ARC Discovery Project, ‘The Role of Public Library Services for a Changing Rural Australia’
The student will investigate the role of public libraries in rural Australia, with a particular focus on the role and impact of their mobile library services.
The ARC Discovery Project will investigate the role public libraries located in remote and outer regional communities play in narrowing the socioeconomic gap between rural and urban Australia through seven ethnographic case studies. The PhD student will focus on two of these case studies and conduct fieldwork in two communities in rural New South Wales, with a particular focus on the role and impact of their mobile library services.
To be eligible to receive the scholarship applicants must be a domestic full-time student and accepted into a PhD program at Charles Sturt University.
Stipend: This scholarship is valued at $35,000 per annum for a period of three years full-time study, payable in fortnightly instalments.
Tuition Fees: Fee exemption for a period equivalent to three years (six sessions) for PhD at full-time study.
Operating Funds: Scholarship candidates can access operating funds from the project.
The scholarship is tenable for three years for Research Doctorate studies subject to satisfactory progress.
Scholarship candidates are entitled to 20 paid annual leave working days per year and 10 paid sick leave days per year, however are not eligible for paid primary parental care leave or additional personal leave.
Applicants will need to apply for enrolment.
Prospective Higher Degree by Research candidates can apply for the ARC Discovery Project Scholarship when completing their Charles Sturt course admission application. When given the option to apply for a scholarship select 'Yes'; 'Full-time AGRTP' and 'Other'. Under 'Other' enter ARC Discovery Project Scholarship.
Applications will remain open until Friday 21 February 2025.
Prof Philip Hider: phider@csu.edu.au
