ANU-CSIRO Digital Agriculture PhD Scholarship

ANU-CSIRO Digital Agriculture PhD Scholarships provide funding to support outstanding candidates to pursue a PhD program at ANU, where the focus of their research is on a collaborative project between CSIRO and ANU in the field of information science relevant to agriculture.

Funding for this award has been provided by CSIRO.

In the future, agriculture will have to address new and complex challenges. Technology, and particularly emerging digital capability, impacts how things are done across the entire value chain. To ensure food security and sustainability into the future, agriculture needs experts in traditional farming practice, as well as experts in new technologies.

If you plan to do a PhD in the field of information science on a topic relevant to agriculture (including, but not limited to, plant sciences, synthetic biology, biochemistry, ecology, environmental studies, robotics, AI, machine learning, data modelling, remote sensor technology, or any other field based at ANU), you may be eligible for this award.

This is a unique opportunity to work with some of the best minds across CSIRO and ANU and play an important role in the future of digital agriculture.

Scholarship details

Full scholarship at AGRTP Rates for 3.5 years (plus availability of 6 month extension), plus top-up $15,000 per year, plus a research support allowance $5000.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for this award: 

• Candidates must be undertaking one of the approved projects below. 
• Candidates must apply for and be accepted as a PhD candidate at ANU.

More information about eligibility to apply for the award is available here.

How to apply

To register your interest in one of the projects below, complete the Expression of Interest form.

• EOI will be reviewed by the project supervisors
• Shortlisted students will be contacted to develop a full application

Applicants wishing to be considered for more than one project should complete and submit separate EOI forms for each topic of interest.

Key dates

Contact

Questions about the scholarship may be directed to agrifood@anu.edu.au