The Public Humanities Hub offers a range of funding options and awards for graduate students, staff, and faculty in the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Education at UBC. Click the links below for more details about funding options, application requirements, and deadlines for each opportunity.
Public Humanities Hub: Graduate Research Fellowships
The Public Humanities Hub Graduate Research Fellowship program aims to provide support for interdisciplinary, innovative and/or experimental public humanities graduate research projects, imagined broadly. They provide funds to support the direct costs of graduate activities that will maintain or strengthen research capacity and advance knowledge in the public humanities.
- Deadline: October 27, 2025 (Monday)
- Value: $3,000/grant. Up to 4 grants awarded.
- Eligibility: UBC-V Doctoral Students who have completed a minimum of 12 months in their UBC graduate program by the application deadline, in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law. Domestic and international applicants are eligible.
- Applications require a letter of support from the Supervisor.
- For queries related to this grant, please contact the Public Humanities Hub Academic Director, Althea Thauberger, althea.thauberger@ubc.ca
Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship Grant
UBC’s Public Humanities Hub (PHH) and Digital Scholarship in Arts (DiSA) will be offering a grant in 2025-26. Details will be published in September 2025.
- Deadline: November 17, 2025 (Monday)
Public Humanities Hub: Faculty Fellowships Award
Public Humanities Hub Faculty Fellowships are awarded to recognize a faculty trajectory of public humanities research excellence and extraordinary knowledge mobilization initiatives.
- Deadline: TBA
- Value: 1 Course release, $12,000. Up to 2 awarded.
- Eligibility: UBC-V Faculty members (tenured/track) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law
Public Humanities Hub: Public Humanities Cluster Incubator Grant
The Public Humanities Cluster Incubator Grants support innovative public humanities research and emergent stages of collaboration, and/or knowledge mobilization among interdisciplinary teams of public humanities scholars at UBC and beyond.
- Deadline: TBA
- Value: $15,000/grant. Up to 2 grants awarded.
- Eligibility: Principal Investigator must be a UBC-V Faculty member (tenured/track) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, or Allard School of Law. Research Cluster team members must comprise 3+ UBC faculty members from 2+ departments.
Public Humanities Hub: Public Engagement Award
The Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Awards recognize outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years.
- Deadline: TBA
- Value: $1,000/award. Up to 5 awarded.
- Eligibility: UBC-V Faculty members (tenured/tenure-track), Lecturers, Sessionals, Postdoctoral Fellows, and Graduate Students in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law, and partner organizations working on collaborative public humanities projects with eligible UBC-V scholars.
Faculty grants and awards information will be published in September 2025.
Queries can be sent to althea.thauberger@ubc.ca.