2026 UNSW Developing Child and Youth Friendly Resources to Address Quality of Life Across the Cancer Care Trajectory PhD Scholarship

A full-time PhD scholarship is available to work on a joint MRFF project, which focusses on developing a model of person-centric palliative care that is feasible and effective in improving quality of care and quality of life outcomes for young people with rare, untreatable and incurable cancer.

Potential work for the PhD as part of this program might include:

• Facilitating co-design work with patients, families and healthcare professionals to shape and validate the model of care before testing.
• A medical records audit to assess current practice for access to palliative care for children and young people with cancer.
• Reviewing quality of life measures for the paediatric palliative care and oncology setting.
• Evaluating implementation strategies used to embed the model of care across settings.
• Developing and evaluating a model of care toolkit for future scalability and implementation.

It will be jointly supervised by A/Prof Ursula Sansom-Daly, with potential national and international advisers, dependent on the PhD focus. This can be discussed upon application. The student will join a larger international team of senior multidisciplinary clinical researchers, post-doctoral fellows and students working on the broader study, which is funded by A/Prof Sansom-Daly's MRFF grant.

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineNovember 1, 2025
• Value$39,206 per annum (2026 rate)
• Study LevelPhD
• SponsorUniversity of New South Wales (UNSW)
• School to studyUniversity of New South Wales (UNSW)
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

• Living Allowance $39,206 per annum (2026 rate) up to 3.5 years
• Tuition Fees up to 3.5 years.

Requirements

• Domestic and International full time PhD applicants only.
• Applicants are sought from students with first class honours in psychology, nursing, allied health, medicine or equivalent.
• Applicants with clinical training and/or experience will be highly regarded.

Check also:
ANU Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship 2026
University of Canberra Research Scholarships 2026

Application Deadline

How To Apply

• To apply please send a CV and academic transcripts to Dr Madeleine Juhrmann [email protected] by 1 November 2025.

For more information, kindly visit UNSW Scholarship webpage.