research scholarship | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 3

The LH Ainsworth Cancer Research Scholarship, Australia: Understanding, prevention, treatment or cure of cancer

The Scholarship is established to encourage students to undertake Postgraduate Research study in a field relevant to the understanding, prevention, treatment or cure of cancer. To be eligible for a Scholarship, an applicant must be undertaking or proposing to enrol in a full-time Masters by Research or PhD in a field relevant to the understanding, prevention, treatment or cure of cancer.  The Scholarship recipient should not normally hold any other Scholarship or award (except an Australian Postgraduate Award) except with the permission of the UNSW Selection Committee. The Scholarship is tenable for one year only. Completed application forms and any supporting documentation should be scanned and emailed (preferably as a single pdf document) to the Graduate Research School on scholarships.grs@unsw.edu.au by the specified closing date.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 18 February 2011

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Ian Wilson Liberal Research Scholarship 2011, Australia: Social Policy, Education and Health, Jurisprudence

The purpose of this scholarship is to enable applicants to undertake further postgraduate study or research. The Scholarship is intended to supplement the major scholarship held by the recipient, subject to the terms and conditions of the major scholarship. The scholarship is open to applicants undertaking research which will lead to sound analysis and conclusions for reform capable of practical application and advocacy in Australia, in the fields of:
social policy, including policy relating to:social security and welfare payments and income support schemes; taxation; and superannuation and other forms of retirement income provision; education and health as they affect individual and family well being; jurisprudence, constitutional law and Commonwealth-State relations; environment; heritage; the arts; and indigenous affairs.

Value: Up to $15,000 for one year only

Scholarship Application Deadline: 28 February 2011

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Graduate Research Scholarship (GRS), University of Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

Application for Graduate Studies with Graduate Research scholarships are available here. Application forms are also available from the Admission and Student Records Office, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Jalan Tungku Link, Gadong, BE1410, Negara Brunei Darussalam.

To complete the application, the applicant must submit a proposal for research together with the application form. Applicants are also required to submit a detailed research proposal which is normally expected to include the following topics: proposed title; rationale; aims and methodology; literature review; preliminary bibliography; provisional timetable; provisional table of contents, and an indication of any special requirements for the study.

There are two intakes per academic year – one in Semester I (August) and the other in Semester II (January). The application deadlines are indicated in the table below. Applications received after the deadlines will be considered for the next relevant intake.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 March 2011

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