BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

BCIC offers multi-year scholarships to full-time resident and international graduate students enrolled in eligible science and technology graduate programs in B.C. post-secondary institutions. The scholarships support students to advance technology research and innovation towards commercialization. BCIC partners with a number of regional and industry organizations to offer specific scholarships in B.C. regions and in a number of advanced technology sectors:
• Precarn Inc. - Intelligent Systems
• Southern Interior Development Initiative Trust - Southern Interior Region
• Canadian Ocean Industries Network - Ocean Industries

Through a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) funded project, the Arctic Health Research Network – Yukon, in partnership with the Northern Research Institute at Yukon College, is offering an annual scholarship to promote northern health research. The Masters or PhD scholarship is intended to enable northern residents to undertake graduate level studies which will benefit northern capacity in health research through the training and education at any university (Canadian or international).
There will be one award to either a PhD or Masters student each year. Maximum graduate funding is $21,000 for a PhD student or $17,500 for a Master’s student [or the current Canadian Institute of Health Research rate]. Awards are one year in length with the option for renewal upon re-application after the full year of funding has been completed. Re-applications will be treated as a new application with all other applicants. Award recipients are strongly encouraged to apply for other sources of support after the first year.
Similar annual scholarships are being offered through the Arctic Health Research Network–NWT and the Arctic Health Research Network–Nunavut.
This award is open to graduate students who: (1) are a Canadian resident; (2) have resided in one of the three northern territories for a minimum of three years; (3) have registered in a degree program in which a research thesis or project is a major component; (4) study in any discipline related to northern health (excludes health professional training such as MD, RN, etc.); (5) are registered full time or part time (part time students must provide justification for application for the full award).

The Newton International Fellowships Scheme is an initiative of the UK’s leading academies - the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society. The Scheme has been established to select the very best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world and enable them to work at UK research institutions for a period of two years. The Scheme covers researchers in all disciplines covered by the three academies – natural and social sciences, engineering and humanities.

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF) are open to applicants with a Ph.D. from outside the life sciences e.g. in physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer sciences who have had little exposure to biology during their previous training. Applicants for the CDF should propose a significant departure from their past research by changing e.g. from material science to cell biology, from physics to cell biology, from chemistry to molecular biology, or from computer science to neuroscience.

Long – Term Fellowship (LFT) are reserved for applicants with Ph.D. in biology to embark on a new project in a different field of the life science. Preference is given to applicants who propose an original study in biology that marks a departure from their previous Ph.D. or postdoctoral work so as to learn new methods or change study system.