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Western Sydney University Project Scholarships
PhD Scholarship in Gender Studies, Disability Studies and Arts-Based Methods at Western Sydney University Western Sydney University in Australia
Degree Level
PhD
Field of study
Computer Science
Funding
Project scholarships provide a stipend and other benefits. One project offers a tax-free stipend of AUD 39,533 per annum for up to 3 years; domestic candidates also receive RTP Fee Offset, and international candidates may receive a tuition fee waiver if they have a strong track record. Another project offers a tax-free stipend of AUD 37,000 per annum for up to 3 years; domestic candidates receive RTP Fee Offset, and international candidates may receive a tuition fee waiver and Overseas Student H
Deadline
Expired
Country
Australia
University
Western Sydney University
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Western Sydney University Project Scholarships support project-based PhD research at Western Sydney University, usually with a tax-free stipend and fee support or tuition waiver depending on candidate status.
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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.
Funding details
Project scholarships provide a stipend and other benefits. One project offers a tax-free stipend of AUD 39,533 per annum for up to 3 years; domestic candidates also receive RTP Fee Offset, and international candidates may receive a tuition fee waiver if they have a strong track record. Another project offers a tax-free stipend of AUD 37,000 per annum for up to 3 years; domestic candidates receive RTP Fee Offset, and international candidates may receive a tuition fee waiver and Overseas Student H
What's required
Applicants should be highly motivated PhD candidates with strong interests in the relevant project area. For the gender/disability/art-based project, suitable backgrounds include medical humanities, history, philosophy, literary studies, medical or bioethics, gender studies, Indigenous studies, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, gynaecology, or other relevant fields; applicants should have qualifications equivalent to an Australian First Class Honours degree, a coursework Masters with at least 25% research component, a Research Masters degree, or equivalent overseas qualifications, and fluent scholarly English. For the crop-growth modelling project, applicants should have a Bachelor’s degree with First Class Honours or a Master’s degree in computational/applied mathematics, physics, data science, computer science, or a closely related quantitative discipline, with strong Python programming, experience with deep learning frameworks preferably PyTorch, solid computer vision background, some knowledge of dynamical systems, and strong interest in time-series modelling, sequence prediction, or video understanding. International applicants must demonstrate English language proficiency.
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