Industry and project-specific scholarships
The Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation is pleased to present a number of co-funded industry scholarships.
Manna Institute - Regional Mental Health
Federation University is pleased to partner with the Manna Institute to offer a PhD scholarship to explore the mental health needs of Regional Australians.
This three-year PhD Scholarship is identified for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidate.
The successful candidate will join the Manna Institute in engaging in research projects under the following thematic areas of importance to regional mental health.
Scholarship details
Stipend: $33,000 per annum
RTP Fee-offset Scholarship: $26,400 per annum
Funding length: 3 years (only, no extensions permitted)
Location: Mt Helen
Eligibility
Scholarship applicants must be eligible to undertake a PhD. Verify you can meet eligibility requirements outlined on the Graduate Research School website.
Applications will be accepted from Australian residents and permanent residents only. Additionally, selection will also depend on the applicant’s ability to meet the following desired criteria:
* Enrol full-time however candidates can be on campus or remote from the campus.
* Able and willing to work in a research team environment.
* Integrate and contribute to the research team.
* Work or research experience in regional, remote, and rural locations in Australia
Applicants should review the Manna Institute website before submitting an application.
Application closing date: Applications open until position filled
How to apply: Applicants must submit the Manna Institute Application form along with submitting their HDR Candidature application
Commencement date: To be confirmed once appointed
Research project outline
Project title: Regional Mental Health
Candidates must develop a project that aligns with one of four Manna Institute Research Collaboratives, described below:
Research collaborative 1 – existing and emerging mental health workforce. Projects in this collaborative will focus on ways to support current workforce needs in regional Australia to strengthen future awareness of how to attract and retain workers. At the core of this research collaborative is inclusivity, through collaboration with both the professional and peer workforces across community health, allied health and policy and service delivery staff.
Research collaborative 2 - Individuals’ health and wellbeing. Projects in this collaborative will focus on the psycho-social-behavioural factors that impact individual health and well-being in regional and rural Australia across their lifespan.
Research collaborative 4 - The impact of changing environmental conditions on mental health. The natural world has an enormous impact on mental health and wellbeing. Opportunities to interact with nature can reduce mental illness and facilitate optimum mental wellbeing. Projects in this collaborative will focus those that consider direct and indirect impacts of the changing climate on rural, regional, and remote communities.
For further information (including supervision advice) please contact:
Associate Professor Dixie Statham - Federation University
Email: d.statham@federation.edu.au
or Professor Myfanwy Maple - Manna Institute Director
Email: mmaple2@une.edu.au
Supervisors, Associate and Co-Supervisors
Supervisors will be sourced through both Federation University and the Manna Institute. Bios of potential supervisors are listed on the Manna Institute website.
Investigation into soil and carbon management levers for farming systems optimisation
Federation University is pleased to partner with Food Agility CRC and Precision Agriculture to offer a Food Agility CRC PhD scholarship in Digital Agriculture
Scholarship details
Stipend: $35,000 per annum
Top-Up: NA
Project support: $10,000
RTP Fee-offset Scholarship: $26,800 per annum
Funding length: 3 years (only, no extensions permitted)
Location: Mt Helen, Ballarat
Eligibility
Scholarship applicants must be eligible to undertake a PhD. Verify you can meet eligibility requirements outlined on the Graduate Research School website. If you are applying for ‘Honours equivalence,’ please ensure that you provide detailed information to support your case.
Applicants must be an Australian or permanent resident
Applicants should contact Dr Birgita Hansen prior to submitting an application.
Application closing date: Applications open until position filled
How to apply: Complete the HDR Candidature application and provide a 300 word statement that describes, in your own words, the area of the proposed research and include your interpretation of the problem, proposed solution, and potential impact. Please note, a separate research proposal (as outlined on the application form) is not required.
Commencement date: To be confirmed once appointed
Research project outline
Project title: Investigation into soil and carbon management levers for farming systems optimisation
The agricultural sector is trying to balance increasing production with addressing soil health, soil carbon sequestration and farm sustainability via changes in soil amendments and management practices. Actions focused on carbon sequestration and emissions reduction will be increasingly more important over time as global markets demand carbon neutral products and evidence of carbon neutrality claims. Actions focusing on soil health amelioration techniques and improvement need to factor in productivity while also meeting market expectations around sustainability. A wide range of potentially interacting factors will influence soil health, profitability and other on-farms outcomes. Therefore, farmers will require better information for supporting decision-making on soil amendments to improve soil health and soil carbon, and the linkages between these actions to help prioritisation of farm management and respond to shifting markets.
Other related elements:
- Soil health reporting and soil properties that are key indicators
- Soil carbon gap mapping (on-farm and regional) and relationships with on-farm management. Building the on-farm evidence to support carbon neutral claims
- Where are the greatest sources of variability in soil properties and soil carbon at the farm scale, and how do these vary with climate, landscape and management practices?
