ELIGIBILITY:

The scholarship is open to students registered in the first year of a doctoral program in the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Graduate Studies.

The scholarship is unrestricted, meaning that both domestic and international graduate students may be considered.

Students transferring directly from a master’s program are not eligible.

Programs nominating a student for this scholarship must submit documentation demonstrating how the student’s recruitment focuses on transdisciplinary research while addressing equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility and reconciliation within the program or faculty.

Students cannot apply directly for this scholarship. A student must be nominated by their program at the time the student applies for admission.

Nominations are recommended by the faculty of the admitting program. Each faculty receives a quota of recruitment awards based on current doctoral registration. Nomination procedures will vary by faculty. For example, some faculties may review admissions as a group following program admission deadlines. Other faculties may have a rolling nomination process where eligible candidates can be forwarded for nomination contingent on meeting selection criteria.  

Once a nominee has been selected for an award, the faculty will notify the program and the program can then include the award offer with the offer of admission for the student.

Contact your graduate program staff for your program/faculty’s deadlines if any and nomination procedure.

BENEFIT:

The President’s Doctoral Recruitment Scholarship in Transdisciplinary Research is valued at $12,000 per year for four years. The guaranteed graduate stipend students will receive on the PDRSTR will be the program’s minimum funding requirement plus the recruitment scholarship ($12,000) for 4 years.