Appendix 10: CCFS postgraduate opportunities

CCFS has a flourishing postgraduate research environment with postgraduate students from many countries (currently including France, Germany, China, Russia, USA, Canada and Australia). Scholarships funding tuition fees and a living allowance are available for students with an excellent academic record or equivalent experience. 

These include:

Research Training Program (RTP) - available to both domestic and international students from 2017. The scheme is administered by individual universities on behalf of the Department of Education and Training. Applications for a RTP Scholarships can be made directly to participating universities. Each university has its own application and selection process:
MQ - http://www.mq.edu.au/research/phd-and-research-degrees/scholarships/hdr-main-scholarship-rounds
Curtin - http://research.curtin.edu.au/postgraduate/rtp-scholarship-policy/
UWA - http://www.scholarships.uwa.edu.au/

China Scholarship Council - Postgraduate Study Abroad Program is a national scholarship program financing outstanding Chinese students (Chinese citizens) to study at top universities around the world. Curtin, Macquarie and UWA are partner universities in this program (http://www.csc.edu.cn/).

CCFS also provides research funding through competitive internal schemes; CCFS and externally funded projects provide further resources to support postgraduate research projects; and some CCFS support is available for approved postgraduate research support.

Postgraduate projects are tailored to your expertise and interests within the framework of CCFS research goals. CCFS carries out interdisciplinary research across the boundaries of petrology, geochemistry, tectonics, metallogenesis, geodynamics and geophysics to explore the nature and evolution of the Earth and global geodynamics. Current funded projects are based in Australia, Antarctica, Canada, China, Taiwan, Italy, France, Spain, Siberia, Norway, North America, South America, Africa, Kerguelen Islands, Greenland and other locations globally (see the map here).

CCFS postgraduate programs have opportunities through access to our outstanding analytical facilities (see Technology Development section) with currently unique technologies and instrumentation configurations to tackle exciting large-scale problems in the Geosciences.

Examples of broad PhD project areas include (but are not limited to):

• Lithosphere structure and geochemistry: mantle provinciality and tectonism

• Granitoid and mineralised provinces along western Pacific convergent margins

• Fluid-vapour transfer of elements in the crust and mantle

• Heat production and evolution of the crust: crust-mantle interaction

• Paleomagnetism and supercontinent reconstruction

• Geodynamic modelling

• Geophysical applications to lithosphere studies

• Isotopic and trace element geochemistry: mantle and crustal systems

• Metal isotopes: applications to ore formation

• Magma genesis and crustal evolution: includes trace elements of accessory minerals, isotopic fingerprints

• High-pressure experimental studies

Initial enquiries can be sent to: ccfs.admin@mq.edu.au or to any CCFS staff