PhD scholarship examining rural poverty dynamics and livelihood transitions in central Vietnam

PhD scholarship examining rural poverty dynamics and livelihood transitions in central Vietnam

This PhD project will use selected waves of the Thailand Vietnam Social Economic Panel (TVSEP) to examine rural poverty dynamics and livelihood transitions in three provinces of central Vietnam. The project will examine the socio-economic geographic and other factors (including COVID-19) influence poverty dynamics and livelihood transactions using a primarily quantitative panel data approach, supplemented by geo-spatial methods where appropriate.

RMIT Vietnam – based candidates who satisfy HDR admissions and scholarship requirements will receive full tuition fee waiver for 4 years and a stipend scholarship of 10,000 AUD per year in 3.5 years.

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Full tuition fee waiver and annual stipend of 10,000AUD (~170 million VND)

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31/12/2025

One scholarship per project.

The candidate must meet RMIT HDR admissions & scholarship requirements and is required to be based in Vietnam throughout their candidature. HDR Admissions & Scholarship requirements can be found on the How to apply page here: https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/research-degrees/how-to-apply

The supervision team: will be Prof. Bob Baulch, Dr Trinh Duc Tran and Dr Chung Phan (all based at RMIT Vietnam's South Saigon campus) to whom informal enquiries about the project may be made. However, applications must be made via:  However, aplications must be made via:  https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/research-degrees/how-to-apply-vn

See https://www.tvsep.de/en/research/research-topics for a list of papers published to date from the TVSEP organized by research topics. Questionnaire, sample data other documentation are available to download from https://www.tvsep.de/en/survey-documents, and the full data is available in anonymized form and free-of-charge to registered users.

The supervision team: will be Prof. Bob Baulch, Dr Trinh Duc Tran and Dr Chung Phan (all based at RMIT Vietnam's South Saigon campus) to whom informal enquiries about the project may be made. However, applications must be made via: https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/research-degrees/how-to-apply-vn

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