In a partnership between Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and the Queensland Women and Girls’ Health Promotion Program (QWGHP), QUT is offering a fully funded PhD scholarship for a motivated candidate to undertake doctoral research focused on gender-transformative health promotion in rural and remote Queensland.
This PhD opportunity offers the chance to directly influence from a gender and health equity perspective preventive health policy and practice in Queensland. The successful candidate will work closely with QWGHP’s state-wide team, have access to real-world projects and stakeholders, and contribute to informing implementation of gender transformative health promotion as well as translating evidence into policy and practice. Your research will be supported by both the School of Public Health and Social Work and the QUT Centre for Justice and inform community-orientated approaches to reducing health inequity for women and girls in rural and remote Queensland.
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Benefits
- You'll receive a stipend of $42,000 per annum for a maximum duration of 3.5 years while undertaking a QUT PhD. The duration includes an extension of up to six months (PhD) if approved for your candidature. This is the full-time, tax exempt rate which will index annually.
- You will receive a tuition fee offset/sponsorship, covering the cost of your tuition fees for the first four full-time equivalent years of your doctoral studies.
- You will be provided with additional projects funds to support field work and knowledge translation.
- As the scholarship recipient, you will have the opportunity to work with a team of leading researchers, to undertake your own innovative research in and across the field.
Requirements
You must:
- meet the entry requirements for QUT's Doctor of Philosophy, including any English language requirements
- enrol as a full-time, internal student (unless approval for part-time and/or external study is obtained)
- commence your degree by 30 June 2026
- have a diverse background and rural and remote lived experiences. Ideally, applicants should have:
- a relevant master degree (e.g. public health, health promotion, gender studies, sociology, anthropology, community development) or relevant undergraduate degree with honours
- demonstrated research capacity and critical thinking skills
- commitment to critical, feminist, decolonial, transformative or equity-centred research methodologies.
Check also:
ANU Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship 2026
University of Canberra Research Scholarships 2026
Application Deadline
April 10, 2026How To Apply
Apply for this scholarship at the same time you apply for admission to QUT's Doctor of Philosophy.
- The first step is to email Associate Professor Christina Malatzky no later than the 10 April 2026, with the following:
- a cover letter outlining your research interests and motivation and how your experience and skills link with the project remit
- a brief project proposal detailing your idea for the project (approximately 500 words).
- a CV highlighting relevant experience and achievements and including two referees
- copies of relevant academic transcripts.
- If supported to apply, you will then submit an expression of interest (EOI) following the advice at how to apply for a research degree.
- In your EOI, nominate Associate Professor Christina Malatzky, as your proposed principal supervisor, and copy the link to this scholarship web page into question two of the financial details section.
For more information, kindly visit the QUT Scholarship webpage.
