Enhanced PhD Program
Through its member and partner universities, NICTA offers PhD students practical research, industry and domain experience, world-class infrastructure and more...
Scholarships
Scholarships are offered independently by NICTA research laboratories that have agreements with local partner universities regarding collaboration in PhD research training.
Advanced Graduate Coursework Program
The Research Training Network provides an opportunity for students enrolled in an Australian university, undertaking a PhD in the ICT field, to access advanced research coursework units of study.
Outreach
NICTA endeavours to stimulate interest in ICT research and its future application among secondary and primary school students to encourage student commitment to this course of study.
NICTA (National ICT Australia) works with universities to provide Australia with ICT researchers who have deep technical expertise supported by strong professional and business skills.
NICTA is working with its member and partner universities to provide an enhanced PhD program benchmarked to international standards. NICTA offers PhD students:
- Scholarship opportunities
- Facilitated access to advanced research and specialist coursework
- World-class supervision in a challenging and supportive environment
- Practical research, industry and domain experience, locally and internationally
- Professional skills development such as project management, commercialisation and communication
- Placement in a particular NICTA research program with the opportunity to work on state-of-the-art research
- Opportunities to work on development and commercialisation projects
- A possible research pathway to commercialisation
- Research internships and exchanges with international ICT research centres and universities
- World-class infrastructure.
While NICTA's educational activities are focused primarily on PhD-level students, opportunities also exist for various levels of engagement with a wide variety of students. These include:
- Short-term research projects for undergraduate students, for example, the NICTA Summer Scholars Program, which offers summer scholarships
- Undergraduate thesis supervision, including honours scholarships
Intensive short courses for graduates in industry to provide an introduction to NICTA’s research agenda.
