Scholarships and Prizes : Faculty of Arts : The University of Melbourne

The Ursula Hoff Art History Scholarship

The Scholarship has been named in honour of the late Dr Ursula Hoff AO OBE PhD (Hamburg) Hon DLitt (Monash) Hon LLD (Melb) Hon DLitt (La Trobe) who died on 10 January 2005.

Dr Ursula Hoff was born in 1909 in London and her career encompassed art history, curatorship and museum management at the University and the National Gallery of Victoria ('NGV'). Dr Hoff was a lecturer in the then-Department of Fine Arts within the Faculty of Arts at the University. She also worked at the NGV, being its assistant director from 1968 to 1973. She was the London advisor to the Felton Bequest from 1975 to 1983. Dr Hoff was a foundation fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1970 and a member of the Council of the National Library of Australia. Her scholarly publications include studies of Arthur Boyd, Charles Conder, John Brack, William Blake and her major work, the standard catalogue of pre-1800 European paintings at the NGV.

The kinds of activities supported by the Hoff Scholarship include the following:

Support for students undertaking coursework degrees
Support exchange opportunities for students
Support research students with grants for conference attendance, field work and study trips interstate and abroad
Support student conferences, publishing initiatives and other projects aimed at developing students' professional abilities so as to make them able and dynamic contributors to the field of art history in Australia and beyond

The scholarship will be determined by a Selection Committee chaired by the Head of the Art History Program and will be determined on the basis of academic merit and financial need. Particular emphasis will also be given to the applicant/s potential, as set out in the Scholarship application, to make a contribution to the discipline of Art History in Australia and/or overseas.

For more details, see The Ursula Hoff Art History Scholarship Guidelines and Eligibility (105kb pdf)

Eligibility

Applicants must be:

Honours, Masters by coursework or Research Higher Degreee students AND
Currently enrolled AND
Undertaking subjects and/or degrees in Art History at the University of Melbourne (which includes the fields of historical and contemporary art, art curatorial studies and art theory)

Applicants can only apply online for this scholarship.

You must supply the following documents to support your application and can upload these into the electronic application form:

Scholarship Budget Form
Outline of proposed planned activities that will be undertaken through the Scholarship
Current Academic Record
Two (2) academic references
Evidence of financial need and resources available, i.e. access to other financial sources (APA, GRATS, MATS/PORES, School)
Any other information to support application that may assist the committee in making its decision

Please ensure you have the above information available before you commence your online application.

Applications must be submitted by closing date.

The judges' decision will be final and the University reserves the right not to award the prize in the event it is considered that no work of sufficient merit has been submitted. Winning applicants please note the University of Melbourne reserves the right to publish the name of the winning applicant on its websites and other University of Melbourne publications.