Graduate Travel, Research, and Creation Fund

Graduate Travel, Research, and Creation Fund

The College of Arts announces the creation of a fund to help students registered CoA graduate programs to conduct travel, research, or creative activities directly related to the completion of their degrees. Graduate students enrolled in other colleges are not eligible for these funds.

Principles

The grants will be made by application. Grants will be awarded on the basis of the application’s quality and its relevance to the student’s program of study. There are no fixed quotas of grants per department, school or program. 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. 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 this offering, the committee will be considering applications for activities that have taken place since November 1, 2012 and before November 1, 2013. 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.

Application Process

Graduate students should complete the attached form. The completed form should be emailed to the Associate Dean, Stuart McCook (stuart.mccook@uoguelph.ca) by noon on March 8. The Associate Dean will then distribute the application files to the committee members, which will make a decision by early April. 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 or printed applications will not be accepted.
• Please use the following naming convention: Example: a pdf submitted by John Smith would be named SmithJohn.pdf.
• Please do not submit original receipts with your application. We will request your receipts if the application is successful.
• If your research involves human subjects, you must submit evidence that you have applied for or received clearance from the Research Ethics Board to involve human subjects. For more information on that procedure, please go to: http://www.uoguelph.ca/research/humanParticipants/
• The committee will consider applications for students who want to present at conferences. Requests to simply attend 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.