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Are you looking to further your knowledge and become an expert in your field of interest? Start your greatest adventure with a Higher Degree by Research at the University of Adelaide.

Ranked in the top 100 of universities globally, at the University of Adelaide you will be involved in discovery, innovation and cutting-edge research. Enjoy an outstanding research environment under the wing of top-ranked researchers and establish life-long connections with industry and like-minded students. Start building your future now.

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Turn theory into practice with a research internship and industry-engaged higher degree research program (HDR). Develop expertise in your chosen field and extend your professional contacts and networks.

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Widen your research connections and study at two high quality universities within Australia or between different countries.

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PhD Students

English, creative writing and film, creative writing.

Current HDR Candidates

Em Koenig – Queer Ecologies and Contemporary Poetry

Dancey Gordon – Metafictional Television: an Exegesis Investigating How Metafictional Techniques Can Add to the Quality Or Sophistication of a Television Comedy, Plus a Creative Work (Comedy Television Series) About a Creative Writing Student’s Life In a Postgraduate College

Glenn Diaz –Into the Forest: Historical Imagination in Philippine Fiction

Angela Kingston – Epistolary Novel about the Influence of Enid Blyton on Australian Cultural Identity

Olujide Adebayo-Begun – Iya Kafayat: A Novel (Creative Component) A Grammar of Play in a Postcolongy of a Postcolony (Exegesis)

Lyn Dickens – A Prose Fiction Project on Colonel William Light

Juliet Paine – Exerting Machines

Delana Carbone – Superfiction

Gemma Parker – The Blackness of the Sun: An Exploration of Nihilism and Meaning in the works of Albert Camus and Samuel Beckett

Jennifer Molloy – Beyond the frame: Assumptions and silences in ST Gill's utopian visions of Colonial South Australia

Stephen Abram – Tattoos as Ekphrastic Narratives of Otherness in Crime Fiction

Jane Turner Goldsmith – Motivations to Read in the Time of the Virus – ‘Psychological First Aid’ and the Composite Novel

Verity Oswin – A Woman is a State (Poet as Vandal): An intersectional feminist reading of Major Mitchell’s Australia Felix expedition and the production of a colonial poetics to legitimize dispossession

Natalie Le Beau – Notes from the Pyrocene

Susan Hazel – Longpela Gut Bai: A Braided Narrative of Privilege and Loss

Nadia Roberts – Writing a war from within a war: Explorations in traumatic Bosnian war memory

Bronwyn Lovell – Astronaut Adaptations: What reboots and revisions reveal about shifting attitudes toward astronauts and space exploration

Gillian Hagenus – Writing the Australian Suburban Gothic

Alex Sutcliffe – No Promises: Literary Language and Late Capitalism

Jane Costessi – Tracing Charlotte Jay: The Geraldine Halls Project

Recently Completed

Mark Anthony Cayanan – Major Work: Unanimal, Counterfeit, Scurrilous; Exegesis: "Expiation, For, the, sin, of, Nothing": The Politics of Form in Queer Philippine Poetry in English

Gretta Mitchell – kookaburra: anti tales of laughing doom (PhD)

Anj Foley – Narratives of Child Abduction in Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe: Volume 1: Novella; Volume 2: Exegesis (MPhil)

Emily Palmer – Volume 1: Scapegrace; Volume 2: The (Absent) Female Body: Cross-dressing Narratives in Young Adult Fantasy Fiction (PhD)

Paul Turley – The Poetic Invitation: Exploring manifold experience in easy poems (MPhil)

Phillipa Martin – Volume 1: My Killer Secret; Volume 2: 'Literary' Crime Fiction - an Analysis (PhD)

Ngoc Thu Hoang – Vietnam to the World, a Magical Connection: 'Embers of Time' (a novel) and 'Bridging Disparate Realms' (an exegesis) (PhD)

Current Candidates

Benjamin Kearvell – English – Deleuzian Difference and Disability

Owen Everitt – Mapping the Murray: a Bioregional Approach to Character and Narrative

Darryl Do – A Literary Study of Classical Influences on Milton's Theodicy in Paradise Lost

Najla Alyabis – Muslim Women's Identity in a Changing World: the Fiction of Leila Aboulela

Samuel Cox – A Search for Country in Australian Literature

Laura Hamilton – Reading-as-Witnessing in the Trans-Indigenous Literacy Archive: a Study of Lee Maracle and Alexis Wright

