Call for applications for visiting PhD students in the Centre for International Governance and Justice, ANU The Centre for International Governance and Justice (CIGJ), part of the Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) in the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University in Canberra invites applications from PhD students enrolled at other universities to visit the Centre for up to two months in 2012.

Funding for visitor scholarships (up to $1500 per student, including the costs of travel and accommodation in Canberra) is available. Visiting students from overseas are responsible for obtaining and funding any necessary visas. Visiting students will have shared office space with a computer (if needed), printing and copying facilities, and borrowing privileges at ANU libraries.
This scheme is under the auspices of Professor Hilary Charlesworth’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship on ‘Rights, Regulation and Ritualism’, and is designed to encourage doctoral students in the area of human rights to visit CIGJ and participate actively in its research life. For further information about CIGJ see our website at: http://cigj.anu.edu.au/

CIGJ is part of RegNet’s vibrant PhD program: see http://regnet.anu.edu.au/content/education-program

Applications are due by 20 March 2012. They should include a cv, a statement (of up to 500 words) about the applicant’s PhD research and how it might benefit from a visiting PhD scholarship at CIGJ, as well as the proposed dates of the visit. Contact details for the applicant’s supervisor(s) should also be included.

For further information and for submission of applications, please contact Dr Ben Authers, ARC Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow, at: Benjamin.Authers@anu.edu.au