PhD Opportunities in Health Services Research in Australia

PhD scholarship opportunities are available for two candidates to join the Monash Bioethics Centre at Monash University’s Clayton campus in Melbourne. The project sits within an ARC-funded Future Fellowship project on addressing cultural diversity in healthcare through global bioethics, led by Dr Ehsan Shamsi Gooshki. The research examines how bioethics engages with cultural diversity across Australian and global healthcare contexts, combining qualitative, quantitative and analytical approaches....

Wiser Healthcare at Monash University is offering a PhD scholarship within a new NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence focused on strengthening health system sustainability and resilience. The project sits inside an internationally recognised Australian research collaboration that aims to improve the value, sustainability and equity of health care while supporting stronger outcomes for patients, practitioners, the public and the planet. The successful candidate will join the Wiser Healthcar...

PhD opportunity at the Justice Health Research Program, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) for a project titled “Developing a whole-of-setting model of care project for trans people in prison.” This is a funded PhD under the UNSW Scientia scholarship PhD scheme and is part of an MRFF-funded research project. The position offers a 3.5-year scholarship with an annual tax-free stipend of AUD 39,991 . In addition, the project provides a one-off AUD 25,000 global mobility grant for travel to...

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is offering a PhD scholarship on the system-level impact of healthcare AI in Brisbane, Australia. The project focuses on how health AI tools, including AI scribes and other clinical decision support technologies, affect the full care process rather than only isolated tasks. Using human factors and systems approaches , the research will examine workflow, information flow, downstream effects on clinicians and patients, safety, and sustainable integration o...

📢 PhD Opportunity at the Australian Frailty Network (AFN). The project is part of the EMPOWER research program and will evaluate hospital avoidance services for older adults living with frailty across Metro South Health and Darling Downs Health . The aim is to build evidence for future models of care in frailty-focused health services research. Enrolment is through the University of Queensland , and RTP scholarship support is available for eligible full-time students through a competitive select...