Growing the next generation of clinician-academics is a strategic priority for the Barwon Health and Deakin University (BH/DU) partnership.

We are delighted to announce that the Deakin University Faculty of Health will provide up to five PhD scholarships to support the BH/DU PhD program.  Each  PhD scholarship will be supported by $10,000 of project funding in year 1 via the Barwon Health Foundation. Supervision teams and their candidates will then have the opportunity to apply to the BHF for further project funding for subsequent years of the project.

Scholarships will be awarded to joint supervision teams to enable them to attract strong candidates. The Principal Supervisor will need to be a Deakin staff member or have a joint affiliation with Deakin, and the proposed supervision team will include both Barwon Health and Deakin staff.

The BH/DU PhD Program will:
  • bring together clinical and academic teams to tackle important clinical research questions for the Australian health system
  • support allied health, nursing and medical practitioners to develop their research interests and skills
  • provide flexibility to enable people to maintain their clinical training and roles whilst embarking on a PhD
The PhD program is an excellent way to bring together a multidisciplinary team to tackle an important clinical research question, and build research capacity in clinical units.

Expressions of Interest have closed. For more information, click on the guidelines below or email research@barwonhealth.org.au .

​​We look forward to working with you to build research capacity between the two organisations and answer important clinical questions.

Prof Julie Owens, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Deakin University
Prof Rachel Huxley, Executive Dean for the Faculty of Health , Deakin University
Prof Trish Livingston, Associate Dean of Research, Deakin University 
Prof Pete Vuillermin, Director of Research, Barwon Health