Student Management ServicesGraduate Research Scholarships

Document checklist

To be considered for scholarship, local applicants must submit their application for graduate scholarship and all of the required documents to the Melbourne Scholarships Office (MSO) by 31 October (if 31 October falls on a weekend, you may submit your required documents the next working day but you must complete and submit your application on SCHOLS by midnight (AEST) on 31 October).

Applications received after 31 October will not be considered for the APAs, FMSs, HRSs or the prestigious and other major scholarships: they will only be considered for any MRSs that remain at the time the application is assessed. Incomplete applications (eg. required document/s not provided) will not be considered for scholarship.

Applicants are required to apply for a graduate scholarship online using SCHOLS.

The required documents are listed below. A list of required documents is also emailed to applicants once their graduate scholarship application has been submitted on-line and may also be viewed at your SCHOLS homepage. Applicants who have previously applied for scholarship for 2009 and would like to request for the MSO to retain previously submitted documents should read the 'Use of previously submitted documents' section below.

Use of previously submitted documents

Please note that we are unable to retrieve documents that you may have lodged with other university offices (eg. Melbourne School of Graduate Research, International Admissions, faculty offices, etc.).

If you applied for a graduate scholarship (eg. APA, MRS, FMS, HRS) at the University of Melbourne for 2009 and wish to be considered for the 2010 scholarships, please read and complete the 'Form to Reapply for a Graduate Scholarship' (instructions on how to reapply are on this form) and indicate on the form that you would like the MSO to retrieve documents that you submitted last year.

Required documents

Certification of documents

Formal certification of original documents is mandatory and can be obtained by providing the original and a photocopy to an appropriate authority for endorsement, eg. police officer, Justice of the Peace, solicitor, medical practitioner, school principal or the Melbourne Scholarships Office.

If you would like the MSO to certify your documents, please bring a photocopy of your document, along with the original document, to the office.

Proof of citizenship

Australian and New Zealand citizens must provide a certified copy of either:

Australian permanent residents must provide evidence of their permanent residence status or relevant pages from their passport.

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Academic transcripts

Applicants must provide certified copies of official academic transcripts for all tertiary studies that you have undertaken or are currently undertaking.

The transcripts must include:

Numeric marks (ie. either a percentage or grade point average) are strongly preferred for the subjects you have completed at the 3rd year level and higher. If numeric marks are unavailable, the University will use the lowest mark in the corresponding grade range (eg. if you obtained an 'A' for a subject and A=80-100%, you will be assigned an 80% for that subject).

Applicants currently enrolled at the University of Melbourne do not need to provide a transcript for any studies undertaken at the University. If you have qualifications from another institution, please provide a certified copy of the results you obtained.

If you are currently enrolled in a tertiary course at any institution other than the University of Melbourne, please provide to the MSO by the closing date a transcript that shows your results to date. Please forward updated transcripts to our office as soon as they become available. We will require your final transcript to complete the assessment of your application for scholarship.

If you have received credit toward your degree at the 3rd year level or higher, include with your scholarship application the transcript/s for the studies for which you received credit. For example, if you received 3rd year credit toward a University of Melbourne qualification for subjects completed on exchange at the University of London, please also submit your University of London transcript.

Applicants with masters qualifications should attach:

If transcripts are not in English, an authorised English translation must be provided.

Applicants who have completed a MBBS, BPhysio, BDSc or BDS, LLB, BVSc or BMVS are advised to provide information about their 'position on their graduating class list' if available.  (If this information is not available on the transcript, advice should be provided in writing from the relevant faculty office).

Research/Professional experience gained via employment

You will be required to note on SCHOLS any research/professional experience you have gained via employment that is relevant to the course for which you are seeking a scholarship. If you have substantial relevant research/professional experience, please submit to the MSO, with your other documents, a page that describes your experience and provides your employer's contact details. 

You must also arrange for a Employer Referee Report Form to be completed by your employer(s) for each of the positions in which you are claiming to have undertaken the research/professional experience.  This form must be submitted to the Melbourne Scholarships Office by 31 October.  Please ensure you send the request to your referee/s in sufficient time for them to complete and submit their report by this date.

Publications

If you have had any publications (eg. journal papers, refereed conference papers, book chapters, books etc) accepted or published, you must submit a list of publications including the following information about each publication:

  1. Publication Name
  2. Publication Volume and Issue
  3. Page numbers
  4. Date published
  5. Title of paper/chapter/book
  6. Full author list (with initials and listed in the order that they appear on the paper/book chapter/book)
  7. ISBN
  8. If journal paper, state nature of paper (was the paper peer reviewed? Level of circulation - international, national or local?)
  9. If conference paper, state title of conference, date and location of conference
  10. Website at which there is an online repository or digital library containing bibliographic details about the paper

You must also provide a photocopy of the first page of the paper/chapter/book and a copy of the front page of the journal/book in which it appeared.  If the paper/chapter/book is still in press, provide proof of acceptance (eg. email from the editor).  For conference papers, provide proof of peer review (eg. photocopy of the preface for the conference preceedings stating the review policy or a copy of the reviews).

Creative Works

If you have produced any creative works/performances (eg. folios, recordings, compositions, exhibitions, performances, film, landscape/design projects etc) in the areas of Visual Art, Performing Arts, Film and Music, you are required to provide a CV documenting your creative works and performances and attach the required evidence as detailed on the Eligible Research Output Types: Creative Works table.

Medical Fellowships

If you have attained any medical fellowships, you must submit a list of the medical fellowships that you have attained including the following information about each fellowship:

  1. Name of Fellowship
  2. Date awarded
  3. Official website that provides details (eg. general description, criteria for award or attach verifiable documentation such as letter from the fellowship organisation)

You must also provide a photocopy of the certificate recognising award of the fellowship or letter from the fellowship organisation.

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Academic Referee Reports

Applicants must provide academic referee contact information on the application form which is separate to providing a academic referee report form.

The number of academic referee reports required depends on where you completed your last tertiary qualification.

References must be completed on a referee report form and reach the Melbourne Scholarships Office by 31 October. Please ensure you send the request to your referee/s in sufficient time for them to complete and submit their report by this date.

Additional documents

If you are applying for any of the following scholarships you will need to provide documents in addition to those described above. Please check what is required:

Submission & acknowledgment of documents

Wherever possible, please submit all of your documents to the Melbourne Scholarships Office at one time.

For applicants who lodged their application via SCHOLS, the coversheet available from your SCHOLS homepage should be attached to the front of your documents.

Visit your SCHOLS homepage at anytime to check that the MSO has received your documents. We will update the list of required documents on your SCHOLS homepage within 2 weeks of the documents arriving at our office.

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