UBC departments may forward a maximum of one doctoral nominee and one postdoctoral nominee
Value: $50,000 over one to three years
Eligibility: Open to SHHRC doctoral and postdoctoral award holders
Deadline for departmental nominations to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies: 4:00pm Friday, 4 April, 2014
The Talent Award recognizes outstanding achievement by a current SSHRC doctoral or postdoctoral fellowship or scholarship award holder. The Talent Award is given to an individual 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.
The Talent Award may be taken up as a fellowship to fund the recipient’s doctoral or postdoctoral research over a one-to-two-year period, or may be used in the form of a grant over three years to support research, knowledge mobilization or other research-related activities. A minimum of 10 per cent of the award funds must be used to promote the recipient’s research achievements.
Please note: G+PS may forward a single nomination to the national competition, and only one award will be given across Canada. This is an extremely competitive award, and departments should consider nominating a doctoral student or postdoctoral fellow only if the nominee is expected to be competitive at that level.
For more information, please consult the SSHRC website: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/impact_awards-prix_impacts-eng.aspx#talent, and please consult the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (G+PS) website for nomination instructions: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/sshrc-talent-award
The contact for G+PS for this competition is Joanne Tsui: joanne.tsui@ubc.ca