Flinders University Clinician PhD scholarships 2026

The Clinician PhD Scholarship is part of a pilot program that aims to attract and support clinicians of all disciplines to undertake a higher degree by research in either the College of Medicine and Public Health (CMPH) or the College of Health and Enablement (CHE).

• Table of Content
• About Flinders University
• Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship
• Aim and Benefits of Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship
• Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship Courses
• Requirements for Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship Qualification
• Interview date, Process and Venue for Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship

Aim and Benefits of Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship

• The stipend for a Clinician PhD scholarship is $50,000.00 per annum, full time, tax-free for 3.5 years.

Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship Courses

• Health
• Medicine

Requirements for Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship Qualification

• Applicants are not required to be currently enrolled in a PhD, but must be eligible to enrol, should the scholarship be awarded.
• Currently admitted, or be eligible for admission, to a full-time PhD at Flinders University (see Admission requirements: https://handbook.flinders.edu.au/courses/2026/phd?year=2026)
• Applicants to a PhD in the College of Medicine and Public Health should be focused in fields related to medicine, biomedical sciences, or public health.
  • medical professionals must be registered to practise in Australia at the time of application, with no conditions or suspensions attached to the registration that prevent them from practising.
  • allied health professionals must be registered to practise in Australia at the time of application, with no conditions or suspensions attached to the registration that prevent them from practising.
  • For allied health professions that do not require registration, evidence of the applicant’s authority to practise must be provided at time of application.
• Applicants to a PhD in the College of Health and Enablement should be focused in fields related to nursing, midwifery or allied health
  • Allied health professionals must be registered to practise in Australia at the time of application (i.e., with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), Allied Health Professionals Australia (AHPA) or the National Alliance of Self-Regulating Health Professions), with no conditions or suspensions attached to the registration that prevent them from practising.
  • For allied health professions that do not require registration, evidence of the applicant’s authority to practise must be provided at time of application.

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clinicians and rural and remote clinicians are encouraged to apply. 

A Clinician PhD Scholarship will not normally be awarded to an applicant who is in receipt of an award which directly duplicates the purpose of the Clinician PhD Scholarship Program (e.g. an Australian Government Research Training Program PhD scholarship, a Flinders University Research Scholarship, or a privately funded PhD scholarship). Applicants who are awarded the Clinician PhD scholarship are able to apply for other scholarships, such as NHMRC Postgraduate Scholarship.  If an additional scholarship is secured, at the time of commencement, the Clinician PhD scholarship would need to be relinquished.

Interview date, Process and Venue for Clinician PhD scholarships PhD Scholarship

Selection of scholarship recipients will be undertaken by the relevant College HDR Coordinator and/or Deputy Coordinator on academic merit and research potential, in alignment with College values of equity, excellence and social vision.

Applications will be ranked (using the NHMRC criteria for postgraduate scholarships) based on:

• Academic Record and Research Achievement – Relative to Opportunity (60%),
• The research environment and supervisor (20%)
• Research project (20%)
• Principal PhD supervision must be by a member of staff in the relevant College or hold full academic status with the relevant College and be currently active on the HDR supervisor register.

Check also:
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship 2027
Global Korea Scholarship 2027

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Please provide the following as a single pdf document:

1. Applicant CV (maximum 2 pages detailing academic record, medals, prizes and awards, research achievement and productivity commensurate with authorship of research publications, book chapters and presentations, postgraduate/research training and/or research/professional experience, broader community engagement).
2. Application outlining the following details:
   1. Research Proposal (maximum 2 pages), including a research plan and description of impact and feasibility.
   2. Research Environment and supervisory team statement (maximum 500 words)
3. Proposed start date in 2026, ideally in Quarter 3 (July-September).

Applications for the College of Medicine and Public Health can be submitted to [email protected].

Applications and queries for the College of Health and Enablement can be submitted to [email protected].

For more information, kindly visit Flinders University scholarship webpage.