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.

  • Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship Grant

    Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship Grant

    Deadline: November 17, 2025 (Monday)
    Value: $10,000/grant. Up to 3 grants awarded.
    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.
    Read more: Catalyzing Engaged Digital Scholarship Grant
  • Cluster/Incubator Grant

    Cluster/Incubator Grant

    Deadline: April 7th, 2026 (Tuesday)*
    Value: $15,000/grant. Up to 3 grants awarded.
    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.
    Read more: Cluster/Incubator Grant
  • Matching Support: Connection Grants

    Matching Support: Connection Grants

    Deadlines: Rolling quarterly deadlines
    Value: Up to $1,900 (in-kind)
    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.
    Read more: Matching Support: Connection Grants
  • PHH Graduate Research Fellowships

    PHH Graduate Research Fellowships

    Deadline: October 27, 2025 (Monday)
    Value: $3,000/grant. Up to 4 grants awarded.
    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.
    Read more: PHH Graduate Research Fellowships
  • PHH Public Engagement Award

    PHH Public Engagement Award

    Deadline: November 17, 2025 (Monday)
    Value: $1,000/award. Up to 6 awarded., Value: $1,000/award. Up to 6 awarded.
    The Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Awards recognize outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years.
    Read more: PHH Public Engagement Award
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