2025 GLOWS Scholarships

Submissions are now being accepted. Submissions close at 5:00PM 24 January 2025 (AEDT).

GLOWS Grant Program 2024–26

The Guiding Local Opportunities for Wellbeing (GLOWS) Grant Program 2024–26 offers two Scholarship streams, as follows:

GLOWS Scholarship

This scholarship stream supports students wanting to develop their skills and knowledge on how to increase health equity and address disparities driving transmission of HIV and viral hepatitis within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. The objective of this scholarship funding is to offer supplementary financial support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduate students through studies that would support their entry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research workforce.​

GLOWS MAE Scholarship 

The aim of the MAE Scholarship is to attract and support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to undertake a Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology (MAE). The objective of this scholarship is to support an MAE Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander scholar through their studies which would support their entry into the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health research workforce.  

Submissions open 29 November 2024

Submissions close 24 January 2025 (AEDT)

Access guidelines and conditions of award here:

IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

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IMPORTANT: Please read information below to assist you in completing your application online.

NAVIGATING (MOVING THROUGH) THE APPLICATION FORM

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