The Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity offers various scholarships to students wishing to undertake training in plant biosecurity. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Biology of Emergency Plant Pests, Diagnostics, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Predictive Simulation Models, Remote Sensing, Risk Analysis, Social Science and Taxonomy.

The CRC for National Plant Biosecurity offers full and top-up PhD scholarships. Applications are accepted all year round, there is no set closing date.

Please contact the Education and Training Program Leader prior to developing your proposal.

Projects are available in all states and territories of Australia. All of our students have at least one supervisor from a non-university research organisation and their projects may be based with that organisation or at their university (or both). All of our postgraduate students benefit from attendance at our annual symposium, and an extensive professional development program. Read about some of our current student projects and students here.

Full PhD scholarships

Full PhD scholarship holders receive a stipend of $26,000 pa and a generous operating allowance. Full scholarships are available to students holding a First Class or Upper 2A Honours degree (or equivalent). 

To apply for a full PhD scholarship, you will need to complete a Postgraduate Project Proposal form and a PhD scholarship application form.  Please contact the CRC's Education and Training Program Leader, Dr Kirsty Bayliss, if you would like more information about the project approval process.

Interested in helping prepare Australia for a possible incursion of glassy-winged sharpshooter? Click here for more information on the CRC's latest PhD scholarship.

Top-up PhD scholarships

Top-Up PhD scholarships are available to students already holding an APA (or equivalent university award), provided the project meets the objectives of one of the CRCNPB's five science research programs.

Students/supervisors wishing to submit an application for a PhD Top-Up scholarship should contact the CRC's Education and Training Program Leader, Dr Kirsty Bayliss, to discuss the suitability of the project and the project approval process.

For further information about any of our scholarships please refer to the guidelines here or contact the Education and Training Program Leader, Dr Kirsty Bayliss.