Funding & Awards
The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies offer a number of merit based scholarships and funding to support graduate and undergraduate students during their studies, and awards for research and creation activities.
Both the faculty and generous donors make student funded awards possible. Below is a list of scholarship and award opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.
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MFA student Lindsay Kirker, was awarded the Audain Foundation Travel Award in 2019. Read more…
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With the support from the International Undergraduate Research Award, Art History and Visual Culture student Laavanya Prakash explore the British colonization with visually documented architectural elements in Lucknow, near her hometown of Bangalore. Read more…
FCCS Research Awards provide funding for both undergraduate and graduate students. The awards supports the production and dissemination of graduate student research and knowledge creation (i.e. creative arts) activities as well as support for undergraduate students to engage in research and creation activities over the summer months.
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| Award Name | Program | Degree Level | Applicant Status | Award Status | Deadline | Award Value |
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| Art History and Visual Culture Scholarship | Art History & Visual Culture | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| Asper Scholarship | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Incoming Students | Open | $1300 x2 | |
| Audain Travel Award | Visual Arts | Undergraduate and Graduate | Continuing Students | Open | May 15, 2025 |
$7500 |
| Craig Hall Memorial Visual Arts Scholarship in Printmaking | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1500 | |
| Creative Writing Prize | Creative Writing | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | none |
$1000 |
| Creative Writing Scholarship | Creative Writing | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| Cultural Studies Scholarship | Cultural Studies | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| Doug Biden Memorial Scholarship in Visual Arts | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| Dr. Shelley Martin Memorial Scholarship | English | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1150 | |
| Elinor Yandel Memorial Award in Fine Arts | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1600 | |
| English Scholarship | English | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| FCCS Community Engagement Award | Undergraduate and Graduate | Continuing Students | Open | June 1 |
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| FCCS Event Support Fund | All Programs | Open | Aug. 15 and Oct, 15 |
$500 | ||
| FCCS Languages Scholarship | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | ||
| FCCS Service Award | All Programs | Undergraduate and Graduate | Continuing Students | Open | June 1 |
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| Frances Harris Prize in Fine Arts | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | none |
$550 |
| French Essay Prize | French | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | none |
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| French Scholarship | French | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| Graduate Dean’s Thesis Fellowship | Graduate | Continuing Students | Open | Apr. 15, Dec. 15 |
$6000 x2 | |
| Graduate Student Research Award | Graduate | Continuing Students | Open | Ongoing |
$500 | |
| Henderson Award in International Development | All Programs | Undergraduate and Graduate | Continuing Students | Open | May 10, 2020 |
$2578 |
| International Undergraduate Research Award | All Programs | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | March 1, 2025 |
$10000 |
| Jack and Lorna Hambelton Memorial Award | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | none |
$1000 |
| Jill Douglas Bachelor of Arts Award | All Programs | Undergraduate | Incoming Students | Open | $5,000 | |
| Jill Douglas Entrance Award | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Incoming Students | Closed | $5000 | |
| Kelly Curtis Memorial Scholarship | English | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $900 | |
| Media Studies Scholarship | Media Studies | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| Murray Johnson Memorial Award | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | none |
$300 |
| Norma and Jack Aitken Prize in Visual Arts | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| R. M. Middleton Student Prize | All Programs | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | none |
$10,500 |
| SOPA Fine Arts Emerging Artist Award | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $5000 | |
| Spanish Scholarship | Spanish | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| The Jaeger Entrance Award | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Incoming Students | Open | none |
$20,000 each (payable at $5,000 per year) |
| Transfer Prize in Creative Writing | Creative Writing | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | none |
$1000 |
| UBC Okanagan Outstanding Instructor Award | Open | December 18, 2024 |
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| UBC Okanagan Visual Arts Award | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 | |
| Visual Arts Scholarship | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $250 | |
| Visual Arts Scholarship | Visual Arts | Undergraduate | Continuing Students | Open | $1000 |
More Funding Opportunities
UBC Okanagan is committed to supporting and encouraging our students to reach their full potential during their studies. There are merit-based and need-based awards and scholarships available to Canadian and international students.
See the Undergraduate Student Awards link below to find out more about financial support for student initiatives, conferences & competitions.
Killam Postdoctoral Awards Submission Process for Departments in FCCS – 2023
The Killam Scholarship and Prize Programmes were established in memory of Izaak Walton Killam through the Will of his wife, Dorothy Johnston Killam, and through gifts made during her lifetime. Their primary purpose is to support advanced education and research at five Canadian universities and the Canada Council for the Arts.
See below for information about the process for students in FCCS.
September 6, 2023– Applicants must complete a Killam Notice of Intent (NOI). Applicants should notify prospective referees that a request for references may be forthcoming.
October 6, 2023 – Application (including the letter of support from the UBC faculty member; but without reference letters) is due internally: jodey.castricano@ubc.ca. Applicants should notify prospective referees that a request for references may be forthcoming, if they have not already done so.
Applicants will be notified if the application is proceeding; if so, applicants then invite their three referees to provide a letter of reference addressed to UBC via email by noon PST, October 14 at postdoc.ok@ubc.ca.
October 16, 2023 – the full and complete application including the letter of support and 3 references is due: postdoc.ok@ubc.ca.