Interdisciplinary PhD program
Why choose the Interdisciplinary PhD program?
About this program
The Interdisciplinary PhD offers the opportunity to focus on contemporary business, industry or policy challenges from a range of knowledge perspectives.
Your research question will be shaped by your professional experience and expertise and designed to have a real-world impact. Your supervisory team will guide you on how best to draw on specific disciplinary knowledge and frameworks most relevant to your applied research focus (e.g. across management and economics domains, or business law and accounting).
Your studies will include at least two coursework units to develop your research skills and knowledge appropriate for your project. Throughout, you will develop expertise and professional skills to support your future career ambitions.
The Interdisciplinary program includes our Pacific Action for Climate Transitions (PACT) centre. The PACT centre is a collaboration between Monash University and the Fiji National University, with research focusing on enabling organisations in the South Pacific, big and small, public and privately owned, to thrive and prosper by responding to climate change with innovative, outcome-driven actions.
Additionally, students who have received a Monash University-Vietnam Government PhD Scholarship (Project 89) are included in our Interdisciplinary program. Project 89 enables high achieving Vietnamese candidates to study in Melbourne or be based at a Vietnamese University, jointly supervised as an external offshore candidate.
The interdisciplinary option is also suitable for students in the IITB-Monash program and for students across the Indo-Pacific region who hold an externally funded (non-Monash) scholarship.
This program offers students the flexibility to be enrolled full-time or part-time, internally or externally, with the relevant approvals by their supervisor, PhD Program Director and scholarship provider. This will suit you if you want to continue your career while you undertake research.
If you are an Australian or New Zealand citizen, or Australian permanent resident, your tuition fees will be covered by the Australian government's Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset for the specified duration of your course.
Applications
Our Interdisciplinary PhD program is highly competitive with each intake receiving more applications than there are places available. As a result, meeting our eligibility requirements alone won't guarantee you a place in the program.