Scholarship details
Study levels
Research and PhD
Student type
Current students
Study area
Health
Eligibility criteria
Academic performance
Citizenship
Australian or New Zealand and International
Application dates
- Applications close
- 16 December 2024
What you'll receive
You will be provided with:
- a stipend of $2,500 over a duration of four weeks, with no provisions for extensions. This is the full-time, tax-exempt rate.
- financial support for your living costs while you write up one paper over four weeks, and whilst your thesis is under examination.
Eligibility
Applicants must:
- be a doctoral student in the Centre for Vision and Eye Research who has submitted their thesis for external examination (examiner reports pending)
- be able to write full-time
- not be in receipt of any other scholarship
- be the first named author on the paper or provide reasons why co-authorship is appropriate
- provide a work plan to write and submit one high quality research paper.
The paper should be completely new or in early draft stage.
How to apply
The CVER HDR Write Up Scholarship application work plan must be emailed to Professor Sharon Bentley and Professor Steve Vincent and cc’d to your principal supervisor.
The work plan must include:
- your name and student ID
- evidence of visa arrangements for the term of the scholarship (if international)
- date your current scholarship ends
- information on the planned paper including: title of the paper and target publication (usually a Scimago Q1 or Q2 journal or equivalent); and brief statement about the paper quality, significance and relationship to the thesis.
What happens next?
The centre may consider any of the following criteria when assessing an application:
- timing of the scholarship
- student’s demonstrated capacity to meet milestones
- quality of the proposed research paper
- if the PhD thesis was submitted on time.
You will be contacted directly of the outcome.
Conditions
- A draft paper must be submitted to the supervisor four weeks after the scholarship start date.
- The student and supervisor must maintain regular communication and supervisors must ensure satisfactory progress.
- Supervisors/co-authors must provide timely feedback on drafts.
- The student must notify by email, Professor Sharon Bentley and Professor Steve Vincent if/when the paper has been accepted for publication.
About the scholarship
The Centre for Vision and Eye Research has a limited number of PhD publication write-up scholarships available for 2024. The scheme does not support students to undertake further data collection, experiments, or thesis revisions. The application process is competitive.
The purpose of the scholarship is to support your living allowance costs while you are writing up one paper over a period of four weeks, whilst your thesis is under examination. The scholarship does not cover article processing charges.
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