Alfred Godfrey Postgraduate Research Scholarship in a Cultural History of the Policing of Music in Australia

This Scholarship has been established to provide financial assistance to a PhD student who is undertaking research in an aspect of a cultural history of the policing of music in Australia. The scholarship is co-funded by Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects grant for the project 'Policing Australian Popular Music' and the generous donation to University of Sydney Law School by Florence May Padbury in memory of her late father Alfred Godfrey. The successful candidate will conduct research across inter-disciplinary fields related to the project focusing on the relationship between policing and popular music in Australia. Fields of study include criminology, sociology of music, cultural history, Indigenous and First Nations studies. The research must be supervised by either Professor Murray Lee (Sydney Law School) or Dr Toby Martin (Sydney Conservatorium of Music) at the University of Sydney. The Scholarship provides a stipend allowance equivalent to the University of Sydney Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend rate for up to 3.5 years, subject to satisfactory academic performance. Preference will be given to applicants of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander background in line with the research topic. Applicants must have an unconditional offer of admission to study full-time in a PhD within the University of Sydney Law School or Sydney Conservatorium of Music, and hold at least an Honours degree (First Class or Second Class Upper) or a Master's degree in social or human sciences, criminology, cultural studies, history, law, political science, international relations or equivalent.