Inaugural Dean of Health Sciences, Professor Janet Hiller Scholarship

Courses eligible

Postgraduate degree offered by Swinburne University of Technology in one of the following disciplines:

• Dietetics
• Occupational Therapy
• Physiotherapy

Eligibility/selection criteria

To be eligible for the Inaugural Dean of Health Sciences, Professor Janet Hiller Scholarship, applicants must:

1. Meet the following criteria:
   • an Australian citizen, an Australian permanent resident or holder of a permanent humanitarian visa, or a New Zealand Citizen
   • International student
2. Meet the following enrolment criteria:
   • be a commencing postgraduate Swinburne student in Semester 1, 2023.
   • enrolled full-time in an eligible course (see courses eligible in the section above)
   • hold an undergraduate degree from Swinburne, preferably a Bachelor of Health Sciences but not essential
3. Provide a personal statement of 500 words or less describing:
   • benefit that receiving this scholarship will provide to you
4. Provide evidence of low socio-economic status. This may include:
   • financial difficulty or low income
   • disability or medical condition
   • delay or interruption to career or studies because of family responsibilities or illness
   • relocation from a rural or regional area in order to undertake tertiary study
   • English as a second language
   • identification as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
5. Provide Academic transcript of the previous study