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Postdoctoral Fellowships

  • Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program

    The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research-based growth.

    The objective of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is to:

    • Attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally.
    • Develop their leadership potential.
    • Position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow.

    An applicant to the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program must complete their application in full collaboration with the proposed host institution.

    Current or prospective postdoctoral fellows interested in holding a Banting PDF at another institution should check their website for process and deadlines.

    Complete details of the eligibility criteria, application guide and terms of the award can be found on the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships website.

    Eligibility

    Applicants to the 2019-2020 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program must fulfill or have fulfilled all degree requirements for a PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree:

    • Between September 15, 2016 and September 30, 2020 (inclusively).
    • Before the start date of their award.

    Applicants who have not fulfilled all requirements for their degree at the time of application must submit proof no later than October 15, 2020.

    While candidates already conducting research as postdoctoral fellows at Ontario Tech University are eligible, you must provide an extensive justification for the decision to remain at the same institution. There should be a direct correlation between the strength of the justification and the amount of time already spent at the institution.

    Only in exceptionally rare circumstances will a Banting PDF be awarded to an applicant who is staying at the same institution or within the same research environment where they completed their PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree.

    For complete details of the eligibility criteria, visit the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships website.

    Fellowships are distributed among:

    Value

    $70,000 per year (taxable)

    Deadlines

    • Internal university application deadline: July 31, 2019 (12 noon)
    • External Tri-agency application deadline: September 18, 2019 (8 p.m.)

    Application process

    While the detailed application guide can be found on the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships website, below is a brief overview of the university’s process:

    This submission deadline includes referee letters to be submitted directly by the referee to postdocs@ontariotechu.ca.

    The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies does not have access to applicants' ResearchNet accounts.

    Referee letters

    Referees must submit a copy of their letter to postdocs@ontariotechu.ca by the internal application deadline of July 31, 2019 at 12 noon for the university selection process. We will not accept reference letters submitted directly by the candidate, unless received in a signed and sealed envelope.

    Referees submitting online to the candidate’s Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships application should keep an electronic copy of their submitted letters.

    It is the applicant’s responsibility to provide referees with the information that they need in order to complete their assessments and ensure submission to the university prior to the university’s internal deadline.

    University endorsement letter

    The majority of the application can be completed, with the exception of the institutional endorsement letter. This will be provided to the candidate(s) successful in the university selection process. Successful candidates will then be able to complete their application by the September 18, 2019 Tri-Agency deadline.

    Additional information

     The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships:

    • Are tenable only at the institution which supported the original application for the program.
    • Must be taken up no earlier than April 1 and no later than October 1 following the year of application.
    • Are for two years.
    • Cannot be held concurrently with another Tri-Agency training award.
    • Can only be held once in a lifetime.

    The university is committed to consideration for equity and diversity at all levels of the selection/recruitment, endorsement and review processes of a Banting application.

  • Canadian Blood Services Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
    Canadian Blood Services is a not-for-profit charitable organization. Regulated by Health Canada as a biologics manufacturer and primarily funded by the provincial and territorial ministries of health. Canadian Blood Services operates with a national scope, infrastructure and governance that makes it unique within Canadian healthcare. Through its Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, Canadian Blood Services offers salary support for young investigators. Postdoctoral fellows undertaking full-time research training in a Canadian research laboratory affiliated with Canadian Blood Services are invited to apply.

     

    Value

    The fellowship provides salary support plus benefits, and a one-time research allowance of $20,000. Fellows may be supported for a maximum of three years.

    Field(s)

    Blood transfusion and transplantation science

    Deadline

    The deadline to submit completed application packages is July 15, 2019.

    Application details

    For detailed information about the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program competition, please refer to the Program Guidelines.

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fellowship

    Fellowships provide support for highly qualified applicants in all areas of health research at the post-PhD degree or post-health professional degree stages to add to their experience by engaging in health research either in Canada or abroad.

    Value

    $40,000 to $60,000 per year with $5,000 for research support

    Field(s)

    Health Research

    Deadline

    October 1, 2019

    Application details

    Visit the CIHR website for full application details and eligibility criteria.

  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellowship

    The Health System Impact (HSI) Fellowship program provides highly-qualified doctoral trainees and post-doctoral fellows studying health services and policy research (HSPR), or related fields, a unique opportunity to apply their research and analytic talents to critical challenges in health system and related organizations outside of the traditional scholarly setting, and to develop professional experience, new skills, and networks.

    Value

    $70,000 per year with $7,500 for professional development and research allowance per year; two-year duration

    Field(s)

    Health services and policy research or related field

    Deadline

    April 2, 2019

    Application details

    Please visit the CIHR website for full application details and eligibility criteria.

  • CFN Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program

    The Canadian Frailty Network’s mandate is to develop the next generation of Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) – the scientists and educators, clinicians, and health and social services professionals that will improve care for older adults living with frailty. The CFN Interdisciplinary Fellowship Program goes beyond traditional academic and clinical training opportunities by offering enriched experiential learning and interdisciplinary collaboration.

