NEW PhD Scholarships!

Macquarie University PhD scholarships (MQRES)

Economics — The value of Aboriginal cultural heritage: cultural production and regional economies in Eastern Arnhem Land and the Western Desert

Macquarie University PhD scholarships (MQRES) are available in the Department of Economics associated with successful ARC Discovery Project DP120101387 under the supervision of Professor David Throsby, and in collaboration with Professor Howard Morphy at ANU.

Capital Markets CRC: Scholarship Opportunity

We are seeking applicants completing 1st Class Honours degrees in one, or more of:

• Finance / Capital Markets
  
• Econometrics / Actuarial Studies
  
• Information Technology / Data Mining / Language Technology
  

The CMCRC provides an exciting, high calibre, and well-resourced research environment for work in capital markets. The research objective is to create better capital markets locally, regionally, and globally. CMCRC research is about providing a better understanding of financial markets (their operation and their price behaviour) and research which facilitates the provision of advances in technology to capital markets.

Programs currently operate under the following research themes:

• market design and market behaviour
  
• investment management
  
• surveillance and compliance
  
• data and text mining
  
• insurance and investment banking
  

Please contact the Directors for the Centre for Financial Risk, to find out about prospective project topics. 

An application for PhD must be lodged with Macquarie University for supervision by available researchers.

PhD scholarships in the Faculty of Business and Economics

• The University provides several scholarships of interest to research students.
  
• The main scholarship rounds close on 30 August (international applicants) and 30th October (domestic applicants) each year..
• For a list of available scholarships please visit the Higher Degree Research Office scholarship information pages.

Application Procedures

1. To apply for candidature and scholarships, applicants must submit an application to the Higher Degree Research Office.
   
2. Once the formal application is submitted, the faculty will look for a research supervisor for the PhD project.
   
3. Application forms and conditions of award are available from the Higher Degree Research Office.
   

Scholarship applications should be forwarded to:
The Scholarships Coordinator
Higher Degree Research Office
Cottage C4C
Macquarie University 2109.