{"id":5021,"date":"2018-12-11T15:50:49","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=5021"},"modified":"2018-12-11T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T22:50:49","slug":"competition-announcement-trudeau-foundation-doctoral-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-5021","title":{"rendered":"Competition Announcement: Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarships<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Value<\/span><\/strong>: $40,000 stipend plus $20,000 travel allowance per year, for up to 3 years<\/span><\/p>\n

UBC applicant deadline<\/span><\/strong>: 11:59pm (Vancouver time) on Friday, January 18, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Up to 20 Trudeau Scholarships are awarded each year to support doctoral students pursuing research related to one of its\u00a0four founding themes<\/a>: Human Rights and Dignity, Responsible Citizenship, Canada in the World, and People and their Natural Environment. Trudeau Scholars are highly gifted individuals who are actively engaged in their fields and expected to become leading national and international figures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eligibility<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Doctoral students already accepted into or in year one, two, or three of a full-time program in the humanities or social sciences whose work relates to one of the Foundations\u2019 four themes<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Although priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, up to 25% of Scholars in a given year may be non-Canadians (permanent residents or foreign nationals) enrolled in a doctoral program at a Canadian institution<\/span><\/p>\n

Applications are submitted via the Trudeau Foundation application portal<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Create an account online at:\u00a0https:\/\/trudeaufdn.fluxx.io\/apply\/scholars<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For University Name, enter “The University of British Columbia”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For Faculty or Department, enter the chosen UBC graduate program<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Registrants will receive a username and password in 4 business days (applicants should check their spam\/junk folder)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Once account access is granted: Complete the application form, request three letters of reference, and upload transcripts<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>After applying, applicants should email\u00a0natalie.thorson@ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0with their full name, UBC student number, and the name of their graduate program to ensure\u00a0that their application is linked to UBC<\/span><\/p>\n

Please note that there is no graduate program nomination process<\/span><\/strong>. The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will convene an adjudication committee composed of UBC faculty members to review applications and select UBC’s nominees to the national competition.<\/span><\/p>\n

For further information, please visit our website:\u00a0https:\/\/www.grad.ubc.ca\/awards\/trudeau-foundation-doctoral-scholarship<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarships Value: $40,000 stipend plus $20,000 travel allowance per year, for up to 3 years UBC applicant deadline: 11:59pm (Vancouver time) on Friday, January 18, 2019 Up to 20 Trudeau Scholarships are awarded each year to support doctoral students pursuing research related to one of its\u00a0four founding themes: Human Rights and Dignity,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5021\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}