Background
Funded through USask's International Blueprint for Action, this competitive fellowship has a mandate of bringing international postdoctoral scholars to the University of Saskatchewan.
The Fellowship may allocate up to one award in the following Signature Areas of Research:
- Indigenous Peoples: Engagement and Scholarship
- Health and Wellness: Combining the arts, social sciences, biomedical sciences and medicine to make humans healthier
- Communities and Sustainability: Exploring the interrelatedness of human communities and natural ecologies
Call for nominations
Opens for applications every fall.
- Value and Duration: $50,000/year for two years
- $25,000 provided by CGPS and at least $25,000, inclusive of all employment deductions, matched by the award recipient’s supervisor
- Number of Awards: One fellowship awarded annually
Important dates
| Application opens | November 1, 2024 |
| Application deadline | February 7, 2025 |
How to apply
- The applicant must have completed a PhD no earlier than three years prior to the start date of the proposed fellowship.
- Cannot be a Canadian citizen or Permanent Resident, and cannot have been a resident of Saskatoon for twenty-four months prior to the date of the application.
- The applicant’s PhD must have been earned outside of Canada.
- Recipients of this fellowship may only receive it once.
- Must have demonstrated strong achievement and early success in their chosen field of specialization.
- Applicants must not be current postdoctoral scholars at USask
- Nominators must be eligible to supervise a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Saskatchewan.
- Nominators will be the main supervisor of the fellowship recipient.
- Nominations, if successful, should be for work that will start on or around September 1, 2025.
Complete the application package by February 7, 2025, at 4:30 PM (CST). All information must be typed, and include the following:
- A scanned copy of your PhD degree. If you have not completed your PhD, provide a statement from your home institution with the expected date of degree conferral (include certified translation, if necessary).
- A copy of your passport's biographical page.
- Your CV
- Research Proposal (see Part 4 of the application package).
- Your supervisor's form and statement (See Part 5 of the application).
Arrange for two confidential letters of reference from individuals who are familiar with your academic work. The letters must be sent directly, by the referee, to postdoctoral.studies@usask.ca. Please ensure they discuss the points outlined in Part 3 of the application package.
Send the entire application package (except for the letters of reference) as a single PDF file to postdoctoral.studies@usask.ca.
Applicants will be informed of the competition results on, or before, April 1, 2025.
Please direct all inquiries about the process to postdoctoral.studies@usask.ca.