PhD scholarships and opportunities

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)

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Fully Nonlinear Geometric Flows

Closing Date: 16 June 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.

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.

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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.

Trailblazer for Recycling and Clean Energy (TRaCE) First Nations HDR Scholarship

Closing Date: 30 June 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.

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.

University of Newcastle Australia

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.

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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).

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.

University of Newcastle Australia

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.

University of Newcastle Australia

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.

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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”

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Examining the Impact of the Interventions on Construction Workers' Safety Behaviour

Closing Date: 18 May 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship

This PhD project will assess the effectiveness of two safety management learning interventions and measure workers’ safety behaviour patterns before and after the learning interventions implementation. A longitudinal study will be conducted to examine the impact of interventions.

Carmel Mary Costello PhD Top Up Scholarship in Alzheimer’s Research

Closing Date: 30 May 2025 Apply Now
Top-up Scholarship

Carmel Mary Costello left a bequest to the University in her will, “for the purpose of pursuing research into Alzheimer's Disease”. This PhD scholarship is to support research in Alzheimer's Disease.

Understanding Diffuse Midline Glioma via Implementation and Analysis of Spatial Multiomics

Closing Date: 30 May 2025 Apply Now
PhD Scholarship

This project will use spatial multiomics to study tumour heterogeneity, immune interactions, and therapy responses in diffuse midline glioma (DMG) by integrating spatial transcriptomic, metabolomic, proteomic, and scRNA-seq analysis.

University of Newcastle Australia

Understanding the Effects of Binders on Iron Ore Granulation and Sintering

Closing Date: 30 May 2025 Apply Now
MPhil Scholarship

The BHP Centre for Sustainable Steelmaking Research (SSR) is inviting applications for an MPhil position in ironmaking.