    Value

    $25,000 CFN funding and $25,000 Partner funding per year; one-year duration

    Field(s)

    Health Research

    Deadline

    TBD

    Application details

    Please visit the Canadian Frailty Network website for full application and funding details.

  • Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grants

    The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression.

    Value

    $15,000 to $40,000 per year; two year duration

    Field(s)

    Violence and aggression in relation to social change, intergroup conflict, war, terrorism, crime and family relationships

    Deadline

    August 1, 2019

    Application details

    Visit the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation website for additional details.

  • Health Canada Fellowships Program

    The federal government's Visiting Fellowships Program provides financial support for scientists so that they can work with Canadian government laboratories and research institutions, including those at Health Canada. This program allows developing scientists to work with experienced Health Canada scientists and researchers in a variety of science fields.

    Value

    Variable

    Field(s)

    Science and Research

    Deadline

    Applications accepted anytime

    Application details

    Visit the Health Canada website for additional details.

  • Human Frontier Science Program Fellowships

    Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) postdoctoral fellowships encourage early career scientists to broaden their research skills by moving into new areas of study while working in a new country.

    Value

    Variable

    Field(s)

    Science

    Deadline

    Fellowship initiation deadline: August 8, 2019
    Fellowship submission deadline: August 22, 2019

    Application details

    Visit the Human Frontiers Science Program website for additional details.

  • International Policy Ideas Challenge

    Global Affairs Canada, in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), is pleased to announce the fourth edition of the International Policy Ideas Challenge. The objective of the program is to draw on the network of talented Canadian graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career civil society researchers to identify concrete, innovative solutions to emerging international policy challenges faced by Canada.

    Value

    Ten winning projects will receive $3,000 each 

    Field(s)

    International policy challenges

    Deadline

    TBD

    Application details

    Please visit the International Policy Ideas Challenge website for full application details.

  • John Charles Polanyi Prizes

    In honour of the achievement of John Charles Polanyi, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the government of the province of Ontario has established a fund to provide up to five prizes annually to outstanding researchers in the early stages of their career who are continuing to postdoctoral studies or have recently started a faculty appointment at an Ontario university.

    Value

    Five awards of $20,000 each

    Field(s)

    Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Economic Science

    Deadline

    December 2

    Application details

    Visit the Council of Ontario Universities' website for additional details.

  • Mitacs Accelerate Postdoctoral Fellowships Program

    Mitacs Accelerate is a program for postdoctoral fellows at Ontario universities to develop collaborations with local industry.

    Value

    Starting at $15,000

    Field(s)

    Varies each year

    Deadline

    Applications accepted anytime

    Application details
    Visit the Mitacs website for additional details.
  • Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

    Mitacs Elevate is a program for postdoctoral fellows at Ontario universities to develop collaborations with local industry.

    Value

    $55,000 per year with $7,500 for research support; two-year duration

    Field(s)

    Varies each year

    Deadline

    Varies

    Application details

    Visit the Mitacs website for additional details.

  • Mitacs Globalink Research Award

    The Mitacs Globalink Research Award provides funding for senior undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in Canada to conduct research projects at universities overseas.

    Value

    $6,000; 12 to 24 week duration

    Field(s)

    Varies

    Deadline

    Varies

    Application details

    Visit the Mitacs Globalink website for additional details.

  • N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship Awards

    N2Women is pleased to announce the continuation of our N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards. N2Women considers you a young researcher if you are currently a student, working as a postdoctoral fellow, or in the first or second year of your new research career. These awards will partially cover a young researcher’s travel cost to a meeting where an N2Women event will be held.  In exchange, the young researcher must help organize the N2Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the travel funds, is for the young researcher to connect with the organizers of the conference who are, typically, leaders in the research field. We will arrange for a faculty or research member of N2Women to assist/mentor the young researcher in this task.

    Value

    Up to $1,000 to cover travel cost to a meeting where an N2Women event will be held

    Application details

    Visit the N2Women website for additional details and application.

  • National Research Council of Canada H.L. Holmes Award for Postdoctoral Studies

    Bequeathed by the late Dr. Holmes, in recognition of NRC's commitment to promote research excellence, the award gives recipients the opportunity to conduct postdoctoral studies under outstanding researchers at world-famous graduate schools or research institutes.

    Value

    Up to $100,000 per year; one or two-year duration

    Field(s)

    Chemistry, physics, biology or mathematics as they relate to medical and biological processes

    Deadline

    Varies

    Application details

    Visit the National Research Council Canada website for additional details.

  • National Research Council of Canada Research Postgraduate Program

    The National Research Council's (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellowships program will offer promising young scientists access to unique world-class facilities and the opportunity to work alongside multi-disciplinary teams of expert researchers and technicians on projects of critical importance to Canada.

    Value

    Variable

    Field(s)

    Science and Engineering

    Deadline

    Variable

    Application details

    Visit the National Research Council Canada website for additional details.

  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowship