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Find available Ph.d scholarships in Australia for students from developing countries 2026-2027
This scholarship is made possible by a generous bequest from The Reverend Dr Robert James Brown (1946-2013), a Uniting Church minister, and is established to assist a candidate from the Uniting Church tradition to undertake higher degree by research study at the University of Divinity.
Published: 06 May 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: 20 Jul 2026
The G.O. Lawrence Scholarship has been established from a bequest to the University from Mrs Alice Eileen Lawrence in 1966 in memory of Gordon Ord Lawrence who was a teacher of conservative dentistry in the Dental School from 1940 to 1960. The scholarship supports postgraduate coursework studen
Published: 05 May 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: $40,000 Deadline: 08 Nov 2026
Flinders University is committed to addressing the wicked problems and big issues of our time—complex, interconnected challenges that matter deeply to society and cannot be solved by single disciplines alone. That is why, through the Flinders Wicked Problems ReportTM, Flind
Published: 10 Apr 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
This scholarship is aligned with the ARC Discovery project “Deciphering the effects of self-repair on human language and communication” (DP260101045). This scholarship supports research on human language and communication, focusing on the diverse ways that speakers shape language pr
Published: 30 Mar 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: $39,700 p.a. Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
The search for Earth-like planets addresses one of humanity’s deepest questions: are we alone? Develop a machine-learned model of stellar spectra and instrumental quirks, and use it to discover exoplanets in radial velocity data. The first exoplanets were detected by the radial velocity
Published: 17 Mar 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
This scholarship offers an excellent opportunity to develop an international research profile and contribute to impactful, cutting-edge work at the forefront of graph anomaly detection. Macquarie University is offering two fully funded international PhD scholarships to join our exciting research pro
Published: 17 Mar 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
The purpose of the PhD Industry Ready Internship Scholarship (PIRIS) is to facilitate a PhD student to carry out an eligible research internship during their PhD enrolment, in collaboration with an eligible research end-user (industry partner) and under the supervision of their Principal Supervisor.
Published: 16 Mar 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: 31 Dec 2026
This PhD project offers an exciting opportunity to increase knowledge and understanding of dry eye disease in children The project will aim to: estimate the prevalence and clinical features of Dry Eye Disease (DED) in children aged 6–16 years in the UK and Australia. identify
Published: 04 Mar 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia, United Kingdom Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 31 Mar 2026
This programme of work will develop and pilot an intervention package to build psychological readiness among paediatric healthcare professionals who are exposed to potentially traumatising incidents at work. The main objectives include: to review the evidence related to building psycholo
Published: 04 Mar 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia, United Kingdom Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 31 Mar 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly become embedded in everyday decision-making—shaping access to jobs, credit, healthcare, information and even personal autonomy—yet its development and deployment are far from neutral. Gendered impacts surface througn a range of interconnected harm
Published: 27 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: $55,000 per annum Deadline: 15 Apr 2026
These PhD scholarships are part of an ARC Discovery Project titled “Grief at the Margins: Conceptualising the Diversity of Loss” hosted by Macquarie University. The aim of this project is to characterise the diversity and variability of grief experiences with a focus on grief in Autistic
Published: 24 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
The PhD study aims to originate variational decentralised learning theories and methods to integrate variational, decentralised and deep learning to satisfy complex stylistic, local-global integrative requirements. The scholarship will sponsor foundational research on variational decentralised le
Published: 24 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
The Nick Christopher PhD Top-up Scholarship is awarded to high-achieving students who are enrolling in a graduate research course in any of the Parkville Departments (Medicine (RMH), Surgery (RMH), Radiology, Psychiatry, Clinical Pathology, Critical Care). The Nick Christopher PhD Top-up Scholars
Published: 16 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: Up to $18,000 Deadline: 31 Mar 2026
The Personalised Medicine Centre is a joint initiative between Murdoch University and the Perron Institute, bringing together leading researchers and clinicians to advance personalised medicine. Our multidisciplinary team is dedicated to developing tailored treatments based on individual genetic and
Published: 12 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Deadline: 27 Feb 2026
The Maxwell King Scholarship (MKS) is named after Professor Maxwell King, who has made an outstanding contribution to graduate research at Monash University, including eight years as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Research Training). This prestigious scholarship is available to help support a stu
Published: 11 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: $53,608 p.a (2026 rate) Deadline: 31 Oct 2026
Supporting a PhD candidate to assess the transferability of core outcomes set for childhood hearing loss and deafness between Australia (Deakin University) and the United Kingdom (Aston University). Aston is the lead institution. The Australian National Child Hearing Health Outcomes Reg
Published: 11 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia, United Kingdom Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 31 Mar 2026
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The National Industry PhD Program (NiPhD) provides an opportunity for candidates to undertake a co-designed PhD research project with both university and industry participation, and the opportunity to be embedded in an industry setting, during their candidature.
Published: 10 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: $17,135 per annum Deadline: 20 Mar 2026
The scholarship aims to develop a new generation of mixed signal silicon chips for chiplet based applications. The PhD candidate will be part of an industry-supported research group that will enable the use of last generations of ultra-low power and nanoscale chips for high performance applications
Published: 06 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
Funded by the Australian Research Council, the scholarship will be awarded to students of exceptional research potential to undertake research aligned with one of the centre’s projects. The ARC Training Centre for Future Leaders in Quantum Computing (FLiQC) scholarship is designed to support s
Published: 05 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: $41,753 per annum Deadline: 30 Apr 2026
Flinders University is seeking two outstanding candidates for PhD scholarships for two new ARC projects: a Linkage project studying water security challenges in the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB); and an ARC discovery project Sustainable farming and groundwater usage behaviour in a climate-stressed worl
Published: 04 Feb 2026 Type: PhD Study in: Australia Value: Fully Funded Deadline: 30 Apr 2026