Flinders University is a public research university in Adelaide, South Australia. Founded in 1966, it was named in honor of British navigator Matthew Flinders, who discovered and surveyed the South Australian coastline in the early 19th century. The new scholarship program aims to enhance the health, wellbeing, and prosperity of Australians by funding innovative, impact-focused projects.
Flinders University Commission is delighted to publicize the Fulbright Future Scholarships – our most great scholarship program ever.
Fulbright Future Scholarships will fund projects that seek to promote cutting-edge applied science, kick start innovative business partnerships that foster the creation of new jobs, and additionally the development of impact-driven emergent technologies.
Flinders University is a verdant university and a member of the Innovative Research Universities (IRU) Group. Academically, the university initiated a cross-disciplinary approach to education, and its faculties of medicine and the humanities have been graded among the nation’s top 10.
Planning began in 1961. The principal designate of the new campus, economist and professor Peter Karmel, was obstinate that the new campus should operate independently from the North Terrace campus.
He hoped that the Bedford Park campus would be free to innovate and not be bound by tradition. In 1965, the Australian Labor Party won the state election and Frank Walsh became premier.
The ALP wished to break up the University of Adelaide’s power over tertiary education in the state, and publicized that they intended the Bedford Park campus to be an independent institution.
On 17 March 1966, a bill was passed by state parliament formally creating the Flinders University of South Australia. Although the Labor Party had favored the name “University of South Australia”, academic staff wished that the university be named after a “distinguished but uncontroversial” person.
They settled upon British navigator Matthew Flinders, who travel around and surveyed the South Australian coastline in 1802.
Its coat of arms, designed by a professor in the Fine Arts faculty, comprises a reproduction of Flinders’ ship Investigator and his journal A Voyage to Terra Australis, open to the page in which Flinders labeled the coast adjacent to the campus site.
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The university’s core campus is in the Adelaide inner southern suburb of Bedford Park, about 12 km south of the Adelaide city center. The university also has an existence in Victoria Square in the center of the city, and Tonsley. It also preserves several external teaching facilities in regional South Australia, southwest Victoria, and the Northern Territory. As of 2020 international students made up 19.5% of the on-campus student population and several offshore programs are also accessible, primarily in the Asia-Pacific region.
According to the Times Higher Education rankings, the university is amongst the world’s top 300 institutions. The 2020 Times Higher Education positions of the world’s top universities graded Flinders University in the 251–300 bracket.
Benefits:
- Monthly compensation is based on the cost of living in the city of the host institution.
- Full tuition or visiting researcher scholar fees
- Round-trip, economy class airfare instantly to and from the scholar’s home city and the city of the host institution.
- Dependent allowance- if applicable.
- Station services support postgraduate students aiming to complete a full U.S. Master’s degree or Ph.D.
- ASPE medical insurance of up to A$100,000 (for the scholar only)
- Orientation and enrichment opportunities – in Australia and the U.S. with other international Fulbright scholars.
- Access to a skilled network of prominent Australian and American Fulbright Alumni.
- Ongoing aid from the Commission with visas, enrichment opportunities, and pastoral care.
- Media and publicity support.
Eligibility for the Fulbright Future Scholarships
Fulbright Future Scholarships are open to applications for Australian candidates who meet the following criteria.
Applicants:
- Can apply as postgraduate students who desire to complete a full U.S. Master’s degree or part of their Australian degree in the U.S.
- Can apply as Ph.D. researchers who aim to complete a full U.S. Ph.D. program or part of their Australian Ph.D. in the U.S.
- Must have an undergraduate qualification.
- Should strive to create, contribute to, or otherwise enhance Australian-American bilateral research collaborations
- Must have an extra statement different from their project statement (maximum of one page) that outlines the possible impact of their suggested program on the lives, health, livelihoods, or prosperity of Australians
- All applicants desiring to perform research towards an Australian Ph.D. program (4 – 10 months) are needed to have a letter of invitation from their offered (maximum one) associated with their application (not needed for postgraduate students seeking to complete a U.S. Masters or Ph.D. program)
How to Apply for the Fulbright Future Scholarships
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The application deadline for this scholarship is July 6, 2022.