Scholarships

ACSPRI Fellowship Program

The Fellowship provides direct financial support with a $10,000 bursary payment per year over 2 years, and professional development, with a fee waiver for attendance at an ACSPRI course for each year of the fellowship.

Faculty: Faculty of Business and Law, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Study area: Accounting Finance & Economics, Business, Chemistry, Communications & Media, Computer Science & Information Technology, Creative & Performing Arts, Education, Engineering, Environmental & Biological Science, Health, Humanities & Social Inquiry, Law, Literature & Language, Management, Marketing, Maths, Medical Science, Nursing, Physics, Psychology & Human Behaviour, Social Sciences & Advocacy

Student type: Domestic students

Scholarship amount: Note: All scholarships are indexed annually

$10,000 bursary payment per year for each of 2 years ($20,000 in total);
a fee waiver for the attendance at an ACSPRI course in each year of the Fellowship (2 courses in total);
financial support to attend the ACSPRI Biennial Conference.
Total Value approx. $25,000.

Application closing date: 31 July 2025

Elevate: Boosting diversity in STEM program

ATSE’s Elevate: Boosting diversity in STEM program (“Elevate”) will award up to 500 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to women and non-binary people in STEM across the duration of the program.

Faculty: Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health

Study area: Chemistry, Computer Science & Information Technology, Engineering, Environmental & Biological Science, Maths, Medical Science, Physics

Student type: Domestic students

Scholarship amount: Pre-study Payment $5,000 and Maximum amount $150,250
All scholarships are indexed annually

Application closing date: 1 September 2025

McKinnon-Walker Research Fellowship - PhD Scholarship Opportunity

Receive a fellowship to support your PhD studies worth over $200,000.

Application closing date: 10 July 2025

PhD Scholarship in Chemistry

Faculty: Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health

Study area: Chemistry

Student type: Domestic students

Scholarship amount: UOW Base Rate ($35,522 per annum for 2025)

All scholarships are indexed annually

Application closing date: 28 June 2025

Charge-Controlled Materials for Separations of Important Resources Scholarship

This project aims to develop new microporous metal-organic framework materials that are better molecular discriminators than current technologies for the sequestration of important metal-ion resources. New charge-controlled metal-organic frameworks with precisely manipulated pore spaces will be developed and explored in novel, low energy separations with the aim of contributing to efficient low-energy future technologies for industrially important separation processes.

Faculty: Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health

Study area: Environmental & Biological Science

Student type: Domestic students, International students

Scholarship amount: Successful candidates will receive a tax-free full time stipend of $35,522 p.a. for the duration of the award (including increments).
Domestic candidates will be provided with a Research Training Program Offset which will cover tuition fees for a maximum of 4 years full time. 
International candidates will be provided with an International Postgraduate Tuition Award which will cover tuition fees for a maximum of 4 years full time.

Application closing date: Open until position filled

AINSE Scholarships and Awards

From environmental research to materials engineering; from honours projects to early-career research: AINSE offers a variety of scholarships to support students in nuclear science, engineering, and related research fields.

Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health

Study area: Chemistry, Engineering, Environmental & Biological Science, Physics

Student type: Domestic students, International students