Scholarship details
Study levels
Research and PhD
Student type
Future students
Study area
Health and community
Eligibility criteria
Academic performance
Citizenship
Australian and Australian or New Zealand
Application dates
- Applications close
- 17 November 2026
What you'll receive
- You'll receive a stipend of $38,310 per annum 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 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
- You need to meet the entry requirements for a QUT Doctor of Philosophy including any English language requirements.
- Enrol as a full‑time, internal student.
- Hold an honours degree (First Class or Second Class Upper) or a master degree with a substantial research component in:
- a health discipline, such as nursing, medicine, allied health, pharmacy, public health or health information management, or
- a related field, such as digital health, health informatics or psychology, with demonstrated experience in health settings
- Demonstrated interest or experience in human factors, user-centred design, digital health or health services research.
- Desirable: experience with qualitative or mixed methods or working in clinical or health service environments.
How to apply
- Apply for this scholarship at the same time you apply for admission to a QUT research degree / Doctor of Philosophy
- The first step is to email Professor Amina Tariq 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.
- In your EOI, nominate Prof Amina Tariq as your proposed principal supervisor, and copy the link to this scholarship website into question 2 of the financial details section.
About the scholarship
Health AI is being adopted across health services at unprecedented speed and scale. Early evidence suggests gains in efficiency and clinician experience, but most evaluations to date are task-level, cross-sectional snapshots. They measure one tool at one point in the workflow. Much less is known about how these technologies change work across the whole care process, including downstream effects on other clinicians, patients, information flow and safety.
This PhD project will examine the system-level impact of health AI, using human factors and systems approaches to trace its effects end to end across clinical processes. For example, rather than measuring documentation time alone, the project may examine how AI scribes reshape the full workflow, from consultation through note review and sign-off to referrals, follow-up, and patient communication. Findings will inform the safe, sustainable adoption and integration of AI technologies in health services.
The candidate will be supervised by Professor Amina Tariq and co-supervised by Professor Belinda Lange. You will join the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Human Factors and AI-enabled Clinical Decision Support. This national collaboration brings together QUT, the University of Sydney, Macquarie University and the University of the Sunshine Coast with partners including Queensland Health, NSW Health and the Australian Digital Health Agency. You will also take part in the CRE Student Community of Practice, human factors methods workshops and as required cross-university co-supervision.