Alma Hansen Scholarship

Eligibility

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• be currently enrolled in a graduate program at the University of Melbourne;
• demonstrate financial disadvantage; and,
• wish to pursue relevant study and research at an overseas venue.

Selection criteria

Preference is given to graduate students in the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, and due consideration is given to financial needs, including access to other financial sources (APA, GRATS, GRATS Top-Up, PORES, School/department funds).

Several awards will be offered. The value of the scholarship will be determined after considering the successful applicant's proposed program of study, access to other financial resources and estimate of travel and living expenses.

Submit an online application including:

• details of your proposed program of study overseas including an indicative budget;
• a 300-500 word statement describing how you would use this scholarship and how it would positively impact your academic work;
• the University of Melbourne Student Financial Assessment form with attached evidence of submission in your application form;
• two academic references;
• current statement of results; and,
• any other information to support the application that may assist the committee in making its decision.

Applicants will be advised of the outcome via email.

Alma Hansen

Alma Philippina Hansen, also known as Alma Hands, undertook a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne in the early 1910s where she received a number of scholarships and prizes including the Shakespeare Scholarship. In 1914, Mrs Hands received a government research scholarship in literature and an Orient Steamship Company Scholarship. Deeply interested in Shakespeare, sources he used to create his plays and the life and times of Shakespeare’s London, Mrs Hands utilized her awards to travel to England. Living at Somerville College, Oxford, she gained her Master of Arts in 1917. Still in the UK at the time of her death, Mrs Hands left a gift in her will to the University to support a travelling scholarship for graduate students of the Faculty of Arts.