Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

ABOUT THE AWARD

Named after Major-General Georges P. Vanier, the first francophone Governor General of Canada, the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS) program helps Canadian institutions attract highly qualified doctoral students.

• Considers three equally weighted selection criteria: Academic Excellence, Research Potential, and Leadership

PROCESS

• Before deadline date above:
  • Students apply through Vanier Website
  • Students submit transcript through Brock Internal Link 
• After deadline date, Brock’s Internal adjudication committee reviews, and selects applicants to move forward by the date on the Vanier website.

ELIGIBILITY

Please refer to Vanier website for:

• Eligibility
• Application Instructions

• Considers three equally weighted selection criteria: Academic Excellence, Research Potential, and Leadership

You may submit only one application per year to one Tri-Agency (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)

You may submit an application to NSERC Doctoral and to the VANIER CGS competition in the same year.

TRANSCRIPTS

Transcripts: Students must have their up-to-date and official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate studies submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies by the application deadline. This year, please upload them to the Brock Internal Link before deadline.

This is a national scholarship provided by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS – DOCTORAL (CGSD)

AND

NSERC POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS – DOCTORAL (PGSD)

THIS IS A NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDED BY THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

JOSEPH-ARMAND BOMBARDIER CANADA GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIPS-DOCTORAL (CGSD)

AND

SSHRC DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

About the Award:
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (CGS D) and SSHRC Doctoral Fellowships provide financial support to high calibre scholars who are engaged in a doctoral program in the social sciences or humanities.  The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) offers two types of awards through one application.  The CGS D will be offered to the top-ranked applicants and the next tier of meritorious applicants will be offered a Fellowship.

PROCESS

Student submits application on SSHRC website through the Online Application
Brock Internal selection committees review applications
Institution forwards selected applications electronically to SSHRC.
You will be notified if your application was moved forward.
If moved forward, SSHRC verify eligibility
Members review and score applications
Final ranked list is produced
Results announced in April.

ELIGIBILITY

You may submit only one application per year to one Tri-Agency (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)

You may submit an application to SSHRC Doctoral and to the VANIER CGS competition in the same year.

Please refer to SSHRC website for:

• Eligibility
• Application Instructions

TRANSCRIPTS

Your application must include a copy of all up-to-date official transcripts including a current transcript (even if you don’t have grades from this semester). Each transcript should include one copy of the legend.

For Brock students, you can order them through MyCreds.
Send them to yourself
Open the file and download (or print) to remove password protection
Upload to CGS-D.
You can watch a video on how to do it here.

Every possible effort should be made to get your original transcripts. If you are having challenges getting previous transcripts, please contact us, and we can use ones submitted during your application.

THIS IS A NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDED BY THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL 

SSHRC Impact Awards recognize researchers and graduate students to celebrate funding achievement, either entirely or partially, by SSHRC. Brock University will hold an internal competition for Impact nominations. 

SSHRC Impact Webinars: January 25, 2024. More information can be found here: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/impact_awards-prix_impacts-eng.aspx  

The Talent Award: The Talent Award recognizes outstanding achievement by an individual who, on April 1, 2024, holds a SSHRC doctoral scholarship or fellowship or postdoctoral fellowship and who maintains academic excellence, has a talent for research and knowledge mobilization, and has demonstrated clear potential to be a future leader within and/or outside the academic sector.   

Talent Award Value: $50,000
Internal Deadline: February 1, 2024 at 4 p.m.
Applicants submit applications to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs at graduatestudies@brocku.ca  

Talent Award application process: 

The following nomination materials should be emailed to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, graduatestudies@brocku.ca, as one document file by the internal deadline date of February 1, 2024: 

• information supporting the nomination (if relevant, up to 2 pages); 
• the nominee’s current CV; 
• a list of the names and contact information of those who can provide letters of support (3 potential referees) 

Selection of Brock Candidates: February 14, 2024 

FGSPA works with candidates over the remaining period. During this period, FGSPA will support candidates in completing and/or compiling the additional documents required for the nomination package due to SSHRC on April 1, 2024. 

