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, from both the School and the Faculty.
School conference funding
PhD students are entitled to $2,000 from the School of Management and Marketing over the period of their candidature. This may be applied to one or more international or domestic conference. Masters students are entitled to $1,300. Conference presentation plans should be made in conjunction with your supervisor. Your supervisor(s) must approve applications and may indicate this in an email.Apply for funding using the conference funding application form [148KB DOC].
School HDR support grant
PhD and Masters candidates are entitled to a grant assist 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
Your 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 Pamm Phillips. (pamm.phillips@deakin.edu.au)
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 up to $5,000 for research support to HDRs.
Faculty HDR conference grant
Up tp $3,000 is available once per candidature, with the supporting recommendation of the supervisor for the timing and content of the conference in terms of progressing the candidature, for presentation of a paper at a research conference of national or international significance.
