Sponsor: The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Sponsor program link: Funding Opportunity Details
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.
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.
Application deadlines:
- February 16: Email your draft to Robert Olaj for internal review and feedback (optional).
- February 26 Noon: OGPR internal signature deadline. Applicants should email Robert Olaj a copy of their application with a completed, signed and scanned ORS Research Project Information Form.
- March 1 (Sunday): Electronic package to PWIAS.
- March 2: Paper copies to PWIAS.
Special notes: Applicants considering course release as part of their application must complete the Faculty’s Release Time for Research forms and submit them to the Associate Dean OGPR prior to submission of the application.
Nine UBC Scholars will be selected in 2015-2016, comprised of:
- Senior research scholars (full professors).
- Early to mid-career scholars (Assistant or Associate professors).
- Up to three awards will be given to current or former Wall Scholars to continue their interdisciplinary research for an additional year.