The Kirby Institute offers many opportunities in research.
Please visit our Future students or Our research programs pages to get an idea of the type of work we do and what may be of most interest to you.
You can also contact the relevant Kirby Institute academic to discuss your ideas for a research project.
- Internships: https://student.unsw.edu.au/internships
- Year 4 Medicine Research Project (ILP or Med Honours): https://medprogram.med.unsw.edu.au/year-4-medicine-research-project#tab-303400336
- Honours: https://medicalsciences.med.unsw.edu.au/students/soms-honours/overview
- Masters and PhD: https://research.unsw.edu.au/higher-degree-research-programs
Current opportunities
- Two PhD opportunities: Global Health Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Deadline: Thursday 6 April 2023
Download info sheetThe Global Health Program at the Kirby Institute is looking for talented students with a strong interest in applying public health approaches to solving major challenges in infectious diseases, health and immunity. We have two exciting research opportunities for outstanding PhD candidates to undertaken research as part of a clinical trial to evaluate the impact of community treatment of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) to improve perinatal and reproductive health outcomes in Fiji.
- PhD Opportunity – Infection Analytics Program: Mathematical modeling in infection and immunity (ongoing)
Download info sheetThe Infection Analytics Program at the Kirby Institute is looking for talented students with a strong interest in applying quantitative approaches to solving major challenges in infectious diseases, health and immunity.
- PhD Opportunity – Immunovirology & Pathogenesis Program (ongoing)
Download info sheetA unique opportunity is available for an outstanding full-time PhD scholar in the field of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), working on a novel way of suppressing HIV replication using promoter targeted siRNAs to induce transcriptional gene silencing (TGS).