External Letters of Reference: March 22, 2024 

ORS Signature Sheet: March 22, 2024 

 More information on the Talent Award, including instructions to apply, can be found here: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/instructions/impact/applicant-candidat-eng.aspx  

More information on SSHRC Impact awards can be found here: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/impact_awards-prix_impacts-eng.aspx 

Talent Award- Selection criteria

1. Challenge—ambition and importance (25%): 

• originality and significance of the body of work within the nominee’s fields of research.
  
  2. Achievements—impact and outcomes (75%): 

• originality and significance of the nominee’s body of academic achievement and research, including quality of publications relative to stage of career; 
• evidence of impact of the nominee’s work within their fields of research and/or beyond the social sciences and humanities research community; 
• the nominee’s ability and commitment to communicate research results within and/or beyond the academic community; 
• level of the nominee’s engagement with, and the quality of training and mentoring provided to, students, emerging scholars and participants relative to the nominee’s career level; and 
• the nominee’s demonstrated potential for leadership and societal contributions within and/or beyond the academic community. 

THIS IS A NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDED BY THE CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH

CIHR Canadian Institutes of Health Research

About the Award:

PROCESS

Student submits application on CIHR website through the Online Application
Brock Internal selection committees review applications
Institution forwards selected applications electronically to agency.
You will be notified if your application was moved forward.
If moved forward, agency will verify eligibility
Members review and score applications
Final ranked list is produced
Results announced in April.

ELIGIBILITY

You may submit only one application per year to one Tri-Agency (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)

Please refer to CIHR website for:

• Eligibility
• Application Instructions

TRANSCRIPTS

Your application must include a copy of all up-to-date official transcripts including a current transcript (even if you don’t have grades from this semester). Each transcript should include one copy of the legend.

For Brock students, you can order them through MyCreds.
Send them to yourself
Open the file and download (or print) to remove password protection
Upload to CGS-D.
You can watch a video on how to do it here.

This is a National Scholarship for students accepted into a one, two, or three year doctoral program

Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship

ELIGIBILITY

More information can be found at their website

TRANSCRIPTS

Submitted to their portal.

Application Deadline: February 22, 2024

Award Value: Doctoral (Stream A): maximum of $50,000 per year up to 1 year, Post-doctoral (Stream B): maximum of $155,000 total for 2 years.

The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship provides an embedded research opportunity for highly-qualified PhD trainees and post-doctoral researchers studying health services and policy research (HSPR), or related fields. This is a unique opportunity for awardees to:

• apply their research and analytic talents to critical health system challenges that are being addressed by health system organizations (e.g., public, private for-profit, not-for-profit, and Indigenous health organizations) outside of the traditional university setting, and
• develop and expand professional experience, new skills, and networks.

Apply through ResearchNet

Indigenous Scholars Awards and Supplements Pilot Initiative: December 1, 2024. More information here.

The Tri-Agencies (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR) established a “Harmonization Committee” to redesign the CGS Master’s programs. The aim was to create a harmonized, more flexible and effective system of application to fund students who demonstrate a high level of achievement in graduate studies.
Successful award recipients will receive one of the following awards depending on their area of research:

• NSERC – Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
• SSHRC – Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship
• CIHR – Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada Graduate Scholarship

Application Form: Research Portal on-line application. If you have selected Brock University as one of the five institutions where you are planning on holding your award, the university will be able to access your online application.

Please refer to the Tri-Agency website for:

• Eligibility
• Application Instructions
• Canadian Common CV (CCV) Instructions

Resources, information and updates to assist with your application.

Transcripts:

Your application must include a copy of all up-to-date official transcripts including a current transcript (even if you don’t have grades from this semester). Each transcript should include one copy of the legend.

For Brock students, you can order them through MyCreds.
Send them to yourself
Open the file and download (or print) to remove password protection
You can watch a video on how to do it here.

Note: If you have applied for an OGS award, you may include your official transcript(s) with your OGS application package.

Minimum Academic Requirements:
The applicant must, at minimum, meet the following eligibly requirements:

• Students must have achieved a first-class average: an overall average of at least A- (80%) in each of the last two completed years of study (full-time equivalent).

