Professor Lowitja O’Donoghue Indigenous Student Postgraduate Research Scholarship

The purpose of this scholarship is to enable an Indigenous student to undertake, under the supervision of a member of staff appointed by the College, a program of study at Flinders University leading to a higher degree by research.

The Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue Indigenous Student Postgraduate Research Scholarship provides an annual stipend, leave and allowances paid at a rate 20% higher than the published AGRTPS rate.  The scholarship provides a Research Training Program Place (RTP).

The Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue Indigenous Student Postgraduate Research Scholarship is tenable at Flinders University for up to three years for a Doctorate by research, or up to two years for a Masters by research degree, subject to satisfactory progress.

Award holders undertaking a Doctorate by research may apply for one six-month extension of the tenure of their award.

To be eligible for consideration for the award of the Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue Indigenous Student Postgraduate Research Scholarship, applicants must:

·       be of Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and 

·       identify as an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander; and

·       be accepted as an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander by the community in which he or she lives or has lived; and

·       be currently admitted, or be eligible for admission and have applied for admission, to a higher degree by research at Flinders University.

 The Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue Indigenous Student Postgraduate Research Scholarship will not normally be awarded to an applicant who:

·       is in receipt of an award which directly duplicates the purpose of the Professor Lowitja O'Donoghue Indigenous Student Postgraduate Research Scholarship;

·       is on paid study leave;

·       holds a fractional academic appointment;

·       is seeking the award to undertake a second higher degree at the same level of a previously awarded degree.