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Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
Multiple
Grant
$50,291 per annum
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
- travel expenses
- other
Description
The new ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures (CIEHF) will set new standards for research and management on Country across Australia. Driven by respectful, authentic co-design, and drawing from diverse cultural, environmental, and historical records, the Centre will work to enhance Land and Sea Country management, reframed by Indigenous knowledges and science.
Each year the School of Culture, History and Language in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific may offer up to 6 awards known as the CIEHF Indigenous PhD Scholarship.
Benefits
Stipend
$50,291 per annum (2024 rate), indexed each year on 1 January, and paid fortnightly
Duration (3.5 years PhD)
Extension (1 x 6 months PhD)
Paid leave entitlements:
Paid Recreation Leave: 20 working days (part of stipend)
Paid Medical Leave: 10 working days (part of stipend)
Additional Paid Leave: 60 working days
Paid Parental Leave: 60 working days
Paid Partner Parental Leave: 5 working days
Thesis reimbursement (capped at$840)
Travel and removal reimbursement (capped at $3,030)
School-funded support for PhD candidates to the amount of $7500 over the course of a 3.5-year PhD (i.e. conference funding & field research support)
Eligibility
The Award is available each year to a prospective Australian Indigenous ANU student who:
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
Australia
Nationality
Australian
Study experience required
Bachelor
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
Anytime
Selection process follows that outlined in the School of Culture, History and Language (CHL) expression of interest application.
Selection of candidate will be governed by a selection committee made up of the Deputy Director HDR in CHL (Chair) plus at least two academic staff within the Centre of Excellence ANU node.