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The Faculty of Arts offers limited funding for various faculty-sponsored initiatives. These include:
Arts Inspire Grants are designed to support research and research creation activities across all units in the Faculty of Arts. We invite applications for projects that intend to complete a major output, such as a book, film, exhibition, performance, recording. Budget requests can include subventions, open access fees, research assistantship expenses, among others. Awards are up to $15,000.
The Faculty of Arts encourages applications that reflect the diversity of its research, scholarship, and creative enterprise, and it encourages applicants from equity-deserving groups, including women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ2S+ communities.
Application deadline: September 16, 2024.
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The objective of this fellowship is to further the Faculty of Arts’ strategic priority of advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion on campus and in wider communities. The fellowship recognizes a leader in research, creation, and/or teaching who aims in their work to create significant and sustainable change for equity-deserving groups, including women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ2S+ communities. During the year of the award, the scholar will undertake impactful scholarly, creative, teaching, and/or community-engagement activities with clear outcomes toward these aims. The successful recipient will present their work and its impact at a public lecture, performance, or exhibition organized by the Faculty of Arts at the end of the fellowship’s term.
The fellowship is awarded on an annual basis. It is valued at $15,000. The award’s tenure is 12 months.
If a portion of the award is intended to be used to obtain release from teaching, the application must include a letter of support from the applicant’s Department Head or School Director.
Deadline: September 16, 2024
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This fellowship is established in memory of Thelma Margaret Horte. Ms. Horte was committed to advancing the cause of women in society and equality in the workplace, and interested in areas such as women’s human and civil rights as well as women’s active participation in society. To capture Thelma Margaret Horte’s commitment to women’s causes, this fellowship will be awarded to a faculty member in the Faculty of Arts pursuing research within this field.
The fellowship is awarded on an annual basis. It is valued at $10,000.
The award’s tenure is six months, to be taken up between 1 July – 31 December or 1 January – 30 June in the academic year of the award’s receipt. An award being used to obtain release from teaching must be supported by a department head’s or school director’s letter of approval.
Application deadline: September 16, 2024.
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Intended to provide funding to graduate or undergraduate student associations in support of locally hosted workshops, conferences, symposia, etc. All applications must have a faculty sponsor for the event to be considered. Grants will be in the range of $500 - $2,000.
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This funding program is now closed.
Support the inclusion of indigenous content in a broad range of activities including teaching, presentations, on campus events, elder participation in events, blessings, etc. Applications will be reviewed by a member of Michael Hart's office prior to submission. Grants will usually be in the range of $250-$1,000 (in certain circumstances, higher amounts will be considered).
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Support activities advancing scholarship. Appropriate activities might include, but are not limited to, convening scholars from different disciplines and/or departments to share research methods or results; organizing and hosting conferences and/or visiting speakers; and advertising or publicizing research activities. Scholarly Activity Grants will be in the range of $500 - $1,000.
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This funding program is now closed.
Support course- and curriculum- related activities in undergraduate and graduate teaching, normally for a significant number of students (typically 10 or more). Appropriate activities might include, but are not limited to events (open to more than one discipline or department); visiting speakers; course based symposia; or materials and supplies (e.g. software license fees, memberships). Teaching Activity Grants will not exceed $750.
Questions? Contact Dawn Johnston
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