Note: Faculty of Educations applicants please contact Robert Olaj in the ORE before December 1 for assistance with developing your application.
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) Wall Scholar Research Award provides support for full-time, tenured or tenure-track UBC faculty members to spend one year in residence at the Peter Wall Institute, in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment. Wall Scholars are chosen among leading UBC researchers from all academic disciplines, with the objective of creating a dynamic and diverse intellectual community at the Institute. We seek to foster sustained and transformational intellectual engagement among UBC researchers and visitors at the PWIAS. The program benefits the participants in various ways, including:
- Enhancing opportunities for world-class scholars to have regular and meaningful exchange of ideas across traditional academic disciplines, fostering new research directions and serving as a catalyst for innovative research collaborations.
- Creating a supportive and stimulating environment for intellectual risk taking and experimentation, encouraging ongoing serendipitous interactions that can extend the frontiers of research.
- Providing UBC Scholars with the sustained opportunity to exchange ideas with influential national and international visiting scholars at the PWIAS.
- Increasing integration of multimodal and expressive arts as an important component of research across all disciplines.
- Providing support in the mobilization and showcasing of research to diverse audiences.
- Providing seed funding for innovative projects that have the potential to make a significant contribution to the global research community and to society at large.
The Institute will appoint up to ten UBC scholars for the 2019-2020 academic year, with representation from all of the Professorial ranks. Successful applicants will be individuals with exceptional research records (as appropriate for their career stage), and a strong interest in and/or demonstrated capacity for interdisciplinary exchange across a range of academic fields.
Wall Scholars are provided with office space and $30,000 that can be used for a wide range of research-related expenses.
With departmental approval, additional funding is available for administrative and course release, to enable scholars to focus increased attention on research activities while in residence at the Peter Wall Institute.
Successful applicants will be required to submit a completed UBC Research Project Information Form (RPIF), with appropriate signatures, prior to receiving the award funds.
