For the last 10-years annual cohorts of 16 students have received funding to undertake post-graduate research alongside an ACIAR project, through the University of the South Pacific (USP). Studies have mainly focused on horticulture, biology, forestry, marine science and geology.
The cohort has included students from seven countries within the Pacific. Currently 53 percent of the scholars are women.
This program is supported through a twinning arrangement in the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC). In 2018 USC delivered a Promoting Women’s Leadership in Agriculture workshop for the USP scholars.
