PhD Opportunities in Nursing in Australia

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...

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 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...

Fully Funded PhD Project in Single-Cell Cancer Genomics The Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, is advertising a PhD project in collaboration with the Broad Institute and Professor Alex Swarbrick’s research team. The project will use long-read sequencing to map RNA isoforms in breast and prostate cancers, with the goal of understanding disease progression and drug resistance. The project is suited to prospective doctoral students with an interest in or training in computat...

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...

PhD opportunity through the CSIRO Industry PhD (iPhD) Program focused on the benefits of value-added red meat products . This project sits at the intersection of food science , biotechnology , nutrition , protein innovation , and sustainable food and feed systems . The research aims to re-imagine the role of red meat in healthy food and feed systems by using novel technologies to convert meat by-products into high-quality food or feed applications. Topics include high-protein and iron-rich foods...

Research Degree Opportunity at the University of Melbourne Project title: Next-generation gene therapy for retinitis pigmentosa . This project develops a next-generation gene replacement therapy for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) , a severe inherited retinal disease caused by loss-of-function mutations in a photoreceptor-specific gene. The research focuses on restoring gene function in degenerating photoreceptors and advancing a therapy for a recessive rod-cone dystrophy that currently has no approve...

Research Degree Opportunity at the University of Melbourne : PhD in the epidemiology of school mental health, wellbeing and engagement . This project will use an epidemiological approach to study the distribution, determinants, and implications of school mental health , wellbeing , and engagement across Victorian schools. The research will link student and caregiver perspectives, drawing on Department of Education datasets to better understand population patterns, inequalities, and differences i...

PhD opportunity at The University of Melbourne on implementing measurement of core outcomes for child deafness . This research degree project is offered by the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences , with supervision from Dr Valerie Sung (Principal Supervisor) and A/Prof Stephanie Best (Internal Co-supervisor). The work is based at Royal Children’s Hospital / Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia. The project focuses on children who are deaf a...