Scholarship Clinic
What is the Scholarship Clinic?
The Scholarship Clinic was set up by UdeM graduate students with the support of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (GPS). Its purpose is to help student researchers prepare applications for scholarships to fund graduate studies.
This is a free service exclusively for students pursuing a research-focused master's or doctoral degree at UdeM. It is available to anyone seeking support and feedback when preparing a scholarship application.
What are the Clinic’s services?
Two different services are offered to meet students' specific needs:
- Consultation to help prepare a scholarship application: Ask your questions and learn from students with experience in preparing scholarship applications.
- Pre-submission document review: Have your research protocol, cover letter, CV or any other document in your application package reviewed.
To get support from the Scholarship Clinic, students can fill out the consultation request form or the review request form. In the case of a review request, the documents to be reviewed can be submitted online. Once the documents have been submitted and the clinic's administrators have determined that the request is eligible, a member of the consultation or review committee will provide the student with written feedback. The student will be paired with a reviewer from the same broad research field (health, society and culture, or nature and technology). In the case of the review service, the student may, if they wish, contact the reviewer by email or phone for clarification after receiving their written comments.
What types of scholarship applications are eligible?
All applications for scholarships to fund a student’s education are eligible. The following is a non-exhaustive list of eligible scholarships:
- Recruitment scholarships
- Merit-based scholarships
- Thesis completion grants
- Scholarships from organizations such as foundations, associations and professional orders
- Fonds de recherche du Québec grant
- Grants from the three federal funding agencies (CIHR, SSHRC, NSERC)
At present, student engagement scholarships are not eligible for Scholarship Clinic services.
What are the lead times?
The review will be completed within 10 working days after the clinic determines that the request is eligible (the student will receive confirmation of eligibility by email). During this period, a reviewer will examine the request and, if applicable, the documents submitted with the request form. Requests for review will be denied if they are submitted less than 10 working days before the official application deadline for the scholarship.
Who provides review services?
Consultants and reviewers are UdeM students with experience in preparing scholarship applications who have been awarded training scholarships or grants from major provincial and federal granting agencies. They are students in three broad research fields: health, society and culture, and nature and technology.
How can I take advantage of the clinic’s services?
Students planning to request services from the clinic are strongly encouraged to prepare in advance and to consider the time required to process the request and to review the documents (if applicable), the time they will need to improve their application, and the official deadline for submitting the application to the scholarship program concerned. In addition, if the application needs to be submitted internally before being submitted officially to the granting agency or program, the student must take this into account in his or her schedule. As a guideline only, the clinic suggests that students submit their review request approximately one month before the official deadline for submitting the application to the scholarship program. The clinic's services are intended to complement reviews by students’ supervisors and should not be considered students’ only review option.
Contact the Scholarship Clinic
Contact Laurie Beauvilliers, Scholarship Clinic Coordinator, by e-mail.
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