The National Library of Australia Scholarships program provides PhD students with the opportunity to undertake research at the Library using their collections.

Scholarships are available to researchers who require onsite access to our uniquely held or extensive collections to advance their PhD research.

Applicants may work in any field or discipline where our collections have appropriate depth and breadth to support the PhD topic.

National Library of Australia Scholarships will:

• contribute to a greater understanding or knowledge of our collections, enhancing the national and international reputation of the Library as an institution of major research significance
• promote discussion through research which informs and engages contemporary discourse
• actively promote the research experience and outcomes.

What Scholars receive:

• $10,000 to support a research residency at the Library. Funding is based on 4 weeks at the Library. Scholars have 24 months to complete their research
• Supported access to our collections
• A dedicated desk in our Petherick Reading Room
• Increased borrowing privileges to maximise access to the collection
• A Copies Direct allowance of $600 for high resolution digital copies of collection materials for publication or other public uses (subject to copyright, licensing and access conditions).

National Library of Australia Scholarships are open to:

• Australian citizens or permanent residents of Australia who have commenced PhD study at any university in Australia or overseas
• overseas students who have commenced PhD study at an Australian university
• individuals who have not received a Grant, Fellowship or Scholarship from the Library in the past five years, i.e. funding was received in one of the Library's 2021-2025 program rounds.

In addition to the above:

• the National Library of Australia First Nations Scholarship supported by Ms Irene Kaspar and Mr Peter Boege is open only to Australian First Nations scholars
• the National Library of Australia Scholarship supported by a generous donor gives preference to Australian First Nations scholars. If no suitable applications are received from First Nations researchers, this Scholarship may be awarded to a non-Indigenous scholar.

• Phone: 02 6262 1099
• Email: fellowships@nla.gov.au