The UNSW Built Environment Wightman Bequest PhD Top-Up Scholarship is $15,000 per annum for three years
To apply
Applicants must show high academic achievement in an honours (typically 1st class) or masters by coursework program in a related discipline. Current PhD candidates within the Faculty may also apply.
Write a separate 1000 word statement clearly outlining the proposed topic area, a suggested methodology, a preliminary title and the contribution of the research to new knowledge in the following areas of research:
- High Performance Technology: focusing on the technological challenges of architectural design, including construction systems and methods, integrated solutions to servicing buildings and precincts for low carbon futures embedded in the design process;
- Housing: focusing on the design of housing and hybrid building types incorporating housing, and the ways in which they contribute to place making;
- Urban Conditions: focusing on the design of buildings and precincts in the context of the contemporary city and its challenges, including the relationship of buildings to the public domain, urban infrastructure and environmental sustainability; and
- Social Agency: focusing on the design of buildings and place making in a humanitarian context, including issues of social displacement and alienation, to create inspiring architecture of social value.
Submit your statement to Professor Bruce Judd. Please include “The Wightman Bequest PhD Top-Up Scholarship” in the subject line of the email.
Deadline for submission: 30 September 2016
Eligibility
Awards are made on the basis of academic merit, research experience and/or research potential, as well as suitability of the applicant’s research proposal to the aims of the UNSW Built Environment Wightman Bequest PhD Scholarship. The candidate must:
- Undertake/or be currently undertaking a research project as agreed between the Built Environment Staff and the candidate
- The Research project must be supervised by staff employed with the Built Environment at UNSW
- Have applied for admission or commenced the faculty’s EOI process for admission to a UNSW Doctor of Philosophy at FBE (see: https://research.unsw.edu.au/how-apply-enrol-research-degree).
- The applicant may hold other Awards
- Key dates for APA/UPA and Post-Graduate applications:
- Scholarship applications close: 13 October 2016
- Proof of English required for scholarship consideration: 15 November 2016
- Scholarship offers: from 28 November 2016
The scholarship is available to domestic and international students
Selection process
All EOI applications are reviewed by Built Environment’s Higher Degree Committee in the first instance.
Applications accepted for PhD candidature will then be considered by the selection panel including the Built Environment Associate Dean Research, Built Environment Associate Dean Research, Built Environment Director Higher Degrees, Built Environment Director Australian School of Architecture & Design, Either the Built Environment Judith Neilson Chair of Architecture or the Anita Lawrence Chair of High Performance Architecture.
The panel will decide if an award is to be made.
Unsuccessful scholarship applicants are still welcome to proceed with their PhD candidature and seek other support if necessary.
Announcement of award
The successful applicant will be announced in late December 2016.
Enquiries
Professor Bruce Judd
Director - Australian School of Architecture and Design
Phone +61 2 9385 6683
Email b.judd@unsw.edu.au