ENRICH Doctoral Salary Award for Black and Indigenous Scholars 2025 (up to $30,000) Deadline: 10 January, 2025

Applications are open for the ENRICH Doctoral Salary Award for Black and Indigenous Scholars 2025. These awards are intended for Black or Indigenous research scholars who wish to pursue a career as a perinatal and/or child health researcher. Through an individualized research development plan, learners in ENRICH will enhance their skills ranging from research methods, to managing multi-site teams, to personal wellness, and other relevant topics for researchers.

Benefits

• This award will provide $30,000 of salary support each year for up to 3 years maximum. For Doctoral learners who defend their thesis before the 4-year term ends, the last day of the month that the revised thesis is accepted will act as the new end date for the award.  It is the supervisor’s responsibility to inform ENRICH of this change.  If funds are paid out beyond this time point, then it will need to be refunded to ENRICH by the Host Institution and/or supervisor.
• Learners are eligible for medical or a family caregiver’s leave. The latter is to provide care or support to certain family members who have a serious medical condition. Awards will be placed “on hold” for the duration of the leave with supported documentation from the local institution. Awards will resume upon the return of the individual to the training environment.
• The Award recipients and their supervisors will have their expenses paid to attend the ENRICH Annual Symposia and relevant Regional Mini Symposia. A written commitment from the supervisor/mentor stating their agreement to attend Annual Symposia, for each year that the learner is in the program, is mandatory with the application.

Eligibility

• Open for Black or Indigenous scholars only.
• The award must be held at a Canadian Academic Institution, and/or child health research institute affiliated with a Canadian University.
• Applicants must have at minimum 2 active years remaining in their doctoral studies from the ENRICH funding start date, which is May 1 of each year. Any interruption in a candidate’s career should be explained in a CIHR Biosketch Common CV.
• Applicants who already have a multi-year salary/stipend award from a local, provincial, or national organization/institution are ineligible for this award.
• This program is open to Canadians and permanent residents of Canada.

Application

Applicants should have the following documents ready for upload during this process:

• Proof of citizenship/permanent residency. Name the file “1 CandidateLastname_Citizenship.”
• Itemized response (for resubmissions only). Name it “2R CandidateLastname_Reviewer Response.”
• Research Proposal document. Name the document “2 CandidateLastname_Research Proposal.”
• Your CIHR Biosketch and name it “3 CandidateLastname_Biosketch.”
• Your Primary Supervisor’s CIHR Biosketch. Name it “3a Supervisor 1 CandidateLastname_Biosketch.”
• All other Co-supervisor’s CIHR Biosketch (when applicable). Name it “3b Supervisor 2 CandidateLastname_Biosketch,” “3c Supervisor 3 CandidateLastname_Biosketch,” etc.
• Indigenous Community Support Letter (when applicable). Name this support letter “4 CandidateLastname_Indigenous Community Support.”
• Signature page. Name it “5 CandidateLastname_Sig Page.” Click to download Signature Page.
• Sponsor Assessment

Additionally, the candidate must have three (3) individuals provide assessments on their behalf. The survey link to the assessment form will be sent directly to the individuals of choice through email. This survey is automatically submitted to ENRICH upon completion, thus the candidate is not in charge of uploading the assessments in the application.

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For more information, visit ENRICH Doctoral Salary Award.