Amount available: $500 honoraria to eligible Indigenous graduate students. There is a total of $15,000 to fund up to 30 Indigenous graduate students.
Eligibility
- Current Indigenous graduate student (Masters or PhD) studying at a post-secondary institution in Saskatchewan.
- Commit to a minimum of 1 x 60 minute online mentoring session with a mentor (from our list of participating mentors)
- Please note you can only apply for this award or the Online Writing Group Stipend, not both awards.
Application
Mentorship Network registration form (if have not previously completed)Completion of Mentor preference form
Proof of identity (Click through for acceptable documentation)
Letter of support from supervisor (can be an e-mail from the supervisor to sk.imnp@usask.ca)
What is the online mentorship session for?
- Can be support related to current circumstances and opportunity to talk about your needs during this time
- A chance to run ideas, thesis and dissertation questions by someone who has gone through this process and mentored other students through it as well.
- Writing, publication, research support
- Research questions
- Proposal writing
- Or anything else you can think of!
Deadline: April 17, 2020
Results: April 24, 2020 (or sooner)
*Please note: while we understand the importance of getting these funds in your accounts as quickly as possible, we appreciate your patience as it may take us a few weeks from this date to process these payments.
Amount available: up to $1000 (in two $500 payments) to eligible Indigenous graduate students (total of $15,000 available) for up to 15 students.
Eligibility
- Currently Registered as a graduate student (Masters or PhD) at an institution in Saskatchewan.
- Able to commit to meeting online with your group weekly for 1 hour for 4 weeks beginning the week of May 4, 2020
- Please note you can only apply for this award or the Online Mentorship Stipend, not both awards.
Application
Writing Group preferences form
Mentorship Network registration form (if have not previously completed)
Proof of identity (Click through for acceptable documentation)
How it works:
- A webex/zoom meeting will be hosted for your group each week by the Mentorship Network.
- A faculty mentor with experience in your group’s thematic area will facilitate the first and last meetings.
- Attendance will be taken each week by the Mentorship Network, but the meeting host will not participate in the meeting (muted/video off).
- The second allotment of funding ($500) contingent on group participation over the first 3 weeks of your writing group.
Deadline: April 17, 2020
Results: April 24, 2020 (or sooner)
*Please note: while we understand the importance of getting these funds in your accounts as quickly as possible, we appreciate your patience as it may take us a few weeks from this date to process these payments.