Australian Postgraduate Award Industry (APAI)

Background

This PhD scholarship is funded by a Linkage Project grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC) and is tenable at the ANU.  Applicants for this scholarship must be an Australian citizen, an Australian permanent resident, or a New Zealand citizen.

ACERH together with industry partner the NRMA – ACT Road Safety Trust have been awarded this grant to undertake an economic evaluation of a new treatment modality for the management of soft tissue injury following motor vehicle crashes in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).  This new modality, which involves the rapid assessment and referral of injuries in a multidisciplinary clinic, has been the subject of a controlled trial in the ACT which commenced in 2007.  The trial, known as the Accident Care Evaluation (ACE) trial, is now nearing completion and the APAI scholar will have access to the trial data for their PhD studies.

Further information on the trial is available from the ACE web site.  Additional information can be found in a presentation at the TRACsa conference in Adelaide in November 2008 (go to the News 2008 page on the ACERH web site and download the slides for the presentation entitled 'Improving outcome after musculoskeletal injuries in motor vehicle crashes: A controlled trial').

This scholarship is ideally suited for a candidate interested in developing their skills in economic evaluation and health technology assessment.

Financial aspects

The scholarship is a 3-year stipend scholarship with a stipend rate on parity with AusAID Australian Leadership Awards (currently AUD26,800 per year tax free)..

Further information

Academic enquiries should be directed to Professor Jim Butler (ANU)
(E: jim.butler@anu.edu.au) or Professor Luke Connelly (UQ) (E: l.connelly@uq.edu.au).

To lodge an application for a PhD scholarship, an application for PhD candidature must be lodged with the University where the applicant wishes to enrol.  Web links for further information on the application process at each University are available on the ACERH web site here.