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 and Postdoctoral Research Grant
The Public Humanities Hub Graduate and Postdoctoral Research Grant program supports the direct costs of research for public humanities graduate and postdoctoral research projects, imagined broadly. Domestic and international applicants are eligible.
- Deadline: October 21, 2024 (Monday)
- Value: $2,000/grant. Up to 6 Grants funded.
- Eligibility: UBC-V Doctoral Students who have completed a minimum of 24 months in their UBC graduate program by the application deadline (up to 4 grants), Postdoctoral Fellows (up to 2 grants) in the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Education, and Allard School of Law. Domestic and international applicants are eligible.
Public Humanities Hub: Research Clusters
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.
- Deadline: December 9, 2024 (Monday)
- Value $15,000/Cluster. Up to 2 Clusters funded.
- 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.
Public Humanities Hub: Priority Thematic Public Humanities Research Incubator Grants
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 was a pilot project for 2023-2024.
- Deadline: January 20, 2025 (Monday)
- Value: $20,000/grant. Up to 3 Grants funded.
- 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
Public Humanities Hub: Faculty Fellowships
Fellowships awarded to recognize a faculty trajectory of public humanities research excellence and extraordinary knowledge mobilization initiatives.
- Deadline: TBA
- Value: Fellowships (1 Course release ($12,000); and $5,000 research grant); up to 2 will be 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 Engagement Awards
Recognizes outstanding public humanities engagement in the past two years.
- Deadline: TBA
- Value: $1,000/Award. Up to 7 Awards.
- 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.
Public Humanities Hub: Matching In-Kind Support for SSHRC Connection Grants
Provides in-kind support (website template, staff support and/or student support) for UBC-led SSHRC Connection Grant applications in support of conferences showcasing Humanities research.
- Deadline: December 5, 2024 (Thursday)
- 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.
Queries can be sent to phh.manager@ubc.ca.