Western Sydney University Project Scholarships

Western Sydney University is advertising multiple PhD scholarship opportunities under its Project Scholarships scheme. The post highlights a project in gender studies, disability studies, and arts-based methods, with a focus on digital intimacy and inclusion for LGBTQA+ people with intellectual disability. The project explores how people connect, love, and learn online, with an emphasis on equity, reproductive justice, and inclusion through co-design and arts-based research methods.

The scholarship page also lists additional PhD projects in related and interdisciplinary areas, including medical humanities, protected cropping, crop growth modelling, computer vision, machine learning, plant physiology, and horticulture. These projects are linked to Western Sydney University research groups and collaborators such as the Translational Health Research Institute and the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment.

Funding is strong: one project offers a tax-free stipend of AUD 35,188 per year for 3 years and is described as a fully funded PhD; other projects offer stipends of AUD 37,000 or AUD 39,533 per year for up to 3 years. Domestic candidates may receive RTP Fee Offset support, and some international candidates may be eligible for a tuition fee waiver and OSHC. Conference, fieldwork, and other approved costs may also be supported.

Eligibility varies by project. For the humanities/social science project, applicants should have a strong background in relevant fields such as gender studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, medical humanities, or related disciplines, plus strong scholarly English. For the quantitative/agri-tech project, applicants should have a background in computer science, data science, mathematics, physics, or a related quantitative field, with Python and deep learning experience, computer vision knowledge, and interest in sequence modelling and video understanding.

The deadline in the post is 30 June 2026. Interested applicants should review the project scholarship page, identify the project that best matches their background, and follow the university application process. The page indicates that project scholarships are updated monthly, so applicants should check the current listings and contact the relevant lead researcher for project-specific questions.