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MINDS is pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the NATO Defence College Fellowship, scheduled to take place from February to July 2022.
To express your interest in this opportunity, we ask that you e-mail MINDS@forces.gc.ca. We will gladly forward you the application form. Please note, all applications must be submitted to MINDS no later than end of day on July 5, 2021.
Join the more than 600 Fulbright Canada alumni and consider applying for one of our awards!
Our grants support research with colleagues across the U.S. for a 4 to 9-month period. Applications are accepted through November 15, 2021, and these opportunities are for a start date of September 2022 or January 2023. (Please note that in the same application you can apply to several of our Research Chairs.)
Detailed Eligibility requirements are available HERE.
Register for the webinar on July 21, 2021 at 3:00 p.m. EST where we will provide details on how to prepare a successful application.
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The Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG), within the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, invites applications for a one-year IMFG Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Municipal Finance and Governance. Research should be pertinent to IMFG’s focus on the finance and governance issues faced by large cities and city-regions in Canada and around the world.
IMFG focuses on the fiscal health and governance challenges facing large cities and city-regions. The Institute’s mandate is to conduct independent research, spark and inform public debate, and engage the academic and policy communities around important issues of municipal finance and governance.
IMFG offers a $50,000 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, funded by the School of Cities, to support researchers who have received their PhD and are continuing their studies.
Fellowship recipients are expected to live in Toronto, Canada while pursuing their research and study, and will have the opportunity to participate generally in the intellectual life of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and larger University of Toronto community during the 2021-2022 academic year.
Core responsibilities of the post-doctoral fellow include:
Other responsibilities could include:
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Application deadline is April 23, 2021.
If you have questions please contact Enid Slack, Director, IMFG, at 416-946-0328 or at enid.slack@utoronto.ca.
Students who owe more than $400.00 for the current term, whose tuition is not being paid by a sponsor and who have not made alternate payment arrangements with the Student Financial Services Office will be subject to a second late payment penalty of $156.00. This Graduate Delinquent Account Charge, approved by the Board of Governors and Senate, will be applied to accounts in early March 2021.
If you are having financial difficulty and need to discuss payment options, email reg-fees@uwo.ca.
York University in Toronto, Ontario is excited to launch a new Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Black and Indigenous Scholars, as part of our commitment to promoting justice and embracing a variety of scholarly perspectives, backgrounds and lived experiences. The program will offer emerging scholars from a wide range of disciplines access to the financial support, mentorship and career development opportunities needed to build the foundation for a successful professional future.
The Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black and Indigenous Scholars will support up to 4 successful applicants this year in any field of study. With a salary of $70,000 provided each year for a two-year term, scholars will be able to dedicate their time to pursuing a proposed project, working alongside a supervisor and other mentors, while also gaining access to guidance from faculty, students and alumni.
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Deadline to Apply: April 1, 2021 (decisions made May 31, 2021)
Any questions can be directed to Kim McIntyre (kimmcint@yorku.ca)Postdoctoral Services Coordinator at York University.
Mitacs has partnered with Scotiabank on a new initiative to help charities and not-for-profit organizations access our Accelerate program to fund research internships that increase the understanding of the factors that drive economic resilience in communities across Canada.
To further the understanding of economic resilience, Scotiabank and Mitacs have launched the the Scotiabank Economic Resilience Research Fund (SERRF). This $300,000 partnership over three years will support research to advance economic resilience in communities across Canada.
The SERRF has been launched to support research projects in three key focus areas that are central to the newly launched ScotiaRISE initiative:
Accelerate newcomer integration
Proposed research projects will target newcomers to Canada (in past three years) including immigrants, refugees, and temporary foreign workers to help fast track meaningful employment for newcomers to the country. Integration essentials might include: language, culture and life -skills, training help qualifying for and finding employment, and support networks.
Increase high school graduation and post-secondary participation in education
Proposed research projects will target disadvantaged populations, including Canadian Indigenous communities and at-risk youth to ultimately facilitate a higher rate of high school graduation and post-secondary participation. Post-secondary education is defined broadly, to include university, college, and trades program.
Remove barriers to career advancement
Proposed research projects will be targeted to support women, the BIPOC community (black, Indigenous and people of colour) and other equity- seeking groups (e.g., persons with disability, veterans, LGBTQ, etc.) to determine how to remove barriers to meaningful employment, reduce the gaps in leadership representation, and find solutions to career entry and advancement.
Successful projects will receive up to $16,250 in funding from Scotiabank and Mitacs to support a four to six month Mitacs Accelerate internship. This funding from the SERRF will reduce the required partner contribution to the project from $7,500 to $3,750.
Intern eligibility criteria
This opportunity is time limited and interested projects must submit an Expression of Interest by February 11, 2021.
