Scholarships and Prizes

The Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics offers over 170 different scholarships, prizes and grants for students.

There are also university-wide scholarships available to potential and currently enrolled students.

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Faculty scholarships and prizes

Undergraduate

Type	Name
Prize	David Murray Prize in Arts
Prize	Bundey Prize for English Verse rules & application form
Prize	The Constantine Trypanis Prize
Prize	The Hartley Prize
Scholarship	Adelaide Dickens Fellowship Scholarship in English
Scholarship	Esther Burns/DECD Country Teaching Scholarships
Scholarship	EW Benham Honours Scholarship
Scholarship	JE Jenkins Scholarship
Scholarship	Kamala Khurana Music Scholarship
Scholarship	Mason Family Scholarship in the Communication of Science
Scholarship	Schulz Scholarship in German
Scholarship	Stott Despoja Scholarship
Scholarship	The Edward Rychter Scholarship in English

Postgraduate

Type	Name
Scholarship	The Fred Johns Scholarship for Biography and online expressions of interest form
Prize	Bundey Prize for English Verse
Scholarship	Esther Burns/DECD Country Teaching Scholarships
Scholarship	EW Benham Honours Scholarship
Scholarship	Mason Family Scholarship in the Communication of Science

Adelaide Business School

Executive MBA scholarships

Scholarship support for the Executive MBA program is funded by the Adelaide Business School across a range of categories to ensure our program is accessible to all candidates who have the capability and drive to undertake MBA studies.

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Student prizes

Associations & company prize sponsors Endowed Business School Dean's Award

Adelaide Law School

Student scholarships and prizes

Associations and company donor Donors Prestigious prizes and scholarships

Elder Conservatorium of Music

Undergraduate scholarships

Type	Name
Foundation	Indigenous Music Scholarship
Scholarship	The John ‘Slick’ Osborn Scholarship
Scholarship	The Varley Scholarship
Scholarship	The Ellen Sauer Scholarship - Awarded biennially
Scholarship	The Ethel Cooper Scholarship for Piano
Scholarship	The Marjorie Garner Orchestral Scholarship for Trombone
Scholarship	Cowan Family Grant / Scholarships
Scholarship	The Rosemary St John Harp Scholarship
Scholarship	The Alex Burnard Scholarship
Scholarship	Michael Robert Poag Scholarship
Scholarship	Maude Harriet Riley Scholarship for Piano
Scholarship	The William Silver Scholarship
Scholarship	The Jewel Stevens Scholarship
Scholarship	Jiri Tancibudek Memorial Scholarship for Oboe
Scholarship	The Arved and Suzanne Kurtz Scholarship
Scholarship	The Daisy Burmeister Salotti Pianoforte Scholarship
Scholarship	The Jack de Vos Scholarship
Scholarship	The Patrick Cecil Greenland Scholarship for Piano
Scholarship	Victor Edgeloe Scholarship for Woodwind
Scholarship	The Angela Lakin Scholarship
Scholarship	Mary Elizabeth Baker Bequest
Scholarship	John Perry Memorial Travel Scholarship
Scholarship	Decie Denholm Scholarship in Music
Scholarship	Josephine Christiansen Bursary
Scholarship	EMR Travel Scholarship in Classical Performance
Scholarship	Neville Arthur Scholarship for Piano or Violin
Scholarship	Lady Anne Miller Scholarship in Voice

Undergraduate prizes

Type	Name
Prize	The Adelaide Choral Society Prize
Prize	The Maude Puddy Prize for Piano
Prize	The Florence Cooke Violin Prize
Prize	The John Robert Mitchell Violin Prize
Prize	The Elaine Evelyn Findlay Prize
Prize	The Selborne Moutray Russell Prizes (male singer)
Prize	The Selborne Moutray Russell Prizes (orchestral instrument)
Prize	The Anders and Reimers Prizes (The Franz and Catherine Anders Prize)
Prize	The Anders and Reimers Prizes (The Gustav Reimers Prize)
Prize	The H. Brewster Jones Prize
Prize	The Gladys Lloyd Thomas Prize for Violin
Prize	The Lienau Prize
Prize	The Tommy Norman Awards for Jazz Performance
Prize	The Dr Ruby Davy Prize for Composition
Prize	The Frederick Bevan Prize
Prize	The Thelma Dent Memorial Prize
Prize	The Paul Howard Martin Prize
Prize	The Frederick E Baxendale Prize
Prize	The Diana Harris Prize for Accompaniment
Prize	The Elizabeth Matthews Prize for Woodwind
Prize	The Clement Q. Williams Prize
Prize	The Robert Whinham Prize
Prize	Ethnomusicology Prize
Prize	The Brisbane Matthews Pianoforte Prize
Prize	The Rae Cocking Memorial Prize
Prize	The Alexander Clark Memorial Prize
Prize	The Norman Chinner Prize
Prize	The Mrs Arno Pontt (May Gepp) Prize
Prize	The Lucy Josephine Bagot Prize
Prize	The James Whitehead Prize
Prize	The E. Harold Davies Prize
Prize	The Eugene Alderman Prizes (violin, violoncello, pianoforte, organ or singing)
Prize	The Eugene Alderman Prizes (violin)
Prize	The Guli Magarey Prize
Prize	The David Hunter Music Education Prize

