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University of Sydney

Background
The Julian Small Scholarship was founded by a gift to the University of Sydney Law School from the Julian Small Foundation. This scholarship is intended to support higher degree by research students in the Sydney Law School who are researching in labour law.

Potential Candidates should be willing to undertake research in the discipline of labour law (encompassing employment law, industrial relations, workplace health and safety, and workplace discrimination).

You must:

1. have an unconditional offer of admission for full-time studies in a PhD or LLM by research within the University of Sydney Law School
2. hold at least one of the following degrees in Law:

• a Bachelor’s degree with first class honours; or
• a Master’s degree by Research; or
• a Master’s degree by coursework at a High Distinction or Distinction level including a research component equivalent to 25% of one year’s full-time enrolment
• a degree in Law together with research and/or professional experience deemed to be equivalent to first class honours.

Note: Preference will be given to commencing candidates, though the Scholarship may also be awarded to currently enrolled full-time PhD, or LLM by Research students demonstrating progress towards timely thesis completion and exceptional research achievements.

Background
Established by a gift from Mrs Matilda Harris in memory of her late husband George Harris, this scholarship was established for the encouragement of the study of law.

It is available to support higher degree by research students.

You must:

1. have an unconditional offer of admission or be enrolled to study a PhD, MCrim (Research) or LLM (Research) in the University of Sydney Law School
2. hold at least one of the following degrees in Law:

• a Bachelor’s degree with first class or second class upper honours; or
• a Master’s degree by Research; or
• a Master’s degree by coursework at a High Distinction or Distinction level including a research component equivalent to 25% of one year’s full-time enrolment
• a degree in Law together with research and/or professional experience deemed to be equivalent to first class honours.

Note: Preference will be given to commencing candidates, though the Scholarship may exceptionally be awarded to currently enrolled full-time or part-time PhD, MCrim by Research or LLM by Research students demonstrating progress towards timely thesis completion and exceptional research achievements.

Background
Established by a bequest, this Scholarship is in memory of alumnus Judge Ralph J Perdriau (LLB 1919) who drafted the Workers' Compensation Bill in 1925 which was enacted by the NSW Parliament in 1926. Judge Perdriau was appointed as the inaugural Chairman of the Workers' Compensation Commission in 1926 and retired in 1951.

This Scholarship is intended to support higher degree by research students in the University of Sydney Law School who are researching in common law.

You must:

1. have an unconditional offer of admission to study full-time in a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) or Master of Laws (LLM) by Research within the Sydney Law School
2. hold at least one of the following degrees:

• a Bachelor of Laws (Honours First Class) or equivalent, or
• a Master of Laws by Research, or
• a Master of Laws by Coursework including a research component equivalent to 25% of one year’s full-time enrolment
• a degree in Law together with research and/or professional experience deemed to be equivalent to first class honours.

You must:

1. have an unconditional offer of admission or being currently enrolled to study full-time or part-time in a PhD, MCrim by research or LLM by research at the Sydney Law School
2. hold at least one of the following degrees in Law or a relevant discipline:

• a Bachelor’s degree with first class honours; or
• a Master’s degree by Research; or
• a Master’s degree by coursework at a High Distinction or Distinction level including a research component equivalent to 25% of one year’s full-time enrolment; or
• a degree in Law together with research and/or professional experience deemed to be equivalent to first class honours.

Note: Preference will be given to commencing candidates, though the Scholarship may also be awarded to currently enrolled full-time or part-time PhD, MCrim by Research or LLM by Research students demonstrating progress towards timely thesis completion and exceptional research achievements.

Background
This scholarship is funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) research project on Peer Review of Financial Regulatory Agencies.

Eligible candidates should be be willing to research the effects of transnational financial regulation in Australia as part of the ARC project on Peer Review of Financial Regulatory Agencies and have some previous research experience in law or an allied social science discipline (desirable criteria).

