Tom Dixon Media and Communication Top-Up Scholarship

Applications open

19 May 2024

Applications close

18 October 2024

You will receive an annual top-up of $5,000 per annum for a maximum of two years (maximum $10,000). The top-up will be paid fortnightly in addition to your living stipend.

To be eligible for this top-up scholarship, you must:

• already be in receipt of a living stipend scholarship from QUT of at least $32,192 per annum
• be a full-time doctoral student
• have not yet completed your confirmation milestone
• successfully undertake your confirmation milestone between 1 November 2024 and 31 March 2025
• be undertaking research in either the media and/or communication disciplines.

To apply for this scholarship, please email your expression of interest to [email protected] . Ensure you include:

• your student number
• a document of no more than two pages addressing the below selection criteria:
  • alignment of your project to either the media or communication disciplines
  • potential of the project to make an outstanding contribution to the field
  • progress to date and timeline to achieve timely completion of the milestone.

You will be notified of the outcome of your application by 30 November 2024.

If successful, you will begin receiving your top-up payments once you have successfully completed your confirmation milestone.

The successful applicant must demonstrate satisfactory progress throughout their candidature to retain their scholarship.

The Tom Dixon Scholarship was a generous donation to QUT from Emeritus Professor Tom Dixon AM. Emeritus Professor Tom Dixon AM valued systems that allow people to achieve self definition and self realisation, and strongly believed that communication is a central tool to achieve this.