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University of Sydney Grants-in-Aid

Grants-in-aid (GIA) are available to provide students with travel grants to support short-term periods of research overseas.

Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of Australia.

Most grants are open only to full-time students enrolled in a research degree, although some are offered to undergraduates.

Individual grants vary in value and purpose with most approximately $2,200.

Some GIA are open to applicants in any research area, however many awards are targeted at students in particular faculties, departments or research areas including:

  • Faculties: Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources; Arts and Social Sciences; Education and Social Work; Engineering; Conservatorium of Music; Medicine; Science; Sydney College of the Arts; Veterinary Science.
  • Departments/Research Areas: Archaeology - Classical Hellenic; Cancer Research; Chinese/Japanese Studies;
    East Asian/Melanesian Studies; English; Germanic Studies; History; Music; Old Norse/Old English; Social Work; Women In Prehistoric Societies; Study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; Economics.

Application Information

Applications for 2012 are now closed. Applications for 2013 will open in early April 2013.

  • Information Document for 2012 PDF

Enquiries

Ms Lara Fourro, Research Scholarships Officer
E-mail:
Phone: +61 (02) 8627 8115
Fax: +61 (02) 8627 8485

Useful Links

For information on externally funded opportunities available to research students to undertake research overseas, please refer to the Overseas Scholarship section of this website.

For information on direct research support to aid overseas research for current research students, please refer to the Postgraduate Research Support Scheme section of this website.

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