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PhD student Maxim makes $18 an hour to research children’s cancer – it’s barely above Australia’s poverty line
Skyrocketing living costs and lack of government support are deterring potential PhD candidates. Experts say the obvious solution is to lift the stipend
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Maxim Buckley studies how leukaemia cells communicate with each other. It’s critical research but as a PhD student he’s paid just $18.50 an hour, a rate that’s just above the poverty line.
The 29-year-old is in his final months of research at University of Adelaide on acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, which predominantly affects children, research that will help future treatments of the cancer. Continue reading...