See the full list of Tri-agency eligibility requirements for the Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s program here.

Announcement of Results: Universities will post their competition results on the Research Portal no earlier than April 1, 2024.
Acceptance and Declines of Offers: Applicants will have three weeks to respond to offers of awards. Offers not accepted will be deemed to have been declined.

Brock Information Session

Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarship Masters (CGS-M)

Award value: $27,000 for one year

Brock Information Presentations 2021

Tri-Agency CGS-Masters

Please note, this information will pertain to the Brock University’s OGS application process. Each university will have its own application and deadline date.

The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program encourages excellence in graduate studies at the master’s and doctoral levels. The value of an OGS award for one year is $15,000, $5,000 per term. Students may receive the award for two terms ($10,000) or three terms ($15,000), the majority of the scholarships will be awarded for three terms. One-term awards are not granted.
Students must apply for the award at the university where they plan to attend graduate studies. The award is not transferable from University to University. This means that all undergraduate and graduate students wishing to apply for OGS, who plan to study at the graduate level at Brock, must apply and submit their OGS application to Brock.

Eligibility criteria:
In order to be considered for an OGS, students must be:

• A Canadian citizen, Permanent Resident, or Protected Person [under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protections Act (Canada)] at the time of the OGS application deadline date.
• Enrolled in or applying for admission to a graduate program on a full-time basis at Brock at the time of holding the award.
• Taking an eligible research-based program on a full time basis.
• Students cannot hold the award beyond their program funding window. Master’s and PhD applicants must have a minimum of two (2) terms remaining within their defined length of their graduate program at the time the award is disbursed.

An eligible program is defined as a full-time program of study of two or three terms at an eligible institution leading to a graduate degree. Find official Provincial guidelines here.

Your application must include a copy of all up-to-date official transcripts including a current transcript (even if you don’t have grades from this semester). Each transcript should include one copy of the legend.

For Brock students, you can order them through MyCreds.
Send them to yourself; Open the file and download (or print) to remove password protection.

Visa Students:
International students who are studying in Ontario under a temporary resident visa – student study permit, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) are eligible for the allotted visa student awards (Brock’s allocation is 2).

Minimum Academic Requirements:
The applicant must, at minimum, meet the following OGS academic requirements:

• students must have an overall average of at least A- (80%) in each of the last two completed years of study (full-time equivalent).

Eligibility Conditions:
Master’s students can receive the scholarship for a maximum of two years and doctoral students for a maximum of four years, subject to a lifetime maximum of six years per student.

In addition, a lifetime maximum of six (6) years of government-funded student awards must have not have been exceeded by the applicant. Awards under the following programs will be counted toward this lifetime maximum:

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program (OGS)
• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEIIGSST)
• Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Applicants cannot hold an OGS scholarship and an award from any of the following programs, concurrently:

• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEIIGSST)
• Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Recipients must remain enrolled as a full-time student in an eligible program. Recipients who withdraw, transfer to part-time status, or fail to complete the term, will be required to repay the award.

OSAP Restrictions

Students who have an OSAP restriction on their file are ineligible from receiving their scholarship until the restriction has been cleared. At the time of disbursement, if the Faculty of Graduate Studies finds a restriction on the student’s file, the student will be contacted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and advised of a deadline by which they must clear the restriction or forfeit their award.

Evaluation Criteria:
Academic Excellence 50%
Research Potential 30%
Communications, Interpersonal and Leadership Abilities 20%

You can read more about the evaluation criteria weighting here 

Deadline Date:  Monday, January 20, 2025 by 4:00 pm.

Academic Assessments & Letter of Support:   

• Academic Assessment Report – 2 required (to be submitted by referee)
• Submission of the academic report and letter of support, must be submitted by the deadline date set above.

Announcement of results: April 2025 – Only successful applicants will be notified.

The QEII-GSST scholarships must be awarded to Canadian citizens or permanent residents enrolled full-time in approved research masters and/or doctoral programs in science and technology at an Ontario university.