Please contact Wilson Luo (wluo@mitacs.ca), Rebecca Bourque (rbourque@mitacs.ca), or Sarah Fairlie (sfairlie@mitacs.ca)if interested in learning more.
We are pleased to advise that applications are now being accepted for the 2020-2021 Graduate Research Awards for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation competition.
GRADUATE RESEARCH AWARDS FOR DISARMAMENT, ARMS CONTROL AND NON-PROLIFERATION are offered by The Simons Foundation Canada and the International Security Research and Outreach Programme (ISROP) of Global Affairs Canada (GAC).
A total of four awards of $5,000 CAD are available to Canadian Master’s and/or Doctoral candidates to support the independent research and writing of an academic paper responding to a specific Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament (NACD) topic. Awards also include domestic travel support to Ottawa where successful candidates will present their completed papers during a special event at Global Affairs Canada Headquarters in Fall 2021 (TBC).
Applications must include:
This competition is open to Canadian citizens and Canadian permanent residents/landed immigrants currently enrolled in a graduate program. In order to expand the community of Canadian scholars working on non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament (NACD) issues, employees of Global Affairs Canada, and previous recipients of a Graduate Research Award are not eligible.
Complete applications must be received by the close of business (PDT) on March 15, 2021 and should be sent to Elaine Hynes at The Simons Foundation Canada by email to: ehynes@thesimonsfoundation.ca.
The Parkinson Society Southwestern Ontario (PSSO) is pleased to announce its Request for Applications, Graduate Student Scholarship Program, June 1, 2021 – May 31, 2022.
The Graduate Student Scholarship Program is a strategic initiative to encourage young scientists to enter the field of Parkinson’s research, and to invest in research and training that offers promise for future work in the area of Parkinson’s disease. PSSO intends to provide awards in the amount of up to $25,000 CDN to outstanding graduate students who meet the eligibility criteria of the Program and who have been approved by the Program’s Adjudication Committee. We invite applications from graduate students committed to conducting Parkinson’s research in areas relevant to the treatment of motor and/or non-motor symptoms. This initiative is consistent with, and reflects PSSO’s commitment to support research in the Southwestern Ontario region, and to foster leadership potential in this area.
We invite interested students to download and review the materials below.
Submission Deadline: Tuesday, February 16, 2021, 4:00 p.m. EST.
As noted in the Application Guidelines document, application materials are to be submitted electronically as a single pdf file to Shelley Rivard, CEO, Parkinson Society Southwestern Ontario, research@parkinsonsociety.ca. Receipt of application will be confirmed.
Applications for the 2021 Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliates Program are now open!
The Vector Institute, based in Toronto, is one of the world’s top destinations for cutting-edge research at the intersection of machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning. The daily life and concentration of expertise at Vector fosters a network of over 500 researchers and potential collaboration partners.
The primary goal of the Vector Institute Postgraduate Affiliates Program is to foster collaboration and contributions among students and researchers with expertise in deep learning as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence more broadly. The program is intended to promote better engagement among researchers in the broader AI community.
The program is open to PhD students and Postdoctoral Fellows affiliated with a university/institution in Ontario. Applicants are evaluated by the Vector Postgraduate Affiliates Committee according to the strength of their research contributions, their potential for industry collaboration along with alignment of their interests with Vector’s vision and mission. Vector Postgraduate Affiliates are appointed for a two-year term and are expected to contribute towards Vector events and activities. They are also eligible to receive a number of benefits in recognition of their participation in the program.
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT APPLICATIONS
Monday, January 11, 2021
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT RECOMMENDATION LETTERS
Monday, January 18, 2021
More information, along with the application, is available on the Vector website: https://vectorinstitute.ai/news-posts/postgraduate-affiliate/
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Applications for all the awards listed below are available on the COU website: https://cou.ca/resources/awards/
Ontario Women’s Health Scholars Awards, 2021-22
Announcements, Renewal Guidelines and Application forms in both English and French.
We would like to remind you of the following: “All applicants must be prescreened as no more than two applications per award level (Master’s, Doctoral and Postdoctoral) are to be submitted by any one institution to a maximum of six applications per university”.
Also please note that the Selection Committee will now prioritize first-time awards over renewals, and only doctoral award holders will now be considered for renewal.
John Charles Polanyi Prizes, 2021-22
Announcements and Application forms in both English and French.
We would like to remind you of the following: All applicants must be prescreened as no more than three applications per prize area (Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Economic Science) are to be submitted by any one institution.
Autism Scholars Awards, 2021-22
Announcements and Application forms in both English and French.
We would like to remind you of the following: Any sponsoring university may submit no more than two applications per award level (master’s and doctoral), to a maximum of four applications in all. It is therefore expected that sponsoring universities will prescreen applicants.
