Canadian postdoctoral fellowships
- Banting postdoctoral fellowship
- Two year award with $70k annual value
- UBC internal competition deadline annually in June
- Killam postdoctoral research fellowship
- Two year award with $50k annual stipend and $4k travel
- Competition opens annually in the summer
Canadian graduate research fellowships
- Apply to UBC for graduate school in physics or astronomy
- The UBC application deadline is generally in early December
- Note for international students: applicants with a B.Sc. or equivalent will apply to the Masters program with the opportunity to transition to the PhD program, and applicants with a Canadian M.Sc. are eligible to apply directly to the Ph.D. program
- Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Three year award for PhD students with $50k annual value
- Applications launch in the summer
- NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship – Master’s Program
- One year award for Masters students with $17,500 value
- Funding opportunities for international UBC students
Undergraduate research opportunities
- NSERC undergraduate student research awards (USRA)
- Pairs successful student applicants with faculty mentor.
- $4500 to support 16 weeks of summer research
- UBC internal deadlines for Form 1 aregenerally in January
- UBC-Imperial College London summer research exchange
- Offered to top NSERC USRA applicants
- The Erich Vogt First Year Summer Research Experience (FYSRE)
- Funds a UBC physics student for at least 14 weeks of research after completing first year physics courses
- Applications are generally due in late January