Research questions
What is driving variation in soil properties and constraints, and how does this relate to soil carbon and soil health management actions at multiple scales?
What (if any) are the management levers for optimising soil amendments for multiple outcomes (soil carbon, soil health, productivity)?
Proposed structure of research
- Desktop based assessments (mapping and analyses) using existing PA data and other sources of information
- Field-based assessment to target key knowledge gaps identified in step 1, particularly in relation to (a) carbon gap mapping and (b) variability and benchmarking.
Industry Partner and Student Host: Precision Agriculture; Food Agility CRC
Supervisors
Principal Supervisor: Dr Birgita Hansen
Associate and Co-Supervisors:
Dr Kirsten Barlow (Precision Ag)
St John of God Berwick Scholarship
Federation University is pleased to partner with St John of God Berwick Hospital to offer PhD scholarships for nurses, midwives and other allied healthcare professionals who have an interest in conducting research relevant to their field.
Scholarship details
Stipend: $40,000 per annum
Project support: between $6,000-$ 9,000 depending on project
RTP Fee-offset Scholarship / Tuition Fee Scholarship: up to $26,800 per annum
Funding length: 3 years (only, no extensions permitted)
Location: Berwick, Victoria
Eligibility
Scholarship applicants must be eligible to undertake a PhD. Verify you can meet eligibility requirements outlined on the Graduate Research School website. If you are applying for ‘Honours equivalence,’ please ensure that you provide detailed information to support your case.
Applicants must be an Australian resident or permanent resident.
Preference will be given to applicants with a registered nursing or midwifery background.
Applicants should contact Associate Professor Mimmie Watts Phone: 03 5327 9750 or email: mc.watts@federation.edu.au prior to submitting an application.
Application closing date: 10 March 2024
How to apply: Applicants must submit their application with all necessary documents by completing the HDR Candidature application form.
Commencement date: as soon as possible
Research Fields:
- Midwifery & Maternity Care
- Workforce Models of Care
- Digital and Mental Health Care
- Public Health and Allied Health Care
Pre and post colonial Aboriginal spirit connection to waterways
Federation University is pleased to partner with Melbourne Water Service to offer an industry funded PhD scholarship in Indigenous Studies and History.
Scholarship details - please note this scholarship is subject to funding
Stipend: $33,000 per annum
Top-Up: $5000
Project support: $7000 per annum
RTP Fee-offset Scholarship: $30,240
Funding length: 3 years (only, no extensions permitted)
Location: Ballarat
Internship: N/A.
Eligibility
Scholarship applicants must be eligible to undertake a PhD. Verify you can meet eligibility requirements outlined on the Graduate Research School website. If you are applying for ‘Honours equivalence,’ please ensure that you provide detailed information to support your case.
Knowledge/background in Australian Indigenous Studies and caring for country land and water management is a requirement.
Applications will be accepted from Australian residents, permanent residents only.
Application closing date: 22 February 2024
How to apply: Applicants must submit their application with all necessary documents by completing the HDR Candidature application form
Commencement date: By negotiation
Research Project Details
Project title: PRE AND POST COLONIAL ABORIGINAL SPIRIT CONNECTION TO WATERWAYS
Project:
Prior to colonisation aboriginal communities on Kulin nation Countries Formed the living patterns, traditions, and seasonal harvesting to coincide with freshwater and it’s availability across multiple layers of Country. Aboriginal existence, pride to colonisation has been viewed as one that often managed to exist in tandem and almost complete harmony with natural surrounds, and a lifestyle that appears to have been at one with nature in ways that are lost to us now. These lost traditional land-care, water management, animal and game management techniques we’re not accidental pride to colonisation, but we’re instead plan for, taught between generations and practised with precision by traditional owners prior to the 1830s.
Before colonisation the traditional owners on Kulin Nation Countries practiced a vast number of traditional, optional and reactionary undertakings that impacted their own lives through their interactions with the layers of Country that includes water sources. Effective management of all of these natural elements resulted in “Good Spirit”, which can also be described as an ongoing ability to sustainably, interact with, and harvest essential commodities from the land in an ongoing capacity. This study will look for and catalogue examples that present primary source, evidence, or theoretical suppositions today allow us to better understand some of the ways Traditional owners on Kulin Nation Country interacted with the world around them, managing land, and waterways.
Industry Partner and Student Host: Melbourne Water
Supervision Team
Principal Supervisor: Professor Keir Reeves
Professor Keir Reeves is Co-Director of the Future Regions Research Centre at Federation University Australia. Keir’s current research works at the intersection heritage, cultural tourism, regional studies and history. Prior to joining Federation University his previous teaching and research positions were at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. He has also held visiting research fellowships/professorships at King’s College London, Clare Hall Cambridge, Ghent University, Utrecht University, University of Highlands and Islands and Wakayama University.
