Graduate School Funding

School of graduate studies have a Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship. The give up to $1250. That would cover everything.

The main three criteria for the graduate school scholarships are as follows

• be a confirmed PhD student
  
• be travelling overseas and for at least 10 days
  
• entail at least two distinct purposes that are clearly relevant to the thesis
  

MAT supplies additional funding to students who wish to travel overseas for purposes related but not essential to the completion of a their PhD. Some general eligibility include never being granted a MAT before, being confirmed as a PhD student, having received funding but not sufficient funding from other sources as well and having more than one purpose for travel of at least 10 days. The student needs to get permission to study overseas/leave for the period as well. The scholarship is offered two rounds every year. Applications close 31st March and 31st August every year. The most difficult part of the application is writing your justification, working out your exact expenditure and getting all the relevant parties to sign off on everything. There's the justification for travel, approval from your supervisor, approval from head of department, analysis of travel risk forms and finally the permission to have research leave/overseas study and such. But it's not too tedious of a process if the addition funding can be granted. About 160 scholarships are offered every year so 80 per cut off date. Looking at the website for the last scholarship offers, about 100 people applied so only 20 people were unsuccessful.