College of Arts PhD Fieldwork Grant Scheme 2023-24, College of Melbourne, Australia

Purposes open

1 Jan 2023

Final day for functions

31 Dec 2023

Software sort

Software required

Profit sort

Single cost
Full profit particulars

Citizenship necessities

Australian / home pupil
Worldwide pupil

Whole worth

as much as $10,000

Relevant examine areas

Historic, philosophical, political and social research; Language, literature and cultural research

Variety of scholarships awarded

Roughly 20 per yr

Eligibility & choice standards

Eligibility

To be eligible for this scholarship, you need to:

be a PhD graduate researcher enrolled within the College of Arts or MA graduate researcher who has been given provisional approval to transform to PhD at affirmation,
be post-confirmation or inside three months of your anticipated affirmation date (notice: funding awarded earlier than affirmation will probably be provisional upon profitable affirmation or for journey to happen after affirmation),
be capable to reveal that the first information assortment to your PhD requires fieldwork methodology. Evaluation of functions for fieldwork assist will probably be primarily based not on the self-discipline, however the methodology concerned,
be enterprise fieldwork for a single interval of three months or extra period, or for a number of durations that collectively whole three months or extra. Every journey should be components of the identical fieldwork plan, important to the PhD analysis, and flagged within the unique utility,
submit an preliminary utility to the PhD Fieldwork scheme inside two years (equal full-time) of graduation – functions for subsequent/follow-up journeys may be submitted after this level,
be capable to current an inexpensive and justifiable funds,
have faculty assist for 25% of the full funds requested. Your Faculty Funding would be the supply of this contribution, and
be capable to reveal that you’ve met all related College coverage necessities referring to their fieldwork (akin to compliance with the College’s code of conduct for analysis and pupil journey coverage):

Choice standards

The appliance should embrace within the on-line utility kind:

An outline of the thesis challenge and the fieldwork methodology, demonstrating the way it meets the standards all through this web page,
An in depth timetable for fieldwork journey (together with timetable of expenditure),
A funds:
- Proof of sources of quotations budgeted objects (ie. airfares and the supply of different prices requested, and many others.)
- An in depth case should be made for why lodging or analysis help prices ought to be supported
A letter out of your principal supervisor outlining:
- How your methodology meets the rules above of what constitutes fieldwork,
- That the proposed fieldwork is crucial and integral to the challenge, and
- That the fieldwork program was, or will probably be recognized as an integral a part of the appliance for affirmation of PhD candidature, or concurrently with an utility for conversion from Grasp’s to confirmed PhD candidature.

Notice: when planning to utilise the PhD Fieldwork Grant, you’re additionally making use of for Faculty Funding. You might be required to contribute a chosen quantity of your faculty funding. For instance: If you’re apply for a most grant of $10,000, 25% of it should be out of your Faculty Funding. A separate utility to your Faculty Funding contribution shouldn’t be required.

Situations

Purposes for Fieldwork funding submitted previous to the applicant’s PhD affirmation could also be accepted provisionally, topic to:
- Formal approval of affirmation (or conversion to confirmed PhD candidature),
- Submission to the Graduate Analysis Workplace of the affirmation doc, demonstrating that fieldwork is a vital a part of the challenge, and
- Funds is not going to be launched till these two situations have been met.
Purposes for Fieldwork funding for the aim of analysis involving human topics should reveal compliance with the College’s code of conduct for analysis earlier than any information gathering or interpretation can start beneath the auspices of the College’s PhD Fieldwork funding scheme.
Graduate researchers who had outlined the need for fieldwork at affirmation can apply to the Fieldwork scheme at any time subsequently, however it’s anticipated that funded fieldwork will probably be accomplished by 36 months of candidature. Candidates who apply for funding for fieldwork beneath this scheme can’t apply for added funding from the GRATS scheme for a similar journey.
Graduate researchers might apply for a number of analysis journeys of fieldwork throughout their candidature, as much as the restrict of funding specified above. Every of a number of journeys would usually be anticipated to be components of the identical fieldwork important to the PhD analysis.
Graduate researchers awarded a PhD Fieldwork early of their candidature aren’t precluded from making use of later of their candidature for additional assist for separate analysis journeys to boost their important analysis by the GRATS.
The expertise of information assortment and interpretation is taken into account an essential a part of the coaching of a PhD graduate researcher. The scheme is designed to assist this expertise. Fieldwork funding awarded beneath this scheme can’t be used to pay for information evaluation or transcription by skilled fieldwork firms.
Collectively enrolled graduate researchers in one other College with co-supervision in Arts might be eligible to obtain pro-rata funding, that is proportion to their enrolment part in Arts.
Graduate researchers on AusAID scholarships have funding for fieldwork constructed into their scholarship and are allowed one fieldwork journey (both to their residence nation or inside Australia) funded by AusAID throughout the course of their scholarship. Go to the Australia’s Assist Program internet web page.

