Lucy Firth Postgraduate Equity Scholarship

The Lucy Firth Postgraduate Equity Scholarship has been established to assist postgraduate research students studying Philosophy who are experiencing hardship. The scholarship provides financial support to full-time master's by research or PhD students in Philosophy in the School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney. This scholarship is funded by a bequest from the estate of Miss Lucy Firth in 1997. Miss Firth graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. The scholarship aims to support students who demonstrate financial hardship in relation to various circumstances including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identity, low socio-economic background, carer responsibilities, long-term medical conditions or disability, sole-parent responsibilities, regional or remote disadvantage, refugee status, LGBTIQ+ identity, or being first in family. Recipients must be willing to conduct research into philosophy and demonstrate academic merit along with their personal circumstances of disadvantage and/or hardship.