The Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) and the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) are offering a prestigious opportunity for up to 10 students with a demonstrated interest in financial regulation.
What does the CIFR / CMCRC Honours Scholarship offer?
The CIFR / CMCRC scholarship not only provides a scholarship grant of up to $15,000* but will also provide each selected student with:
- valuable industry exposure;
- individualised feedback on their work;
- invitations to exclusive CIFR events; and
- the opportunity to present their work to a senior audience.
How are the recepients selected?
The scholarships will be awarded based on:
- the academic merit of the student, including their potential to pursue a research-based career;
- the relevance of their proposed research project to CIFR’s research agenda; and
- the potential of the proposed research project to deliver useful outcomes.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for this Scholarship, candidates must be:
- currently studying an Undergraduate or Master’s degree and eligible to enter an Honours or equivalent research programin:
- Accounting
- Actuarial Studies
- Economics
- Finance or
- Law
- currently studying in CIFR consortium universities:
- UNSW Australia
- The University of Sydney
- University of Technology, Sydney
- Macquarie University
- The Australian National University
- The University of Melbourne
- undertaking research relevant to financial market regulators and other industry participants.
International Students are encouraged to apply
Conditions of Award
- Scholarship recipients must acknowledge the support of CIFR in their research paper and any publications relating to this work.
- If a scholarship recipient wishes to substantially modify their research project, they must seek approval from CIFR before implementing the change.
- Submission of an electronic copy of the student’s completed written report is required by a specified date (for the 2015 program this date is 14 November 2015), unless an extension is agreed in advance.
- CIFR may require scholarship recipients to present their findings to CIFR’s stakeholders and / or attend other CIFR events. These events will be held in Sydney and CIFR will cover reasonable travel costs for interstate recipients.
Application deadline is 13 March 2015.
