Robert and Gillian Cook Family Award

Eligibility and selection criteria

Eligibility

To be considered for this scholarship, you must be:

• Currently enrolled or intending to enrol in a Graduate Research Degree in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences*;
• Undertaking a research project relating to oral and maxillofacial surgery.

*For candidates not enrolled at the University of Melbourne, receipt of the award is contingent on accepting an offer to study in the faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science at the University of Melbourne.

Applicants must satisfy the Faculty’s entry requirements for graduate research.

Selection criteria

The theme that will be considered is oral and maxillofacial surgery.

The PhD scholarship will support research broadly focused on the specialty of oral and maxillofacial surgery with specific topics to be determined by the applicant’s research interests and those of the potential supervisors. This can cover areas, for example, of tissue repair/regeneration, oral and head and neck cancer, bioimaging, clinical oral and maxillofacial surgery where the School, and its University and hospital collaborators, have excellence in research.

The principle supervisor of the PhD project will be from the Melbourne Dental School and one (or more) from the following institutions across the Biomedical Precinct where appropriate for the specific research: Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Victoria Comprehensive Cancer Centre, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Murdoch Research Institute.

A selection committee will determine the successful recipient(s) of the award.

The selection committee will assess applicants for the scholarship based on:

• academic transcripts
• faculty scholarship score
• project proposal
• CV
• referee reports
• career aspiration

Conditions

The recipient must submit a progress report at the end of each year.

Support in the subsequent year will be dependent on the receipt of a satisfactory progress report. In the event that the recipient fails to meet this requirement then the award will be rescinded. Within two months of the submission of the PhD thesis the recipient will provide a report outlining the key achievements from the program of study undertaken.