Scholarships and other financial support
- Deutscher Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD) Scholarships
- Frederick Sefton Delmar Travelling Scholarship
- Financial support for research
The DAAD (The German Academic Exchange Service) offers a range of scholarships for students. These include:
- one-year Scholarships for postgraduate students;
- one semester German Studies scholarships for students studying towards an honours degree;
- ‘Deutschlandkundlicher Winterkurs’ scholarships offer the opportunity to particpate in a special course (in German) providing language instruction and concentrating on historical and cultural aspects of contemporary Germany for stuundergraduate and graduate students from all fields with at least 2 years of university level German at time of application.
Full details of the awards can be found at the DAAD website.
Application forms are usually available from the department of Germanic Studies, DAAD lecturer.
Established in 1991 by a bequest of $50,000 from Ms Margaret Mabel Sefton Delmar in memory of her father, the purpose of the scholarship is to assist undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in Germanic Studies to travel to one or more German speaking countries in Europe for the purpose of improving their knowledge of the German language.
For further details please consult the department or the Research Office Grants-in-Aid information.
For information about major scholarship opportunities for research postgraduate study and other financial support, please see the “Research Scholarships” page of the University of Sydney Research Office.
Please see the last section of this page for information about which menu tabs on the Research Scholarships page are most likely to be relevant, and for information about one more website that you should check regularly.
If you will be applying for admission as an international student, please click here for full information about the range of scholarships available. The following international scholarship categories may be particularly relevant:
- Australian Development Scholarships
- Australian Leadership Awards
- University of Sydney - China Scholarship Council Research Scheme
- Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarships
- Endeavour Australia-Asia Postgraduate Student Awards
- Endeavour Australia Postgraduate and Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
- Endeavour Australia Cheung Kong Scholarship Program
- Rotary International
- Northcote Graduate Scholarships
The Research Office and International Office websites also have a link to JASON (Joint Academic Scholarships On-line Network), an on-line database intended to assist students wishing to pursue postgraduate studies (either within Australia or internationally) gain access to current information about funding opportunities through scholarship programs run through universities, charitable foundations, government and private institutions.
The following menu tabs on the “Research Scholarships” page of the University of Sydney Research Office website are most likely to be relevant to prospective and current research postgraduate students in Chinese Studies:
- APA & UPA - these acronyms refer to the major research scholarship opportunities for local students.
- Postgraduate Research Support Scheme - this scheme provides direct assistance with research costs to currently enrolled students.
- The University of Sydney Travelling Scholarships - awarded to enable holders to undertake research / study overseas.
- Grants-in-Aid—travel grants to support short-term periods of research overseas. Grants-in-aid that are of particular relevance to postgraduate students in Chinese Studies include:
- The A. R. Davis Memorial Scholarship
- The Frank Coaldrake Scholarship
One more website resource that you should check regularly is the "Current Scholarships and Funding Schemes" page of the "Current Students / Postgraduate Research" section of the website of the Faculty of Arts, here. This site is likely to display updates / alerts about funding opportunities for which applications are currently invited, as well as details about funding schemes that are directly administered by the Faculty of Arts or its constituent Schools. In particular, this is the website where you can read about the Faculty's
- PhD Research Travel Grant Scheme - a scheme for full-time PhD candidates that covers expenses for research undertaken outside Sydney.
