{"id":3192,"date":"2017-02-28T13:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2017-02-28T13:34:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:34:35","slug":"doctoral-students-psi-award-info-session-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3192","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral students: PSI Award + Info Session Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">PSI Award + Info Session Announcement<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">This award is part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/psi\" target=\"_blank\">UBC Public Scholars Initiative<\/a>\u00a0(PSI) which intends\u00a0to build connections, community, and capacity for doctoral students who are interested in explicitly linking their doctoral work to an arena of public benefit and integrating broader and more career-relevant forms of scholarship into their doctoral education process. <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/survey.ubc.ca\/s\/PSI2017InfoSession\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here<\/a> for the Info Session on March 7th, 2017<\/span><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">About the PSI Award:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">Up to $10,000 per student is available to support innovative\/collaborative\u00a0scholarship which the student would otherwise be unable to pursue.\u00a0Funding can be used for:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">Student stipend, if the student\u2019s current funding source would not allow the alternative project(s)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7<span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">A research allowance (including allowance for professional development or travel relevant to the scholarly work)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">Funding is available for up to 30 new students in 2017-18.\u00a0Students may be eligible for renewal for a second year (pending new PSI funding).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">Application Deadline<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">: Friday, 12 May 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\">For further information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/ubc-public-scholars-award\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/ubc-public-scholars-award<\/a>, or contact Dr. Efe Peker (Public Scholarship Coordinator) at <a>efe.peker@ubc.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSI Award + Info Session Announcement This award is part of the\u00a0UBC Public Scholars Initiative\u00a0(PSI) which intends\u00a0to build connections, community, and capacity for doctoral students who are interested in explicitly linking their doctoral work to an arena of public benefit and integrating broader and more career-relevant forms of scholarship into their doctoral education process. 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