Celine Zerna – 'The Other in Ourselves': The Ethics, Aesthetics, and Epistemologies of Feminist (Auto) Ethnography

Jacob Sunter – Beach Bodies: Cruising the Shore in Fire Island Literature

Jana Norman – LGBT Bound for South Australia: The role of gender and sexual diversity in migration and mobility to South Australia 1950-1999

Meg Madden – Fragments of Self: Contemporary Women's Life Writing

Clare Charlesworth – Revisionary Practices in American Literature: A Study of Walt Whitman, Henry James, and Willa Cather

Theodora Galanis – Figuring the Sea, Inland: Oceanic Imaginaries in Contemporary Australian Literature

Azadeh Feridoun Pour – “. . . a story in an obscure corner of the front page . . .” American White Women Novelists: New Recognitions (1950s-1965)

Matthew Couper – Fishing in Moby-Dick, Omeros, and Carpentaria

Taylor Westmacott – Violence, Boredom, Extinction: Artist Depictions of Symbolic Death and Masculine Deliquency

Ruby Niemann – From Zero Hour to Kudzucene: Reading Margaret Atwood's Post-Millennial Novels under the Auspices of Anthropocene Thought (PhD)

Patrick Moritz – ‘A lightness that is both new and a return’: Nekyia and katabasis in twenty-first century receptions of the Iliad (MPhil)

Kate Bowen – The Masks That Wear Men: The Representation of Masculine Masquerade In 1990s American Action Cinema (PhD)

Brydie Kosmina – We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn’: Feminist Afterlives of the Witch in Popular Culture (PhD)

Charlotte Kelso – Bound by Narrative: 'Reading' the Female Body and Genre in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (MPhil)

Jane Nelson – Shakespeare and Christian Hermetism: religio mentis a Study of Esoteric Thought in Four Plays (PhD)

Jessie Bryne – Just Desserts: Reading, Writing and Rewarding Australian Women’s Crime Fiction (PhD)

Kezia Perry – Shadow of The Archers and Crossing Over: Writing Young Adult Fiction and Finding the Contemporary Reader

Alison Coppe – Notes from Above Water: Fictocriticism as Queer Creative Research Practice (PhD)

European Languages and Linguistics

French studies.

Current HDRs

Debra Hoadley – French Studies - Collaboration in Photographic Art Works (Sophie Calle and Mathieu Briand)

Freya Davies-Ardil – French Studies - Geographies of Francophone Pacific Literature - Mapping Place, Writers and Writing

Lauren Twine – French Studies - Exploring Artistic Responses to Far-right Populism in Contemporary France

Melanie Maillot – French Studies - Poetics of Neutrality and the Question of Being in the poetic work of Andrée Chedid and Jeanne Benguigui

Marianne Braux – French Studies - Parole De Narrateurs: Figures De L'Enonciation Dans Le Recit Francais Moderne (PhD)

German Studies

Mary Quigley – German Studies - Learning German in English-Speaking Tertiary Contexts: Identity, Social Strategies and Language Use

Linguistics

Quang Le – Linguistics - Time-marking words in Vietnamese - from fallacious tense-aspect-mood markers to modal particles of sequentiality

Yumei Cui – Linguistics - Semantic Preference in Chinese Business English Words: a Corpus-based Study

Teuku Auwal – Linguistics - A Study of Young Acehnese-lndonesian Bilingual Adults in Aceh

Christopher Venning – Linguistics - Linguistic Classification in the Daly River Languages

Caryn Rogers – Linguistics - Rhetorical Structure and Persuasion in Classical Hebrew

Elise Westin – Linguistics - Unburied Memories: Exploring the Cultural Trauma Process through Holodomor Survivor Literature

Susie Greenwood – Linguistics - A Comparative Study of Breton and Cornish

Hakeem Beedar – Linguistics - Ainu Revitalisation in Japan: a comparative study

Ingrid Kerrigan – Linguistics - Reconstruction of Barngarla Lexicon from Primary and Secondary Sources

Chloe Castle – Linguistics - Co-option of Grammatical Resources from Foreign Languages (a Focus on English and Czech)

Eve Kheir – Linguistic - Codeswitching as an Index and Construct of Sociopolitical Identity: The Case of the Druze, Christians and Muslims in Israel (PhD)

Penelope Cashman – Linguistics - International Best Practice in the Teaching of Lyric Diction to Conservatorium-Level Singers (PhD)

Historical and Classical Studies

Art history.

