PhD Opportunities in Media Studies in Australia

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...

Monash University is offering a PhD opportunity through the Monash Energy Institute and its sponsoring faculties in Information Technology, Monash Business School, and Engineering. The project is based at the Caulfield or Clayton campuses and is designed for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates whose research will advance First Nations peoples’ interests in the Australian energy transition. The advert invites proposals that engage with the energy transition in ways that are meanin...

This PhD stipend scholarship at Monash University invites a student to develop an original research project in human-animal interactions . The opportunity is based in the School of Primary and Allied Health Care at Monash’s Peninsula campus , and is shaped around the supervisory expertise of Dr Em Bould and a broader multidisciplinary team. The project direction is intentionally open, allowing the successful candidate to propose their own research program while building on existing work in anima...

This PhD project sits within the CSIRO Industry PhD scholarship program and is hosted at Monash University in collaboration with CSIRO and Maincode. The research focuses on self-evolving agentic AI : autonomous AI agents that can continue learning, reorganise how they collaborate, and improve as their environments, tasks, and information change over time. The project addresses a major limitation of many current agent frameworks: they are largely static, with predefined knowledge and coordination...

This PhD scholarship is based at Monash University’s Clayton campus in Melbourne and sits within a Monash AI Institute collaboration between the Arts and IT faculties. The project investigates communication and navigation for blind and low vision people, with a particular focus on how people interact with digital navigational technologies and use multimodal information to build a navigational frame of reference. The student will carry out detailed linguistic and multimodal research on real-world...

This PhD scholarship sits within Monash University’s evidence-based rheumatology research environment and the Australian and New Zealand Musculoskeletal Clinical Trials Network (ANZMUSC). The project focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of living clinical practice guidelines in rheumatology, an area that aims to keep recommendations current through continuous evidence surveillance, systematic reviewing, GRADE methodology, and digital guideline platforms. The successful cand...

PhD opportunity in Evaluating Clinical AI in Real-Time at The University of Queensland , through the Queensland Digital Health Centre and the NASCENT initiative (National Infrastructure for Real-time Clinical AI Trials). This funded doctoral project focuses on how artificial intelligence can be safely and effectively evaluated in real-world healthcare settings. The position is designed for a student interested in clinical AI , digital health , and the responsible deployment of AI in practice. Po...

Fully funded 3.5-year PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne , School of Computing and Information Systems, in Australia . Research topic: Strategy extraction and generalisation for AI agents . The project focuses on developing new methods for AI agents to learn strategic knowledge from observed behaviour and transfer that knowledge to new tasks with different representations. The work builds on sequence alignment techniques, ontological reasoning, strategy transfer, and policy learning....

PhD opportunity at the University of Newcastle, Australia on Progressive Voices/Movements in Islamic Theology in the (Post-)Secular Society of 21st Century . This project invites research in Islamic theology , especially Islamic liberation theology approaches, with an evidence-based (rather than faith-based) methodology in the Humanities or Social Sciences . The topic is framed around progressive/reformist movements in Islam and their responses to contemporary challenges such as radicalization, ...