Postgraduate Research Student Funding Opportunities

PhD Scholarship at the National Centre in HIV Social Research, UNSW

There is opportunity to undertake a PhD program at the National
Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR) at UNSW supported by a 3 year
scholarship.

The PhD project is based in the UNSW Hepatitis C Vaccine
Project. This is a multidisciplinary project covering a number of
areas of interest to students with a social science background. The
project is based in Sydney.

The background to the project relates to the future development of
vaccines (and vaccine trials) for hepatitis C targeted at people who
inject drugs. The project will focus on how communication occurs
within networks of people who inject drugs and will focus on issues
of biomedical concepts (like vaccine and treatment) and elements of
vaccine trials (such as randomisation and placebo). It is expected
that this project will use primarily qualitative research (interviews
of focus group discussions) with people who inject drugs. There will
be opportunity for innovative methods to be developed or used and to
explore opportunities for the students' own interests to be pursued
within the course of the project.

This scholarship needs to be taken up from Semester 2, 2008.

For more details about the NCHSR postgraduate program see

http://nchsr.arts.unsw.edu.au/study/

For more information, please contact A/Prof Carla Treloar,
c.treloar@unsw.edu.au, phone: 02 9385 6959 or Mrs Annie Whitelaw,
a.whitelaw@unsw.edu.au, 02 9385 6404.

Postdoc & Scholarship Databases

During the course of your studies, you may wish to seek scholarships or grants to aid interstate or overseas research or research related activities. In addition, if you are interested in further research after your studies, you may wish to apply for postdoctoral research fellowships.

Other than your own School or Faculty, there are some useful databases you can access including:

UNSW Scholarships Listing: http://www.scholarships.unsw.edu.au/home.html

UNSW Postgraduate Travel Scholarships Listing: http://www.scholarships.unsw.edu.au/postgrad_research/PostGraduateResearch.html

AusAid Scholarships http://www.scholarships.unsw.edu.au/postgrad_research/international/general/AustralianDevelopmentScholarshipsADS.html

SPIN: http://www.ro.unsw.edu.au/spin/ (You will need to access this database either on campus or via a university server.)

JASON: http://www.jason.unimelb.edu.au/ (PLEASE NOTE: this site does not provide a complete list of every scholarship available in every higher education institution in Australia. So make sure you research other information sources in the desired area or institution if you do not find a suitable scholarship on this site.)

International Education Financial Aid (IEFA): A comprehensive listing of grants, scholarships, loan programs, and other information:
http://www.iefa.org/

Australian Charities - provides links to hundreds of charitable trusts and foundations in Australia. http://www.auscharity.org/

Council of Foundations - provides links to more than 150 worldwide sites (through the USA). http://www.cof.org

Foundation Center - provides links to home pages of 100 Foundations, 54 corporate grant makers, 23 community foundations and 18 grantmaking charities. http://fdncenter.org/

Australian Development Scholarships (ADS)

Study in Australia - Scholarships

AusAID - Australian Development Gateway

DEST - Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarships

Scholarships administered by IDP
There are some Faculty of Medicine scholarships/projects listed at the following website, these are updated periodically.

http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/medweb.nsf/page/pgscholarships

Please find attached information on scholarships on offer to international students to undertake a higher degree by research at UNSW from S1, 2008.

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