Sarah Gibson-Walker – Art History - The Visual Culture of Suffrage in Australia and New Zealand

Heather Lee – Art Histor - Australian sculptor Ian Bow and the plurality of mid-century Modernism

Alexandra Mowbray – Art History - The Contemporary Nude in The Digital Age

Alexandra Nitschke – Art History - The History of the Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia (CAOA) Network

Ralph Body – Art History - Behind the Scenes: Hans Heysen's Art World Networks (PhD)

Susan Woodburn – Art History - Alexander Schramm (1813-64) and the Visual Representation of Aboriginal People in Mid-Nineteenth Century Colonial Australia (PhD)

Nerina Dunt – Art History - Investigating the Aesthetic Character of Australian Urban Indigenous Art: A Socio-Political Fusion (PhD)

Gemma Neal – Classics - (Mis)translation of Sexual Violence in Ovid's Metamorphoses

Greg Macpherson – Classics - From Magic to Medicine: The dynamics of faith and science in drug development in antiquity.

Emily Chambers – Classics – Free speech in the Roman world

Mary Harpas – Classics – The Hippocratic Understanding of the Living Body (MPhil)

Tamas Preston – Classics - Dissimulation and Veiled Criticisms in Seneca’s Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (MPhil)

Tiana Blazevic-Bastow – Classics – The Ascent to the Hidden One: The Reception of the Egyptian One God in Neoplatonism and the Greek Magical Papyri

Benjamin Nagy – Classics – Carmen et Standard Error: Computational Methods of Stylistics in Latin Poetry

Tamara Bremert – Classics – Sex in Suetonius: Sexual Material as a Characterisation Device for Tyrannical Emperors (MPhil)

Judith Bailey – Classics – Fleecing the Pious: The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow in the Central and North Welsh Marches 1400-1530 (PhD)

Alex Antoniou – Classics - Divine Emperors and Italy: Emperor Worship in the Italian Peninsula (Excluding Rome) (MPhil)

Janice Lee – Classics - Silius Italicus' Punica 8. 1-241: a Commentary (MPhil)

Rebekah Harms – History - Building the Innovation Economy: the Development of Science and Technology Policy in South Australia, 1980 - 2020

Grace Waye-Harris – History - Henrician Fashion Diplomacy

Megan Nattrass – History - Princess Mary and the Performance of Loyalty, 1516-1547.

Michael Heim – History - Precarious Accounts: Britain 1700-1850

Alexander Parsons – History - Australian Protestant Church Responses to the Threat and Reality of War, 1931 - 1945

Tamika Gloutfsis – History - Interpreting History in Interactive Media, with Particular Focus on Video Games

Emma Carson – History - Intimacy, Power, and Separation: The Impact of Military Service on Marital Relationships in World War II

Jessie Lewcock – History - Documenting Suicides by Australian First and Second World War Veterans

Jack Crawford – History - The rise of industrial unionism in South Australia, 1908-22

Jodie Vanderpeer – History - South Australian Art Needlework 1876-1909.

Tess Watterson – History - Gender, History and Magic: The Witch in Video Games

David Milazzo – History - Conflicting Histories: The Memorialisation of Frontier Violence

Julian Kusabs – History - Indigenous Civic Literacy: A Comparative History of Education in Australia and New Zealand

Cathy Chua – History - How conflict between online social network platform providers and users develops and is resolved

Natalie Ciecierska-Holmes – History - Raw Feeding for Dogs in the UK and Australia: A Social and Ethical Cross-Cultural Comparison

Caitlin Merlin – History - The New York City Theatrical Community’s Response to the 1980s and 1990s HIV/AIDS Crisis

Elijah Winters – History - Australia and the Apollo Program

Tatiana Sazonova – History - Merchants of pre-revolutionary Russia: their role in the life of the empire and influence on society

Kelly McKinley – History - History of Community Attitudes and Activism in Australia Around The Emergence and Development of GM for Food and Agricultural Purposes, 1970s- Present

Karina Burns – History - Animal Ethics in Psychological Research in Australia from 1900 to Present

