Scholarship details
What you'll receive
You'll receive:
- a living allowance for three years, indexed annually ($28,597 in 2021). The scholarship can be used to support living costs.
Eligibility
You must:
- meet the admission criteria for a PhD (PDF file, 235.7 KB)
- apply for and be accepted into a PhD or professional doctorate.
This scholarship is not available for masters students.
Faculty criteria
Depending on the faculty you'll be studying in, you will have to meet specific eligibility criteria.
Creative Industries Faculty
- Criteria 1
- Academic record reflecting outstanding performance
- Criteria 2
- Quality of the research project proposal
- Criteria 3
- Strategic alignment with faculty priority areas
- Criteria 4
- Research environment and supervisory team
Faculty of Education
- Criteria 1
- Academic record reflecting outstanding performance
- Criteria 2
- Demonstrated research aptitude and achievement - relevant to opportunity
- Criteria 3
- Strategic alignment with faculty research strengths and priorities
- Criteria 4
- Professional experience relevant to the proposed project
- Criteria 5
- Quality of the research proposal
Faculty of Health
Applicants are assessed against the following three criteria. You must achieve a score of 5-7 against these criteria to be considered for a scholarship.
- Criteria 1
- Academic record and research achievements - relative to opportunity
- Criteria 2
- Research environment and supervisory team
- Criteria 3
- Research project and strategic alignment - relative to stage of candidature
Faculty of Law
- Criteria 1
- Academic excellence exceeding the minimum required for entry
- Criteria 2
- Research or professional experience reflecting outstanding research skills, and/or high quality publications
- Criteria 3
- Quality of research proposal
- Criteria 4
- Strategic alignment with faculty research strengths and priorities
QUT Business School
- Criteria 1
- A high grade point average (GPA)
- Criteria 2
- Demonstration of a high level of research aptitude and/or skill, beyond the minimum standard required for entry
- Criteria 3
- Strategic alignment with faculty research strengths and priorities
- Criteria 4
- Submission of a high quality research proposal
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Criteria 1
- Grade point average (GPA) of at least 6
- Criteria 2
- Publications and conference/journal/patents
- Criteria 3
- Research, lab, field and professional experience
- Criteria 4
- Strategic alignment with faculty research strengths, priorities and values
- Criteria 5
- School and supervisor support
- Criteria 6
- English language proficiency level (benchmarked and ranked against an overall score higher than QUT's minimum English test requirements, or a comparison for approved QUT EMI equivalence)
How to apply
Future students
We have moved to a two-step application process, with an Expression of Interest (EOI) followed by an application if you are invited to apply on the basis of your EOI.
You must have submitted your EOI by by 11:59pm AEST on 20 September 2020 to ensure inclusion in the annual scholarship round.
If your EOI is successful you will be invited to submit an application. Applications must be submitted by 11:59pm AEST on 30 October 2020.
If you submitted an application prior to Monday 17 August 2020 and indicated that you wished to be considered for a scholarship you will automatically be included in the round.
Follow our step-by-step guide to apply for a research degree
Current students
Applications have closed for the 2021 annual scholarship round.
What happens next?
We'll assess applications and make offers in mid-December. If your scholarship application is successful, you'll need to accept the offer by the response date provided in your offer. We expect you to begin your research degree early in the following year.
Eligibility for admission to a PhD is determined by the Graduate Research Centre. Scholarship applications will be assessed by the faculty you’re applying to study with.
Conditions
Your scholarship will end when you submit your thesis, or at the end of the award's tenure, whichever comes first.
Read the terms and conditions (PDF file, 301.5 KB) for this scholarship.
To keep your scholarship, you must:
- make satisfactory progress in your studies
- remain studying at QUT
- be enrolled as an internal student
- remain studying full-time.
You can't:
- hold another scholarship that is worth more than 75% of the QUT Postgraduate Research Award (Domestic).
About the scholarship
We are building research excellence by supporting students of exceptional research potential with QUTPRAs. The number of QUTPRAs offered varies from year to year. In 2018 over 100 QUTPRA scholarships were awarded.
Contact us
Graduate Research Centre
- Phone
- 3138 7200
- Int. phone
- +61 7 3138 7200
- research@qut.edu.au
- Location
- 88 Musk Avenue
- Kelvin Grove QLD 4059
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
- Postal address
- Graduate Research Centre
- GPO Box 2434
- Brisbane QLD 4001