PhD Scholarship (Rural Healthcare and Intellectual Disability), School of Medici

The University of Notre Dame Australia is a Catholic university with campuses in Fremantle, Broome and Sydney. The Objects of the University are the provision of university education within a context of Catholic faith and values and the provision of an excellent standard of teaching, scholarship and research, training for the professions and the pastoral care of its students. PhD Scholarship,Full-Time, budgeted $42,440 for 3 years not indexed annually. Proposed start date January 2027. About the Scholarship This scholarship is based at the School of Medicine (Sydney campus) at the University of Notre Dame Australia . The applicant does not need to be on site. There is limited scope for the successful candidate to design their own research question, but it must be aligned with the wider project goals of examining the healthcare needs of rural people with intellectual disability as they grow older. It is well established that there are substantial inequalities in service provision for people with intellectual disability, particularly in non-metropolitan Australia. The complex needs of this population remain largely hidden and overlooked within the wider research agenda, leading to both inequality and inequity. The successful candidate would be working within an established research group including experienced disability researchers acrossa number ofuniversities, other PhD candidates, disability support organisations and people with lived experience of intellectual disability. T