NSWIS and UC Offer PhD Scholarships

The NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) and the University of Canberra (UC) have partnered together to offer two PhD scholarships in the area of talent identification in sport and performance health in the  adolescent female athlete.

Applications for the PhD scholarships are now open.

Scholarship 1

NSWIS and the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise (UCRISE) are looking for a candidate to undertake a PhD program titled “Optimising Talent Identification: Integrating Coach Ratings, Psychometrics and Perceptual Neuroscience.”

The project will analyse the potential for perceptual neuroscience measures to increase the success rates of talent identification programs at the NSWIS.

The successful candidate will be based at the NSWIS Olympic Park office working with and alongside coaches, athlete & coach talent advisors, performance support staff and athletes.

The closing date for the first PhD is 25 November 2022.

A full scholarship description is available here.

Please direct all enquiries to Prof Gordon Waddington – gordon.waddington@canberra.edu.au

Scholarship 2

NSWIS and the University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport and Exercise (UCRISE) are looking for a candidate to undertake a PhD program titled “Physiological and Performance Development in Talented Emerging Female Athletes.”

The successful candidate will be based at the NSWIS Olympic Park office working with and alongside coaches, athlete & coach talent advisors, performance support staff and athletes.

The closing date for the first PhD is 9 December 2022.

A full scholarship description is available here. 

Please direct all enquiries to Associate Professor Naroa Etxebarria.

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