Graduate Student Fellowships

2010/2011

University of Victoria

Graduate Student Fellowships

BC Institute for Co-operative Studies

The BC Institute for Co-operative Studies at the University of Victoria invites applications from University of Victoria graduate students for fellowships of up to 12 months' duration during the 2010/11 academic year, beginning September 1, 2010.

Purpose

The purpose of the fellowship is to provide graduate students working on research projects related to co-operative and community-based economy with financial support, suitable space and a stimulating environment conducive to writing and reflection.

Topics

The Institute welcomes applications from all disciplinary backgrounds for projects that promote the scholarly study of subjects related to co-operative and community-based economic arrangements. ‘Co-operative and community-based economy’ is taken to refer to collective undertakings, not necessarily co-operatives:

•       aimed at providing the needs and wants of some community or group, where any profits are a means of supplying those needs and wants,

•       managed autonomously and by democratic processes, and

•       in which persons and their participation are given priority over capital in the distribution of any surplus.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: conditions, including policies, that give rise to, or inhibit, co-operative and community-based economic activity; the relations between co-operative and community-based economic organizations and other forms of enterprise, examinations of sectoral organizations (Health, Housing, Agriculture etc.); issues of representation and participation in co-operative and community-based economic arrangements; the history, sociology and/or anthropology of co-operative and community-based economic models; and co-operative and community-based arrangements as an instrument for sustainable community development, including indigenous settings.

Eligibility

Fellowships are open to all University of Victoria graduate students at the stage where they are writing either an MA thesis or major research paper, or a PhD dissertation, on issues related to the Institute’s research mandate (as in topics, previously described).

Value

•       $3,000 per fellowship, and

•       office space (wireless Internet, fax and copy services) in the Institute’s premises in University House 2.

Conditions

Graduate Student Fellows are expected to:

•     conduct their work in their Institute office;

•     participate actively in the programs and activities of the Institute;

•     acknowledge the Institute in all publications arising from the fellowship, and deposit one copy of such publications in the Institute's library, and

•     give at least one public seminar or lecture on the theme of their research

Some research products may be eligible for consideration as an occasional paper published by the Institute.

Application Procedure

Applications should include:

1.     a covering letter;

2.     a descriptive title of the research area;

3.     a 500 word summary of the project written for an interdisciplinary audience;

4.     a current curriculum vitae;

5.     official transcripts (graduate and undergraduate);

6.     a supporting letter from the applicant’s supervisor;

7.     a letter of support from another professor or former professor of the candidate.

Application forms should be submitted in electronic form. Paper copies will be accepted only for supporting material (e.g. transcripts and supporting letters).

Application Deadline – 5 November 2009

Completed applications should be submitted to Dr. Ana Maria Peredo, Director, BC Institute for Co-operative Studies, University of Victoria.

Applications should be sent by email to vvm@uvic.ca
or by mail or courier to:

BC Institute for Co-operative Studies University House 2 Room 109 PO Box 3060, Victoria,BC Canada V8W3R4

Selection will be made by the BCICS Program Committee based on the academic merit of the proposal, the views of the referees, and the recent scholarly activity of the candidate. Proposals submitted outside of the regular application deadline schedule may also be considered at the discretion of the director.