Introduction
The aim of the NHMRC Postgraduate 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 to develop a capacity for original independent research. This is usually achieved by NHMRC funding successful applicants to attain a research based postgraduate degree, which may be a PhD, a PhD equivalent degree, or Masters degree.
Categories of award
Scholarship are awarded in the following categories:
Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Research Scholarships
Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Research Scholarships encourage honours graduates of outstanding ability to gain full-time biomedical research experience while enrolled for a higher degree.
Medical and Dental Postgraduate Research Scholarships
Medical and Dental Postgraduate Research Scholarships are awarded to provide support to medical or dental graduates undertaking a postgraduate degree involving full-time research.
Primary Health Care Postgraduate Research Scholarship
Primary Health Care Postgraduate Research Scholarships encourage graduates to obtain formal training in primary health care research, with an emphasis on rural communities.
Public Health Postgraduate Scholarship
Public Health Postgraduate Research Scholarships encourage graduates to obtain formal training in public health research.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research Scholarship
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research Scholarships are awarded to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Health applicants to provide support for research training, or to non-indigenous applicants to undertake training leading to research in areas of particular relevance to the health of Indigenous Australians.
Co-Funded Partnership Scholarship
These awards are offered through funding partnerships agreed between NHMRC and partner organisations.
Gustav Nossal Scholarship
- Each year, the highest ranked applicant from the combined Medical and Dental Postgraduate Research Scholarship applications will be awarded the Gustav Nossal Research Scholarship. Sir Gustav Joseph V. Nossal was Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Professor of Medical Biology at the University of Melbourne and is distinguished for contributions to the fields of antibody formation and immunological tolerance.
- The Gustav Nossal Research Scholarship will be awarded under similar conditions to the basic Medical and Dental Postgraduate Research Scholarship, and provides an additional stipend amount and travel allowance to the successful recipient.