Interested in PhD, Masters or Honours?

Some potential research areas:

● Nongenetic inheritance and transgenerational plasticity

● Parental age effects on offspring

● Stress, diet, and lifespan

● Facultative parthenogenesis

● Sexual selection and conflict

● The costs of secondary sexual trait expression

● Genetic versus environmental quality

● Condition-dependence of life history traits

● Insect life history and behaviour in the wild

We develop new theory, and do empirical research (mainly on insects and spiders) in the lab and field. 

If you are interested in applying to join the lab, please send a brief statement of research interests, a CV, and names and contact information for two academic referees to Russell (r.bonduriansky-AT-unsw.edu.au).

Please note: PhD scholarships for international applicants are extremely competitive at UNSW. There is no point in applying unless you have at least one first-authored publication in a good, ISI-indexed international journal, and high undergraduate marks. Even then the outcome is very uncertain.

To be admitted to the PhD program, international applicants normally require a Master's degree by research with at least one year of research experience and a research thesis. The Master's thesis must be submitted as part of the application.

I cannot support applications from applicants who lack the required qualifications and who are very unlikely to be successful in the scholarship competition.