Applying

Completing and submitting your application – overview

The following brief overview highlights the main stages in completing and submitting your application online. For more details, check our step-by-step guide, which you can refer back to when ready to start your online application.

Register

You must provide basic identifying details to obtain a unique applicant ID, which you use to log in to the online application system.

Create your profile

The first time you log in, you are prompted to complete your profile, which provides us with important details, such as your address and citizenship. After completing your profile, you are asked to return to the application overview page, from where you can begin your application.

Create an application

When you first create an application, you need to provide details of the type of application, research degree and/or scholarship you are applying for.

Once you’ve saved these details, the left-side navigation menu is updated to show the different detail pages that you need to enter to complete your application – these pages vary, depending on the type of application and course you are applying for.
As you complete the information on each page, the corresponding navigation menu item is ticked, indicating the areas already covered.

How many applications can I create and submit?

You can create as many applications as you like. However, you can only submit one application per scholarship round or course commencement in each half-year admission period; that is, January–June and July–December each year. If you create multiple applications for a scholarship round or commencement dates in the same half-year admission period, the validation and submit page will warn you that multiple applications exist for the same period, and you can only submit one.

Upload documents

To help you understand the full nature of an application, you can visit and complete each page in any order you wish. However, before submitting, you must upload all required documents. A variety of editable, portable and image-based document formats are supported for uploading, along with the ability to upload zip files.

How can I manage the documents I need to upload?

Correct, legible and verifiable documents are important to any research-related application. The documents you upload remain accessible to you until you delete them, but documents associated with a submitted application cannot be deleted. Documents can be uploaded once and re-used in the same or other applications you create.

Two examples show the value of this facility:

• You may wish to use an academic transcript as evidence of a qualification and your English language proficiency. You can upload the document against either of these options and link to it from the other.
• You may create multiple applications referring to the same qualifications. While you need to provide the qualification details in each application, you can upload the document in the first application and then link to it in the second.

Whenever you select to upload a document, you are also shown a list of other documents you have already uploaded, and you can link to one of them.

Note: If you wish to delete an uploaded document, it can be deleted once it is no longer linked to any other elements of your application(s).

Validate and submit

The final step is to visit the validate-and-submit page. The system will advise you of any pages that are incomplete or any documents that are missing. It also displays all of the data you have entered. When the application is valid, a declaration form is presented at the base of the page. Complete it, print the page for your records and press the submit button.

How do I reapply for a scholarship if my application was unsuccessful?

If you applied unsuccessfully for a scholarship and want to be considered for the next scholarship round, you must re-apply. You can copy an existing application rather than create a new one. Please refer to the How to copy an existing Research Application document for instructions.