University Secretary's Department List of Awards, Scholarships and Prizes

Faculty of Arts
Graduate Awards

Discipline
Prize
Contact
Value/Frequency

BY STUDENT APPLICATION

Ancient History/
Classical Studies
Jessie Webb Scholarship
R6.132
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$17,000 approx
(NAI)

Awarded from time to time
Arts Lizette Bentwitch Scholarship
R6.98
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$3,000 (NAI)

Biennial award shared with Music
(Arts 2010/11)
Arts Melbourne Rome Scholarship Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$6,000+in-kind support

Annual award
Arts Norman MacGeorge Bequest Scholarship
R7.98
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$6,000 approx

Annual award
Arts - Labour History AIRC Centennial Prize Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$570 approx

Annual award
Creative Writing Penguin Manuscript Award Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$5,000 + 25 hrs editorial work

Annual award
English Shakespeare Scholarship
R6.2
Contact: Sharon Tribe (English)
Ph: 8344-5506
Applications
: close 2 February
$2,000 in 2002
two awards
(NAI)

Awarded from time to time
English Amy Gaye Cowper Tennent Memorial Scholarship
R6.178
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$5,000 in 2004 (NAI)

Annual award
Fine Arts Sarah and William Holmes Scholarship
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
£5,000

Annual award
Fine Arts Harold Wright Scholarship Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
£5 ,000

Annual award
French Elizabeth and Nicholas Slezak Scholarship
R6.193
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$9,000 in 2001
(NAI)

Awarded from time to time
French French History Research Higher Degree Scholarship Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$3,000

Annual award
History Caroline Kay Scholarship
R6.20
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$14,000
(Determined by the Council)

Next award in 2010
History Ernest Scott Prize
R6.61
Contact: Gabrielle Murphy
Ph: +61 3 8344 5961
Applications close on 31 January 2009
$3,000 in 2004
(NAI)

Annual award
Icelandic Anna Lodewyckx Icelandic Scholarships
R6.101
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$8,180
(NAI)

Awarded from time to time
Italian Emma Grollo Memorial Scholarship
R6.176
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$7,000 in 2004
(NAI)

Annual award
Literature Felix Meyer Scholarship
R6.162
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$7,000
(Determined by the Council)

Annual award
Poetry Wesley Michel Wright Prize
R6.72(74)
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$4,000 approx

Annual award  
Travel Scholarship Alma Hansen Scholarship
R6.164
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$16,000 approx

Prizes Awarded to High Achieving Students

Awarded for highest GQL in Arts in Combined Honours Percival Serle Bequest for Final Combined Honours Assessment other than English and History Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
 
Awarded for highest GQL in Arts Honours RG Wilson Scholarship – Best Honours Student (1/3) Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
 
Awarded for highest GQL in Arts Honours RG Wilson Scholarship – Best Honours Student (2/3) Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
 
Awarded for highest GQL in Arts Honours RG Wilson Scholarship – Best Honours Student (3/3) Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
 
Awarded at the beginning of 1st semester to commencing international PG student (with highest GPA  from most relevant previous study) in a politics coursework in any of the following programs: Grad Dip, Cert PG Dip, Cert Masters International Politics. Hamish Malcolm Memorial Prize (1st semester) Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
 
Awarded at the beginning of 2nd semester to commencing international PG student (with highest GPA from most relevant previous study) in a politics coursework in any of the following programs: Grad Dip, Cert PG Dip, Cert Masters International Politics. Hamish Malcolm Memorial Prize (1st semester) Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes Officer
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
 

Nominated by Academics

Arts Dublin Prize
R6.72(3)

Selection Criteria: For students and graduates making outstanding contributions in Art, Music, Literature and Science.
NOTE
: Past recipients have included concert pianist Ronald Farren-Price, historian Geoffrey Blainey and poet Vincent Buckley.
Contact: Penelope Pepperell (Academic Secretary)
Ph : 8344-7527
$4,000 in 2002
(NAI)

Quinquennial award
 Arts Female Student    Eleanor and Joseph Wertheim Scholarship Contact: Susan Winifred Brazenor
Ph: +61 3 8344-7467

Applications close on 2 February 2009
$20,000 (approx.)
Arts
Doctor of Philosophy
The Thomas and Margaret Ruth McArthur Fellowships
R6.229

Donor: Dr Annie Margaret McArthur Oliver
Eligibility: The fellowships are open to students who have been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Social Sciences or Humanities.
Special Conditions: Preference will be given to female candidates undertaking research in the field of Anthropology.
Contact: Steve Heath
Ph: +61 3 8344-3303
This prize is advertised when it is available

Annual award
Publication Publication Subsidy Grants Contact: Allison Dutka (Arts)
Ph: 8344-6461
Variable

Two rounds of offers
Travel Scholarship Travel for Research in Postgraduate Study (TRIPS) Contact: Kym Clifford (Arts)
Ph: 8344-8152
Various amounts

Several annual awards
Travel Scholarship PhD Fieldwork Scheme Contact: Kym Clifford (Arts)
Ph: 8344-8152
Various amounts

