Research Centre for Scottish Studies Awards (SFU Administered)

NB: All awards listed below are nominated and adjudicated by the Research Centre for Scottish Studies. Interested students should contact the Director at scottish@sfu.ca

Jennifer Prosser Wade and Family Annual Award in Scottish Studies

The award, valued at $1000, will be granted annually in any term to an undergraduate student majoring in a program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The student must be in good academic standing and have demonstrated volunteer/community service that shows caring and concern for others and currently enrolled in their third or fourth year of undergraduate studies. Preference, where and if possible, will be given to a student enrolled in, or who has successfully completed a credit-based undergraduate course offered through the Research Centre for Scottish Studies. The Award will be made by the Senate Undergraduate Awards Adjudication Committee, upon the recommendation of the Director of the Research Centre for Scottish Studies.

David and Mary Macaree Graduate Fellowship in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The purpose of the David and Mary Macaree Graduate Fellowship in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is to provide financial support to graduate students whose research focuses on topics identified by the Research Centre for Scottish Studies as primary areas of research. In order to apply, a student must be registered in or applying to enter a Master’s or Doctoral program in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at SFU and have a minimum GPA of 3.5 over the past two years. For further information see internal and donor funded Graduate Fellowships. Application is through the GA3 system.

For the current competition, the Research Centre is particularly encouraging of research focusing on one or more of the following topics: Indigenous/Scottish Connections; Decolonizing Scottish Studies; Jacobitism; and Gaelic Language Loss and Recovery.