PhD and research degrees
Details about applications, scholarships and processes
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The Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences is passionate about developing the research capabilities of future health and human sciences professionals.
As a graduate researcher, you can choose to focus your work in areas of established strength or exciting new areas. You will be supported with access to state-of-the-art facilities, cutting-edge ideas and extensive resources to help you develop as a research professional.
Graduate research study
Explore your options for Master and PhD level research in the faculty.
- Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate of Research: a stackable research training pathway program that allows students to access different levels of research training based on their goals and help them developing their research skills.
- Master of Research (MRes): is a research training pathway program that nurtures and prepares graduate research students in formalise and apply their research skills.
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD): a PhD at Macquarie is a three-year program focused entirely on developing graduate researchers' skills to become independent research professionals.
- Master of Philosophy (MPhil): is a two-year program that empowers graduate research students to develop critical thinking and independent research skills.
For potential applicants
Faculty of Health and Human Sciences research applicants must:
- have identified potential supervisor via the Macquarie supervisors database and obtained agreement from the supervisor that they are willing to take you on, with written evidence supplied when submitting your application
- provide the names of two academic referees at the time of submitting application.
Further information on research training in the faculty can also be sought from the department/school research training directors.
Graduate research is a rewarding experience providing the opportunity to make your mark by finding out things no one knows. Completing a research degree will set you on a path to make an important contribution to your world, and while the work can be hard, there is fun to be had. Welcome!
