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Alzheimer's Australia Victoria Prize

Awarded to the student enrolled in the gerontic nursing major within the Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing who attains the highest mark for the unit, Geropsychiatric Nursing and who demonstrates an understanding of the needs of people with a dementing illness and their carers, and how to provide best practice for them. Available for metropolitan students only.

Cancer Council Victoria

Awarded to the student who has shown outstanding success in cancer nursing or palliative care nursing at postgraduate level.

Chemistry PhD Scholarships

Scholarships are available each year for commencing PhD students studying Chemistry.

Design and Technology Teachers Association Victoria Prize (Melbourne and Albury-Wodonga)

The prize is awarded to the most outstanding student in the Graduate Diploma in Technology Education at the Melbourne or Albury-Wodonga Campus. It provides a one-year subscription to the Design and Technology Teachers Association Victoria (DATTA Vic), a $100 book voucher, a resources pack from the DATTA, (which includes CDs and publications) and a certificate recognising excellence in the area of technology teaching.

Environmental Culture and Sustainability Post-Graduate Research Program

This scholarship is open students from any area of the humanities or social sciences who want to focus their postgraduate research on environmental or sustainability topics or who want to bring an environmental or sustainability perspective on theoretical issues within the humanities or social sciences. Environmental history, environmental anthropology, ecocriticism, environmental sociology and political science, cultural studies of the environment, philosophy of nature and history of ideas, environmental aesthetics as well as environmental ethics and ecological philosophy will all fall within the scope of the scholarship.

John Stirling Scholarship

Awarded to one student or one group of students in the Graduate Diploma in Education course at the Bundoora Campus undertaking the subject Humanities Method.

Joyce Wickham Medal

Awarded to a postgraduate student when there is a candidate of sufficient merit. Any or all of the following: 1. instituted documented changes in practice in their work context; 2. published paper(s) in a journal; 3. presented paper(s) poster(s) at conferences or informal paper(s) at workplace; 4. produced a pamphlet or document or protocol for staff or patient education; 5. undertaken research or evidence of planning research; 6. involved in further study.

La Trobe University/Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens

La Trobe University is offering a scholarship, in association with the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (AAIA) to enable a postgraduate student to travel to Greece to undertake academic research. The scholarship is open to postgraduate students currently enrolled at La Trobe University. It is primarily intended for archaeological research but students from fields such as Ancient History, Art History, Classical Literature, Material Culture Studies and Heritage Management are also encouraged to apply.

LIMS Miller Travelling Fellowship

Assistance for postgraduate students attending national or international conferences at which they are making a presentation.

LIMS Summer Vacation Research Scholarship

Scholarships are available to students to undertake a research project during the summer vacation period in departments associated with the La Trobe Institute of Molecular Science(LIMS).

Marta Rado Memorial Prize

This award is donated by former colleagues, relatives and friends in memory of Dr Marta Rado who, as an early pioneer of communicative language teaching and bilingual education, was responsible for the rise to prominence of language teacher education at La Trobe University. The prize is awarded annually to a student in the primary or secondary LOTE method in the Graduate Diploma in Education, who is most likely to further the cause of LOTE education in Victoria through innovative and dynamic teaching.

Professor Edgar Smith Scholarship

This scholarship offers a travel award for an extended overseas visit, typically to attend a conference and to work with an expert of international standing in the area of the successful applicant's thesis.

Scholarships for postgraduate research students (PhD, professional doctorates by research & masters by research)

La Trobe University offers an extensive scholarship and candidature program for postgraduate students who are undertaking higher degrees by research. The Research and Graduate Studies Office co-ordinates the administration of Masters by research and Doctoral candidature, and scholarships for these degrees.

Stewart E Fraser Memorial Exemplary Thesis Award

Awarded for the best major thesis written by a masters or doctoral level candidate in the Faculty of Education.