Postgraduate scholarships and prizes

Type	Name
Prize	The Selborne Moutray Russell Prizes (male singer)
Prize	The Selborne Moutray Russell Prizes (orchestral instrument)
Prize	The Anders and Reimers Prizes (The Franz and Catherine Anders Prize)
Prize	The Anders and Reimers Prizes (The Gustav Reimers Prize)
Prize	The Gladys lloyd Thomas Prize for Violin
Prize	The Lienau Prize
Prize	Athol Lykke Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies in Music
Prize	The Frederick Bevan Prize
Prize	The Thelma Dent Memorial Prize
Prize	The Paul Howard Martin Prize
Prize	The Diana Harris Prize for Accompaniment
Prize	The Clement Q. Williams Prize
Prize	The Robert Whinham Prize
Prize	The Alexander Clark Memorial Prize
Prize	The Norman Chinner Prize
Prize	The Mrs Arno Pontt (May Gepp) Prize
Prize	The Lucy Josephine Bagot Prize
Prize	The E. Harold Davies Prize
Prize	The Eugene Alderman Prizes (violin, violoncello, pianoforte, organ or singing)
Prize	The Eugene Alderman Prizes (violin)
Prize	The Guli Magarey Prize
Scholarship	George Boland Scholarship
Scholarship	The David Galliver Memorial Scholarship
Scholarship	EMR Travel Scholarship in Classical Performance

School of Economics and Public Policy

Undergraduate prizes

Type	Name
Prize	The Ray Lewis Memorial Prize
Prize	The E. Pollard Prize in Economic History
Prize	The NJ Thomson Memorial Prize
Prize	The EA Russell Memorial Prize
Prize	The John Lorenzo Young Prize
Prize	The Archibald Mackie Prize
Prize	Michael Schneider Prize
Prize	The Productivity Commission Prize
Prize	Economic Society Prize in Level 2 Bachelor of Economics (Advanced)
Prize	Economic Society Prize in Level 2 Bachelor of Economics

School of Education

Undergraduate

Type Name
Scholarship The Smolicz Languages Education Travel Award
Prize Peter Routley Awards
Postgraduate

Type Name
Prize The Schulz Postgraduate Award for the Study of education & application form
Prize Anthony Pattern Prize

Type	Name
Scholarship	The Smolicz Languages Education Travel Award
Prize	Peter Routley Awards

Type	Name
Prize	The Schulz Postgraduate Award for the Study of education & application form
Prize	Anthony Pattern Prize

Undergraduate scholarships and prizes

Type	Name
Scholarship	John F Kennedy Memorial Scholarship
Scholarship	The Mountford Scholarships
Scholarship	The Pauline Price Scholarship
Scholarship	Tetra tech International Development Scholarship Rules & online application form
Scholarship	Tom Dianne Gray Honours Scholarship
Prize	Business and Professional Women Prize
Prize	Allison Nitschke Memorial Prize
Prize	Archibald Grenfell Price Prize in Geography [level III]
Prize	Chilla Bulbeck Prize
Prize	Fay Gale Prize in Geography
Prize	Soroptimist International Prize for Gender Studies
Prize	Graham Lawton Prize for Geography
Prize	YWCA Australia Prize in Women’s Studies
Prize	Charles Fenner Prize for Geography [level II]
Prize	John Lewis Prize for Geography
Prize	Confucius Institute Chinese Language Prize
Prize	Sylvia Chan Prize for Chinese Studies
Prize	Graeme Hugo Prize
Prize	Japan Australia Friendship Association Prize for Excellence in Intermediate Japanese Studies
Prize	Japan Australia Friendship Association Prize for Excellence in Advanced Japanese Studies
Prize	Japan Australia Friendship Association Prize for Excellence in Japanese Cultural Studies
Prize	The Philip Tighe Memorial Medal and Prize
Prize	The Criminology Prizes
Prize	Gender Studies Student Level II Prize
Prize	The Sociology Prizes
Prize	The Carol Johnson Honours Medal
Prize	The Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Management Medal (Graduate Level)
Prize	The Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Management Medal (Honours)
Prize	The Bachelor of Environmental Policy and Management Medal (Level 1)

