Funding Opportunity for Research on Scholarly Communications



With funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada’s Pan-Canadian Knowledge Access Initiative, Coalition Publica is launching a scholarship program for undergraduate and graduate students.

Read the full announcement on the Coalition Publica website, or continue below for more details.

The scholarship program supports research projects that:

  1. study the scholarly communication and research dissemination system, or

  2. apply digital humanities methods to the corpora* made available by Coalition Publica.

Scholarships available

  • PhD ($20 000)

  • Master’s Thesis ($10 000)

  • Bachelors: to develop term papers into research articles ($500)

Scholarships are awarded annually for one year of study (graduate) or for one research article (undergraduate).

Eligibility and selection criteria

All students registered at a Canadian university are eligible. Applications may be submitted in English or French. Applications will be evaluated on the basis of the relevance of their research objectives and their originality. Scholarships will be granted in accordance with the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion. Students from traditionally underrepresented groups are encouraged to submit a proposal.

How to apply

Masters and PhD 

  • Research project description and state of progress (1 to 4 pages)

  • Curriculum vitae (any format)

  • Letter of support (1 page)

Undergraduate 

  • Research project description and state of progress (1 to 2 pages)

  • Curriculum vitae (any format)

  • Letter of support (1 page)

For the above, applicants are encouraged to follow SSHRC’s scholarship application guidelines.

Deadlines

  • May 15, 2021: application deadline

  • June 15, 2021: announcement of results

Send applications to: vincent.lariviere@umontreal.ca