Postgraduate Research Opportunities
Unit staff supervise postgraduate students as integral to our research teams and lead multi-disciplinary colloquia for staff and graduate students. We contribute research-informed, multi-disciplinary teaching to undergraduate and post graduate coursework across the health professions and fields in the Faculty. We aim to attract the best students and enhance their research interests and capacities for leadership. Students are prepared for the new career opportunities in aged care, occupational health, health promotion, health services management and policy analysis - and new fields such as the impact of climate change on older people. We have a strong emphasis on responsiveness to cultural diversity and social disadvantage.
Find a supervisor or project
Find out more about undertaking a research higher degree (PhD, HScD or Masters by research) with us, by visiting the University's Research Supervisor Connect where you can look for "Ageing, Work and Health" opportunities. You will be able to view details on current opportunities and submit an enquiry directly to the relevant supervisor.
Postgraduate research enquiries
If you require further guidance and support when completing your application form or identifying a potential research topic, please contact our Research Group Administrator, Sylvia Lohrengel.
Postgraduate Research Degrees offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences
Scholarship Opportunities
- Postgraduate Scholarships offered by the Faculty of Health Sciences
- Vice-Chancellor's Research Scholarships (VCRS), Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA), and University of Sydney Postgraduate Awards (UPA)
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme at Lingnan University
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) is a new initiative recently launched by the University Grants Committee (UGC) of Hong Kong. This scheme is aimed at talented students from around the world to study at any of Hong Kong’s UGC-funded universities.
Each fellowship awardee will be provided HK$20,000 per month
(US$1=HK$7.8).
Lingnan University is Hong Kong’s only liberal arts university and offers MPhil and PhD programmes in the Arts, Business and Social Sciences disciplines. This university highly values student-centred learning to ensures close and supportive thesis supervision. At Lingnan, students establish peer-type working relationships with academics within their department. Lingnan’s faculty includes world-class scholars who offer expert and close-contact supervision in their respective areas. Sociology and Social Policy are among the exciting areas at Lingnan that offer a wonderful academic environment for PhD studies in Hong Kong.
Teaching and research in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy cover a range of areas including social gerontology, occupational health psychology, crime, gender, family, work-family balance, social inequality, social change, work well-being, science and technology. Committed to inter-disciplinary investigation, this department have close links – as part of the integrated Social Sciences Programme – with Economics and Political Science.
Members of staff have internationally recognised expertise in the areas of:
- Ageing and social gerontology (the study of ageing)
- Social theory
- Occupational health psychology (occupational stress, burnout, work well-being, safety)
- Work-family/life balance
- Positive psychology (resilience, self-efficacy, psychological capital)
- Occupational sociology
For further information regarding Lingnan University, please visit their website. For admission requirements and application instructions, please visit the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme website by 1 December 2009. Unsuccessful applicants will still be considered for regular PhD placement at Lingnan University.