The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) offers a competitive scholarship stipend and support package. The scholarship amount awarded to full-time HDR candidates is $37,684 per annum, tax exempt. The PhD scholarship duration is three years (with the possibility of a 6-month extension). The MRes and MPhil scholarship duration is two years. 

In addition, up to $10,000 is available for professional development activities and $5,000 for associated research costs across the period of candidature. There are also opportunities for HDR candidates to be offered additional paid employment to work on priority projects across the Centre.

NDARC offers scholarships to students who wish to undertake higher degree research (HDR) on drug and alcohol-related projects that align with NDARC’s core Workplan areas:

• Prevention and early intervention
• Clinical research
• Physical and mental comorbidity
• Epidemiology of substance use and harms
• Justice health and drug policy
• Indigenous health
• Health economics and biostatistics
• Family, communities and society

To see projects currently seeking students, please click here.