Call for Nominations: Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

The UBC Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are available for most fields of research. The number of awards offered presently varies between three and five per year.

Value: an annual stipend of $50,000 for a maximum of two years plus a travel and research allowance of $4,000 over two years.

UBC-O

UBC-O will require potential Killam applicants to submit a Letter of Intent (LOI) to the Office of Research Services (ORS) by October 14, 2018. Applicants are required to submit a one-page summary of their program of research as well as a Vanier-Banting CCV, and faculty supervisors must submit a two-page summary of their program of mentorship, institutional resources, and training environment. There will be no adjudication at the LOI stage, but applicants and faculty supervisors will receive feedback and suggestions on how to proceed to completion of the full application. LOIs will be returned to each applicant, their supervisor and the Associate Dean Research of the Faculty. Full applications, including all attachments, are due to ORS by 12:00 PM (noon) on Tuesday, November 6, 2018.

UBC-V

Each department or unit at the Vancouver campus may forward one nominee to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies via UBC Workspace by 4:00 PM on Friday, November 9, 2018. Whoever will be uploading the nomination will need to email confirmation to the Killam Assistant killam.fellowships@ubc.ca, who will create a Workspace folder for your department/unit.

For details about this competition, please visit: https://www.postdocs.ubc.ca/award/killam-postdoctoral-research-fellowship

The contact at the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for this competition is Anne Broženský (anne.brozensky@ubc.ca).