To be considered for QEII-GSST award, a student must be:

• A Canadian citizen, Permanent Resident, or Protected Person under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) at the time of the application deadline [Exception: see note on international students below];
• Enrolled at a publicly-assisted university in Ontario in a full-time research-based program of study that leads to a graduate degree and is approved for operating grant purposes by the ministry; and
• Enrolled in 60% or more of a full course load as defined by the university, or 40% or more for students with permanent disabilities.
• Enrolled in a research master’s or doctoral program in a science and technology discipline (See Appendix One for a list of eligible science and technology disciplines).
• International students are ineligible for QEII-GSST awards

Eligible Disciplines For QEII-GSST Purposes

The QEII-GSST program supports graduate students enrolled in research master’s and doctoral programs in science and technology disciplines. Collaboration, inter-disciplinary study, and innovation are encouraged. The following are the eligible disciplines:

• Applied Sciences:
• Aerospace (may include Aeronautical Engineering)
• Biomedical Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering and Architecture (may include Landscape Architecture)
• Computer Engineering
• Electrical Engineering
• Engineering Science (may include Engineering, Engineering Physics, and
• Nuclear Engineering)
• Mechanical Engineering
• Mining, Metallurgy, and Materials Science (may include Metallurgical Engineering)
• Systems and Industrial Engineering (may include Systems/Design Engineering and Operational Research)
• Biological and Life Sciences:
• Biochemistry and Biophysics (may include Medical Biophysics)
• Environmental Sciences (may include Agriculture, Ecology, Forestry, and Toxicology)
• General Biological Sciences (may include Biology, Botany, Entomology, Microbiology, Mycology, Plant and Animal Biology, and Zoology)
• Genetics, Cell, and Molecular Biology
• General Health Science (may include research-oriented programs in Epidemiology, Human Kinetics, Hygiene, Nutrition, and Rehabilitation disciplines such as Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Audiology, and Speech Pathology)
• Human Biology (may include Anatomy, Biomedical Sciences, Food Science, Immunology, Neuroscience, Pathology, Pharmacology, and Physiology)
• Medical and Veterinary Sciences (may include research-oriented programs in Dentistry, Medical Sciences, Nursing, Optometry, and Pharmacy)
• Physical Sciences:
• Chemistry
• Computer Science (may include Information/Systems Science)
• Earth Sciences (may include Geology and Geophysics)
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Physics (may include Astronomy, Meteorology, and Space Science)

QEII-GSST Application

Application Deadline Date:  On or before Monday, January 20, 2025 by 4:00 p.m.

Eligibility Criteria:

In order to be considered for a QEII-GSST award, students must be:

• a Canadian citizen, Permanent Resident, or Protect Person [under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protections Act (Canada)] at the time of the QEII-GSST application deadline date
• enrolled in or applying for admission to a graduate program on a full-time basis at Brock University at the time of holding the award
• taking an eligible program on a full-time basis
• students cannot hold the award beyond their program funding window. Master’s and PhD applicants must have a minimum of two (2) terms remaining within their defined length of their graduate program at the time the award is disbursed.

Find official Provincial guidelines here.

Your application must include a copy of all up-to-date official transcripts including a current transcript (even if you don’t have grades from this semester). Each transcript should include one copy of the legend.

For Brock students, you can order them through MyCreds.
Send them to yourself; Open the file and download (or print) to remove password protection.

Minimum Academic Requirements:

The applicant must, at minimum, meet the following QEII-GSST academic requirements:

• students must have an overall average of at least A- (80%) in each of the last two (2) completed years of study (full-time equivalent).

Eligibility Conditions:

Master’s students can receive the scholarship for a maximum of two (2) years and doctoral students for a maximum of four (4) years, subject to a lifetime maximum of six (6) years per student.

In addition, a lifetime maximum of six (6) years of government-funded student awards must not have been exceeded by the applicant.  Awards under the following programs will be counted toward this lifetime maximum:

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEII-GSST)
• Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Applicants cannot hold a QEII-GSST scholarship and an award from any of the following program, concurrently:

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS)
• Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Recipients must remain enrolled as a full-time student in an eligible program.  Recipients who withdraw, transfer to part-time status or fail to complete the term, will be required to repay the award.

