QUT Postgraduate Research Award (QUTPRA)

Student type:

• Future international research students
• Future domestic research students
• Current international research students
• Current domestic research students

Eligibility:

• Academic performance

Study type:

• Postgraduate research

Faculty/area:

• Business
• Creative Industries
• Education
• Health
• Law
• Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation (IHBI)
• Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland (CARRS-Q)
• Science and Engineering
• Institute for Future Environments

Open date: 12 August 2013

Closing date: 13 October 2013

You must:

• have a First Class or 2A Honours
• be accepted into a PhD or professional doctorate.

You'll receive:

• a scholarship, indexed annually ($24,653 in 2013). The scholarship is tax exempt, and is for living costs for up to 2 years for masters students and 3 years for PhD students.

Normally, tuition fees will be covered under the Research Training Scheme (RTS) or a QUT Higher Degree Research Tuition Award.

Your scholarship will end when you submit your thesis, or at the end of the award's tenure.

You can also apply for:

• a $1,520 relocation allowance (domestic students only)
• $420 (Masters by Research), or $840 (PhD) thesis allowance after submitting your thesis.

Future students

Apply for admission to QUT during the Annual Scholarship Round. Indicate on your application for admission that you wish to be considered for a scholarship.

Apply for a research degree

Current students

Apply for this scholarship via QUT Virtual.

We will make offers in December.

If your application is successful, you'll need to accept the offer within 3 weeks. You'll be expected to begin your research degree early in the following year.

Read the QUT Postgraduate Research Award rules (PDF file, 69.3 KB).

To keep your scholarship, you must:

• complete your study at QUT
• commit a minimum of 30 hours a week to study
• remain studying full-time, unless under exceptional circumstances. Exceptional circumstances include:
  • caring responsibilities for a child
  • caring responsibilities for school-aged children with limited access to outside support
  • caring responsibilities for an invalid or disabled spouse, child, or parent
  • a medical condition, supported by a medical certificate, which limits your ability to study full-time.

You can:

• take a leave of absence of up to 12 months
• work part-time to supplement your income, as long as it doesn't affect your study
• apply to conduct up to 12 months of your research either elsewhere in Australia or overseas
• apply for an extension of your doctoral research, if your study has been delayed due to academic circumstances.

You can't:

• hold another scholarship for more than 75% of the value of your QUTPRA scholarship.

Your scholarship will be tax-free if you're studying full-time. If you're studying part-time, your scholarship can be taxed.