PhD Opportunities in Education in Australia

The Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) provides fully funded research scholarship opportunities for eligible Master’s and PhD candidates at participating Australian universities. Research projects are defined by the host universities and may span science, technology, health, engineering, agriculture, business and the humanities. This broad programme supports students undertaking advanced research within university departments, laboratories, research groups and other academic e...

The Pacific Institute PhD Grant for Research supports doctoral study and Pacific-related research at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific in Canberra, Australia. The award is intended to advance higher education for Pacific Islanders and encourage research focused on the Pacific. It is associated with the Pacific Institute and recognises the contributions of Jim Davidson, Professor of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Sir Peter Buck, a distinguishe...

Monash University is offering a fully funded research-based PhD scholarship at the School of Education and Culture within the Faculty of Education, based at the Clayton campus in Melbourne, Australia. The doctoral project forms part of the Australian Research Council-funded project Hitting the Limits: Intersectional sexisms in Australian universities . It will examine LGBTIQA+ academics’ institutional locations, workplace experiences, and private and professional sources of support within Austra...

Monash University is offering a PhD scholarship within Wiser Healthcare and a new NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence focused on strengthening health-system sustainability and resilience. The successful candidate will join the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and contribute to a large national, multidisciplinary collaboration addressing major challenges in healthcare: the overuse of care that provides little or no patient benefit and the underuse of effective care. The PhD ...

Bond University's Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare and Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine are inviting expressions of interest for a PhD focused on evaluation and implementation science in cardiovascular prevention. The project will evaluate a strategy to integrate influenza vaccination early into hospital-based care following acute myocardial infarction. Although early vaccination during the index admission can reduce all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, vaccination is commonly del...

Bond University’s Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, within the Faculty of Health Sciences & Medicine, is inviting expressions of interest for a PhD focused on implementing antibiotic stewardship in the community . The doctoral research forms part of the Medical Research Future Fund Clinical Trial Activity Grant project Evidence-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship: Sustainable Implementation in Primary Care (EASSI-PC) . The project aims to reduce antibiotic use for acute, self-limiting infecti...

The University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) is offering a funded PhD opportunity through the Queensland-Bavaria Collaborative Research Project in Digital Twins, artificial intelligence and future energy systems . The doctoral researcher will join the Artificial Intelligence Applications Laboratory and an international research and industry team spanning UniSQ, Queensland energy-sector partners, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg and Chemnitz University of Technology. The project will adap...

Monash University is seeking Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants for PhD opportunities across all research areas. This expression of interest is framed as a pathway into doctoral research at Monash, with the successful applicant based at the Clayton campus in Melbourne or another Monash campus as designated or agreed. The opening emphasises independent PhD research under expert academic supervision, with access to Monash’s research platforms and the option to undertake the doctor...

CSIRO Industry PhD Program Project 2 is a four-year research training opportunity at Monash University focused on enabling migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The project addresses the challenge of securing critical infrastructure against quantum attacks by developing techniques and frameworks that support trusted PQC migration. The PhD is part of the CSIRO Industry PhD Program, which combines university research with CSIRO and industry participation. The student will work in an applie...