Applicants must be currently enrolled Macquarie University HDR students. Applicants should usually be in the third or later second year of doctoral enrolment or early second year of MPhil enrolment, with significant research results achieved. Selection is based on academic merit and financial need.
Applicants must achieve an ATAR of 98.5+. Selection is based on: academic merit; outstanding character; maturity; common sense; and a capacity to triumph over hardship (e.g. financial disadvantage, sole parent or carer responsibilities, non-English speaking or Indigenous background, effects of trauma and/or abuse, long-term medical condition/disability, or residence in a rural or remote area). Students who have taken a gap year and not undertaken any further study are eligible to apply.
Applicants must: be domestic students relocating from regional or rural Australia to study at Macquarie University; demonstrate financial need; demonstrate the capacity to triumph over hardship; demonstrate leadership or community involvement or potential; be new domestic students to Macquarie University; and not have previously studied at university.
Applicants must: be Australian citizens or permanent residents; have an immediate family member (parent, sibling or grandparent) who is an Alumnus/Alumnae of Macquarie University; have received an offer to study at Macquarie University for the first time; demonstrate sufficient academic merit; demonstrate commitment to study at Macquarie University; and demonstrate capacity to triumph over hardship (financial disadvantage, sole parent or carer responsibilities, non- English speaking or Indigenous background, effects of trauma and/or abuse, long-term medical condition or disability or coming from a rural or remote area).
Applicants must: be Australian or New Zealand citizens, or permanent residents of Australia; be eligible to study full time at the honours or postgraduate coursework level; be enrolled in a Commonwealth supported place or Domestic fee paying place; and demonstrate financial hardship. Consideration will be given to applicants who, in addition to financial hardship, demonstrate any of the following: capacity to triumph over hardship, Indigenous background, carer responsibilities, geographic disadvantage, non English speaking background, long term medical condition, or ongoing effects of abuse. Academic merit will also be considered.