Postgraduate students contribute significantly to our scientific success and the Diamantina Institute actively seeks high calibre people who demonstrate initiative and independent thought. Most of our PhD students receive an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) or equivalent. Currently, this amounts to a tax-free income of about $20,000 per year. The Diamantina Institute will top this up with a further $5000 per year, again tax free. The University of Queensland offers scholarships to international students and we urge Australian and international students who don’t already have funding to discuss options with us at an early stage. We’ll be happy to help you with funding applications once you’ve been accepted into our postgraduate program.

Funding Options

Australian Postgraduate Award (APA)
The aims of the Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) program are to support postgraduate research training in the higher education sector and to provide financial support to domestic postgraduate students of exceptional research promise. Awards are available for a period of two years for a Masters degree or three years, with a possible extension of six months, for a PhD.

University of Queensland Research Scholarship (UQRS)
The University of Queensland offers a number of Research Scholarships each year that are equivalent in value to the APA. The aim of the UQRS is to provide a living allowance for commencing domestic research higher degree candidates (PhD or MPhil).

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
The aim of the NHMRC’s scholarships scheme is to support outstanding Australian health and medical graduates early in their career so that they can be trained to conduct research that is internationally competitive and develop a capacity for original independent research.

Cancer Council Queensland
The Cancer Council Queensland’s PhD scholarship program provides financial support for bright young Queensland scientists undertaking their PhD projects in cancer research. These scholarships are not intended to support overseas students undertaking a PhD project in Queensland or interstate students, unless they intend to develop their careers in Queensland.

Australian Kidney Foundation (AKF)
The Australian Kidney Foundation provides scholarships for individuals wishing to study full time for the research degrees of PhD or MD by undertaking research into the causes, prevention and treatment of disorders of the kidneys and urinary tract.

For more information about scholarships, visit the UQ Graduate School website. To find out what to do next, click here.