The Global Challenges PhD top-up scholarship offers a per annum top up of $5,000 to the UQ Graduate School Scholarship plus $5,000 support for a placement and $2,000 professional development support (over the period of the candidature) to outstanding domestic and eligible international onshore applicants.
The PhD projects on offer will give each student the opportunity to take a deep dive into a specialised topic and research discipline in one laboratory and within our broad-ranging approach. Each project will provide the rich foundational research training gained by completing a PhD and an opportunity to make a unique contribution to the field of knowledge. By conducting these projects within a cohort of other students, also aiming to broadly address the identified themes, the collective will form an intellectual hub, together, solving these global challenges.
Importantly, the top-up includes specialised training in each theme and cutting-edge research techniques, tailored transferable skills training and support to conduct a placement nationally or internationally with a related partner. Collectively, these will form four pillars of support for the research project and create job-ready graduates with links to the national and international research, entrepreneurial and industry community.
For more information about this scholarship top-up, please visit the UQ Graduate website.
In your application, ensure you:
- Select ‘My higher degree is not collaborative’
- Select 'I am applying for, or have been awarded a scholarship or sponsorship'.
- Select ‘Other’, then add ‘IMB Global Challenges + identified theme’
Please note, there are conditions for undertaking this top-up scholarship. Refer to details below.
Top-up conditions
If awarded the Global Challenges top-up scholarship, there are a few conditions that must be met in order to receive funding. These include:
- Conducting a cross-disciplinary project that is targeted at solving a global problem within a theme.
- Conducting a project that is multidisciplinary, with an advisory group that is composed of at least one Associate advisor in a different IMB Centre (or UQ institute/school) to the principal advisor
- Conducting a placement with an external partner - arranged by you in collaboration with The University of Queensland Graduate School within the first 18 months of commencement, the placement can take place at any time during the candidature but is normally undertaken towards the end of the PhD. The extension of your candidature period from 3.5 years to 4 years is conditional on undertaking a placement.
- Being an IMB ambassador - both to promote the scholarship and IMB generally.
- Being an active participant in SIMBA and mentoring junior scholarship holders
- Full participation in internal IMB training events for PhD students:
- First Year:
- Training Week
- Technical training Masterclass
- PhD student retreat
- Second Year:
- Industry engagement training and event
- UniQuest commercialisation workshop
- Third year:
- Career development workshops, alumni mentorship programs and career panel opportunities
* The top-up scholarship duration is 3.5 years guaranteed plus 0.5 years conditional on completing training and a placement. Please know that further activities that build your cohort and enrich your PhD experience will be advised over the period of your candidature and your attendance will be required.
