Course:ASIA592/2026W1/Funding

General advice and strategies

• Advice for Writing Grant and Fellowship Proposals (Notre Dame; link fixed via the Wayback Machine)
• How to Write Compelling Fellowship Applications (Columbia; link fixed via the Wayback Machine)
• Hot Tips for Scholarship Applications (UBC G&PS; link fixed via the Wayback Machine)
• Graduate Pathways to Success materials and recordings (UBC G&PS; requires CWL)
• Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal: The Basics (UW-Madison; link fixed via the Wayback Machine)
• How to Win a Graduate Fellowship
• From The Professor Is In:
  • Dr. Karen’s Foolproof Grant Template (TPII)
  • The Big Issue In Your Grant Proposal (TPII)

Internal (UBC) funding sources

• Scholarships, Awards & Funding (G&PS)
• UBC Student Financial Assistance and Awards
• Public Scholars Initiative

SSHRC/Canadian funding sources

• Tips for Applying for SSHRC funding (University Affairs)
• SSHRC Resource Centre
• International Scholarships (Government of Canada)
• Funding opportunities at doctoral and postdoctoral levels (Government of Canada, both scholarship and other sources)
• Scholarships Canada
• Canadian Bureau for International Education
• Dr, Edgar Wickberg Prizes (Chinese Canadian Historical Society of B.C.)
• SSHRC Sample Proposal 1 (Retrieved from UBC Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program)
• SSHRC Sample Proposal 2 (Retrieved from UBC Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program)

External funding

• From G&PS (https://www.grad.ubc.ca/scholarships-awards-funding/resources-award-applicants/funding-databases)
  • Scholarships Canada
  • International Scholarships - Government of Canada
  • Canadian Bureau for International Education
  • Student Awards
  • Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)
  • Community of Science (COS)
  • Funding opportunities to study / research in Germany: www.research-in-germany.de
• Other fellowship and grant databases
  • The Andrew W. Melon Foundations's Grants Database
  • GRAPES (database of graduate funding from UCLA, some available externally)
  • Columbia University EALAC Fellowship Opportunities
  • Association for Chinese Art History's Grants Database
  • External Funding Sources (Dalhousie University)
  • Asia-related grant programs (Association for Asian Studies)
• AAS-administered grants
• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
• Chinese studies funding
  • Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange
  • Center for Chinese Studies Research Grant for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies
• Japanese studies funding
  • Japanese government funding
  • Japan Foundation
• Korean studies funding
  • Scholarships and Grants for Korean Studies
  • Korea Foundation
  • SNU Kyujanggak Institute International Center for Korean Studies
• Language programs
  • Middlebury Language Schools (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and more)
  • Japanese: Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies
  • Japanese: Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
  • Korean: Inter-University Center for Korean Language Studies at SKKU
  • See also Japan Foundation and Korea Foundation
• International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF, For PhD Students in Humanities in USA)
• Asian Cultural Council
• AHRC Midlands4Cities Ph.D. Funding (Contemporary visual culture and arts in the Sinophone sphere)