Margaret Sheridan Scholarship

You can apply for the Margaret Sheridan Scholarship via our scholarship application process.

Application information

We use the following sections of the application to consider you for this scholarship:

Study details

• Program details

Achievements

• Referee details: Include two statements from referees.

Statements

• Personal statement: Community involvement—How have you been involved in the community and to what extent (can be in or out of school)?

Value

For the Bachelor of Music, you may be entitled to a maximum of 6 trimester payments, provided all conditions are met. Should you progress to the Bachelor of Music (Honours), you may be entitled to an additional 2 payments.

Instalment payments will be made of 50% of the annual scholarship amount in Trimester 1 and 2, which is $8,500 for 2026. The annual value of the scholarship in future years, will be determined by the interest earned from the endowment. You will be notified in advance of the amount of your scholarship.

Payments

Payments are made up to three weeks after the census date subject to satisfying scholarship terms and conditions.

To remain eligible for the scholarship, recipients must:

• remain enrolled full-time in an undergraduate music degree at the QCGU, studying strings (classical) to receive the full scholarship. Should the recipient not remain enrolled, or change majors, the scholarship will be withdrawn.
• maintain a minimum GPA of 5.5

The above conditions are verified each trimester at census date. If a scholarship recipient fails to successfully meet these conditions, scholarship payments may be withheld, or the scholarship may be terminated.

The recipient may defer acceptance of the scholarship in accordance with Griffith University policy.  Deferral must not exceed twelve months.

Offers are made via email.

Applicants may be shortlisted and be required to provide additional information.

Griffith University reserves the right to withdraw an advertised scholarship at any time.

About Margaret Sheridan

Margaret is a First Australian descendant and raised her family in Charters Towers where she worked in health as the CEO of a health services department. She studied a Bachelor of Health Administration and received a scholarship to Curtin University to complete her Masters in Public Health Management.

She has a passion for chamber music, jazz, opera and the ballet. She enjoys the rich cultural life of Brisbane and has been delighted to attend many of the QCGU free lunchtime concerts in the Ian Hanger Recital Hall and the QCGU foyer. From this enjoyment she has considered for some time leaving a gift to QCGU to establish a scholarship. Margaret wants to ensure this music that she enjoys continues when she is gone. Discussions commenced in March 2019 around Margaret’s intention to make a donation, dependent on the sale of her Spring Hill unit. The apartment had been on the market since early 2020 and finally settled on 12 November.