Several annual awards
ANTHROPOLOGY, GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Ancient History
Archaeology
William Culican Memorial Award
R6.72(135)
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
Applications: close 6 September
$500
(NAI)

Annual award
Anthropology Anthropology (Melanesia) Fieldwork Scheme
Eligibility
: The scholarship is limited to
graduate students of anthropology for fieldwork
study in the Pacific (Melanesia).
Special Conditions: The scholarship may be
held concurrently with any other scholarship or
similar benefit if the total emoluments held by
the scholar do not exceed the amount from
time to time determined by the Associate
Dean (Research) as the desirable maximum for
an overseas fieldwork scholarship. The
scholarship may be held only once.
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$5,000 Max

Annual award to 2009
ENGLISH (WITH CULTURAL STUDIES)
English Percival Serle Prize (highest GQL score)
R6.148
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$500
(one-quarter NAI)

Annual award
Literature Dublin Prize
R6.72(3)
Selection Criteria
: For students and graduates making outstanding contributions in Art, Music, Literature and Science.
NOTE: Past recipients have included concert pianist Ronald Farren-Price, historian Geoffrey Blainey and poet Vincent Buckley.
Contact: Penelope Pepperell (Academic Secretary)
Ph : 8344-7527
$4,000 in 2002
(NAI)

Quinquennial award
Literature Dinny O’Hearn Scholarship
R6.72(150)
Contact: The Australian Centre
Ph: 8344-3849
(Determined by the Council)

Biennial award
Literature and Humanities Dr Greta Hort Memorial Scholarship
Donor: This is a Scholarship for semester
exchange between University College and the
Australian Centre at the University of
Melbourne, and the Australian Studies
Department at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Eligibility: Candidates should be postgraduate students currently enrolled at the University of Melbourne in the area of literature and humanities. The candidate if not a resident of University College would be required to enrol as a non-resident of the College.
Contact: Cultural Affairs Office
The Australian Centre
University of Melbourne
131 Barry Street
Carlton VIC 3053
Ph: 8344-7021
Return economy airfare and living allowance

Biennial award
Poetry HB Higgins Scholarship for the Study of Poetry
R6.16
Contact: Arts & Music Student Centre
Ph: +61 3 8344-5321
NAI

Annual award
HISTORY
History Harbison-Higinbotham Research Scholarship
R6.28
Contact: School of Graduate Research
Telephone: 8344-8667
(percentage of NAI)

Annual award
History
Ancient
William Culican Memorial Award
R6.72(135)
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
(NAI)

Annual award
History
Australian
Dennis-Wettenhall Prize
R6.137
Contact: Arts & Music Student Centre
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
(NAI)

Annual award
History
Australian
Lloyd Robson Memorial Award
R6.192
Contact: Erica Mehrtens (History)
Ph : 8344-5959
(Determined by the Council)

Annual award
History
Travel
Ian Robertson Travel Prize
R6.72(170)
Contact: Erica Mehrtens (History)
Ph : 8344-5959
$500 in 1999
(NAI)

Annual award
LANGUAGES
French
Poetry
Doctor Joseph Birch Hanson Prize
R6.126
Contact: Department of French and Italian Studies (Arts)
Ph: 8344-5179
$2,330
(NAI)

Annual award
German
Travel
Anita Rodgers Scholarship
R6.72(171)
Contact: Department of German and Swedish Studies (Arts)
Ph: 8344-5204
$200
(NAI)

Triennial award
(next 2006)
Italian Omero Schiassi Prize
R6.72(81)
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$800 approx
(NAI)

Annual award
Languages WT Mollison Scholarship
R6.9
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$10 ,000
(NAI)

Annual award
LINGUISTICS
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Masters Coursework Prize
Donor: Department of Linguistics and Applied
Linguistics.
Eligibility: Students enrolled in a Master of
Applied Linguistics.
Selection Criteria: Highest results in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Masters by coursework subjects.
Contact: (Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics)
Ph: 8344-5394
$100

Annual award
Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Terry Quinn Award
Donor: Terry Quinn, who established the
foundations for the graduate program in Applied
Linguistics.
Eligibility: Students enrolled in a Master of
Applied Linguistics.
Selection Criteria: Best thesis.
Contact: (Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics)
Ph: 8344-5394
$100

Annual award
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Political Science and Sociology A.F. Davies Prize
Donor:
In recognition of the late Professor Alan Davies
Eligibility: Student enrolled in a PhD or research Masters in the Department of Political Science.
Selection Criteria: Awarded to the author of the best paper written by a research student in these disciplines that is accepted by a refereed journal in the year of the award.

Contact: School of Social and Political Sciences
Ph: 8344-6586
$250
NAI

Annual award
Political Science
International Studies
William McMahon Ball Prize in International Studies
R6.72(152)

Eligibility: Postgraduate student
Selection Criteria: Best result
Contact: Arts Scholarships & Prizes
Ph: +61 3 8344-7037
$500
(NAI)

Annual award
Politics Harbison-Higinbotham Research Scholarship
R6.28
Contact: School of Graduate research
Telephone: 8344-8667
(percentage of NAI)

Annual award
       

 

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