Finances

Budgets are anticipated to be prudent and economical, and funds objects could also be funded at decrease ranges than requested by the awarding Committee. The Committee might select to award lower than the allowable most, relying on the standard of the appliance and obtainable funds.

Objects normally funded
- The prices of return (financial system) fares to the first web site of discipline analysis
- Home journey and transport prices
- Authorities Charges & Analysis Visas
- Entry charges (i.e. prices of neighborhood entry, gatekeeping, deciphering within the discipline, and many others.)
Objects not funded
- Dwelling bills – these are anticipated to be coated by both the applicant’s scholarship or different sources
- Digital tools, akin to computer systems, recorders or different consumables
- Language examine – candidates are anticipated to have developed any required language talent previous to journey, journey insurance coverage over and above the College coverage
- Joint PhD graduate researchers visiting accomplice universities, information gathering or evaluation carried out by skilled fieldwork firms or personal people on behalf of the applicant
Objects which will (case-by-case foundation) be funded with justifiable proof
- Analysis help, if a transparent and persuasive case is made that paying for such help in state of affairs is crucial
- Cost or items for analysis contributors, as is suitable within the specific native or cultural context
- Candidates are usually anticipated to make use of earnings usually spent on lodging to cowl the price of lodging whereas on fieldwork. Extra prices of lodging because of the fieldwork could also be supported within the following circumstances:
  - The price of lodging on the analysis web site(s) is considerably dearer than regular value of lodging in Melbourne;
  - If the applicant should preserve their lodging in Melbourne (for instance due to household or dependents), the funds can embrace the price of fieldwork lodging.

Software course of

There are two rounds of functions per yr. The 2023 deadlines are:

Spherical 1: 1 March
Spherical 2: 1 September

Purposes will probably be thought-about by a Committee made up of representatives of every Faculty with applicable fieldwork experience, Chaired by the Affiliate Dean (Graduate Analysis) or his or her nominee.

Out-of-round functions is not going to be thought-about, however could also be accepted retrospectively and assessed as such throughout the next spherical of functions. Retrospective functions should embrace all supporting paperwork.

NOTE: Please ship by all supporting paperwork to arts-gr@unimelb.edu.au. We’re presently experiencing a system error with our funding types, which don’t permit candidates to connect paperwork to their functions.

What are the advantages?

The PhD Fieldwork Grant Scheme helps College of Arts graduate researchers to conduct tasks through which the first information for the PhD thesis may be collected solely in a discipline location over an prolonged time period (for instance, a fundable challenge might require entry to specific communities, social networks, bodily landscapes, indigenous languages, or archaeological websites). The time interval may be steady or embrace a number of visits.

Graduate researchers will probably be eligible to obtain funding from both the PhD Fieldwork Grant Scheme or the Artwork Graduate Analysis Worldwide Grant (AGRIG), however not each, throughout their candidature.

Please learn these pointers fastidiously earlier than submitting an utility. You also needs to seek the advice of the Graduate Analysis in Arts Journey Scheme (GRATS) and the AGRIG to find out which is probably the most applicable scheme for the aim of your journey.

In figuring out whether or not an award will probably be made and the quantity to be awarded, the Committee will contemplate:

The extent to which the deliberate analysis meets the definition of fieldwork (see beneath),
Whether or not the analysis is crucial to the profitable completion of the PhD (requires supervisors assist and should be included in affirmation report), and
Whether or not the funds is cheap and applicable.

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