Daniella Pilla – History – Migrant Hostels

Jasmin Parasiers – History - Early Modern Sermons and Religious Culture

Selina Kuo – History - Neither Bread Nor Cake: Ersatz Foods and The Spirit of Full Disclosure

Virginia Baker – History - Science at the Interface: Community Engagement and The Promise and Transdisciplinarity

Lisa Hunt – History - 'Blackboxing' Australian Science? Understanding Popular Perceptions of Science in Australia, 1939- 1963

Adam Scorgie – History - Australia's Pivot from the UK to the USA in the Twentieth Century

Lachlan McCarron – History - Politics and Emotion in Jacksonian America

Alexander Pring – History - Roman Catholic Missions in the Americas and East Asia in English Anti-Catholic Discourse, 1558-1660

Courtney Davis – History - Th evolution of memory politics in Scotland, 1979-2016

Madeleine Sallis – History - Examination of the relationship between white settlers and the local Aboriginal population in the Cooper Creek region

Robert Bartnik – History - Boleslaw Bierut and Stalinism in Poland, 1944-1956

Emma Grimes – History - ‘A Floating Home’: The emotional lives of nineteenth-century emigrants voyaging to Australia

Jade Ryles – History - The War at Home: Australian Children and their Families during World War II

Benjamin Nicholls – History - The Piano and Colonisation in South Australia

Elizabeth Bor – History - Responses to Bushfires in Colonial South Australia

James Hurst – History - Two Australian colonists, the 2nd Life Guards and the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte: Private Thomas Playford and Lieutenant Richard Meares in England, Portugal, Spain, Belgium and France during the Peninsular Campaign and the Hundred Days.

Lani Gerbi – History – Socio-sexual scripts and erotic literature in eighteenth-century Britain (MPhil) – under examination

Claire Morey – History – “I will not maintain you”: Understanding men’s desertion and failure to provide as economic abuse in colonial South Australia (MPhil)

David Chadwick – History – Hear the Lion Roar: Trade unionism at General Motors-Holden’s in South Australia, 1931-1981 (PhD)

Jessica Jocher – History - The Solidarity Wave: Settlement Experiences and their Influence on the Identity of Polish Migrants Arriving in Australia During the 1980s (PhD)

Linda Haines – History - The Bounty of the Suburbs. Home Food Production and Preservation in Adelaide Suburban Yards 1945-1995 (PhD)

Emily Ireland – Law/History - Married Women’s Litigation in the English Court of Chancery, 1698-1758 (PhD)

Stephanie Thomson – History - Women, Piety, and Patronage in Reformation England, c.1530-1558 (PhD)

Jessica McCandless – History - Mysticism and Emotional transformation in a Seventeenth-Century English Convent (PhD)

Thomas East – History - Anglo-American Responses to German War Technology in World War II (MPhil)

Rachel Caines – History - "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out": The Acknowledgement of Indigenous First World War Service in Australian and New Zealand National Commemorations, 1918-2019 (MPhil)

Rachel Harris – History - In a State of War: Women's Experiences of the South Australian Home Front, 1939-45 (PhD)

Melissa-Ellen Dowling – History – Writing Russia: Anglophone Historians Discursively Constructing AnOther Nation (PhD)

John Davey – History – Legalised Trade Unions, Compulsory Primary Schooling, Enhanced Higher Education - the Legacies of Anthony John Mundella, 1825-1897 (PhD)

Margaret Boult – History -  Epilepsy in the Lunatic Asylums of South Australia (1852 – 1913) (MPhil)

Emily Buddle – History - Australian Meat Consumers' Understandings of Farm Animal Welfare (PhD)

David Milazzo – History - Commemorative Days and the Negotiation of National Identity (MPhil)

Karen Agutter – History - More than Just a Roof over Their Heads: Migrant Accommodation Centres and the Assimilation of "New Australians" 1947-1960 (PhD)

Tania Cammarano – History - Ideas of Italy and the Nature of Ethnicity: A History of Italian Food in Australia with Case Studies (PhD)

Matthew Gray – History - 'Baptism, No Wall of Division': Seventeenth-Century Particular Baptists and Dynamics of Toleration (PhD)

Jade Riddle – History - Emotions in Place: The Creation of the Suburban 'Other' in Early Modern London (PhD)

Kelly Birch – History - SLAVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF LOUISIANA’S PRISON INDUSTRY, 1803-1861 (PhD)

