Victoria University often provides opportunities for scholarships related to specific projects.
Often these projects are funded in conjunction with an industry partner, offering the valuable opportunity to learn to do research which connects industry and universities. This can provide experience and perspective on research, which is valued by universities and industry employers.
Scholarships to study PhDs are available for the following projects, which provide living stipends and fee offsets.
Base stipend is $28,200 per annum.
Top-up of $10,000 per annum (flat-rate) from second year for the duration of the scholarship, subject to satisfactory performance.
Domestic only
PhD
This project will investigate the role of exercise in altering cerebral blood flow, with a particular focus on developing ‘best practice’ exercise prescription for promoting beneficial changes in cerebral blood flow. Full training and support will be provided to the successful application.
Exercise Physiology, Hemodynamics (desirable)
IP Assignment
$28,000 per annum
International and domestic applicants
PhD
Firebrands (such as twigs, barks and leaves) [also referred to as embers] play an important role in bushfire spread and damage to properties. They are a significant cause of bushfire attack on infrastructure and for starting spot fires many kilometres ahead of the fire front. The project aims to develop a statistical model from modelling of firebrand movement that can be incorporated into fire simulator models to help predict the contribution of embers to fire spread predictions. The research should identify parameters for simplified firebrand dynamics for use within fire simulator models, and will be obtained via statistical analysis of firebrand behaviour and landing distributions.
Applied mathematics or mechanical engineering or chemical engineering or civil engineering.
None
Midnight, 6 February 2020 (AEDT)
International and domestic applicants.
$28,200 per annum.
PhD
The topic for this PhD is “molecular networks underlying exercise-induced mitochondrial biogenesis in humans” and the aim is to uncover novel signalling events associated with exercise-induced mitochondrial biogenesis in humans. The successful applicant will be responsible for running exercise trials involving skeletal muscle biopsies, followed by the analysis of changes in genes and proteins in human muscle samples.
Molecular biology.
None.
$28,200 per annum.
Available to international and domestic applicants.
PhD
The topic for this PhD is nutrition practices to support and maximise adaptations to training in Australian army personnel.
In partnership with The Defence Science and Technology Group, there is an exciting opportunity for a PhD student to perform research that evaluates the daily energy requirements, energy intake, and macronutrient intake and timing, of military personnel during physical training. This information will then be used to design laboratory and field studies to investigate novel feeding strategies to enhance adaptations to training.
Nutrition, exercise physiology.
None
Midnight, 31 January 2020 (AEDT)
Victoria University is currently offering two industry-supported scholarships.
Stipends and fee offset are supported through the Australian Government Research Training Program.
Successful applicants for these scholarships will need to sign an Intellectual Property (IP) Assignment, assigning any intellectual property created in the PhD (except copyright in the thesis) to Victoria University, so that we can meet our contractual obligations to our industry partners.
Some individual projects may have other special conditions, which will be made clear in the project details. Click on the projects below for information about the project, industry partner, supervisor stipend amount and other details.
Western Water
$28,200 per annum. After the first year, the candidate will also be eligible for a performance based attractive increment in the scholarship of total $25k distributed over the remaining 2.5 years of PhD.
Challenges facing the Victorian water corporations in maintaining safe and resilient water supplies, include population growth, aging infrastructure, customer expectations and climate change .
For this reason, the successful PhD applicant will work alongside academic and industry in developing an Intelligent Water Network Strategy & Action Plan. It will consist of water, sewer and recycled water network devices that provide intelligence, communication systems and digital metering that can ultimately enable cost-effective asset management investment decisions.
More specifically, algorithms will be developed to:
Midnight, 28 February 2020 (AEDT)
Wyndham City Council, Melton City Council, Hume City Council
$28,200 per annum
This research addresses the impacts of climate change and natural hazards on asset management driven by the significant investment into these infrastructures together with the current population growth in Victoria.
The following phases will reference the strategic drivers at national and state levels:
Civil/chemical and/or environmental engineering.
IP assignment (see above)
Midnight, 28 February 2020 (AEDT)
Carefully read the application guides and review the online application form for details of what is sought for each project. Discuss the project with the listed supervisor.
The relevant online application form lists the documents you will need to submit. Normally this will include:
If you have any questions please email [email protected].
