Spring Graduate Awards Competition

Deadline

Check with graduate program in 2017; Graduate program nomination deadline: Friday, 02 June 2017

Annual Value

$150 to $16,000

Citizenship

Canadian

Permanent Resident

International

Degree Level

Masters

Doctoral

A number of University awards for upcoming academic year are available to current and incoming graduate students.

Eligibility

Students must be registered, full-time graduate students during the period of the award. Additional eligibility criteria differ between awards. List of awards is available in the application form - part 2. A student might be eligible for multiple awards offered for 2017/18 academic year. Please read the description for each award carefully, and indicate in detail why you are eligible for each award for which you are applying.

In addition to eligibility requirements specified by each available award, the following criteria apply:

Master's students

Applicants must have completed, as of December 31, 2016 between zero and 12 months of full-time Master’s studies (or full-time equivalent). Successful applicants for Master's-level funding will not receive funding past the end of their 24th month in Master's program.

Applicants for the Rick Hansen "Man in Motion" Fellowship can be in any month of Master's study.

Doctoral students

Applicants must have completed, as of December 31, 2016:

between zero and 36 months of full-time doctoral studies (or full-time equivalent). 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. Successful applicants will not receive funding past the end of their 48th month in doctoral program.
between zero and 48 months of full-time studies (or full-time equivalent) in cases where students proceeded directly from a Bachelor’s or equivalent program to their doctoral program. Successful applicants will not receive funding past the end of their 60th month in doctoral program.
Applicants for the Rick Hansen "Man in Motion" Fellowship can be in any month of Doctoral study.

Please note that all previous studies at the graduate level, regardless of institution and discipline, will be included in determining eligibility.

Evaluation Criteria

Criteria	Weighting for applicants for Master’s funding	Weighting for applicants for doctoral funding
Academic excellence Academic record Scholarships and awards held Duration of previous studies	50%	30%
Research ability or potential Quality of contributions to research and development Relevance of work experience and academic training to field of proposed research Significance, feasibility, and merit of proposed research, and justification for location of tenure Ability to think critically Ability to apply skills and knowledge Judgment Originality Initiative and autonomy Enthusiasm for research Determination and ability to complete projects within an appropriate period of time	30%	50%
Communication, interpersonal and leadership abilities The ability or potential to communicate scientific concepts clearly and logically in written and oral formats. For example, this could include: quality of the application's presentation participation in preparing publications awards for oral presentations or papers Professional and relevant extracurricular interactions and collaborations. For example, this could include: mentoring teaching supervisory experience project management chairing committees organizing conferences and meetings elected positions held	20%	20%

Application Procedures

Applicants must check with their graduate program regarding their program’s internal application deadline. Internal application deadlines are normally several weeks before the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies deadline, as graduate programs must review students' applications well in advance of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies deadline of Friday, 02 June 2017.

Applicants must submit the following materials to their graduate program at UBC:

completed application form - PART 1
completed application form - PART 2
Canadian CCV – CGS-Master’s version
- applicants are required to complete the CCV from the Canadian Common CV Web site (https://ccv-cvc.ca/indexresearcher-eng.frm) as part of their application. Refer to the Canadian Common CV – How to Complete the Canada Graduate Scholarships-Master's Version (http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/CCV_CGSM-CVC_BESCM_eng.asp) for details.
- applicants should access the .pdf version of their CCV by clicking “History” in the top menu bar when logged into the CCV website and download the .pdf version of their CCV, rather than the .xml version.
academic records for all university-level studies (including studies undertaken but not completed) up to December 31, 2016. For institutions other than UBC, only official transcripts will be accepted. These may be original or certified true copies provided by the applicant's graduate program. For UBC, the applicant's "Academic History" printed from the SISC by the applicant's graduate program will be accepted. Please note that students must request certified true copies of transcripts from their graduate program, not from the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies.
one letter of recommendation. Only recommendation letters signed by the person providing the reference are acceptable; original, faxed, and scanned copies sent by e-mail directly to the applicant’s graduate program are acceptable. In some cases, a reference letter submitted for a previous scholarship competition may be used; see the application instructions for details.

Nomination Procedures

Graduate Programs should set internal deadlines well in advance of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies deadline.

Award descriptions are listed and linked in the nomination form. They are also part of the PART 2 of the application form.

To nominate students, Graduate Programs are to:

fill out the Excel nomination form:
- Maximum number of nominees for each award is specified in the nomination sheet under the award name
- For awards that specify "no maximum", programs can insert rows to add more nominees
- For the unspecified awards, programs can nominate one student per award
- For each nominee, copy the description of eligibility from PART 2 of the application into the nomination form
- [Note that ROWS in the nomination form can be resized; columns cannot be edited]
- save the nomination form as PROGRAM_SPRING_nomination_form.xlsx (e.g. MATH would save the form as MATH_SPRING_nomination_form.xlsx)
save each nominee file as PROGRAM_SPRING_LastName_FirstName.pdf (e.g. nomination file for student Jane Smith from MATH would be called MATH_SPRING_Smith_Jane.pdf).
A complete nominee file will consist of:
- application form - PART 1 (PART 2 should NOT be included; it should only be used to fill out the nomination form)
- CCV
- academic records of all university-level studies
- one letter of recommendation
upload the nomination form and all nominee files into program Workspace G+PS Awards folder

Adjudication Procedures

Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will convene an adjudication committee comprising faculty members representing various disciplines.

Profiles of Award Holders

Siba Ghrear

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD)

Social Perspective taking