Alexander Parsons – History - 'Everybody's Favourite Fascist': An Examination of the Figure of José Antonio Primo de Rivera within the Historiography of Spanish Fascism (PhD)

Amy Morrison – History - Communist Women's Resistance in Occupied Paris: Engagement, Activism and Continuities from the 1930s to 1945 (PhD)

Jennifer Caruso – History - Dream-Phantasy of a Utopia The Making of the Methodist Overseas Half-Caste Mission of Croker Island: A Personal History (PhD)

Peter Whellum – History - The Administration of Justice in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands: A Front Line in Tensions between Traditional Aboriginal Culture and the Criminal Law (PhD)

Stefania Chiro – History - For The Sentiment: Emotions as Practice in the Development of Eighteenth-Century British Abolitionism (PhD)

Current HDRs PhD

Anne Nattembo - Investigating Effectiveness of Social Networking Sites in Influencing Mental Health Promotion Among Young People

Alexander Beare - Moments of crisis: Tracking 21st century masculinity through complex television

Kari Seeley - Positioning Audio Description in Media Theory: an Australian Context

Caitlin Adams - Media Mimicry - How fictional videos emulate user-generated content in online stories

Amy Brierley - The Evolution of Romance in Digital Games

Robert Boucat - ‘Oscar Bait’: exploring links between the perceived Oscar-worthy film and Academy Awards controversies.

Marisol Da Silva - Household Experiences of Reducing Waste: Moving Towards Circular Economy Futures

Sebastian Morrison - Non-Normative Gender Identity in the Australian Video Games Sector

Philippa Dore - The Revolution Will Be Televised: Audio-visual content in the era of streaming and “peak TV”. An investigation of industry change, content trends, and globalisation post the digital revolution

Sophia Fluin - A Multifaceted Perspective on Hallyu and its Impact on Ethnic Identity Amongst Asian-Australian Youths

Idris Martin - Historical Memory and Malay Media

Thanh Nguyen - Identity and belonging negotiation through social media during the process of integration among Vietnamese international students in Australia

Sami Dannaoui - Design Cultures in Conflict: An Analysis of User Experience Design Standards in Social Media Smartphone Apps ( )

Guillaume Vetu - Beyond the Tree of the Living-dead: a Rhizoanalysis of Japanese Cinematic Zombies ( )

Muhammad Imran - Media Portrayal of Ageing: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Media Discourses in Australia and Malaysia (PhD)

Rukia Nzibo - Reporting on Terror: Assessing the Viability of Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News Media (PhD)

Ayodeji Aiyesimoju - Remediation or Replacement: Masthead Stakeholders' Perception of News Digitalisation in Nigeria (PhD)

Amy Nancasrrow - The Art of Selling Arts: Marketing Culture Using Digital Media at Fringe Arts Festivals (PhD)

Brigitte Everett - Temporal Passage: Dynamic Experiences and the B-theory (MPhil)

Rebecca Randell - Beyond Dualism: The Challenge for Feminist Theory (MPhil)

William McCarthy - Contested Kingdom: The Role of Online Media in the Relationship between Disney and Fans over Disneyland (PhD)

Varunika Ruwanpura - Crafting true stories: an interpretation of four Australian journalists' nonfiction writing practices (MPhil)

Linh Chung - South Australian Film-makers' Perspectives on Policies: State and Federal Film Policies and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Australian Films (MPhil) Robert Farquharson - The Role of Analog Computation in Path Integrating Behaviour of the Desert Ant: A Defence of the Explanatory Credentials of Connectionism in Cognitive Science (MPhil)

Robert Palmer - Adapting communication conventions: Helping vulnerable people in Adelaide learn about climate change and adaptation (PhD)

Hongyan Zou - Western China on Screen: Cinema and Urban Exploration as Thirdspace (PhD)

Dook Shepherd - Philosophical Theories of Mind, Cognition, and The Status of Representation: Veridicality and Combination in Biological Sciences

Matthew Nestor - A Structuralist Account of Dynamical Mental Representation in Recurrent Connectionist Networks

Victoria Vazquez Troitino - The Mind's Representing Vehicles and Their Contents ( Phil of Mind, Theories of thought)

Patrick Keeley - Schopenhauer's Theory of Aesthetics

James Vlachoulis - A Defence of the B-Theory of Time with Respect to Temporal Passage and Our Experience of Temporal Passage

Riley Harris - Normative Uncertainty and Information Value

Timothy Nailer - Praise, Blame and Holding Oneself Responsible

Henry Phillips - To Blame or Not to Blame: Respect and the Ethics of Blame

Nicholas Smyth – 17 th /18 th century philosophy

Jessica Pohlmann - Reality's Hierarchical Structure: On the Foundations of Asymmetric Dependence Relations

Margaret Penhall-Jones - Self-Deception and Wilful Ignorance. Self-induced, purported ignorance?

