John Landman PhD Scholarship

Eligibility

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must:

• be an outstanding applicant commencing a PhD in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
• be undertaking a research relevant to eye health
• demonstrate exemplary skills in the nominated research area (eye health).
• satisfy the Faculty’s entry requirements for a PhD, including minimum academic achievement of first-class honours or equivalent.

Selection criteria

Eligible applicants are selected on the basis of academic merit and faculty scholarship score.

The selection committee will base its assessment on the application form, academic transcripts, the faculty scholarship score, the student's project proposal, CV, referee reports, and the statement relating to how the scholarship will benefit the applicant during their candidature.

Special Conditions

This scholarship is open only for 2022 commencing students.

The recipient must not hold a stipend, studentship or other form of scholarship whilst receiving this scholarship.

The recipient of this scholarship must enrol full time.

You must submit a course application or have commenced your PhD in 2022.

This scholarship is administered by the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Please request an application form from mdhs-scholarships@unimelb.edu.au.

Successful candidates will be advised of the outcome of their application according to the Faculty's published timelines.

THE JOHN LANDMAN PhD SCHOLARSHIP

Jascha (John) Landman was born in 1925 in Riga, Latvia. After his parents and only brother were killed in the Holocaust, John survived (through sheer resilience and what he called “luck”) concentration camps, marches, starvation and disease to arrive in Melbourne in 1946.

For one who had suffered such a horrific youth, he achieved enormous success in business and had a great “joie de vivre” – enjoying travel and every aspect of the arts.  In his seventies, John enrolled in history and art history courses at the University of Melbourne, choosing to do some written assignments. He was thrilled with his results, especially as he had been forced to leave school at the age of fourteen. This accomplishment was a source of great pride.

But the greatest joy of his life was his family – his wife Eve, a refugee from Vienna, and their three children, all graduates of the University of Melbourne. John died in 2008, aged 82, much loved and respected.

This PhD scholarship to support research in eye health is in his honour – a fitting tribute, as one of his children was diagnosed with keratoconus in her teens and had a corneal transplant in 2007, for which she and her family are eternally grateful.