PhD in Education: Investigating how professionals learn as they work in increasingly digitalised contexts

Closing date: Friday 12 July 2024

Want to do a PhD in Education on a project with world class education researchers? Ready to start by end of August 2024? UOW is offering a Domestic PhD scholarship to work with the team on the: Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project [DP210100164] ‘Investigating professional lives in the digital evolution of work”.

Project team: Professor Shirley Agostinho (UOW), Professor Lori Lockyer (QUT), Dr Kellie Buckley-Walker (UOW), Professor Sarojni Choy (Griffith University), Professor Sue Bennett (UOW) and Professor Allison Littlejohn (University College London).

Your Doctor of Philosophy project would investigate how professionals learn as they work in increasingly digitalised contexts. Your PhD principal supervisor will be Professor Shirley Agostinho, School of Education, Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, UOW.


Faculty: Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

Study area: Education

Student type: Domestic students

Student status: Future Students


Scholarship amount

Successful candidates will receive a tax-free stipend of $34,000 for the duration of 3.5 years indexed annually.

Duration

Maximum duration of the scholarship is 3.5 years full-time.

Application process

Email a cover letter to explain your interest and how you meet the above criteria, plus your resume and academic transcript to our project’s email address: arcdp21-pll@uow.edu.au

Additional Information:

Refer to these two reports for an overview of the ARC Discovery project and a summary of the findings from our Phase 1 (of 3). This PhD Scholarship will be linked to Phases 2 and 3.

 

Eligibility requirements

Completed a Bachelor’s degree in the field of education, social sciences, or a related discipline AND have a First Class Honours and/or a Masters by Research OR be regarded by UOW as having an equivalent level of attainment; and

  • Experience in conducting qualitative research,
  • Experience in quantitative research is desirable,
  • The ability to take initiative, be pro-active, and constructively respond to change,
  • Demonstrated collegiality and ability to work within a collaborative team environment.

Application closing date

Friday 12 July 2024

Contact information

Dr Claire Rogerson (Post-Doctoral Fellow on this project)

clairer@uow.edu.au