Doctoral Scholarships
Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland has many scholarships available for doctoral study, including centrally funded, faculty funded, research grant funded, and philanthropically funded scholarships.
New Faculty UoADS strategic objectives 2025
If you wish to be considered for these scholarships this is done as part of the application for admission to the doctoral programme. In selecting scholarship recipients, the New Faculty will be informed by the objectives set out in Tuamata Teitei/The University of Auckland Strategic Plan, including the desire to:
- Nurture, recruit, and retain outstanding research talent
- Support excellent and innovative research and the creation of high-quality research outputs
- Grow Māori and Pacific candidates and research topics
- Develop/strengthen relationships with Māori and Pacific communities
- Support Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity among candidates and research topics
- Alignment with the four interdependent priorities of sustainability; health and well-being; justice; and ethical innovation and technology.
Students may also consider their research in relation to one or any of the following specific priorities:
- Encourage and develop interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research
- Engage local communities
- Research centered on the wider Pacific region
- Work towards sustainability and the University’s sustainability goals
- Advocate for social justice (including disability, race, gender, sexuality, migration, climate change)
- Creative therapies and innovative methodologies
- Indigeneity
Applications are also welcome that speak to the following project topics:
- Children with Autism, Creative Arts and AI Educational Leadership
- Indigenous Cultural and Ethical Biases and AI
- Māori and Indigenous Education Research
- Our Voices: What Wellbeing Means to Young People
- Progressive Educational Experiments in mid-century Aotearoa
- Rural Education
- Young People’s Digital Resilience
Applicants must contact their proposed supervisor well in advance of the closing date for applications. To increase the chances of a positive response from potential supervisors, applicants must provide a well-crafted Statement of Research Intent and be able to explain to the supervisor how their proposed topic aligns with the expertise and research interests of the supervisor.
Applicants can find academics who are accredited to undertake doctoral supervision on the University website. Search for academics here.
The University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship is awarded for up to 36 months of full-time equivalent (FTE) for students enrolled in the PhD, and for up to 24 months FTE for students enrolled in the research component of an EdD and comprises an annual stipend of $33,000 (with annual CPI adjustment) plus compulsory tuition fees, including the single student Health Insurance compulsory charge for international students.*
All applicants who are to be offered a place in a doctoral programme are eligible for scholarship consideration prior to receiving their offer of place.
*Domestic students for whom compassionate and compelling reasons make part-time enrolment preferable may apply to hold the Scholarship on a part-time basis.
Māori and Pacific students with a GPA of 7.0 or above who are offered a place in a doctoral programme will be guaranteed a scholarship.
In attending to these priorities, the Faculty Selection Committee will assess all
applications received against the following criteria:
1. Excellence of the applicant. This will be assessed by considering the applicant’s success in previous academic studies, research experience, any relevant professional or other experience (e.g., volunteer work, community engagement etc.), the applicant’s skill set (relevant to the proposed project) and the potential for the applicant to contribute to knowledge in the discipline.
2. Quality and viability of the proposed project. This will be assessed by considering the significance of the proposed research, its viability given the resources of the University of Auckland, its alignment with the research interests of the academic staff of the University of Auckland, and appropriateness of the proposed supervision team. The Faculty may consider factors that are external to the applicant, such as the supervision capacity of the proposed supervision team.
Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to ensure the information we have supplied is correct and up to date. However, the University of Auckland Doctoral Scholarship regulations take precedence over all other material.
You are strongly advised to read the scholarship regulations for complete information, to ensure you meet the eligibility criteria for scholarship
consideration, and that you understand the implications of any regulations,
awarding value and selection criteria.