Margery Edwards Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Art (Creative Practice)

This scholarship provides financial support to students undertaking a practice-led PhD in visual art in the Sydney College of the Arts at the University of Sydney. The scholarship has been established to provide financial assistance to students who are undertaking a practice-led PhD in Visual Art and is funded by the estate of the late Kenneth David Gilmore Edwards. Recipients must demonstrate financial hardship based on criteria including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identity, low socio-economic status, carer responsibilities, long-term medical condition/disability, sole-parent responsibilities, regional or remote disadvantage, refugee status, LGBTIQ+ identity, and/or first in family status. The scholarship provides a stipend equivalent to the University of Sydney Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend rate for up to 18 months to support completion of the doctoral thesis.