2025 ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures Top-Up Scholarship at UQ

The Indigenous Futures Centre is excited to support the next generation of Indigenous researchers. In addition to offering an attractive top-up scholarship and research support funds, the Centre provides its PhD candidates with training, mentoring and career opportunities. 

The first of its kind, the Centre's research program will take an expansive transdisciplinary approach to address Australia's most pressing, persistent, and challenging social research issues.

Our research program conceptually shifts away from deficit-based approaches and modelling, which emphasises 'lack', toward accentuating Indigenous self-determination. 

Projects will align with the Centre's three interconnected research themes:

• Law and Justice
• Education and Economics
• Health and Wellbeing

• Table of Content
• About The University of Queensland
• ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures Top-Up Scholarship
• Aim and Benefits of ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures Top-Up Scholarship
• Requirements for ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures Top-Up Scholarship Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About The University of Queensland

The University of Queensland (UQ) is one of Australia’s leading research and teaching institutions. We strive for excellence through the creation, preservation, transfer and application of knowledge. For more than a century, we have educated and worked with outstanding people to deliver knowledge leadership for a better world.

ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures Top-Up Scholarship

Aim and Benefits of ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures Top-Up Scholarship

$20,000 per annum; $5000 per annum research support funds

Requirements for ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures Top-Up Scholarship Qualification

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons: evidence of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander status.
• Maori persons: evidence of Maori status; evidence of New Zealand citizenship (where applicable)
• You must be in receipt of or apply for and be awarded a living allowance scholarship of at least the Research Training Program rate to be eligible for this scholarship. You apply for this scholarship when you submit an application for a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD). You don't need to submit a separate scholarship application

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Please submit your expression of interest via the Centre's PhD Scholarships page 
For EOI enquiries, contact Arielle Henaway [email protected]

Your application will be assessed on a competitive basis.

We take into account your:

• Previous academic record
• Publication record
• Honours and awards
• Employment history.

A working knowledge of Critical Indigenous Studies would be of benefit to someone working on this project.

A background or knowledge of Indigenous Theory and Methodologies is highly desirable.

For more details, visit UQ scholarship webpage