Keir has been a past chair of the University Professoriate, and he is particularly interested in enhancing the postgraduate research experience, and also mentoring early career researchers. Keir is currently an editorial board member of the Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development and the Journal of Heritage Tourism. Keir has been a APDI or Chief Investigator on seven Australian Research Council (ARC) funded projects including the current Anangu Futures Linkage project. He was also an ARC funded PhD student on the Mount Alexander Diggings project.
Associate and Co-Supervisors: (SUPERVISORS)
Associate Supervisor: Dr David Waldron
Dr David Waldron is a Senior Lecturer in History at Federation University Australia. He is the author of “Sign of the Witch: Modernity and the Pagan Revival” (Carolina Academic Press 2008), “Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay – a Case Study in Local Folklore” and “Snarls from the Tea-Tree: Victoria’s Big Cat Folklore”, editor/contributor of “Goldfields and the Gothic: a Hidden Heritage and Folklore” and “Aradale: the Making of a Haunted Asylum.
Associate Supervisor: Dr Gillian Schroeter
Gillian is a Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Studies at Federation University Australia. His work includes education, devising several performance pieces and lesson planning tools, exploring how teachers can use drama with their students to address the issues of drought and potable water for future generations.
Associate Supervisor: Professor Andrew Gunstone
Professor Andrew Gunstone is the inaugural Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor Reconciliation at Federation University. Andrew has institution-wide responsibility for all reconciliation matters and the university’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). Andrew is an international expert in academic and industry engagements and understandings of reconciliation. He has written over 130 publications, obtained 14 nationally competitive research grants, and regularly provides advice to industry, community, and governments. Andrew is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors at Reconciliation Victoria, and is the Foundation Editor of the Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues. Andrew previously held senior leadership roles at Swinburne University, University of South Australia, and Monash University.
Industry Supervisor: Melbourne Water nominee
Contemporary pedagogical strategies and training load maintenance to optimize strength gains and training program enjoyment in secondary school students
Federation University is pleased to partner with St Joseph’s College, Geelong to offer a PhD scholarship in Strength and Conditioning and Sport Science.
Scholarship details
Stipend: $54,195 per annum scholarship tax free
RTP Fee-offset Scholarship / Tuition Fee Scholarship: $30,240 per annum
Funding length: 3.5 years
Location: St Joseph’s College, Edmund Rice and Westcourt campus, Geelong and Federation University Australia, Mt Helen.
Eligibility
Scholarship applicants must be eligible to undertake a PhD. Verify you can meet eligibility requirements outlined on the Graduate Research School website. If you are applying for ‘Honours equivalence,’ please ensure that you provide detailed information to support your case.
Applications will be accepted from Australian residents and permanent residents.
Currently hold or willing to undertake a National Police Criminal History Check, Working with Children Check and Complete the Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care (RRHAN)-EC Training.
Applicants should contact Brendan O’Brien prior to submitting an application.
Application closing date: 15 March 2024
How to apply: Applicants must submit their application with all necessary documents by completing the HDR Candidature application form
Commencement date: to be negotiated.
Research project details
Project title
Contemporary pedagogical strategies and training load maintenance to optimize strength gains and training program enjoyment in secondary school students.
Project Description
Transform lives of secondary school students through influential doctoral research as part of a collaborative initiative between St. Joseph's College Geelong and Federation University Australia. (Mt Helen campus).
Receive a $54,195 per annum scholarship tax free, for up to 3.5 years.
Apply your research skills in industry through an athlete development and sport science internship with St Joseph’s College.
St Joseph’s College and Federation University Australia are collaborating to offer an Industry PhD Scholarship to undertake innovative research to address the key questions, below that are important for St Joseph’s Strategic direction.
- How does a structured athletic development program embedded within secondary school curriculum effect academic results, wellbeing, enjoyment, and physical capacities related to sport in secondary school students compared to base curriculum exposure?
- How does deliberate exposure to contemporary athletic development (both skill acquisition & strength and conditioning) improve physical qualities and movement coordination in secondary school students?
St Joseph’s College is committed to forming students’ hearts and minds to act with integrity and compassion within a learning culture that is engaging, rigorous, inclusive, and innovative within which each student is challenged to achieve excellence. Moved by the story of Edmund Rice St Joseph’s College encourages students “to strive for the highest”, to develop and use their talents and abilities, and to respect and show compassion towards others. An integral element of supporting students to strive for the highest is equal access to athlete development programs embedded within St Joseph’s curriculum. Federation University has a strong research culture and are committed to investigating the best ways to optimize student athlete development programs to improve sport and athletic performance, minimize injury risk and maximise academic performance and school experience.