OSAP Restrictions

Students who have an OSAP restriction on their file are ineligible from receiving their scholarship until the restriction has been cleared.  At the time of disbursements, if the Faculty of Graduate Studies finds a restriction on the student’s file, the student will be contacted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and advised of a deadline by which they must clear the restriction or forfeit their award.

Evaluation Criteria:
Academic Excellence 50%
Research Potential 30%
Communications, Interpersonal and Leadership Abilities 20%

You can read more about the weighting here 

Academic Assessments:

• Academic Assessment Report – Two required (to be submitted by referees)
• Submission of the academic report and letters of support must be submitted by the deadline date as set above.

Announcement of Results: April 2025 – Only successful applicants will be notified.

The Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS) are available to Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada or Protected Persons under subsection 95(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) who hold a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) at the master’s or doctoral level, or a Vanier CGS at the doctoral level.

The program description, application form and instructions for each agency (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC) are available on the Canada Graduate Scholarships – Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements Program website, here.

Referee reports are due the same date and time as your scholarship application. Referees submit their report through https://brocku.ca/graduate-studies/award-reference-report/

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Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships

ABOUT THE AWARD

Named after Major-General Georges P. Vanier, the first francophone Governor General of Canada, the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (Vanier CGS) program helps Canadian institutions attract highly qualified doctoral students.

• Considers three equally weighted selection criteria: Academic Excellence, Research Potential, and Leadership

PROCESS

• Students apply through Vanier Website
• Students submit transcript through Brock Internal Link
• Internal adjudication committee reviews, and selects applicants to move forward.

ELIGIBILITY

You may submit only one application per year to one Tri-Agency (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR)

You may submit an application to NSERC Doctoral and to the VANIER CGS competition in the same year.

Please refer to Vanier website for:

• Eligibility
• Application Instructions

• Considers three equally weighted selection criteria: Academic Excellence, Research Potential, and Leadership

TRANSCRIPTS

Transcripts: Students must have their up-to-date and official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate studies submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies by the application deadline. This year, please upload them to the Brock Internal Link before deadline.

Please note, this information will pertain to the Brock University’s OGS application process. Each university will have its own application and deadline date.

The Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program encourages excellence in graduate studies at the master’s and doctoral levels. The value of an OGS award for one year is $15,000, $5,000 per term. Students may receive the award for two terms ($10,000) or three terms ($15,000), the majority of the scholarships will be awarded for three terms. One-term awards are not granted.
Students must apply for the award at the university where they plan to attend graduate studies. The award is not transferable from University to University. This means that all undergraduate and graduate students wishing to apply for OGS, who plan to study at the graduate level at Brock, must apply and submit their OGS application to Brock.

Allocation for International Students: TBD

Eligibility criteria:
In order to be considered for an OGS, students must be:

• Students studying in Ontario under a study permit or visa.
• Enrolled in or applying for admission to a research-based graduate program on a full-time basis at Brock at the time of holding the award.
• Taking an eligible program on a full time basis.
• Students cannot hold the award beyond their program funding window. Master’s and PhD applicants must have a minimum of two (2) terms remaining within their defined length of their graduate program at the time the award is disbursed.

An eligible program is defined as a full-time program of study of two or three terms at an eligible institution leading to a graduate degree.

Find official Provincial guidelines here.

Your application must include a copy of all up-to-date official transcripts including a current transcript (even if you don’t have grades from this semester). Each transcript should include one copy of the legend.

For Brock students, you can order them through MyCreds.
Send them to yourself; Open the file and download (or print) to remove password protection.

Visa Students:
International students who are studying in Ontario under a temporary resident visa – student study permit, under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada) are eligible for the allotted visa student awards (Brock’s allocation is 2).

Minimum Academic Requirements:
The applicant must, at minimum, meet the following OGS academic requirements:

• students must have an overall average of at least A- (80%) in each of the last two completed years of study (full-time equivalent).

Eligibility Conditions:
Master’s students can receive the scholarship for a maximum of two years and doctoral students for a maximum of four years, subject to a lifetime maximum of six years per student.

