You are here:
At Monash Art, Design and Architecture, we focus on the pursuit of research that addresses the social, economic and human issues facing Australia. We look favourably on applications that align with our research labs, focus areas, and the expertise of our supervisors, and encourage you to explore the list of opportunities below. Monash University offers an extensive range of scholarships that you may be eligible to apply for to support your study.
Browse: ▾ Departments and Research Labs
The role of the bicycle in sustainable transport. Of particular note here are studies that engage with industrial design studio practice to manipulate the intrinsic and socially constructed properties of bicycles to make them are more acceptable transport mode choice in low cycling mode share cultures like Australia.
More information
We invite proposals for self-initiated research projects that will stimulate debate about the ways AI might augment human creativity and open transdisciplinary dialogue between cultural production and data science by testing modes of expression, forms of experience and social intelligence… (in other words) how we see and feel, as much as think.
We have a group of academics within MADA who are investigating roles for photography in shaping how we understand the built environment and are seeking PhD candidates interested in pursuing related topics. There is broad scope for PhD research in this area which can be defined in dialogue with supervisors.
Monash Art Projects (MAP) is seeking PhD and MFA proposals that critically engage art in public space. The research proposals should explore engagement with various forms of public media, communication, and information in the contemporary world that animate how urban spaces are created, experienced, valued and understood. MAP welcomes applications in fields of Fine Art, Curatorial Practice, Art History and Theory, Architecture and Design.
The project aims to design, deliver and monitor a socio-technical intervention in a strategic location in the upper river catchment of the Citarum River. We aim to develop evidence through a rigorous program of research in ecological health, well-being and community resilience to climate change.
In response to the climate emergency, the Fine Art department has developed a new Climate Aware Creative Practices research priority. We invite applications for a PhD project commencing in 2023 that responds to the themes of sustainability, ethics of making, the intersection of colonisation, capitalism and climate crisis, and critical ecologies. We welcome applications in the fields of Fine Art, Curatorial Practice, or Art History and Theory.
From 2025, Victoria will cease purchase of fossil-fuelled buses and to introduce this technology the Victorian Department of Transport is funding Zero Emission Bus (ZEB) trials across the state. Monash is providing research and development capability to one of these trials, led by ComfortDelgroCabcharge (CDC) Victoria. The project sits within a “Living Lab” approach, operating buses in real service, offering a rich setting for this research.
Urban designers, architects and planners have key roles in making safe and inclusive places, with urban safety guidelines and crime prevention tactics foundational to safe environments. The XYX Lab are looking for projects that reduce the risks of spatial inequality in communities.
The XYX Lab is seeking proposals that examine the confluence of factors that contribute to gendered experiences of the night-time economy – both in spatial design and visual communication design – and the role they play as a cultural and social practice that can contribute to challenging power relations within cities, and consequently to women’s feelings of safety within them.
Design research that seeks to address improved accessibility to public transport from those who have physical impairment. This project will have shared supervision between the Mobility Design Lab and Monash Institute of Rail Technology.
Geolocative mapping has become a useful way to create and share content, and to shed light on hidden experiences in cities. While digital technologies are implicated in public surveillance, there are opportunities to use social media to shape the everyday practices of urban life. The capacity for geolocative to be deployed as a valid design research method has been underestimated. A strong PhD proposal will advance knowledge of the social inequity of women, gender-diverse and/or other marginalised groups using innovative methods.
The intensity and frequency of flooding are increasing annually because of climate change and population growth, especially in the tropical Global South. The role of appropriate flood risk management and policy interventions in mitigating flood risk and impact has become increasingly evident and received considerable attention from policymakers and development practitioners. However, such efforts have been hindered by poor knowledge and modelling capacities constrained by limitations of accurate measurement of flood dynamics and how key variables impact the outcomes, especially for developing countries. This PhD scholarship will be based in Malaysia
Design project seeks to address how pedestrians will navigate safely a road network dominated by Autonomous Vehicles. How will the man machine interface be effective between robot and pedestrians and active transport users?
The Fine Art department is seeking MFA and PhD proposals that critically engage queer methodologies through practice-based research. We invite creative projects that develop queer frameworks and discourses through various studio modes. The queer creative practices group welcomes multiple and conflicting perspectives relating to sexuality and gender - asserting an intersectional approach to the politics of subjectivity and the contestation of stable normative structures, even putting pressure on articulations of ‘queer’ itself. We welcome applications in the fields of art, curatorial and cross-disciplinary practices that could result in creative outcomes of exhibitions, publications, events, programming and bodies of work.
The future of human powered logistics. We invite proposals that use industrial design studio practice to carry out research on cyclelogistics. These may engage with transferring technology from one culture to another or developing new vehicles, or other approaches to this problem.
Working with communities, governments, local leaders and partner institutions, RISE is co-designing location-specific solutions that integrate green infrastructure, such as constructed wetlands, to strengthen the whole-of-life water and sanitation cycle. We aim to develop evidence through a rigorous program of research in ecological health, and human health and well-being.
We invite proposals for self-initiated research projects that will stimulate debate about new and emerging, near-future technologies, especially their role in promoting forms of knowledge – including embodied and experiential processes – that engage and involve people in thinking differently about the future.
This research strand is open to speculative as well as applied investigations that explore the fullest range of multisensory and immersive experiences that museums and their collections can offer. We are particularly interested in supporting proposals that seek to extend the palette of media, design and communications beyond the visual to other senses (haptic, aural) and sensibilities.
We invite creative practitioners (media artists, creative technologists, content producers) wishing to extend their studio practice by engaging deeply and experimentally with immersive image technologies – such as Augmented and Virtual Reality – to propose projects that will be undertaken through practice-based research resulting in creative outcomes (artworks, film screenings, installations) that seek to define the language of these media forms and stretch their narrative and experiential parameters beyond the cinematic frame to cinematographic space.
The XYX Lab seeks PhD proposal across the broad theme of 'Women and Housing' with the aim to expand the understanding of spaces for women, by women and the significance of gender in designing for women. The PhD proposal will focus on the crisis of accommodation for women in Australia and the scale of domestic abuse faced by women, and well as broad issues of women's safety and security.