John Allwright Fellowship in agriculture from developing countries

The ACIAR Fellowships Scheme was introduced in 1986 to provide the opportunity for partner country scientists involved in ACIAR-supported collaborative research projects to obtain postgraduate qualifications at Australian tertiary institutions. Postgraduate studies undertaken by each awardee are based on the research work being carried out under the collaborative research project in which the awardees are engaged prior to taking up the award. However, it is important that the student’s research project forms a discrete topic related to, but not part of, the existing ACIAR project. The study program should be designed to provide the awardees with the opportunity of continuing active involvement in the project research work throughout his or her studies, and sufficient knowledge to continue the research effort on final return to their home country. ACIAR will in certain circumstances support course work postgraduate degrees.

Field of study: Postgraduate Fellowship in Agriculture

Scholarship opens for students of following countries:

* Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islands (Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Samoa, Kiribati)

* South East Asia (East Timor, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines)

* South Asia (India, Bangladesh, Pakistan)

* Northern Asia (Western China)

* The Republic of South Africa and other African countries with ACIAR projects

Scholarship criteria

* At the time of applying, hold qualifications that would be assessed to be equivalent to at least an Australian bachelor’s degree in a discipline that is relevant to the proposed area of postgraduate study;

* Be a scientist or economist from the developing country partner, who is actively involved in a collaborative research project supported by ACIAR at the time of application (in some cases, ACIAR will consider supporting researchers from “advanced pipeline” projects, i.e. in cases where a full project proposal has been approved by ACIAR);

* Be jointly supported in the application by the Australian and partner country Project Leaders;

* Obtain approval from both the employing institution and home government training authority who must agree to the absence of the candidate should he/she receive a Fellowship for the period involved in obtaining the postgraduate qualification;

* And demonstrate that he/she is employed on a permanent rather than short-term contract basis.

Closing Date: 31 July 2012

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