Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Transforming Inequality in Schools

A postgraduate research scholarship providing $35,950 per annum for up to 3.5 years to support an Indigenous-identified PhD student to conduct research as part of the ARC-funded Linkage Project 'Sparking Imagination Education: Transforming inequality in schools'. This scholarship enables an outstanding Indigenous PhD scholar to work under the supervision of Associate Professor Cathie Burgess and Professor Valerie Harwood. The project is a collaboration between industry partners AIME and Social Ventures Australia and four Australian universities (University of Sydney, University of Queensland, University of Technology Sydney, and University of Wollongong), with a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics. The research responds to the challenge of how schools can provide innovations in imagination education to address educational inequality experienced by some young Australians, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, those from low socio-economic status backgrounds, young former refugees, and those living in regional and remote communities.