building world-first epidemiological evidence to demonstrate how modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease (e.g. diet, physical inactivity) modify the association between hypertensive pregnancies and cardiovascular health outcomes.
- Melinda.Hutchesson@newcastle.edu.au
- (02) 4921 5405
Dr Tessa Lord
Lecturer
School of Environmental and Life Sciences
The student that takes on the research project will be studying spermatogonial stem cells as a potential tool to treat male infertility.
- TESSA.LORD@NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- (02) 40553026
Dr Tracy Schumacher
Clinical Teaching and Research Academic/Research Academic
University of Newcastle Department of Rural Health|School of Health Sciences
The scholarship will allow me to continue to build a small team of focused clinical researchers to be dedicated to the prevention of chronic disease in rural areas. The candidate’s project will align with a local clinical diabetes service.
- TRACY.SCHUMACHER@NEWCASTLE.EDU.AU
- (02) 49216259