Project requirements
The student will be appointed as the St Joseph’s Athletic Development Program Coordinator throughout the PhD candidature. The students will need to formalise an agreement with St Joseph’s College and Federation University Australia on the acceptable level of hours expected across teaching weeks (up to 38 hours per week) aligned to school terms. The successful applicant will be expected to meet the requirements of the Athletic Development program coordinator and PhD by thesis or publication.
Athletic Development Program Coordinator Key Responsibilities are:
- Design and implement athlete development programs for all Sports Performance Pathways teams (Aussie Rules, Soccer, Basketball and Cricket) that include goals that specifically measure progression within/across year levels.
- Oversee the design, planning and implementation of an Athlete Development program framework for functional movement, strength, and conditioning across and incorporated within the Health Education and Physical Education curriculum for Year 7-11 students.
- Coordinate and oversee the Edmund Rice and Westcourt gymnasiums, providing recommendations on appropriate equipment and layout to ensure optimal space for group/team training sessions.
- Work with external medical providers to ensure injury rehabilitation pathways and rehabilitation management are being developed and followed.
- Monitor training sessions and ensure all coaches and sports are following warm up and cool down protocols.
- Where required, provide in service training for teachers and sport coaches regarding athlete development practices.
- Ensure that students and staff involved in the program conduct themselves in accordance with the school’s core values.
- Adhere to and implement safe work practices and procedures in accordance with the School’s Occupational Health and Safety Policy.
- Duties as directed by the Director of Sport, Head of Physical Education and/or Principal/Deputy Principal.
- Attend Health and Physical Education Faculty meetings and provide contemporary and innovative knowledge that can be practically implemented to promote regular student physical activity.
- Conduct, plan and evaluate regular fitness testing across Year 7 to 11.
- Conduct specialised Training Method classes for VCE and Sports Science students.
- St Joseph’s College Child Protection Statement.
The PhD key responsibilities are:
- Undertake a PhD by thesis or publication and meet all key candidature milestones for timely completion as per the university guidelines.
- Translate academic knowledge into practice that maximises knowledge translation and education practices for St Joseph’s College.
- Apply academic skills that bolster the practice and performance of the athletic development program at St Joseph’s College.
- Communicate research-related behaviours, proposals, and research results to both lay and academic audiences across both parties.
Benefits
This Scholarship offers:
- $54,195 (2023 full-time rate, indexed annually) per annum tax free, for up to 3.5 years
- An industry internship allowing you to apply your research into practice during candidature.
- Access to academic and industry expertise through joint supervision.
- A supportive environment to learn leading-edge research methods and become an expert in your area.
- The opportunity to manage a complex research project and respond innovatively to challenges.
- A collaborative research community where you can enhance your skills and build your network to progress your research career.
Key selection criteria
- Bachelor of Exercise and Sport Science or equivalent.
- Honours or Master’s degree by research in Sport Science or equivalent.
- Demonstrated leadership capability.
- Demonstrated experience in development of strength and conditioning programs across a variety of sports and age groups.
- Experience creating coach/athlete development programs in elite sporting environments.
- Knowledge, understanding and experience in working with talented players, coach development.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrated ability to innovate and be progressive in the field of athlete development.
- Willingness to work collaboratively as part of a team.
- Capacity to openly receive feedback and embrace professional learning.
- Commitment to, and understanding of, the values and ethos of St. Joseph’s College.
Industry Partner and Student Host: St Joseph’s College, Geelong.
Supervisors:
Principal Supervisor:
Associate Professor Brendan O’Brien
Phone +61 3 53279677
Email: b.obrien@federation.edu.au
Associate and Co-Supervisors:
Phone +61 3 5327 6857
Email: r.lindsay@federation.edu.au
Phone +61 3 53279063
Email: b.beseler@federation.edu.au
Phone +61 3 53276729
Email: r.worn@federation.edu.au
How to apply
Some industry scholarships have expression of interest forms that must be submitted along with your candidature application. Please ensure you read the scholarship information carefully and complete all steps.
Directions on how to apply are available at Apply - Higher Degrees by Research. Please include the name of the scholarship for which you are applying on the Admission Form. All applicants should check their eligibility prior to applying.
Applications should include all relevant supporting documentation and Federation University must receive completed referee report forms by the scholarship closing date. As part of their application, prospective Higher Degree by Research applicants are also required to provide:
- Transcripts of all tertiary level academic study
- Australian citizens must provide a copy of their birth certificate or passport
- Permanent Residents must provide a copy of their visa and passport
- List of published work with URL links and/or copy of each publication
- Copy of honours or masters thesis abstract
- Evidence for Australian honours equivalency, if applicable.
- Any awards or accolades
- Any other evidence of research performance
Federation University partners with local industry to provide research opportunities and regional innovation. If your company or organisation has a project suitable for research and wish to sponsor a higher degrees by research candidate then contact us at research.degrees@federation.edu.au.