Faculty of Arts Graduate Student Conference Award

Eligibility & selection criteria:

• Graduate students must be registered full-time or part-time in a research-based master's or doctoral program in the term of the conference.
• Regardless of the value of the award issued, students are limited to receiving the award once per fiscal year (May-April).
• Applicants must be presenting their own research (oral, poster, paper), which is of direct benefit to their research/academic studies, at an in-person or virtual academic conference.
• Applicants must submit an application that is available on the Faculty of Arts webpage. The students' supervisor must approve the application.
• As a result of limited funding for this program, applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as they have confirmed that they will be presenting at a conference. Applications will be accepted at any time throughout the year, provided the conference has not already occurred. Applications received after the conference has taken place will be rejected.
• Applicants may apply for the award provided that funds still remain for the term in which the conference will take place. If the estimated travel dates or conference dates straddle two academic terms, the application will be considered for the term in which the student's expected return travel date or conference end-date occurs.
• Award recipients must notify the Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Office immediately if their attendance type changes (e.g., in-person to virtual). In this case, the award value will be adjusted to reflect the new attendance type.
• Award recipients who do not end up attending the conference are required to notify the Faculty of Arts Graduate Studies Office immediately by email to arrange for repayment of funds awarded.