You will be supervised by Associate Professor Yane Svetiev and Associate Professor Andrew Edgar at the Sydney Law School

You must:

1. have an unconditional offer of admission or be enrolled to study a PhD, MCrim (Research) or LLM (Research) in the University of Sydney Law School
2. hold at least one of the following degrees in law:

• an honours degree (first class or second class upper) or equivalent
• a master’s by research
• a master’s by coursework with a high distinction or distinction level including a research component equivalent to 25% of one year’s full-time enrolment
• a degree in Law together with research and/or professional experience deemed to be equivalent to first class honours.

The mechanical stimuli generated by body exercise can be transmitted from cortical bone into the deep bone marrow. A mechanosensitive perivascular stem cell niche is recently identified within the bone marrow for osteogenesis and lymphopoiesis. However, the mechanopropagation from compact bone to deep bone marrow vasculature remains elusive in this fundamental mechanobiology field. No experimental system is available yet to directly understand such exercise‐induced mechanopropagation at the bone‐vessel interface. To this end, an integrated computational biomechanics framework to quantitatively evaluate the mechanopropagation capabilities of bone marrow arterioles, arteries, and sinusoids is devised. The 3D geometries of blood vessels are smoothly reconstructed in the presence of vessel wall thickness and intravascular pulse pressure, followed by finite element analysis to thoroughly investigate the mechanical effects of exercise‐induced intravascular vibratory stretching on bone marrow vasculature. The effects of blood pressure and cortical bone bending are also examined. It is concluded that arterioles and arteries are much more efficient in transducing mechanical force than sinusoids due to their higher stiffness. In the future, this in-silico approach could be combined with other clinical imaging modalities for subject/patient‐specific vascular reconstruction and biomechanical analysis, providing large‐scale phenotypic data for personalized mechanobiology discovery.

The Scholarship will provide a stipend allowance equivalent to the University of Sydney’s Research Training Program (RTP) stipend rate for up to 3.5 years.

RTP stipend is currently $35,950 AUD/year.

The scholarship is available to domestic and international students.

Clotting and bleeding are two sides of a coin, leading to cardiovascular diseases such as stroke and haemophilia—the No.1 worldwide killer. It has long been recognised that the von Willebrand factor (VWF) is the mechanosensor for primary and secondary haemostasis by interacting with platelets and clotting factor VIII. We have recently discovered a new ‘biomechanical’ prothrombotic mechanism that highlights the remarkable VWF sensitivity to the shear stress of blood flow disturbance. Importantly, we found that the current drugs are often not successful and come with an increased financial burden.
To address this pressing need, we are establishing a GPU accelerated multi-scale simulation platform to unveil the effects of blood flow disturbance at the single-molecule level. For the first time, fluid mechanics and biochemistry fields will be united in silico to correlate the haemodynamic parameters with clotting and bleeding disorders.

The Scholarship will provide a stipend allowance equivalent to the University of Sydney’s Research Training Program (RTP) stipend rate for up to 3.5 years.

RTP stipend is currently $35,950 AUD/year.

The scholarship is available to domestic and international students.

You will have:
• Academic knowledge in the discipline of biophysics, biomechanics, electrophysiology, cell biology and biochemistry;
• Experience of Linux/Unix commanding line (Unix shell)
• Capability of using two or more of GROMACS, Hex, LabVIEW, Python, AutoCAD, MATLAB and other software.

Preferred experience include:
• Solid basic knowledge of biology and hands-on experience in PC2 biological laboratory, using flow cytometer, ELISA, Western blots, protein-protein interaction assays, protein/antibody purification and functional characterizations;
• Experience in theoretical simulation using and MATLAB or COMSOL, or LabVIEW programming to control equipment and devices.
• Capability of independently output processing models and drawings, be capable of CNC programming, use other conventional processing platform equipment to manufacture mechanical parts, and use 3D printers for part manufacturing.
• Pre-doctoral track records with publications, conference papers, reports, professional or technical contributions with evidence of independent research ability.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.