Benefits

• Living allowance of $26,916 per annum for up to 3.5 years (pending satisfactory progress).
• Provision for limited sick/family leave, funds for relocation, among other’s as listed in the conditions of an RTP scholarship terms and conditions
• Competitive funding opportunities to suitable candidates to attend conferences and other interrelated events/seminars.
• Working with highly skills clinical, sociological and surgically skill professionals.

Eligibility

• Acceptance into a research higher degree in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, supervised/co-supervised at the University of Melbourne (Primary) or other Australian University/Institute;
• Open to research higher degrees students studying in the area of Medicine, Health Science, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Psychology, Statistics and Epidemiology.
• Australian or NZ citizen or Australian permanent resident undertaking a PhD at the University of Melbourne, supervised/co-supervised at the University of Melbourne or other Australian University/Institute;
• Have completed tertiary studies that are at least equivalent to a 4-year honours degree at an Australian university with a minimum result equivalent to a first class Honours (80%);
• Have not completed a PhD or held a graduate research scholarship previously, have a PhD course offer to study at the University of Melbourne and commence their PhD in the 2017 calendar year.