Students must meet all the following criteria to be considered for this award:

1. Registered graduate student  
2. Full or Part-time status  
3. Minimum 80% cumulative average 
4. Only activities/involvement/efforts undertaken while enrolled at Brock shall be considered

A selection committee will review applications and make recommendations to the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies. The Committee will comprise of the Associate Dean, FGS (chair, non-voting unless a tie), two graduate student representatives from the Graduate Students’ Association, and two Associate Deans of graduate and research from the teaching faculties. 

Candidates must submit the following to be considered for the award: 

1. Self-submitted statement outlining why you should be considered for the award (maximum 1 page, single-spaced). 
2. Two letters of reference, with at least one from a community partner – internal or external to the university (maximum 1 page, single-spaced each).  

Once all package documents have been prepared, please submit one PDF document, including all materials, via email to:

graduatestudies@brocku.ca
Attn: FGS Awards 

Award nominees must be members of the core faculty. Previous award winners are not eligible for re-nomination for seven years following the year they received the award.

The Senate Graduate Studies Sub-Committee on Scholarships and Awards will adjudicate along with two graduate students drawn from different faculties, selected by the Graduate Students’ Association.

The nomination package is not to exceed 20 pages.

Any packages that exceed the page limit will have the additional pages removed before adjudication.

The document specifications for the package are as follows:

• Single-sided, on 8 ½” x 11” (21.5 cm x 28 cm);
• Single-spaced, with no more than six lines of type per inch;
• Body text in a minimum 11 pt Times New Roman font;
• All margins set at a minimum of ¾” (1.87 cm).

The following guidelines will assist in preparing and submitting your nomination.

1. Nomination Form – click here for the form
   Please print and complete the nomination form – it requires signatures from the nominee and nominator. Then scan the form and include it as page one of the nomination package.

2. Graduate Student Nominator’s Personal Letter of Support
   In this letter (maximum 700 words), the nominator highlights the nominee’s strengths as a graduate mentor with examples of the kind of personal support and encouragement they have received from the nominee.

3. Additional Testimonials from current or former Brock graduate students
   The nominator may collect as many as four additional support statements from current or former Brock graduate students to include in the package. The support statements should be no more than one page in length and should highlight how the graduate mentor has made a difference in the graduate student’s experience and/or in their professional/career pursuits. Please be sure that any writers of the testimonials include their contact information.

4. Graduate Mentorship profile
   The profile will provide an overview of the mentor’s career for the adjudication committee with key facts about all nominees. Nominators should be able to collect information for the profile from the supervisor’s CV.

To assist in organizing the profile section, the following information is recommended:

• Formal education
• Academic appointments
• List of graduate course(s) taught, including dates
• List of current Brock University Graduate Students, including dates
• List of former graduate students at Brock or other institutions, including dates
• Scholarly work co-authored with graduate students (refereed papers, refereed papers given at conferences, refereed papers presented at conferences, refereed abstracts, works in progress)
• Administrative and other contributions to graduate students and graduate studies

Once all package documents have been prepared, please submit one PDF document, including all materials, via email to:

graduatestudies@brocku.ca
Attn: FGS Awards

Any faculty, staff and graduate student (full-time or part-time) involved in any of Brock’s graduate student academic and non-academic programming may be nominated for this award.

The Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies will assemble a committee to review nominations and select the award recipient.

Be sure to include the following as part of the nomination package:

1. Nominee/Nominator Agreement Release – click here for the form
2. Nominator’s support letter (maximum 1,000 words)
3. Two additional letters of support (maximum 700 words each) from members of the Brock community (faculty, staff and students) who can speak to the nominee’s leadership and contribution to graduate education/culture.

Once all package documents have been prepared, please submit one PDF document including all materials, via email to:

graduatestudies@brocku.ca
Attn: FGS Awards

Any graduate student (full-time or part-time) involved in research from one of Brock’s teaching faculties (Applied Health Sciences, Business (excludes MAcc, MBA ISP, MBA, MBA ISP), Education (excludes course-based), Humanities, Mathematics and Science, and Social Sciences (excludes MADS).

Nominations from supervisors are due to the Faculty of Graduate Studies by 4 p.m. on January 31, 2023.

If you feel you are a strong candidate for this award, contact your supervisor to discuss the nomination process. No application is required by the student.