Scholarships and grants

Charles Sturt University and Three Rivers DRH offer a variety of scholarships and grants across a range of disciplines.

Financial support for clinical placement

Charles Sturt University students

Three Rivers DRH Placement Grant

This grant provides financial support for eligible students to assist with costs associated when attending workplace learning placements.

Three Rivers DRH Outreach Visit Support Scheme

This scheme assists health discipline students with costs when attending outreach visits as part of their clinical placement within our footprint.

If you don't find a scholarship here, you can search the full Charles Sturt University scholarship database.

Non-Charles Sturt University students

Three Rivers DRH Travel Support Scheme

This scheme provides financial support for health discipline students undertaking placement within our footprint from universities other than Charles Sturt.

Three Rivers DRH Outreach Visit Support Scheme

This scheme assists health discipline students with costs when attending outreach visits as part of their clinical placement within our footprint.

Other scholarships

Three Rivers DRH Rural Ageing PhD Scholarship

We are offering a Rural Ageing PhD Scholarship for an outstanding researcher to commence studies in Session 1, 2024. This scholarship includes a $40,000 annual stipend, tuition fees and operating funds.

The scholarship is for research activity focused on the Riverina region of NSW, which is part of the Murrumbidgee Local Health District and Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network.

It will be awarded on a competitive basis to students proposing innovative research aligned with one or more of the following priorities:

  • Rural aged care workforce development
  • Rural aged care training strategies
  • Innovative rural service delivery models to enable the provision of aged care services to meet community needs
  • Health issues directly impacting on older rural people
  • Improving the health of older First Nations peoples

Expressions of interest close on 17 November 2023.

More information about our Rural Ageing PhD Scholarship

Scholarships for people from the Lachlan, Forbes and Parkes areas

Are you thinking about a career in allied health? Our $20,000 Allied Health Pathways Scholarships can help you on your journey to becoming a rural health professional.

As a health professional, you can provide better outcomes for your rural communities and region. You can make a difference in people’s lives.

We are offering three $20,000 scholarships to people from the Lachlan, Forbes, and Parkes Local Government Areas (LGAs) who want to study for an allied health degree with Charles Sturt University.

These scholarships are open to all age groups – school leavers and non-school leavers.

To be eligible, you must live in the Lachlan, Forbes or Parkes LGAs and commencing study in one of the following courses with Charles Sturt:

Applications close at 11.59pm on 19 January 2024.

    $20,000 Allied Health Pathways Scholarships – Lachlan, Forbes and Parkes LGAs