Sponsor: The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Sponsor program link: http://pwias.ubc.ca/programs-awardees/wall-scholars
Value: Wall Scholars are provided with shared office space and up to $20,000 that can be used for a wide range of research-related expenses (travel, books, research assistance, stipends, course release etc.). Residency is August 1 to July 31.
Up to twelve UBC Scholars will be selected in 2016-2017, comprised of:
• Senior research scholars (full professors)
• Early to mid-career scholars (Assistant or Associate professors)
Objectives: The new Wall Scholars Research Award combines and replaces the Early Career Scholars, Distinguished Scholars in Residence, and Research Mentorship Awards into one program. The objective of the Wall Scholar program is to create a significant critical mass of excellent UBC scholars in residence year-round at the Institute.
The program benefits the participants in various ways including:
• Enhancing opportunities for the best possible scholars to have regular and meaningful exchange of ideas, fostering new research directions, and serving as a catalyst for new research advances and research synergies.
• Creating a welcoming, supportive and stimulating environment for UBC scholars to meet, to share and support individual research, to encourage ongoing serendipitous interactions, to extend the frontiers of research, and to promote engagement in sustainable cutting-edge research across disciplines.
• Providing UBC Scholars with the sustained opportunity to exchange ideas with national and international scholars, to work together on innovative research, and engage in intellectual risk-taking.
• Supporting top flight UBC scholars at all stages of their career, and supporting the next generation of interdisciplinary thinkers by building research and leadership capacity.
• Increasing integration of multimodal and expressive arts as an important component of research across all disciplines.
• Supporting UBC scholars and their home faculties, departments and research centers to advance their research.
• Providing support in the mobilization and showcasing of knowledge being generated at UBC.
• Providing access to seed foundational support for innovative research projects that will eventually make a significant contribution to society.
Internal Review (IR) and Application deadlines:
- Monday February 1st: Contact OGPR if you wish to participate in IR.
- Tuesday February 16th: Email your draft application to OGPR for internal review and feedback.
- Monday February 29th, Noon: OGPR internal signature deadline. Applicants should email OGPR a copy of their application with a completed, signed, and scanned ORS Research Project Information Form. RPIFs will be returned to you if your application is in order and once the Associate Dean has signed off.
- Tuesday March 1st: Deadline to submit a signed original application and RPIF to PWIAS (see instructions for address) and an electronic version (PDF) to Emma MacEntee, Program Manager