{"id":10209,"date":"2023-12-19T17:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=10209"},"modified":"2023-12-19T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T00:03:10","slug":"competition-announcement-indigenous-graduate-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-10209","title":{"rendered":"Competition Announcement: Indigenous Graduate Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"

INTERNAL Deadline Jan 19, 2024.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please let me know about your intention to apply by Jan 10th, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please review the eligibility criteria here: <\/strong>Indigenous Graduate Fellowships – Graduate School – University of British Columbia – Vancouver – Canada (ubc.ca)<\/a><\/p>\n

The Indigenous Graduate Fellowship (IGF)<\/strong> offers multi-year fellowships are provided to Indigenous Master\u2019s and Doctoral students in all disciplines.\u00a0Award winners are selected on the basis of academic merit through an annual competition, administered by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Opportunities for (i) Indigenous PhD students in their fourth year to apply for a fifth year of funding and (ii) for research Master\u2019s and PhD students to apply for research funding, which are also outlined below.<\/p>\n

Please note that a distinct application deadline has been set for candidates, February 16, 2024 at 4:00PM PT<\/strong>, and the graduate program nomination deadline to follow two weeks later.<\/p>\n

Indigenous Graduate Fellowships competition<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Each fellowship provides a stipend of $18,200 per year for Doctoral students or a stipend of\u00a0$16,175 per year for Master\u2019s students. Additionally,\u00a0IGF recipients are eligible to receive\u00a0tuition funding.\u00a0Tuition funding will not exceed the current value of the\u00a0standard Doctoral or\u00a0Master’s degree tuition fees. In all cases, continued fellowship support is conditional on satisfactory academic progress. Recipients of Master\u2019s fellowship funding must re-apply to be considered for Doctoral funding.<\/p>\n

All Indigenous students are eligible to apply, but priority is given to Indigenous students whose traditional territory falls, at least in part, within Canada. This includes Canadian First Nations, M\u00e9tis or Inuit students and may include Indigenous students from Alaska and other states of the USA. The University may request further information to confirm Indigenous eligibility. As of January 2023, the IGF is also open to students in professional and coursework-only Master\u2019s programs.<\/p>\n