In addition, a lifetime maximum of six (6) years of government-funded student awards must have not have been exceeded by the applicant. Awards under the following programs will be counted toward this lifetime maximum:

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program (OGS)
• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEIIGSST)
• Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Applicants cannot hold an OGS scholarship and an award from any of the following programs, concurrently:

• Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (QEIIGSST)
• Ontario Trillium Scholarships (OTS)
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)

Recipients must remain enrolled as a full-time student in an eligible program. Recipients who withdraw, transfer to part-time status, or fail to complete the term, will be required to repay the award.

OSAP Restrictions

Students who have an OSAP restriction on their file are ineligible from receiving their scholarship until the restriction has been cleared. At the time of disbursement, if the Faculty of Graduate Studies finds a restriction on the student’s file, the student will be contacted by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and advised of a deadline by which they must clear the restriction or forfeit their award.

Evaluation Criteria:
Academic Excellence 50%
Research Potential 30%
Communications, Interpersonal and Leadership Abilities 20%

You can read more about the weighting here 

Deadline Date:  On or before Monday, January 20, 2025 by 4:00 pm.  

Academic Assessments & Letter of Support:   

• Academic Assessment Report – 2 required (to be submitted by referee – see below)
• Submission of the academic report and letter of support, must be submitted by the deadline date set above.

Announcement of results: April 2024 – Only successful applicants will be notified.

International Students have the option to apply for funding opportunities through Brock International.

You can see them here at their website. 

Questions and Answer Sessions

Value: $70,000, 2 years (non-renewable)

The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country’s economic, social, and research-based growth. The objective of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is to:

• Attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally
• Develop their leadership potential
• Position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow

Applicants to the 2024-25 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program must fulfill or have fulfilled all degree requirements for a PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree:

• between September 15, 2021 and September 30, 2025 (inclusively), and
• before the start date of their award.

Applicants who have not fulfilled all requirements for their degree at the time of application must submit proof no later than October 15, 2025. For applicants who have completed more than one PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree, the eligibility window applies to the most recent of these degrees.

Please note: Only in rare circumstances will a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship be awarded to an applicant who is staying at the same institution or within the same research environment where they completed their PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree. If an applicant chooses to apply in collaboration with the same institution (or its affiliated hospitals, research centres and other laboratories) or within the same research environment from which they obtained their PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree, a solid justification must be provided in the Special circumstances attachment. For additional eligibility information including allowable extensions to eligibility window (e.g., parental leave), please consult the Banting website.

Brock University will hold an internal review to determine and select the application(s) that will proceed to the external competition.

Internal Review Packages should be submitted as one PDF file and consist of the following six items (plus one optional item):

1. Canadian Common CV (CCV) – Task 4 on the Banting website (using the Vanier-Banting academic template)
2. Significance of Research Contributions – Task 7 on the Banting Website
3. Significance of Leadership Contributions – Task 7 on the Banting Website
4. Fulfillment of Degree Requirements Form – Task 7 on the Banting Website. Please note that institutional signatures for this form are not required at the internal review stage
5. (Optional) Special Circumstances (career/research delays, maximum of one page) – Task 7 on the Banting website
6. Research proposal (maximum four pages) – Task 10 under ‘Attachments’ on the Banting website
7. Supervisor’s Statement (to be written by proposed Advisor/Supervisor) – Task 10 under ‘Attachments’ on the Banting website
   • Supervisor’s biography
   • Appropriateness of the supervisor(s)
   • Research environment
   • Professional development
   • Institutional synergy

Please visit the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Guide for more information on each item.

**See Task 13 in the Application Guidelines for specific formatting requirements**

Internal Review Package Deadline: Friday, July 12 by 4pm ET

• Applicants must submit, by email, a review package to Cullum Brownbridge, Research Awards and Scholarships Specialist (cbrownbridge@brocku.ca). The components of the review package are listed above.

Application Deadline: September 17, 2024 by 8pm ET

Application & Eligibility: Link to agency information page

CMHC-NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and NSERC partnered in 2018 to jointly fund the CMHC-NSERC PDF awards valued at $45,000 per year for two years.

