Advancing the Indigenist Health Humanities (PhD Scholarship)

Applications close

30 August 2022

The successful applicant will receive a scholarship that includes:

• a tax-free living stipend of $45,000 per annum
• a full tuition fee offset

The scholarship will be provided for an initial period of 3 years, and may be extended by up to 12 months, subject to satisfactory progression.

• meet QUT academic and English language entry requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy
• be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and provide a confirmation of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent
• enrol as an internal, full-time student
• be able to commence between 1 October 2022 and 31 March 2023.

Find out more about confirmation of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent via the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies website .

If you're interested in applying for this opportunity, please contact Prof Chelsea Watego or Dr David Singh in the first instance.

After this initial discussion, applicants may be directed to submit an Expression of Interest (EOI), with the steps outlined on our apply for a research degree website.

Your EOI must:

Please contact Prof Chelsea Watego or Dr David Singh in the first instance.

The scholarship will be governed by the QUT Indigenous Postgraduate Research Award (IPRA) Conditions , however the value of the scholarship will be $45,000 per annum.

Projects will be tailored to the research interests of the student but must be aligned with Prof Chelsea Watego’s ARC Discovery Indigenous project ‘Building An Indigenist Health Humanities Collective’. Prof Watego’s team is developing Indigenist Health Humanities as a new and innovative field of inquiry, building an intellectual collective capable of bridging the knowledge gap that hinders current efforts to close the gap in Indigenous health inequality. Bringing together health and the humanities through the particularity of Indigenous scholarship, a deeper understanding of the human experience of health will be developed alongside a greater understanding of the enablers to building a transdisciplinary collective of Indigenous health researchers.