For many years the Research School of Social Sciences has offered a number of Summer Research Scholarships to 3rd and 4th year undergraduates from outside the ANU for study at the RSSS during the months of December, January and February. These offers were made to a very small number of people on a competitive basis, subject to the availability of appropriate supervision and accommodation. More recently the School has decided to allow Programs to use the funds that have in the past been used to fund these Summer Research Scholars to instead fund shorter visits by a larger number 3rd and 4th year undergraduates from outside the ANU to attend an Undergraduate Philosophy Workshop.

For further details of what the Philosophy Program will do in any particular year, interested students should contact the Head of the Philosophy Program Martin Davies or the Philosophy Program Administrator.

Many past Summer Research Scholars have gone on to have flourishing careers in philosophy, for example:

John Collins, then at Sydney, now teaching at Columbia University, was Summer Research Scholar in 1979.
Julian Lamont, then at UQ, now teaching at UQ, was Summer Research Scholar in 1981.
Peter Godfrey-Smith, then at Sydney, now Professor of Philosophy at ANU and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Harvard, was Summer Research Scholar in 1984.
Rob Wilson, then at UWA, now Research Professor at Alberta was Summer Research Scholar in 1984.
Andrew Moore, then at Canterbury, now teaching at Otago University was Summer Research Scholar in 1984.
Garrett Cullity, then at UWA, now teaching at the University of Adelaide, was Summer Research Scholar in 1985.
Michaelis Michael, then at Monash, now teaching at UNSW was Summer Research Scholar in 1985.
Fiona Cowie, then at Sydney, now at Cal Tech, was Summer Research Scholar in 1986.
Daniel Stoljar, then at Sydney, now a Senior Fellow in the Program, was Summer Research Scholar in 1987.
Tim Mulgan, then at Otago, now Professor of Moral Philosophy at St Andrews, was Summer Research Scholar in 1989.

In more recent times students from UNE, Monash, UNSW, Victoria (NZ), Massey, Canterbury, Otago, Auckland, and Sydney have come to the Philosophy Program under this scheme.