Current Scholarship Recipients
MRIWA funds scholarships for postgraduate research studies at any Western Australian university

Nilan Jayasiri Mudiyanselage
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2023)
Accelerating Consolidation of Mine Tailings using Electro‐osmosis Dewatering Technology

Daniel Goldstein
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2023)
Ore Body Characterisation using Machine Learning and Measure-While-Drilling Data

Hyunjin Na
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2023)
Development of cementation-magnetic separation method for sulfide mineral processing and AMD prevention

Alex Eves
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2023)
Petrogenesis and metallogenic significance of the Speewah V-Ti Deposit


Bishenka Mahaulpatha
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2022)
Feasibility of effective metal recovery from tailings material via electrokinetic in-situ leaching.

Alexandra Halliday
MRIWA PhD Scholarship (2021)
Integrating field monitoring and numerical modelling to better quantify the stability of tailings storage facilities


Liz Wall
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2021)
Evaluating the mining industry’s view of their success in delivering a positive legacy for host communities at the time of mine closure.

Alicja Polewacz
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2020)
Processes at the interface between fluids and lithium minerals

Tyler Bikaun
ITTC in Transforming Maintenance through Data Science (2020)
Unlocking Knowledge from Technical Texts using Deep Active Learning and Entity Typing

John Grigson
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2020)
Giant rare-metal pegmatites of the East Pilbara Terrane, Western Australia: Mineral systems analysis and terrane-scale exploration

Gabriel Gonzalez
ITTC in Transforming Maintenance through Data Science (2019)
Risk-based Inspection Intervals: A Practical Approach

Polyanna Moro
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2019)
Lithospheric Evolution in the Transition from Plate Margin to Intraplate Basin, Northwestern Australia

Xingjie Chen
MRIWA Odwyn Jones PhD Scholarship (2019)
Investigating the underground support provided by shotcrete using tailings and waste rock

Kudzai Angeline Mchibwa
MRIWA PhD Scholarship for Women (2018)
Innovative processes for leach liquor purification and production of battery grade LiOH from Li mineral resources
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