Questions and Answer Sessions

Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research are competitive research funds that are intended to significantly develop all scientific research (research based on the free ideas of the researcher), from basic to applied research in all fields, ranging from the humanities and the social sciences to the natural sciences.

Questions and Answer Sessions

Application Deadline: January 12, 2024

The objective of this Canadian Space Agency Supplements to the NSERC PDF Program AO is to award a grant supplement to postdoctoral researchers who will have been awarded an NSERC postdoctoral fellowship under NSERC‘s PDF program.

Application Instructions can be found here.

Questions and Answer Sessions

HFSP Research Grants support innovative basic research into fundamental biological problems with emphasis placed on novel and interdisciplinary approaches that involve scientific exchanges across national and disciplinary boundaries for early researchers.

Questions and Answer Sessions

In honour of the achievement of John Charles Polanyi, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Government of the Province of Ontario has established a fund to provide annually up to five prizes to outstanding researchers in the early stages of their career who are continuing to post-doctoral studies or have recently started a faculty appointment at an Ontario university. In 2022, the prizes have a value of $20,000 each and are available in the areas broadly defined as Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Economic Science.

To learn more, visit their website 

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THIS IS A NATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDED BY THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL

SSHRC Impact Awards recognize researchers and graduate students to celebrate funding achievement, either entirely or partially, by SSHRC. Brock University will hold an internal competition for Impact nominations.

SSHRC Impact Webinars: January 25, 2024. More information can be found here: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/impact_awards-prix_impacts-eng.aspx  

The Talent Award: The Talent Award recognizes outstanding achievement by an individual who, on April 1, 2024, holds a SSHRC doctoral scholarship or fellowship or postdoctoral fellowship and who maintains academic excellence, has a talent for research and knowledge mobilization, and has demonstrated clear potential to be a future leader within and/or outside the academic sector.

Talent Award Value: $50,000
Internal Deadline: February 1, 2024 at 4 p.m.
Applicants submit applications to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs at graduatestudies@brocku.ca

Talent Award application process:

The following nomination materials should be emailed to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, graduatestudies@brocku.ca, as one document file by the internal deadline date of February 1, 2024:

• information supporting the nomination (if relevant, up to 2 pages);
• the nominee’s current CV;
• a list of the names and contact information of those who can provide letters of support (3 potential referees)

Selection of Brock Candidates: February 14, 2024

FGSPA works with candidates over the remaining period. During this period, FGSPA will support candidates in completing and/or compiling the additional documents required for the nomination package due to SSHRC on April 1, 2024.

External Letters of Reference: March 22, 2024

ORS Signature Sheet: March 22, 2024

 More information on the Talent Award, including instructions to apply, can be found here: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/instructions/impact/applicant-candidat-eng.aspx  

More information on SSHRC Impact awards can be found here: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/impact_awards-prix_impacts-eng.aspx 

Talent Award- Selection criteria

1. Challenge—ambition and importance (25%):

• originality and significance of the body of work within the nominee’s fields of research.
  
  2. Achievements—impact and outcomes (75%):
• originality and significance of the nominee’s body of academic achievement and research, including quality of publications relative to stage of career;
• evidence of impact of the nominee’s work within their fields of research and/or beyond the social sciences and humanities research community;
• the nominee’s ability and commitment to communicate research results within and/or beyond the academic community;
• level of the nominee’s engagement with, and the quality of training and mentoring provided to, students, emerging scholars and participants relative to the nominee’s career level; and
• the nominee’s demonstrated potential for leadership and societal contributions within and/or beyond the academic community.

Application Deadline: February 22, 2024

Award Value: Doctoral (Stream A): maximum of $50,000 per year up to 1 year, Post-doctoral (Stream B): maximum of $155,000 total for 2 years.

The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship provides an embedded research opportunity for highly-qualified PhD trainees and post-doctoral researchers studying health services and policy research (HSPR), or related fields. This is a unique opportunity for awardees to:

• apply their research and analytic talents to critical health system challenges that are being addressed by health system organizations (e.g., public, private for-profit, not-for-profit, and Indigenous health organizations) outside of the traditional university setting, and
• develop and expand professional experience, new skills, and networks.

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