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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Please see below for an opportunity for a full-time PhD scholarship with Charles Sturt University.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> iseforum@googlegroups.com <iseforum@googlegroups.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Philip Hider<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 9 December 2024 3:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> iseforum@googlegroups.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> PhD scholarship for the ARC Discovery Project, ‘The Role of Public Library Services for a Changing Rural Australia’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212529">Please find below a call for EOIs in a full-time PhD scholarship specifically for a Library and Information Studies student.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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PhD scholarship to be supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grant<o:p></o:p></li><li class="gmail-msolistparagraph" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Scholarship holder will have an academic and/or professional background in the Library and Information Studies field<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Project will investigate the role public libraries play in remote and outer regional communities<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
The scholarship will cover tuition fees and provide a stipend of $35,000 per year<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Three-year project will begin in early 2025 and end in late 2027<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Admission as an online student, based off campus, would be possible<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212529">Expressions of interest are invited for
</span><span style="color:black">a full-time </span><span style="color:#212529">PhD scholarship</span><span style="color:black"> based at Charles Sturt University</span><span style="color:#212529"> to be supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery
Project grant, entitled ‘The Role of Public Library Services for a Changing Rural Australia’ (DP250100677), recently awarded to Prof Philip Hider and Dr Simon Wakeling at Charles Sturt University (CSU) and Dr Amber Marshall at Griffith University (GU). The
project will investigate the role public libraries located in remote and outer regional communities play in narrowing the socioeconomic gap between rural and urban Australia through seven ethnographic case studies</span><span style="color:black">. The PhD
</span><span style="color:#212529">student </span><span style="color:black">based at Charles Sturt University will
</span><span style="color:#212529">focu</span><span style="color:black">s</span><span style="color:#212529"> on two of these case studie</span><span style="color:black">s and
</span><span style="color:#212529">conduct fieldwork in two communities in rural New South Wales, with a particular focus on
</span>the role and impact of their mobile library services. The student will be supervised by, and work closely with, the three chief investigators on the Discovery Project to deliver integrated research outcomes, including a
<span style="color:#212529">research monograph and several journal papers, a national roundtable on rural and remote librarianship, and a set of recommendations for future policy and practice, as well as their own PhD thes</span><span style="color:black">is</span><span style="color:#212529">
and related publications. The three-year project will begin in early 2025 and end in late 2027. It is planned that the fieldwork will be undertaken by the student mostly in the second year of the project</span><span style="color:black"> and that they
</span><span style="color:#212529">visi</span><span style="color:black">t both of</span><span style="color:#212529"> their two field sites for 3 three-week periods. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#212529">The scholarship (subject to finalisation of the relevant documentation with the ARC) will</span><span style="color:black">
</span><span style="color:#212529">cover the tuition fees for a minimum of three full-time years and provide a stipend of $3</span><span style="color:black">5</span><span style="color:#212529">,000 per year for the same period.
</span><span style="color:black">It</span><span style="color:#212529"> will also cover all costs associated with the requisite fieldwork, while additional funds and tuition fee coverage may also be available.
</span><span style="color:black">It is</span><span style="color:#212529"> intended to support full-time study beginning in March 2025, although a later start may be negotiable. Admission as an online student, based off campus, would be possible, with funds
</span><span style="color:black">available </span><span style="color:#212529">to travel to one face-to-face project team meeting
</span><span style="color:black">in Wagga Wagga, NSW </span><span style="color:#212529">a yea</span><span style="color:black">r</span><span style="color:#212529">.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Eligible applicants would normally hold an advanced academic qualification (e.g., a Masters or honours degree) with a research component. However, a<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">pplicants
may also be eligible if they have authored two or more peer reviewed publications</span></strong><b>.
</b>It is expected that the scholarship holder will have an academic and/or professional background in the field of Library and Information Studies.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:#212529">If you would like to submit an expression of interest, please do so by emailing Prof Philip Hider at
<a href="mailto:phider@csu.edu.au">phider@csu.edu.au</a>, providing a current CV and a one-page EOI, by Friday 24 January 2025.</span></b><span style="color:#212529"><br>
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If you would like more information about the project and scholarship, please email Prof Philip Hider at
<a href="mailto:phider@csu.edu.au">phider@csu.edu.au</a></span><span style="color:black">.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141">Prof Philip Hider</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#414141"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Library and Information Management<br>
School of Information and Communication Studies</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Faculty of Arts and Education</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Charles Sturt University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Tel: +61 2 6933 2522</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Email:
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#4472C4"><a href="mailto:name@csu.edu.au"><span style="color:#4472C4">phider@csu.edu.au</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Web:<span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><u><span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/persons/phidercsueduau"><span style="color:#4472C4">https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/persons/phidercsueduau</span></a></span></u><span style="color:#1F497D"><br>
</span><span style="color:black">Leader of the Libraries Research Group:</span><span style="color:#1F3864">
</span><span style="color:#4472C4"><a href="http://csu.edu.au/libraries-research"><span style="color:#4472C4">csu.edu.au/libraries-research</span></a></span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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