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
Public Humanities Hub: Public Engagement Award
The Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Awards recognize outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years.
- Deadline: November 17, 2025 (Monday)
- Value: $1,000/award. Up to 6 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.
- For queries related to this award, please contact the Public Humanities Hub Academic Director, Althea Thauberger, althea.thauberger@ubc.ca
Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship Grant
Digital Scholarship in Arts (DiSA) and the Public Humanities Hub (PHH) are pleased to announce a grant to support collaborative critical inquiry and engaged digital research methods.
- Deadline: November 17, 2025 (Monday)
- Value: $10,000/grant. Up to 3 grants awarded.
- Eligibility: Principal Investigator or at least one collaborator must be a UBC-V faculty member (tenured/track) in the Faculty of Arts. Research and Educational Leadership roles are eligible as Principal Investigators.
- Supports collaborative critical inquiry and technological innovation with the intent subsequently to apply for Tri-Council funding.
- For queries related to this grant, please contact the Director of Digital Scholarship in Arts, Professor Christine D’Onofrio, christine.donofrio@ubc.ca.
Matching Support: Connection Grants
The Public Humanities Hub can provide in-kind support for UBC-led SSHRC Connection Grant applications in support of conferences and outreach activities showcasing Humanities research. Please see the below for eligibility matters, and examples of in-kind contributions that PHH can offer.
| In-kind contribution | Value of In-Kind contribution |
| Administrative staff support (e.g. logistical or event set-up, room booking assistance, marketing and promotion, peer and unit referrals for general grant support) | $200 (about 5 staff hours) |
| Customizable conference website template | $1500 |
| Graduate student assistance for conference support (communications materials, assist with conference) | $200 (about 5 GAA hours) |
To ensure sufficient time for PHH to review your request before UBC internal deadlines and sponsor deadlines, please submit SSHRC Connection Grant matching support requests by the following dates. For other grants, please send us requests at least one month before sponsor deadlines.
| PHH deadline | Faculty deadlines | SSHRC Connection Grant deadline |
| September 20 | October 20 (Arts) October 20 (Law) October 24 (Education) |
November 1 |
| January 9 | January 19 (Arts) January 19 (Law) January 25 (Education) |
February 1 |
| March 19 | April 19 (Arts) April 19 (Law) April 23 (Education) |
May 1 |
| May 13 | June 11 (Arts) June 7 (Law) June 12 (Education) |
July 1 |
ELIGIBILITY
The Public Humanities Hub in-kind contributions for SSHRC Connection grants will support applicants to SSHRC Connection Grants who are full-time, tenured or tenure-track UBC-V faculty members appointed to the Faculty of Arts, Education, or Allard School of Law.
The proposed event should:
- Be framed and designed through critical, Public Humanities methods and scholarship;
- Identify a significant knowledge advance that represents a contribution of this scholarly work;
- Acknowledge that public scholarship of necessity attends to human rights and other minoritizing histories and processes that characterize public settings;
- Include a Principal Investigator from the UBC-V Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, or Allard School of Law;
- Represent research that is clearly designed to address exclusions to access to knowledge; systemic exclusions that restrict the potential publicness of knowledge, reflect the colonial roots of humanities knowledge, and that impact particular publics, including but not limited to, historically, persistently and systemically marginalized groups.
Before you fill out the below form, please review the mission of the Public Humanities Hub.
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 3 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.
Details are forthcoming for the Public Humanities Cluster Incubator Grant.
Queries can be sent to althea.thauberger@ubc.ca.