Scholarship details
Study levels
Research
Student type
Future students
Study area
Health, Health and community and Information technology
Eligibility criteria
Academic performance
Citizenship
Australian or New Zealand and International
Application dates
- Applications close
- 25 August 2025
What you'll receive
You'll receive a stipend of $37,010 per annum (from 1 January 2026) for a maximum duration of 3.5 years while undertaking a QUT PhD. The duration includes an extension of up to six months (PhD) if approved for your candidature. This is the full-time, tax exempt rate which will index annually.
You will also receive a top-up to the stipend of an additional $10,000 per year, for up to 3.5 years.
You will receive a tuition fee offset/sponsorship, covering the cost of your tuition fees for the first four full-time equivalent years of your doctoral studies.
As the scholarship recipient, you will have the opportunity to work with a team of leading researchers, to undertake your own innovative research in and across the field.
Eligibility
To apply for this scholarship, you must meet the entry requirements for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at QUT, including any English language requirements for international students.
You must also:
- enrol as a full-time, internal student
- commence your degree before 1 July 2026. This scholarship must be awarded by 31 December 2025
- preferably have experience working in one of these areas:
- implementation science or qualitative research
- diabetes foot disease research and/or clinical practice.
How to apply
The first step is to email Associate Professor Peter Lazzarini detailing your academic and research background, your motivation to research in this field and interest in this scholarship, and include your CV.
If supported to apply, you will then submit an expression of interest (EOI) following the advice at how to apply for a research degree. You will be able to apply for this scholarship at the same time you apply for admission to a QUT Doctor of Philosophy
In your EOI, nominate Assoc Prof Lazzarini as your proposed principal supervisor, and copy the link to this scholarship web page into question two of the financial details section.
About the scholarship
Diabetes is the most rapidly growing cause of the nation's health burden, with diabetes foot disease (DFD) contributing to >50% of this diabetes health burden. Evidence-based footcare can halve the burden caused by DFD, yet <50% of people living with DFD in cities get this care and this drops to <20% for those living in remote areas.
This PhD project will be part of or augment a larger NHMRC Partnership Grant project ('The QFeet Study') that aims to implement, evaluate, and scale-up novel Diabetes Footcare Hub models of care for people with diabetes foot disease living in regional and remote areas of Queensland. The model of care has three core components: a Navigator, an Interdisciplinary Footcare Team and a Community Digital Platform, to facilitate care between expert Interdisciplinary Footcare Teams in major metropolitan hospitals and people with DFD in a regional and remote Queensland using digital tools.
The candidate will be supervised by Assoc Prof Peter Lazzarini and have the opportunity to be part of one of Australia’s leading health services research environments with other PhD students, research staff and members of the dynamic Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI) at the School of Public Health and Social Work in the Faculty of Health at QUT.