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Scholarships
Scholarships are aimed at encouraging intending or current honours students to continue their studies.
Why do honours?
Completing an honours project allows you to demonstrate to potential employers that you are:
- a high achiever
- committed to realising your goals
- able to take responsibility for a project
- work to a high standard.
It is also a necessary step to postgraduate research.
Honours is a final, research-intensive year of study that provides the development of skills necessary to work effectively in a scientific career.
To be eligible, you must have completed a Bachelor of Science degree and obtained at least 65% in your science major.
We have a number of proposed honours projects for students to study at the UWA Albany Centre.
The UWA Albany Centre is located in Western Australia's Great Southern region, a global hotspot of biodiversity, and we are keen to support UWA students and research work in the region.
The UWA Albany Centre offers:
- office space and computer access
- advice on local issues and contacts
- rooms for workshops, seminars and lectures
- assistance in finding accommodation.
Contact our Office Manager for further information.
Proposed honours projects
Our projects are distinguished by their academic rigour, challenging field work and by their collaborative partnerships with natural resource management organisations.
Among our proposed projects are:
- Long-term effects of salinisation on macroinvertebrate distribution in a local river
- Effects of salinity levels on macroinvertebrate community structure and diversity in tributaries of the King and Kalgan Rivers, Albany
- Effect of stock access to riparian zones on macroinvertebrate community structure and diversity
- Genetic fragmentation of macroinvertebrate populations in salinised systems
- Delineating cryptic species of phreatoicidean isopods from Perth wetlands
- Incipient speciation in freshwater crayfish
Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management
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