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NOTICE
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and UBC Faculty
Partnerships in
International Visiting Research
Scholars
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline June 15, 2013
The Peter Wall Institute
for Advanced Studies has selected 13 partnerships of $10,000 to bring some of
the world’s best scholars to UBC in 2013 and 2014, and is sending an additional
call for two additional international visiting research scholars to visit
between January and April 2014. Given
the selection of the first 13 positions, these two scholars will ideally be
women scholars and/or from the global south.
This initiative allows
the Peter Wall Institute to partner with UBC faculties, departments and
research centres to attract outstanding scholars to work collaboratively with
UBC faculty members on innovative research.
Objectives of the International
Visiting Research Scholar Partnerships:
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To bring outstanding international scholars
to UBC for extended visits.
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To foster basic and advanced research in an
interdisciplinary research environment.
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To strengthen interactions between international
visiting scholars and their UBC peers.
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To nurture longer term interdisciplinary
relationships through the Institute.
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To foster partnerships between the Institute
and UBC’s faculties, departments and research centres.
Criteria:
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International Visiting Research
Scholars are expected to have a record of outstanding scholarship in the
relevant area of research.
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These highly competitive
partnership awards will be selected based on merit and the calibre of both the
proposed scholar and the research to be conducted jointly with one or more UBC
scholars.
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The International Visiting Research Scholar
must visit at UBC for a minimum of three
weeks.
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Partnering UBC faculties or research centres can
nominate international or Canadian scholars.
Application
Requirements:
·
Completion of the attached Application Form,
including proposed research, biographical note on the scholar’s fields of
expertise, and a list of five relevant publications. (Note: Application form was not attached to the announcement sent to us so please contact UBC directly).
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A UBC faculty member must be designated as
primary host and contact person for the scholar.
The Institute’s
Expectations:
·
International Visiting Research Scholars will
undertake outstanding and innovative research in the sciences or humanities in interdisciplinary
collaboration with UBC scholars.
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Visitors will be designated International
Visiting Associates of the Peter Wall Institute during their stay, and afforded
all of the privileges accorded to UBC Faculty Associates of the Institute.
·
The International Visiting Research Scholar
will give a public talk, suitable to an interdisciplinary audience, on some
aspect of her or his current research; the event is to be organized by the UBC
sponsoring faculty or research centre and jointly hosted with the Peter Wall
Institute.
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The scholar will attend at least one meeting
of the Institute’s Distinguished Scholars in Residence weekly meetings.
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The UBC faculty sponsor will organize and
host a meeting between the International Visiting Research Scholar and graduate
students and post-docs in the relevant disciplines.
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To the extent possible, the Institute will provide
shared office space to the International Visiting Research Scholar, in the
Institute’s dynamic and highly interdisciplinary research
environment.
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The Institute’s support will be acknowledged
in any subsequent publication of the research.
