Graduate Travel, Research, and Creation Fund

This fund is designed to help CoA graduate students conduct travel, research, or creative activities directly related to the completion of their degrees. Graduate students registered in programs in other colleges are not eligible for these funds.

Principles

The grants will be made by application. Grants will be awarded primarily on the basis of the application’s quality and its relevance to the students program of study. There are no fixed quotas of grants per department, school or program, but the committee will make an effort to ensure that awards are distributed as broadly as possible across the college's graduate programs, and to students at the master's and doctoral level. To ensure that the funds are distributed broadly, the committee has set the maximum award to $1500. The committee may decide to fund each request completely, partially, or not at all. 

Awards Committee

The awards committee will consist of the graduate coordinators of each program, plus the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies. The Associate Dean will chair the meetings and participate in the discussion of the applications, but will be a non-voting member except in the case of a tie. 

Award And Application Timelines

For the coming round we will be considering funding for activities that have taken place since November 1, 2011 or before November 1, 2012. The committee will not consider applications for activities that fall wholly outside of this time frame, nor will it consider applications based on economic need. 

Graduate students should complete the application form, which is available HERE.

The completed form should be emailed to the associate dean, Stuart McCook <stuart.mccook@uoguelph.ca> by noon on February 17. The associate dean will then distribute the application files to the committee members, which will make a decision by early March. Students will be notified by email as soon as the committee has made its decisions.

Checklist

• Please submit your application in pdf format if possible. Otherwise, please submit it in either rtf or doc format. Handwritten and print applications will not be accepted. 
• Please use the following naming convention: <LastnameFirstname.extension> Example: a pdf submitted by John Smith would be named SmithJohn.pdf.
• Please do not submit receipts with your application.
• If your research involves human subjects, you must submit evidence that you have applied for or received clearance from the Research Ethics Board. For more information on that procedure, please click here. This process can take time, so be sure to submit your requests to the REB well in advance.
• The committee will consider applications for students who want to present at conferences. Requests for simply attending a conference are ineligible. 

Reimbursement

Successful applicants should contact Lori Barnsley, in Mackinnon Extension 0009, for advances or reimbursements. All expenses claimed under this award must be documented with receipts where required.