University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
UTS Doctoral Scholarship in Historical Consciousness
Award value: $26288 annually
Level of study: Postgraduate
Nationality: Australian
The Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney is offering a three-year scholarship in historical consciousness, to research the representation of and engagement with national pasts, including historiography and memory studies. The scholarship is funded by UTS, as part of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship held by Dr Anna Clark, Imagining the National Story: Australian History Reconsidered, which examines the changing and contested project of Australia's national story. This project is based at the Australian Centre for Public History, in the School of Communication at UTS, and the successful applicant will have the opportunity to undertake research on a facet on historical consciousness.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must: be Australian citizens, or permanent residents; should have a background in Australian history, public history, historiography or memory studies; must have completed a Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours or Second Class Honours (Division 1), or be regarded by the University as having an equivalent level of attainment; be undertaking a higher degree by research at UTS in the year of the scholarship; and be accepted into a UTS PhD degree. Selection is based on: academic merit; and the research proposal relevant to the project.