Postgraduate scholarships and prizes

Type	Name	Department
Scholarship	The Mountford Scholarships	Anthropology
Scholarship	Charles and Frank Fenner Research Scholarship in Geographical and Environmental Studies	Geography and Environment
Prize	The Karen Halley Grant	Gender Studies
Prize	The Master of Environmental Policy and Management Medal	Geography, Environment and Population
Certificate	The Royal Geographical Society of South Australia John Lewis Silver Medal	Geography

School of Humanities

Undergraduate scholarships

Type	Name
Scholarship	Vera May Swift Scholarship
Scholarship	John F Kennedy Memorial Scholarship
Scholarship	The Tinline Scholarship (History)
Scholarship	Tom Dianne Gray Honours Scholarship

Undergraduate prizes and medals

Type	Name
Prize	The Barr Smith Prize for Greek
Prize	Constantinos and Polymnia Moraïtis Prize
Prize	Australian Archaeology Prize
Prize	Emilia Karrangis Prize
Prize	David Hester Undergraduate Honours Prize in Classics
Prize	Byard Prize
Prize	Tormore Prize
Prize	Sir Archibald Strong Memorial Prize for Literature
Prize	Brian Elliot Prize for Australian Literary Studies
Prize	Edith Hubbe and Harriet Cook Prize
Prize	Colin Horne Memorial Prize
Prize	Vera may Swift prize for Honours English
Prize	JM Coetzee Prize
Prize	The John Harvey Finlayson Prize
Prize	ESU (SA) Peter Davies Memorial Prize in Creative Writing
Prize	Christine Horton Prize
Medal	Jefferis Memorial Medal
Prize	A.J Schulz Prize [SACE Stage II]
Prize	A.J Schulz Prize [German III]
Prize	A.J Schulz Prize [Honours]
Prize	German Embassy Prize for Outstanding Achievement
Prize	Goethe-Institut Prizes for German Studies
Prize	The Barony of Ithaka Medal
Medal	Odysseus Medal for Advanced Ancient Greek Studies
Medal	Galatis Medal for First Year Ancient Greek
Medal	Demosthenes Medal for Consistent Excellence in Ancient Greek Studies
Prize	Professor Sir William Mitchell Essay Prize
Prize	Professor Sir William Mitchell Prize for Honours Philosophy
Prize	ESU International Student Prize for Media
Prize	The Robin Lea Roberts Honours Prize for Roman/Latin Studies
Prize	Hazel Nankivell Prize
Prize	Andrew Scott Prize for Latin
Prize	Fredric S Zuckerman Prize [Russian History]
Prize	Fredric S Zuckerman Prize [Holocaust History]
Prize	The Lynda Tapp Prizes in History
Prize	George Cockburn Henderson Prize
Prize	The Natalia Davies Prize
Prize	Brian Coghlan Prize
Prize	Weimar-Ohlstrom Prize (German I)
Prize	Weimar-Ohlstrom Prizes (German II)
Prize	J G Cornell Prize for French
Prize	M Rees George Memorial Prize
Prize	Edith A Puddy Prize
Prize	Hope Crampton Prize for French
Prize	The James Gartrell Prize
Prize	The Violet De Mole Prize in French
Prize	Alan and Elizabeth Brissenden Prize in Early Modern Drama
Prize	Charles Rischbieth JURY Poetry Prize rules & online application form
Prize	Paul Ian Lobban Prize Honours English
Prize	Solstice Media Prize Rules
Prize	Department of Spanish Studies Prize Rules
Prize	Springer Nature Prize in Digital Humanities
Prize	The Mares-Eaden prize for Shakespearean and Elizabethan Studies
Prize	Film Studies Prize

Postgraduate scholarships and prizes

Type	Name
Scholarship	Constantinos Moraitis Travel Scholarship
Scholarship	Decie Denholm Postgraduate Coursework Scholarship in History Decie Denholm Postgraduate Research Supplementary Scholarship in History
Scholarship	The PW Rice Scholarship rules The PW Rice Scholarship online application form
Prize	The John Howard Clark Prize
Prize	Charles Rischbieth Jury Poetry Prize rules Charles Rischbieth Jury Poetry Prize online application form
Prize	The Heather Kerr Prize in Postgraduate English rules The Heather Kerr Prize in Postgraduate English online application form
Prize	The Jan Lee Latin Award rules The Jan Lee Latin Award application form

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Adelaide Business School

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Adelaide Law School

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Elder Conservatorium of Music

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School of Economics and Public Policy

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School of Education

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School of Social Sciences

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School of Humanities

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