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This scholarship supports one domestic full-time PhD candidate to undertake an Industry Linked PhD at The University of Western Australia in partnership with SDI Limited. The project focuses on pre-clinical validation and optimisation of novel self-cured tooth-coloured restorative composites as alternatives to dental amalgam. The scholarship is linked to a successful National Industry PhD Program Round 7 award and includes UWA RTP or equivalent stipend support, the National Industry PhD government top-up as applicable under the Program, and an SDI industry stipend top-up of AUD 10,000 per year for up to four years. The candidate will receive academic supervision at UWA Dental School, industry supervision by SDI, access to specialist dental materials laboratories, and opportunities for industry engagement, technical mentoring, professional development and approved travel/industry embedment. This opportunity is available to domestic candidates only and may be progressed outside the usual UWA scholarship application rounds, subject to UWA admission requirements, final scholarship approval, signed collaboration agreement and enrolment.

National Industry PhD Program - Round 7, Industry Linked stream, in partnership with SDI Limited. Scholarship support comprises UWA RTP or equivalent stipend support, National Industry PhD Program support and SDI industry stipend top-up, subject to final scholarship and admission approval

Professor Amr Fawzy Moussa, UWA Dental School. Email: amr.fawzy@uwa.edu.au

Applicants must be willing to undertake laboratory research with extracted teeth and restorative dental materials, complete required safety/ethics training, maintain confidentiality where required, engage with SDI Limited for industry-linked activities and travel to SDI sites if approved and required.

Domestic applicants only. Applicants must be Australian citizens, New Zealand citizens, Australian permanent residents, or permanent humanitarian visa holders where treated as domestic by UWA. Applicants must meet UWA PhD admission requirements, be able to enrol full-time, and have a background relevant to dentistry, dental materials, biomaterials, materials science, polymer chemistry, biomedical engineering or a related field.

The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is a program of independent, supervised research that is assessed solely on the basis of a thesis, sometimes including a creative work component, that is examined externally. The work presented for a PhD must be a substantial and original contribution to scholarship, demonstrating mastery of the subject of interest as well as an advance in that field of knowledge. 

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