Sponsor: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Sponsor program link: http://pwias.ubc.ca/programs-awardees/national-programs/early-career-scholars/
Value: $10,000 for research expenses or salary stipend.
Objectives: To bring outstanding UBC early-career researchers together to share ideas and research approaches, with the goal of broaden the research perspective of participants and enhancing their future research contributions.
The program benefits the participants in various ways including:
- exposing scholars to research from across the entire University,
- allowing scholars to interact with excellent peers across a wide variety of disciplines,
- providing opportunities to scholars to get a sense of the important work of top researchers throughout the University (e.g., the Institute Faculty Associates),
- exploring the connections of one’s own research with research that one would not ordinarily encounter,
- learning about the research infrastructure at UBC, and
- providing special recognition and a modest stipend to support research.
Application deadline(s): TBA (last year February 1)
Special notes: Applicants wishing to use the funds for course buy-out must complete the Faculty’s Release Time for Research application process prior to applying to the ECS program.
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