UBC Public Humanities Hub Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Grant

The Public Humanities Hub Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Grant program aims to provide support for interdisciplinary, innovative and/or experimental public humanities graduate and postdoctoral research projects, imagined broadly.  

Graduate and Postdoctoral research grants provide funds to support the direct costs of graduate and postdoctoral research activities that will maintain or strengthen research capacity and research excellence and, importantly, advance knowledge in the public humanities. Eligible costs include: travel, workshops, meetings, and communication and dissemination activities, prepublication costs for the production of a scholarly edition, research equipment and supplies, and dissemination of findings.

RESEARCH GRANT 

The grants provide funds toward the direct costs of graduate and postdoctoral public humanities research activities. This grant is directed to those projects that will advance knowledge in the public humanities. The purpose of this program is to support graduate and postdoctoral research activities and contribute to knowledge advances in the public sphere. Up to six research grants will be awarded up to $2,000 each.

The project should:  

1. Be framed and designed through critical, Public Humanities methods and scholarship;   
2. Identify a significant knowledge advance that represents a contribution of this scholarly work to the public humanities;  
3. Acknowledge that public scholarship of necessity attends to social justice, human rights and other minoritizing histories and processes that characterize publics, related knowledges, and cultural production;  
4. The research grant is a research project-based funding stream, which means your project must have articulated objectives, a literature review, research questions and an articulated methodology/set of research activities and a budget.  Proposals must make clear how these funds will enable your research project to be carried out.