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CIC doctoral candidates are generally studying full time on a scholarship. UTS offers a range of research scholarships and funding schemes for domestic and international applicants. If you want to be assessed for a scholarship, make sure you tick the box on your application form that says ‘I want to be considered for UTS scholarships’. Details about scholarship options are here

Once you are accepted into the CIC program, you will receive further details about your enrolment status and any scholarship details.

Scholarships

Successful candidates will be eligible for a 3-year Scholarship of $35,000/pa for a full-time student (a substantial increase on the standard Australian PhD stipend of $25,849). To this, you may be able to add potential teaching income from the many opportunities to work with Master of Data Science & Innovation students. In addition, as far as possible, CIC will fund you to present peer-reviewed papers at approved, high-quality conferences.

Domestic students have their tuition fees covered by the Australian Government’s Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset Scholarship. Please note, all scholarships at UTS are dependent upon satisfactory progress throughout the three years.

We are also open to applications from self-funded full-time and part-time candidates, in which case you may propose other topics that fit CIC’s priorities.

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship, a student must minimally:

  • have completed a Bachelor Degree with First Class Honours or Second Class Honours (Division 1), or be regarded by the University as having an equivalent level of attainment;
  • have been accepted for a higher degree by research at UTS in the year of the scholarship;
  • have completed enrolment as a full-time student

Additional requirements are detailed under each of the topic areas.

Selection Criteria

Appointments will be made based on the quality of the candidates, their proposals, the overall coherence of the team, the potential contribution to UTS student and educator experience, and the research advances that will result.

The criteria are specified under each of the topic areas, both generic and specific to advertised projects. Evidence will be taken from an applicant’s written application, face-to-face/video interview, multimedia research presentation at the interview, and references.

Applications

Applicants for a Studentship should submit:

  • Covering letter
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Research Proposal, maximum 4 pages, applying for one of the advertised PhD topics

Please email your scholarship application as a PDF, with PhD Application in the subject line, to: Gabrielle.Gardiner@uts.edu.au

Following discussion with the relevant potential supervisors, you will be required to go through the UTS application process as a formal part of the application.

To begin this formal application process, click here and complete the following steps:

  1. Scroll down to “Lodge your application”
  2. Click on the blue “Register and Apply” button
  3. When you reach the section asking you to select your course, enter ‘data science’ into the free text search and the CIC Doctor of Philosophy – C02062 should come up.

Deadline

The deadlines for applications are noted in the table above. However, there is an advantage to contacting us earlier to open discussions: you are strongly encouraged to get in touch with project leads informally in advance of that because if we like you, we will offer you a place as soon as we can, and you need to know where you stand.

So please get in touch with the Director if you have queries about CIC in general, and with the relevant supervisors about the topic of interest to you.

The UTS application form and further guidance on preparation and submission of your research proposal are on the UTS Research Degrees website.
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If you are on a scholarship and the funds are either not appearing in your bank account, or appear to be incorrect, make sure you chat to the Senior Manager who will be able to clarify or rectify the situation.