PhD scholarship on violence against women and displacement in the Pacific contributing to the Centre of Excellence on the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW)

A unique funded opportunity to be part of a network of leading displacement scholars and to contribute to building the global evidence-base for preventing and responding to violence against women and girls. A scholarship is available at ANU for an outstanding domestic or international student to undertake a PhD on the topic of violence against women and displacement in the Pacific. The successful candidate will be enrolled full-time in a program of study for the degree of PhD in the ANU Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific. The student will become part of a cohort of PhD scholars within the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW). This Centre aims to transform understanding of the problem by examining the structural drivers that cause and compound violence against women, and pioneering new, evidence-based approaches to radically improve policy and practice across Australia and the Indo-Pacific. The successful applicant will develop and carry out a project that aligns with the broader purpose of CEVAW, to develop the academic evidence base on violence against women in displacement and emergency contexts in the Pacific. The research approach is to foreground indigenous methodologies that empower Indigenous women and victim-survivors of violence in all research and partnerships. Undertaking this PhD as part of CEVAW provides access to a tailored research ethics and training program focused on Indigenous-centred and feminist research principles, an exciting opportunity to undertake cutting edge research as part of a team of academics, practitioners and community partners, and access to CEVAW's network of research and industry leaders, which includes 13 chief investigators at six Australian institutions, 15 partner investigators worldwide and 33 partner organisations. Applicants with lived experience of displacement, Pasifika, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and/or other First Nations Peoples and/or those from the region are prioritised and strongly encouraged to apply.