External Funding Opportunities
Pursuit Award
Pursuit Award recognizes outstanding achievements in childhood disability research by individuals who have completed a doctoral degree in 2010, 2011 or 2012. Any applied or clinical research specifically linked to childhood disability is eligible for consideration. Up to three prizes will be awarded (First Prize: $7,500; Second Prize: $2,500; Third Prize: $1,000). Finalists will be invited to present their research in person at an award ceremony at Holland Bloorview (Toronto, ON). Travel and accommodation costs will be covered.
Deadline: February 1, 2013
More information: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/pursuit-award
Grand Challenges Canada- Stars Program
The Stars program through Grand Challenges Canada is a funding opportunity currently open for application. Potential applicants could come from Universities (departments of engineering, law, agriculture and veterinary sciences, food science and nutrition, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, public health, business schools, computer science, arts and science, education, anthropology, sociology, etc.), for profit and non profit companies, community based organizations, research institutes etc. Applicants apply for $100,000 seed grants which can later be scaled with a grant of up to $ 1,000,000.
Deadline: February 6, 2013
Further information: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/grand-challenges-canada-stars-program
APF Canada Media and Postgraduate Fellowship
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, supported in part by Cathay Pacific Airways, is accepting applications for its Post-Graduate Research Fellowship program, which offers recent Masters and PhD graduates the opportunity to work for one year at the Foundation’s Vancouver office. Fellows conduct research on a topic of their choice and participate in the Foundation’s daily operations. The Post-Graduate Research Fellowship is granted to three recent graduates each year, and is valued at C$38,000 and C$40,000 annually for Master and PhD graduates, respectively.
Deadline: Friday, February 15, 2013
Further information: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/apf-canada-media-postgraduate-fellowship
NPRB Graduate Student Research Awards
North Pacific Research Board will award up to six Graduate Student Research Awards (GSRAs) of $25,000 each to three qualified masters students and three doctoral students for the opportunity to address scientific, technological, and socio-economic issues relating to the research themes identified in the 2005 NPRB Science Plan.
Deadline: Friday, February 15, 2013
Further information: http://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/nprb-graduate-student-research-awards
Douglas McRorie Memorial Scholarship
The Douglas McRorie Memorial Scholarship is in recognition of the significant contribution Douglas McRorie, PAg, FAIC, made to agricultural finance throughout his career with the Royal Bank of Canada and his professional involvement with the Agricultural Institute of Canada and AIC Foundation. The awards will provide financial support to Masters or PhD students specializing in agricultural business, economics, finance or trade.
Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2013
Further information: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/douglas-mcrorie-memorial-scholarship
Autism Research Training (ART) Program
The Autism Research Training (ART) Program is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Strategic Training Initiative in Health Research (STIHR), with supplemental funding from the Sinneave Family Foundation. Its goal is to recruit and train outstanding researchers in the field of autism, in disciplines such as genetics, brain imaging, epidemiology, neurology, psychiatry, psychology and others. Funding is available for MD, PDF, and PhD students.
Deadline: March 8, 2013
Further information: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/autism-research-training-art-program
Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence
The Global Scholarship Programme for Research Excellence is designed to enhance research excellence at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) through building and strengthening the University’s ties with leading research universities and institutes around the world and to increase the visibility of CUHK as a world-class research university through student and staff mobility. The Programme provides basic funding support to PhD students to undertake short-term research visits at CUHK.
Deadline: Friday, March 15, 2013
Further information: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/global-scholarship-programme-research-excellence