Elinor Pryce - The Morality of Procreation and Our Duty to Rescue Others From Harm

Anthony Bishop - Underdetermination and theoretical values

Adam Townsend - Representation in Neural Networks

Danny Wardle - Opening a Can of Spacetime Worms: The Metaphysics of Persistence

Atheer Al-Khalfa - The Referential/Attributive Distinction: Its Status and Scope (MPhil)

Michael Lazarou - Vindicating Vague Objects (MPhil)

Robert Farquharson - The Role of Analog Computation in Path Integrating Behaviour of the Desert Ant: A Defence of the Explanatory Credentials of Connectionism in Cognitive Science (MPhil)

Karen Bland - The Good, the Right and the Exigencies of Life: John Dewey and the Value of Moral Disagreement (PhD)

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Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP)

The Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (GDLP) is your pathway to practice, equipping you with real-world experience and transferable skills to see you excel in the legal profession and beyond.

Delivered by the Adelaide Law School in partnership with the Law Society of South Australia, the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice  is designed and taught by South Australian barristers and solicitors to ensure you hit the ground running upon graduation with the practical skills and academic rigour needed to practice law.

Graduates from The University of Adelaide are well connected to peers and alumni in the legal community, giving you an edge in the market.

Study at SA’s top ranked Law School*

Our GDLP satisfies the requirements to practice law and seek admission to the Supreme Court of South Australia upon graduating, with the option to apply for mutual recognition to practice in other states and territories.

Our postgraduate law programs at The University of Adelaide are the top ranked in the state for practical skills development**, meaning our students are equipped with the networks and skills necessary to succeed in the evolving legal landscape.

Program features:

• Accelerate your studies and be ready to practice in just in 20 weeks
• Study on your own terms with flexible courses, blended learning, and multiple intakes each year
• Gain practical experience with a 3 week legal practice placement
• Expand your networks within the South Australian legal community
• Benefit from real-life experience through advocacy training delivered in the District Court by qualified legal practitioners
• Complete your study concurrently with your LLB (subject to conditions)
• Receive 5 Continuing Professional Development points
• Stay supported with FEE-HELP and scholarships available for eligible students

*QS World Rankings by Subject 2020 **The Good Universities Guide ranking by subject Law (2020/21)

Program structure

Rich in both theory and practical components, the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice is comprised of 6 core courses (including a legal work experience placement) , and 2 electives in an area of your interest.

* Offered both face-to-face and online in 2024.

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Fees, scholarships and awards

Eligible domestic candidates have the option of deferring the cost of their tuition to FEE-HELP .

Scholarship support is funded by The University of Adelaide and The Law Student Society through the GDLP Indigenous Law Student Scholarship Program. This scholarship provides full tuition funding for one Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander GDLP student per year. For more information on scholarship eligibility and application, please visit the Law Society website .

The Nyland Caruso Prize , funded by generous donations from the Hon Margaret Nyland AM and Mr David Caruso, celebrates up to 3 high performing students each year in the Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice.

• Apply for the Adelaide GDLP  via SATAC (code 3GD087) or the International Application System .
• Current students can apply via internal transfer , or can complete the GDLP concurrently with LLB studies.

Brittany Farinola

“Many of the seminars are taught by current legal practitioners, it is an invaluable opportunity to network with them, and learn about the practical aspects of the profession. This also provides a chance to engage, ask questions, and seek help directly, which was something I was concerned about with many of the online GDLP providers. In addition to this, seminars are a great way to work collaboratively with other students, many of whom will soon become future colleagues.”

LLB, GDLP graduate

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• Adelaide Law School by  email , or phone  +61 (8) 8313 5063 for applications, admissions, internal transfers, enrolments and graduations or;
• The Law Society of South Australia by  email , or phone  +61 8 8229 0200 regarding your study plan, course information, hurdle requirements (including the 105 hour placement and 5 CPD hours).