Focus on dementia care study
The University of Wollongong’s NSW/ACT Dementia Training Centre (DTSC) is offering students 10 essay prizes and two Honours Scholarships, worth a total of $15,000, to focus on the area of dementia care.
The University of Wollongong’s NSW/ACT Dementia Training Centre (DTSC) is offering students 10 essay prizes and two Honours Scholarships, worth a total of $15,000, to focus on the area of dementia care.
NSW/ACT DTSC director, Professor Richard Fleming, said the two research scholarships – valued at $5,000 each – are designed to encourage students of high academic capacity to undertake an undergraduate Honours degree in 2013 at the university in the field of care for people with dementia.
The 10 essay prizes offered by the Centre are each worth $500.
Professor Fleming said the centre’s scholarship program aimed to retain high-quality honours students within the university’s health and behavioural sciences faculty by exposing them to the research excellence within the faculty and encouraging them to see themselves as part of the research team.
The scholarships will also give students the chance to evaluate and demonstrate their potential for research work. Research training will be provided during the course of the scholarship.
Students from all disciplines in the Health and Behavioural Sciences Faculty are eligible to apply and all research approaches are eligible. Proposals can be written in collaboration with the student’s potential supervisor.
The essay topics can be very specific or very general, but must illustrate a professional contribution to the care of people with dementia. Submissions must be a minimum of 1,500 words.
Applications for the two scholarships close on Friday, 30 November, 2012. Winners will be announced on Friday, 14 December, 2012.
For scholarship guidelines and an application form, and information about the essay prizes, contact the NSW/ACT DTSC by email at dementia@uow.edu.au or phone (02) 4221 5927.
