Featured byCQUniversity Australia
Overview
Scholarship type
Merit based
Number of scholarships to award
One
Grant
$45,000 per year
Scholarship coverage
- tuition fee reduction
Description
Do you want to help enhance wellbeing in the youth residential care system? Join a cutting-edge research team at CQUniversity’s Appleton Institute in Adelaide, tackling the challenges facing the youth residential care industry.
This fully funded PhD scholarship offers the chance to work alongside leading researchers in residential care, systems thinking, and worker wellbeing at a world-class institute.
You will contribute to ensuring that the training Australian residential care workers receive is grounded in evidence and best practice and collaborate with leading industry stakeholders to drive real-world impact in residential care.
Your research will develop an evaluation framework that will enable residential care providers to identify and capture key outcome metrics of their involvement in the IMPACT program, with the overall objective of improving staff outcomes and providing evidence-based, supportive care to children and adolescents.
The IMPACT Program is a flexible capacity building program that equips and empowers children, adults, families, and communities to understand and intentionally apply the science of wellbeing, intentional practice, trauma, resilience and growth for themselves, and across all supporting relationships.
The successful candidate will be part of the vibrant research community at the Appleton Institute, with access to strong academic mentorship, peer support networks, and a collaborative, interdisciplinary research environment.
Benefits
The scholarship offers $45,000 Stipend per year ($135,000 Total), to help you with your studies.
Eligibility
Eligibility Requirements:
- Completed a Bachelor’s Degree with Honours I or IIA, a Master’s Degree, or an equivalent qualification, in a relevant field (psychology, social work, public health, etc.).
- Australian or New Zealand citizen, or permanent resident of Australia.
- Able to be approved for admission to a Doctor of Philosophy program at CQUniversity.
- Able to enrol full-time as an internal candidate at CQUniversity’s Adelaide campus.
- No prior Commonwealth or CQUniversity-funded research scholarship, unless terminated within six months.
- Not receiving an equivalent award or scholarship that provides more than 75% of the stipend rate.
Scholarship requirements
Disciplines
Any
Locations
Australia
Nationality
Any
Study experience required
Master
Age
Unknown
Application
Application deadline
18 Jun 2026
Send a brief CV and a 250-word statement about your interest in the scholarship via email.
Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by email.