The Brian Gray Scholarship program provides up to four scholarships, valued at $15,000 each, to support students in finance, economics, actuarial science, econometrics, statistics or related disciplines, who intend to focus full-time on their studies and research. Honours year and PhD students studying a topic of relevance to prudential supervision and are an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident are eligible to apply.
Eligible subject areas include:
- Banking;
- General Insurance;
- Life Insurance;
- Private Health Insurance;
- Superannuation;
- Econometrics; and
- Statistics,
particularly the prudential supervision and financial soundness of regulated industries or the use of APRA’s statistical publications.
The research paper may be the students’ honours or post-graduate thesis or project.
Students can apply online via APRA’s website at www.apra.gov.au providing details of their academic performance, work experience and extra-curricular activities as well as an outline of their proposed research and its relevance to APRA.
Applications close on 3 April 2016. For further information, please visit APRA’s website at Pages - Brian Gray Scholarship Program or email: calli.farber@apra.gov.au
