Funding & Awards

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: Research Seed Grants 

  • Deadline: December 18, 2023 
  • Value: $2,000/grant X 8 
  • Eligibility: UBC-V Faculty member (tenured/track 5), and UBC-V Graduate Student, PhD (3) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law. 
  • To seed preliminary public humanities research or knowledge mobilization initiatives 

 

Public Humanities: Priority Thematic Public Humanities Research Incubator Grants 

  • Deadline: January 22, 2024 
  • Value: $20,000/grant X 3
  • Eligibility: UBC-V Faculty members (tenured/track) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law, appointed to a minimum of two different departments. 
  • Interdisciplinary Themes:   
    • Global Race, Anti-Racism & Social Justice Humanities  
    • Environmental/Climate, Land & Place-Based Humanities 
    • Health, Body, & Dis/Ability Humanities 
    • Critical Digital Humanities, Multiple Materialities & New Publics 
    • Justice, Public Memory, & Narrative Humanities  
  • Supports new, interdisciplinary and collaborative public humanities research projects in initial stages proposed by small (2) or larger (3+) teams with the intent subsequently to apply for Tri-Council funding. This grant is a pilot project for 2023-2024. 

 

Public Humanities: Faculty Fellowships 

  • Deadline: March 4, 2024 
  • Value: 1 Course release ($11,000); and $1,000 research grant X 2 
  • Eligibility: UBC-V Faculty members (tenured/track) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law 
  • Fellowships awarded to recognize a faculty trajectory of public humanities research excellence and extraordinary knowledge mobilization initiatives 

 

Public Humanities: Research Clusters 

  • Deadline: April 15, 2024 
  • Value $15,000/Cluster X 2 
  • Eligibility: UBC-V Faculty members (tenured/track) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law, appointed to a minimum of two different departments. 
  • Supports innovative public humanities research and emergent stages of collaboration, and/or knowledge mobilization among interdisciplinary teams of public humanities scholars at UBC and beyond (5+ UBC faculty members from 2+ departments) with the intent subsequently to apply for Tri-Council funding. 

 

Public Humanities: Public Engagement Awards 

  • Deadline: June 3, 2024 
  • Value: $1,000/Award X 6 
  • Eligibility: UBC-V Faculty members, Graduate Students, Postdoctoral Fellows in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law, and Community Organizations partnering with eligible UBC-V scholars 
  • Recognizes outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years 

 

Public Humanities: Matching In-Kind Support for SSHRC Connection Grants 

  • Deadlines: December 5, 2023; March 19, 2024; and June 19, 2024 
  • Value: Up to $5,000/Application 
  • Eligibility: UBC-V Faculty members (tenured/track) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law. 
  • Provides in-kind support (website template, Hub director consultation, staff and/or student support) for UBC-led SSHRC Connection Grant applications in support of conferences showcasing Humanities research. 

 

Queries can be sent to phh.manager@ubc.ca. 

 

Other funding sources are listed below.

UBC FUNDING

EXTERNAL FUNDING