ATSE’s Elevate: Boosting Diversity in STEM program (“Elevate”) will award up to 500 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarships to women and non-binary people in STEM. The Elevate program provides a scholarship, access to events and networking, mentoring, and ongoing support during scholars’ university studies

The postgraduate category is valued at up to $150,250 over up to 3.5 years for a PhD (see Elevate website as payment varies dependent on program).

Eligibility:

Applicants are required to meet three eligibility criteria: 

1. Identify as a woman or non-binary person 
2. Be enrolling as a domestic student at an Australian university
3. Be planning to undertake a STEM degree or a higher degree to improve business acumen (Leadership category only), commencing in 2026.

Postgraduate Scholarships are for applicants commencing either a Doctor of Philosophy, Master of Philosophy, Master by Research or Master by Coursework in a priority discipline area. Prospective applicants applying for a Postgraduate Scholarship, must identify, or plan to identify, a research project in an applied domain in a research team at an Australian university.

Postgraduate studies that will be favourably considered include:

• resources
• transport
• medical science
• defence capability
• renewables and low emission technologies
• agriculture, forestry and fisheries
• enabling capabilities (such as engineering, data science, robotics, quantum)

Further additional criteria apply, dependent on the type of scholarship selected.

Guidelines for the program can be found here

Further information:

Elevate: Boosting diversity in STEM | ATSE

Enquiries:

Please direct all inquiries to applications@atse.org.au