Postgraduate Equity Scholarship in Gender and Cultural Studies

Eligibility

You must:

• be enrolled or have an unconditional offer to study a postgraduate degree in Gender and Cultural Studies within the School of Humanities
• enrol in your postgraduate coursework degree in semester 1, or postgraduate research degree in research period 1 or 2 in the year of application
• be willing to conduct research in gender and cultural studies (if you are enrolled in a postgraduate research degree)
• demonstrate financial hardship in relation to at least one of the following:
  • identify as an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander person as defined in the University of Sydney’s Confirmation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Identity Policy 2015
  • low socio-economic background
  • carer responsibilities
  • long-term medical condition or be a person with a disability (including the ongoing effects of abuse)
  • sole-parent responsibilities
  • regional or remote disadvantage
  • regugee status
  • identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex or queer (LGBTIQ+)
  • first in the family.

Scholarship requirements