PhD scholarships and opportunities
Fully Nonlinear Geometric Flows
Closing Date: 31 July 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
Geometric flows describe geometries changing through heat flow and diffusion. The project will likely involve developing new fully nonlinear flows of submanifolds, with important applications in Riemannian geometry.
Judy Kennedy Research Scholarship in Mental Health
Closing Date: 31 July 2025 Apply Now
The scholarship should be awarded to a student whose research aims to improve the care and outcomes for people with mental illness and their families.
Australian Wildlife Society Research Conservation Scholarship
Closing Date: 15 August 2025 Apply Now
Top-up Scholarship
The Award is open to students enrolled in Master of Philosophy or Doctor of Philosophy degrees who are undertaking a research project in the Hunter Valley Region. The research project must have direct relevance to the conservation of Australia’s native wildlife. (Flora or fauna).
Development of Sustainable Eating Quiz
Closing Date: 31 August 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
We invite applicants for a funded PhD that will aim to create a fully functional and commercially viable online Sustainable Eating Quiz.
Smoking and Vaping Cessation for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Closing Date: 31 August 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
This Indigenous-led national research project evaluates a mailed-out smoking and vaping cessation intervention for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adolescents and adults.
The Implications of Forest Based Environmental Markets Crossing Borders
Closing Date: 31 August 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
We invite applications for a funded PhD to explore the global dynamics, governance, and environmental outcomes of forest-based carbon and biodiversity markets, focusing on climate justice, biodiversity, and the risks of transboundary spillovers.
Electrochemical CO2 Capture and Conversion
Closing Date: 30 September 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
This project aims to develop novel catalysts and reaction systems for energy-efficient electrochemical conversion of captured CO2 into liquid fuels.
Computer-aided Collector Design of Peptide Materials for Rare Earth Element Recovery
Closing Date: 31 December 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
This project aims to improve rare earth element recovery by designing peptide-polymer composites inspired by lanthanide-binding proteins using machine learning and computational chemistry.
Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TRaCE) First Nations HDR Scholarship
Closing Date: 31 December 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
Become a First Nations clean energy leader with a higher degree research scholarship at the University of Newcastle through its Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TRaCE) program.
Glenn and Ken Moss PhD Scholarships in Engineering Research
Closing Date: 01 January 2018 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
This donor funded supplementation scholarship has been established and funded for University of Newcastle students studying PhD (Mechanical Engineering) or PhD (Mechatronics). If a candidate is not available in Mechanical Engineering or Mechatronics, then the scholarship may be offered to a student from another Engineering Discipline.
Understanding, Optimizing, and Safeguarding the Thermal Desorption and Destruction of PFAS
Closing Date: 01 January 2018 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
The CSIRO Industry PhD Program (iPhD) is a research training program, focusing on applied research that benefits industry by solving real-world challenges. It aims to produce the next generation of innovation leaders with the skills to work at the interface of research and industry in Australia.
Developing a Technical Framework for Testing Printed Solar Technology
Closing Date: 30 September 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
This exciting project combines CSIRO's and UON's unique characterisation and fabrication facilities to identify the key degradation mechanisms in Kardinia Energy's printed solar technology with the goal to design accelerated testing methods that can replace the existing, unsuitable IEC methods.
Epidemiologic Analysis of Symptomatic Acute Respiratory Infection
Closing Date: 31 December 2025 Apply Now
PhD Opportunity
This project will involve epidemiologic analysis of Flu-Tracking to explore how symptoms of acute respiratory infection have changed over time, who is most impacted, and where they seek care.
Preventing Acute Respiratory Infection Transmission
Closing Date: 31 December 2025 Apply Now
PhD Opportunity
This project will involve epidemiologic analysis of FluTracking and published data to explore how self-testing and vaccination behaviour have evolved over time and characterise interventions and target populations for preventing respiratory infection transmission.
Progressive Voices/Movements in Islamic Theology in the (Post-)Secular Society of 21st Century
Closing Date: 31 December 2025 Apply Now
PhD Opportunity
PhD research on “Progressive Voices/Movements in Islamic Theology in the (Post-)Secular Society of 21st Century”
Recently expired PhD Scholarships
Professor Hesham Metwalli Doctoral Scholarship for Prosperity
Closing Date: 15 June 2025 Apply Now
Top-up Scholarship
The intention of this scholarship is to provide financial assistance to a student who is completing a doctorate conducting research related to prosperity as defined by the Legatum Prosperity Index pillars. The total value of this scholarship is $15,000. ($5,000 per annum up to a maximum of 3 years)
Investigating Veterinary Nanotechnology for the Treatment of Sarcoptic Mange in Wombats
Closing Date: 29 June 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
The Therapeutic Targeting Research Group has a PhD Scholarship opportunity available for a student to join our team interested in undertaking translational research in the area of veterinary nanomedicine for wildlife conservation. As part of this research project, the successful student will investigate innovative and improved pharmaceutical treatments for sarcoptic mange in wombats.
Open Topics in L&E, Applied Econometrics, Behavioural, Healthcare Systems, Health Insurance and Financing
Closing Date: 30 June 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
The University of Newcastle's Business School is offering a PhD opportunity with scholarship in Health Economics. The project applies applied economics to health policy challenges, with a focus on innovative solutions for healthcare systems.
Softening and Melting of Mixed Burdens under Hydrogen Enriched Top Gas Recycling Blast Furnace Conditions
Closing Date: 30 June 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
The successful candidate will work with our ironmaking research team at the BHP Centre for Sustainable Steelmaking Research (SSR). This project aims to experimentally investigate the impact of future low greenhouse gas emission blast furnace conditions on raw material behaviour.
Reactivity and Structural Evolution of Coke under Hydrogen Enriched Top Gas Recycling Blast Furnace Conditions
Closing Date: 04 July 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship
Investigate the mechanism of metallurgical coke reactivity under conditions relevant to low-carbon top gas recycling blast furnace with H2 gas injection, utilising a range of experimental, analytical, and kinetics modelling techniques.
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