Stephen & Helen Wurm PhD Scholarship in Asia-Pacific Linguistics

Each year the School of Culture History and Language (CHL), in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific (CAP), may offer an award known as the Stephen and Helen Wurm PhD Scholarship in Asia-Pacific Linguistics. This Award provides funding for an outstanding domestic or international student, to enable them to pursue a PhD program in Linguistics, based in the CHL, and study a lesser-described Asia-Pacific language, or languages. Funding for the Award has been provided by the Wurm Endowment Funds. The endowment was made in 2005 to the Australian National University by Dr Helen Wurm, in memory of her late husband, Professor Stephen Wurm. Professor Wurm was Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics in the Research School for Pacific and Asian Studies, from its inception in 1957 until his retirement in 1987. The Award is available to prospective or continuing domestic or international students enrolled in a full-time Doctor of Philosophy program studying a lesser described Asia Pacific language with demonstrated H1 academic equivalence.