Opportunity: Affiliated Fellowships Doctoral Program
Type: PhD
Value: $175 to $30,000
Location: Canada
Who Can Apply: Domestic and International students
About The Scholarship
The Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies offers approximately 50 Affiliated Fellowships each year to meritorious students for full-time study and/or research leading to a graduate degree. Awards are made on the basis of academic excellence, with applications open to current and prospective full-time UBC graduate students regardless of citizenship or visa status. Fellowship values range from $175 to $30,000, but most are in the range of $16,000.
Requirements
- All students regardless of citizenship are eligible to apply.
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- between zero and 36 months of full-time (or full-time equivalent) doctoral studies, if they have undertaken Masters-level studies (whether completed or not). In cases where a student has transferred directly from a Master’s program into a doctoral program without receiving a Master’s degree, eligibility for doctoral funding will be counted from the effective date of transfer to the doctoral program.
- between zero and 48 months of full-time (or full-time equivalent) doctoral studies, if they have proceeded directly from a Bachelor’s or equivalent program to their doctoral program and have not held four years of combined doctoral funding from Tri-Agency scholarships, Affiliated Fellowships, Four Year Fellowship, and other multi-year UBC fellowships (e.g., Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship, International Doctoral Fellowship, and Graduate Global Leadership Fellowship).
Please note that:
- All previous studies at the graduate level, regardless of institution and discipline, will be included in determining months of study eligibility. For example, a prior PhD’s months of study would count towards the applicant’s total doctoral months of study.
- Successful applicants for doctoral-level funding who have undertaken Masters-level studies (first point immediately above) will not receive funding past the end of their 48th month of doctoral-level study
- Successful applicants for doctoral-level funding who have proceeded directly from a Bachelor’s or equivalent program (second point immediately above) will not receive funding past the end of their 60th month of doctoral-level study
- Students registered in a fast-track program (accelerated from a Master’s program into a doctoral program without obtaining the Master’s degree) or a direct-entry doctoral program (no Masters-level studies) who have completed between zero and 12 months of graduate-level studies by December 31, 2020 may choose to submit their application to the Masters-level funding competition. This will result in their application being ranked against applications from other students at a similar point in their graduate career. Should they submit their application to the Masters-level funding competition, any funding offer will be restricted to a maximum of 12 months and they will not be considered for doctoral-level funding such as a Killam Doctoral Scholarship. They can subsequently apply to future doctoral-level competitions for further funding.
- While award recipients will be selected based on the evaluation criteria, priority will be given to eligible candidates who do not hold significant scholarship funding (i.e., $16,000 or higher) for the 2021/22 academic year (September 2021 to August 2022). If a student is offered Affiliated funding, and later receives other scholarship funding of $16,000 or higher for the same period, the Affiliated funding offer would normally be rescinded.
How To Apply
Note: Students who are eligible for the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Doctoral (CGS D) (such as Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada) are required to apply for CGS D in order to be considered for Affiliated funding. Students who submit an NSERC, SSHRC or CIHR doctoral award application to their graduate program are also eligible for “unresticted” Affiliated Fellowship funding, and do not need to submit a separate Affiliated Fellowship application. However, to be considered for “criteria-based” Affiliated funding, NSERC, SSHRC or CIHR doctoral applicants must submit the list of criteria-based affiliated fellowships. Additionally, Vanier applicants must submit a full Affiliated Fellowship application to be considered for Affiliated Fellowship awards.
Affiliated Fellowship applicants (such as international students) must submit their application materials to their graduate program. The deadline by which applications for doctoral-level funding must be submitted to the applicant’s UBC graduate program is Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 12:00 pm PDT.
Many of the Affiliated Fellowships have no specific criteria (open/unrestricted), while many others have some affiliation or special research focus as part of their criteria (criteria-based). All graduate students in the Affiliated Fellowships competition are eligible for unrestricted awards. In order to be considered for any criteria-based awards, students are asked to:
- review the list of criteria-based affiliated awards at the end of the application to determine if they meet any of these awards’ criteria
- check in their Affiliated Fellowship application the award numbers of any and all criteria-based affiliated awards for which they are eligible
Deadline
15 September 2021