April 14, 2025
Spring Graduate Awards Competition
A number of university awards for the upcoming academic year are available to current and incoming graduate students. The maximum value of funding that can be offered to a student is $16,000, or up to $22,000 for the #491 Rick Hansen "Man in Motion" Fellowship, or $25,000 for the #6495 Andrew Nord Fellowships in Rheumatology and the #100891 Clifford Alexander Robson and Else Loella Robson Memorial Scholarship respectively. Applicants will apply via their graduate programs with a single application that may be considered for as many of the Spring Graduate Awards as they are eligible for, taking note of the following important considerations:
Eligibility
To be eligible to receive funding, applicants must meet both the overall eligibility requirements as outlined on the award webpage (ex. months of study) and all of the eligibility requirements for each individual Spring Graduate Award they apply for. Applicants will not be considered for an award if they do not clearly meet the criteria for the award.
Selection
While award recipients will be selected based on the evaluation criteria, priority will be given to eligible candidates who do not hold significant scholarship funding (i.e., $16,000 or higher) for the 2025/2026 academic year (September 2025 to August 2026). If a student is offered Spring Awards funding, and later receives other scholarship funding of $16,000 or higher for the same period, the Spring Awards funding offer would normally be rescinded.
Exception: Some of the Spring Graduate Awards have very niche award descriptions (eligibility requirements). For example, the #6362 award ‘James and Setsuko Thurlow Scholarship in Peace and Disarmament Studies’. If a Spring Graduate Award receives a very low number of eligible applications, it may be awarded to a student who already has significant scholarship funding.
APSC student Award
Please contact your faculty advisors if you wish to apply for one of the ACSP awards and submit your application to grad.scarp@ubc.ca by May 12th, 2025.
Each year ACSP is proud to honor faculty and students who have distinguished themselves or made major contributions to the academy or to the profession. This year ACSP will award the following prizes for papers prepared as part of research projects, academic studies, public service or outreach efforts, or for service to ACSP, the Academy, or the Profession. In addition, doctoral students may apply for student travel scholarships.
Additional information and application/nomination processes can be found through each link below.
Barclay Gibbs Jones Award for the Best Dissertation in Planning
Don Schön Award for Excellence in Learning from Practice
Ed McClure Award for Best Master's Student Paper
Gill-Chin Lim Award for the Best Dissertation on International Planning (GPEIG)
Karen R. Polenske Award for Outstanding Student Paper on a China-Related Topic
Marsha Ritzdorf Award for the Best Student Work on Diversity, Social Justice, & the Role of Women in Planning (FWIG)