Research and conference funding and support for Masters and PhD students
Full time on campus HDR students will have an allocated desk for their personal use with a computer and have access to copying and printing facilities.
Part-time and/or off-campus students may make use of computing equipment in a multi-user workspace, and have access to copying and printing facilities.
Students are provided with basic stationary items.
Financial support is available for conference attendance, and research related expenses.
Conference funding
PhD students are entitled to the equivalent of one full overseas conference support grant over the period of their candidature ($3,500 in 2011). This may be applied to one or more international or domestic conference. Masters students are entitled to $2,300. Conference presentation plans should be made in conjunction with your supervisor. Apply for funding using the conference funding application form [23KB DOC].
School of Management and Marketing students HDR support grant
is available to assist PhD and Masters candidates in the School of Management and Marketing to fund items relating to their research candidature.Students are eligible for up to $2,000 from the school during their candidature to support their research program or contribute to editing, etc of the final thesis.
How to apply
The supervisor(s) must approve applications and may indicate this in an email. Applications may be made at any time during candidature. Apply for School funding by emailing the Associate Head of School(Research) - currently David Bednall.
Use the following headings in your application. Please keep it short.
- Name and contact details of applicant
- Name and contact details of supervisor
- Title of PhD project
- Progress to date in summary form
- Details of proposed expenditure and time line for the project.
Faculty HDR support grant
These are available to assist PhD and Masters candidates in Business and Law to fund items relating to their research candidature. Funds are normally granted to assist with data collection such as survey printing and postage costs, specialist software not available from Deakin Information Technology Services, and binding of the thesis. The Faculty provides a further $3,000 for research support to HDRs.
How to apply
The supervisor(s) and the Associate Head of School (Research) must approve applications and may indicate this in an email. Applications may be made at any time during candidature (and within three months of successful completion, for preparation of final library copies of the thesis).
Use the following headings in your application. Please keep to a maximum of two pages.
- Name and contact details of applicant
- Name and contact details of supervisor
- Title of PhD project
- Progress to date; such as a summary of completed chapters
- Details of proposed expenditure and time line for the project.
Submission dates
Applications may be lodged at any time and will be considered by the Associate
Dean (Research).
Applicants need to identify in the subject line of the email the name of the
scheme from which funding is sought and the name of the applicant, and attach
the application document. The email application, and the approval of the supervisor
and Associate Head of School (Research), should be directed to the Manager Research
Administration (bronwyn.kelly@deakin.edu.au), at the Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, who will
forward applications to the Associate Dean (Research) for consideration.
