La Trobe Centre for Alcohol Policy Research PhD Scholarship - trends in alcohol, tobacco and gambling and socioeconomic inequalities.
Background
These prestigious scholarships, established by the Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University in partnership with the Australian Research Council, will be awarded to outstanding applicants who are interested in exploring how to use social and health policy to reduce heavy drinking, smoking, and gambling activities, and indeed to reduce harms related to three risk behaviours and social inequalities.
As an applicant you should have an interest in addictive behaviours, harm reduction, health promotion, social and health policy and interventions and research. Experience of quantitative research, health policy, and economical and statistical analyses in a relevant field will be highly regarded.
Benefits of the scholarship include:
- a La Trobe Research Scholarship for three and a half years, with a value of $28,092.00 per annum, to support your living costs (2020 rate)
- a fee-relief scholarship for up to four years to undertake a PhD at La Trobe University
- opportunities to work with La Trobe’s outstanding health policy researchers, and access to our suite of professional development programs.
Are you eligible to apply?
To be eligible to apply for this scholarship, applicants must:
To be eligible, you will need one of the following:
- a Masters by research degree in a relevant discipline completed within the last ten years assessed at a La Trobe Masters by research standard of 75 or above;
OR
- an Honours degree, Masters by coursework or ungraded Masters by research degree completed within the last ten years where you achieved a weighted average mark of 70 or above across any coursework subjects;
AND any of the following assessed at a La Trobe Masters by research standard of 75 or above:
- a research thesis of approximately 15,000-20,000 words; or
- the degree includes a written research component comprising at least 3/8 of one year; or
- you are the lead author of a peer-reviewed publication or other research published within the last ten years
How to apply
If you wish to apply for this scholarship, follow Step 3 on our research application page – please ensure you submit a full application for scholarship and candidature.
Please indicate this is an application for the La Trobe Centre for Alcohol Policy Research PhD Scholarship on the application form.
As part of your application you are not required to identify a potential supervisor or attach a research proposal – Dr Jason Jiang is the designated supervisor for this project;
The University will carefully review your application and consider you for this scholarship. You will be advised of an outcome shortly after the decision is made.
Who to contact for further information
Dr Jason Jiang, jason.jiang@latrobe.edu.au