Finance Your Studies

All Queen's graduate students entering the first year of their graduate program who bring new funding from one of Canada's three granting councils (SSHRC, NSERC or CIHR) automatically receive a one-time top-up award from the University.

Current graduate students in the Faculty of Education who are eligible for an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and/or a SSHRC or another Tri-Council Award are required to apply for them to be considered for internal funding.

NEW: OGS information and online application 2013–2014

All eligible full-time graduate students are considered for funding to help them with the costs associated with their graduate studies as long as they indicate their interest in financial assistance on their online application for admission. The minimum guaranteed funding package for PhD students is $18,000 per year. There is no minimum guarantee for MEd students; however, their funding package may range from $3,000 - $8,000 per year.

Funding packages are awarded to students based on academic merit and they may consist of any or a combination of the following: scholarships, fellowships, external awards students may bring with them, internal awards, research assistantships, teaching assistantships or graduate teaching fellowships.

Some of the scholarships/fellowships our students are nominated for most frequently are as follows:

• Duncan and Urlla Carmichael Fellowship
• Huntley Macdonald Sinclaird Tuition Fellowship
• Louise A. Fowler Graduate Fellowship
• McLaughlin/Bracken Fellowship
• Morgan Brown Scholarship
• Martin Schiralli Fellowship
• Robert Sutherland Fellowship
• Senator Frank Carrel Fellowship
• The Frank Wyatt MacLean Graduate Fellowship in Education
• The Grace L. Boileau Graduate Award
• The Walter F. Light Fellowship
• Trevor C. Holland Fellowship

Graduate students who want to be considered for a teaching assistant or graduate teaching fellow position as part of their funding package are required to apply for one or more of the postings listed under Work Here.

Minimum funding offers are communicated to applicants when they receive an offer of admission and the details are provided in June.

Some other awards and prizes our MEd and PhD students may be eligible for during their program are as follows:

• MEd Thesis Prize in Education
• MSTE Doctoral Fellowship
• Ontario Trillium Scholarship
• Robert J. Wilson Thesis/Dissertation Award
• The Rosa Baier and Luis Bruno Award
• Rose A. Freeman Memorial Award
• The Alice Corry Award in Education
• Tricolour Award

The Johnny Biosphere Environmental Education Fund 2013-14

The Johnny Biosphere Environmental Education Fund was established in March 2008 by the family of Dr. John Vallentyne, who was a Queen's University professor, prominent research scientist, and lifelong environmental activist. In his persona of Johnny Biosphere, Dr Vallentyne appeared before thousands of school children, teachers and environmental groups all over the world. His message was simple and direct: What we do affects the Earth; what the Earth does affects us. The Johnny Biosphere Environmental Education Fund has been established in his memory to promote environmental awareness among children.

You are invited to apply for the Johnny Biosphere Environmental Education Fund to support an environmental education project of your own initiative.

Funding Criteria

1. The money must be used to support a project directed at promoting environmental awareness among children/youth in Ontario.
2. Projects may be interdisciplinary in nature (e.g. combine the arts with sciences) and may be organized by more than one individual
3. The fund is open to Queen's University teacher candidates, graduate students and Education Faculty.
4. Projects must be completed by April of the current school year.
5. Maximum funding in any year will be $2000. Applications may be made for any amount up to this figure.
6. Applications made for funding must be limited to two pages and include the following components:
   • Applicant(s) name and contact information, including postal address
   • Project description including target audience (number of students who will be involved in the initiative(s)
   • Rationale describing how your project will promote environmental awareness
   • Anticipated benefits (please specify the value of the intended outcomes and who will receive them)
   • Budget for use of funding (i.e. materials, equipment—please include actual list of needed supplies, quantities of items, and the price per unit)
   • Initiation and completion dates (you may want to consider factors such as time to develop the project and weather limitations, especially for planting etc)
7. Documentation of the project must be submitted upon its completion. The documentation should include any receipts for reimbursement, as well as a written report that may be made available to the donors. The report should be 1-2 pages and can include photos or artifacts.

The deadline for applications this year is November 22nd 2013, 4:00 pm. Applications should be sent to diane.lawrence@queensu.ca. Successful applicants will be notified by December 6th, 2013.

Conference Travel Awards

Full-time master's students in the first 2 years and full-time doctoral students in the first 4 years of their Queen's Faculty of Education program are eligible to apply for a student conference award to attend a recognized conference at which they are presenting an authored or co-authored paper or poster. Funds are allocated on a first come, first serve basis. Successful applicants will be awarded up to $600 each year and the awards may be used to support travel, accommodation, food, and registration fees. The application must be made prior to the conference.

• Application for Graduate Student Conference Award Form

Travel Fellowships

Fellowships are available to graduate students for education-related travel outside Canada.

• Elliott/Upitis/Bamji Travel Fellowships