Application deadlines: October 17, 2024
Description The Postdoctoral Fellowships (PDF) program provides support to a core of the most promising experimenters at a vital time in their careers. The fellowships are also intended to secure a force of largely good Canadians with leading-edge scientific and exploration chops for Canadian assiduity, government, and academic institutions. Eligibility To be considered eligible for support, as of the deadline date of the time in which you apply, you must be a Canadian citizen or an endless occupant of Canada or a defended person under subsection 95 (2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Canada), as of the operation deadline hold or anticipate to hold a doctorate in one of the fields of exploration that NSERC supports In addition you can submit outside of education (Master’s or Doctoral) or fellowship operation per academic time to either NSERC, CIHR, or SSHRC you mustn't have formerly entered a postdoctoral award ( including a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship) from NSERC, CIHR, or SSHRC you must have completed all conditions of your doctoral degree further than two times before September 1 of the time in which you apply Note This isn't the conferred or convocation date indicated in your paraphrase but, rather, the date on which all the conditions of your degree were met, including the successful defense and submission of the corrected dupe of your thesis. However, the completion date of your most recent doctoral degree will be used to determine your eligibility, If you have further than one doctoral degree. Exceptions to the doctoral degree completion eligibility period are granted only if you meet one or further of the following criteria Still, exploration institutions and other laboratories won't be considered) after you enter your doctorate, NSERC will extend the eligibility period to three times. If you have acquired at least six months of full-time applicable employment in assiduity or government ( experience in an academic institution or its related hospitals. Still, NSERC will extend the eligibility period to three times, If you have completed an on-research grounded clinical occupancy program after you entered your doctorate. Still, within two times following the date of completion of your PhD, you had your career significantly intruded due to maternal, If. Still, within two times before or after the date of completion of your Ph.D., you become the primary caregiver following the birth or relinquishment of a child, If. Still, also you may be asked by NSERC to give fresh information and/ or supporting attestation If you're subject to an extended eligibility period. Any similar submission to NSERC will only be used by staff to assess your eligibility for the program. However, also you may do so in the Special circumstances section of the operation If you wish to inform the review commission of detainments and/ or circumstances that may have affected your performance and/ or productivity. Proposed position (s) of term You can hold your PDF at Canadian academic institutions Parochial Exploration Institutions in Canada other applicable exploration laboratories in Canada exploration institutions abroad You can not hold a PDF in Canadian civil government laboratories or in artificial laboratories across Canada. NSERC encourages you to shoulder exploration that involves collaboration with other Canadian associations. The nature of the proposed collaboration must be respectable to the host institution. In addition You may hold a PDF abroad only if you have entered your doctorate from a Canadian institution. NSERC encourages PDF award holders to broaden their exploration experience by gaining exposure to different exploration surroundings. You aren't permitted to hold your fellowship at the same institution (or its related hospitals, exploration institutions, and other laboratories) where you entered your doctorate. Still, you may request an exception that will be considered by the selection commission. The request must be grounded on medical reasons (for illustration, propinquity to needed health care installations), family reasons (for illustration, a partner’s career), or scientific reasons (for illustration, vacuity of technical outfit), which make it extremely delicate for you to leave a particular institution. Indeed if your exception is granted, you aren't permitted to be supervised by your supervisor. You're encouraged to include an alternate position for your PDF if your request for an exception isn't approved. You may not hold the PDF with your PhD administrator, indeed if your administrator changes exploration institutions. Holding a PDF abroad may affect your occupancy status in Canada. You may wish to communicate with the applicable Canadian authorities or an applicable expert for advice. Operation procedures You can apply for a PDF by completing and submitting form 201, and attaching supporting documents if necessary. Read the Instructions for completing an operation – form 201 for further information. Deadline NSERC must admit your operation electronically before 800p.m. (ET) on October 17. Still, your operation must be submitted the following business day before 800 p, If the deadline falls on a weekend.m. (ET). Deficient operations will be rejected. Except for particular contact information, NSERC won't accept any changes or updates to your operation after it has been submitted. Particular contact information may be streamlined by transferring a dispatch toschol@nserc-crsng.gc.ca. Review procedures and selection criteria NSERC literacy and fellowships selection panels review all PDF operations. The selection panels estimate each operation according to the selection criteria described in the Selection Commission companion for Postgraduate Literacy – Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships programs. Note that NSERC may promote equity and diversity by giving award precedence to meritorious operations from those who tone- identify as Indigenous and/ or as a woman if sufficient finances become available. The selection panels are organized according to the following broad discipline orders cellular and molecular biology chemical, biomedical, and accouterments wisdom engineering chemistry civil and artificial engineering computing Dolores electrical engineering elaboration and ecology geosciences fine Dolores mechanical engineering drugs and astronomy factory and beast biology psychology The exploration subject law ( see List of exploration subject canons for literacy and fellowships) entered into the operation will determine the selection commission in which the operation will be estimated. NSERC may assign the operation to a different commission if it determines that the subject matter is more applicable to another commission. NSERC expects selection commission members to constantly guard against the possibility of unconscious bias impacting the decision-making process, whether these impulses are grounded on an academy of study, abecedarian versus usable exploration, certain sub-disciplines, areas of exploration or approaches ( including arising bones), size or character of an institution, age, gender and/ or other particular factors. NSERC is acting on the substantiation that achieving a more indifferent, different, and inclusive Canadian exploration enterprise is essential to creating the excellent, innovative, and poignant exploration necessary to advance knowledge and understanding and to respond to original, public, and global challenges. This principle informs the commitments described in the Tri-agency statement on equity, diversity, and addition. For further information consult the document Equity, diversity, and addition considerations at each stage of the exploration process. In preparing your operation, you should consult the Selection Criteria and Pointers section and excursus B of the Selection Commission companion for Postgraduate Literacy – Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships programs, which provides useful information on what commission members look for in assessing operations. You should also read the Instructions for completing an operation – form 201. Operations are estimated and named according to how well you demonstrate the following your exploration capability and eventuality (70) your communication, interpersonal, and leadership capacities (30) Announcement of results NSERC will notify you of the results in February. NSERC won't give results by telephone. NSERC will publish the names (and other introductory award information) of fellowship donors on its website. For further information, see the Access to Information Act and the Sequestration Act. Conditions of the award Relate to the Tri-agency exploration training award holder’s companion for programs and conditions about holding the award, similar as acceptance, launch date, promptness, paid maternal leave, holding the award on a part-time base, etc. Click then to Apply