Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies PhD Program

 

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The Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies PhD Program is a supplementary learning opportunity to enrich your graduate research experience. The program offers an opportunity to share your research with other disciplines and expand your peer network.

You can find existing Graduate Research courses using our Find a Course search tool.

Overview

The Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies PhD Program is delivered by the Melbourne Social Equity Institute at the University of Melbourne.

This interdisciplinary program will enrich your PhD experience by creating a strong intellectual community. You will work with others who share a passion for discovering new knowledge in this area. You will engage with researchers from other disciplines across the University. And you will connect with relevant external organisations.

These connections will allow you to:

  • Consider your research from the perspective of others
  • Develop your research in reference to current real-world challenges
  • Enhance your career prospects.

During the program, you will attend masterclasses, workshops and seminars. There will be a focus on ethics and research methods. And you will learn how to communicate your research to diverse audiences.

Program

When you join our PhD Program, you’ll receive extra targeted support to further develop your career. You can access this support in the form of:

  • Regular seminars
  • Specialised workshops
  • Potential mentoring opportunities
  • Possible placements and internships.

Graduate researchers

Graduate researchers enrolled in this PhD Program come from schools and faculties across the University of Melbourne. They are conducting research in areas as diverse as law, education, architecture, history, fine arts and population health.

Graduate researchers pursue a wide range of PhD thesis topics, including:

  • The "Australian Dream": aspirations of young migrants with disability
  • Sexual and reproductive healthcare experiences of refugee families
  • Co-design of a mindfulness-based art intervention for children from refugee backgrounds
  • The right to nationality in armed conflict
  • Impacts of Sinicisation: generational challenges within Tibetans living in exile
  • Refugee populations: what role does housing play
  • The impact of information campaigns on the risk perception of unskilled and semi-skilled Ghanaian female migrants
  • Sports participation, social capital and health for refugee and migrant teenage girls
  • Performance-based refugee shelter planning and design: the case of the Rohingya people in Bangladesh.

Participate

The Migration, Statelessness and Refugee Studies PhD Program is open to doctoral researchers in any faculty. To join, you must:

  • Have at least one supervisor based at the University of Melbourne
  • Have commenced doctoral research in relation to migration, refugee studies or statelessness.

Applications to join the program are accepted year round. Participants can join the program at any time during their candidature and remain part of the program until the completion of their doctoral studies.

If you’re a current University of Melbourne PhD candidate

  • Talk with your supervisor about participating.
  • Visit the Program website to complete the application form.

If you want to apply for a PhD at the University of Melbourne

First published on 22 February 2022.

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