Fellowship & funding opportunities

Linking Fellowship for Visiting Scholars — $3,000

A Linking Fellowship for a Visiting Scholar is designed to assist a UFV faculty member, and/or academic unit, build upon an existing or nascent collaborative partnership in support of creative and meaningful research, scholarly, and/or artistic activities, or creative and meaningful academic curricular program development.

Eligibility: Faculty members at universities other than UFV.

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Fellowship in Creativity — $1,000

The Fellowship in Creativity is designed to promote and facilitate creativity in the fullest sense, and to attract exciting people doing interesting work that sparks imagination and creativity within and among faculty and students at UFV.

Eligibility: ABD PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty members at institutions other than UFV who are engaged in especially creative and innovative scholarship and/or artistic work. Must be sponsored by a UFV faculty member or an academic unit at UFV.

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Visiting Voices Grant — $500

The Visiting Voices Grant is designed to bring a dynamic speaker and thinker to the UFV campus (or an appropriate off-campus venue) to deliver a public lecture (and when possible a supplemental guest lecture in a UFV class) to help bring fresh ideas and insightful analysis to the campus community and to show the broader Fraser Valley community the ways in which UFV is working to stimulate thoughtful discussion and the sharing of valuable information and analysis.

Eligibility: Non-UFV faculty and public intellectuals (broadly conceived) who is sponsored by a UFV faculty member.

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i2i (Eye to Eye/Ideas to Ivory Tower) Grant — $250

The i2i Grant is designed to bring off-campus organizations (broadly conceived) and UFV faculty together to brainstorm ways of addressing questions, concerns or problems that the off-campus partner has identified as a priority.

Eligibility: UFV Department Heads, Deans Offices, Academic Unit Leaders, and faculty

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Student Catalyst Scholarship — $1,500

The Student Catalyst Scholarship is designed to support a mentoring partnership between a UFV faculty member and a UFV student with the objective of composing a work of collaborative scholarship for submission as a jointly authored article/chapter.

Eligibility: All UFV students are eligible, but can only be considered by being sponsored by a UFV faculty member who commits to mentoring and partnering with the student.

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Digital Storytelling Student Scholarship — $400

The Digital Storytelling Scholarship is designed to bring UFV students and non-academic knowledge keepers (broadly conceived) together to share, record, and communicate digital stories so that these stories and the life experience they represent will be accessible to others into the future.

Eligibility: UFV students

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Fellowship for Community-based Intellectuals/Activists/Artists — $1,500

The Fellowship for Community-based Intellectual/Activists/Artists is designed to support the scholarly and/or artistic activities of intellectuals/artists/activists who are based in their communities (such as Indigenous knowledge keepers, religious/spiritual/faith community leaders, social justice activists, practitioners, NGO leaders, and independent artists, etc…) to allow them to collaborate with a UFV faculty member or academic unit on either a creative scholarly and/or artistic project, or a major grant application.

Eligibility: Artists, representatives of ethnic/religious/service (and other) community organization, and activists/intellectuals/artists and others who are not employed by a university, and especially people whose training and education have come from non-academic sources and followed non-academic pathways. Fellows must be sponsored by a faculty member or academic unit at UFV.

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