The Tom Brock Bequest Committee offers a scholarship for Rugby League research to the value of $3000. The objective is to encourage new and original research on rugby league and its relationship to other sports. Preference is given to postgraduate students or beginning researcherst yet to establish a track record in sports history research.

 Scholarship application

Applications for the next round of the Tom Brock Scholarship will be announced on this website. 

 Outcomes

Successful scholarship applicants are expected to publish an article in Sporting Traditions on the completed research project. A Scholar should also make a presentation either at an ASSH conference or at a local ASSH Chapter. In this or any other publication, using scholarship research material, the author should acknowledge the support on the TBBC for this research.

 Operation of the award

The result of the scholarship will be announced on the Tom Brock website. The successful applicant will be paid $1000 at the time of this announcement. The Scholar will be required to submit a final report on the outcomes at the end of the scholarship period. The final payment of $2000 will be given to the Scholar after the Scholarship Committee has approved this report.