By offering a competitive and supportive scholarship, Deakin hopes to provide better opportunities for Indigenous graduate researchers. The new scholarship is part of Deakin’s broader strategy to increase Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participation in graduate research and contributes to the commitment in the Deakin Indigenous Strategy 2023–2028 to ‘empower Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and Communities to understand and undertake research themselves, and recognising their rights and ancestral responsibilities as participants and researchers’.
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Summary
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Benefits
- Stipend of $52,352 per annum tax exempt (2025 rate).
- $15,000 research bursary to help support the costs associated with the additional complexity that Indigenous researchers experience in fulfilling their obligations and responsibilities to Country, family, kinship relationships, community and the academy, and acknowledging the appropriate and respectful relationships that need to be maintained.
Requirements
To be eligible for this scholarship, you must be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. This means you are:
- of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and
- identify as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander; and
- are accepted as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander by the community in which you live or have lived.
Selection Process
To be awarded the First Nations graduate research scholarship you must:
- have completed at least four years of tertiary education studies
- have achieved 80% or equivalent in the research component of your previous study or an equivalent level of academic attainment, taking into account previous study, relevant work experience, research publications and other research experience
- meet all other minimum entry requirements according to the?Higher Degrees by Research (HDR) Admission, Selection and Enrolment Procedure, and all eligibility criteria of this scholarship.
Application Deadline
October 24, 2025How To Apply
Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to
Deakin University on rp.deakin.edu.au to apply
For more information, kindly visit Deakin university scholarship webpage.
