A Collaborative PhD is a prestigious program where research students are co-supervised by academics from Curtin University and one of Curtin’s international partner institutions.
The Home Institution is where you will spend most of your degree, and the Host is where you will spend 1 year studying abroad.
Once you have secured supervisory support to undertake your Collaborative PhD with Curtin University, you will receive an invitation to apply where you will be advised how to submit additional documentation to progress your application.
As you progress through the initial expression of interest process, you will work with representatives from each institution to finalise an Individual Student Agreement, which details supervision, financial arrangements, and enrolment details.
As a Collaborative PhD student, you will:
If Curtin is your host institution
For inbound students, we recommend commencing the second year of your PhD at Curtin University and returning to your Home Institution to complete your Collaborative PhD.
How to apply (inbound to Curtin University)
Curtin University invites PhD students from one of our partner institutions to find a potential Curtin supervisor via our expression of interest (EOI) form.
Please include the following in your expression of interest form:
If Curtin University is your Home Institution
If Curtin University is your Home Institution, you are an outbound student who may be eligible to receive a scholarship to support your research.
Currently enrolled PhD students should contact the Graduate Research School for more information.
Dr. Aaron Tung recently completed a joint PhD under the Aberdeen-Curtin Alliance, co-supervised by Curtin University’s Professor Fran Ackerman, Curtin Adjunct Professor Claus Otto and the University of Aberdeen’s Professor John Paterson. We caught up with him to chat about his experience.
For more information on the, please refer to the following documents: