PhD Scholarship on Humanitarian Emergencies, Displacement, Children and Young Peoples' Protection in the Global South

In 2024, the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs offers a PhD scholarship to provide funding for an outstanding domestic or international student to pursue a PhD Program in humanitarian emergencies, displacement, and protection. The scholarship supports Professor Bina D'Costa's ARC Future Fellowship Project. This fully funded PhD position involves contributing to the ARC project through collecting and analysing mixed method data from case studies including Europe's hot spots and refugee crisis, Horn of Africa emergency, or Myanmar-Bangladesh Rohingya emergency. The PhD scholar will focus on research priority areas such as trafficking, child/early marriages, exploitative/forced child labour, or sexual abuse. The PhD scholar will develop and carry out a project that aligns with the broader purpose of the ARC Project: to provide rigorous evidence to enhance community, organisational and government decision-making and program implementation regarding children and young peoples' protection in displacement contexts and humanitarian emergencies. This is an exciting opportunity to undertake cutting edge research as part of a team of academics, practitioners and community partners, and a cohort of young people working on diverse aspects of displacement and humanitarian protection.