Name	BERKES GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
Research Fields TEST	Community-Based Research
Categories	No categories available
Citizenship	No citizenship available
Eligibility	Professor Fikret Berkes, Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Community-Based Resource Management, has established the Berkes Graduate Scholarship in Community-Based Research. This annually funded scholarship will provide support towards degree-related field research and related expenses (including travel, food, housing, and to return research findings to the research host community); an opportunity to train in methods for community-based research, including community-based resource and environmental management, conservation and planning; and an opportunity to engage in outreach training, and to translate results into communication to communities, public audiences, and policy-makers through written, visual, oral and/or multimedia means. A scholarship valued at $10,000 will be offered to a graduate student who: is enrolled full-time in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Manitoba in a Masters or PhD program; is pursuing studies in community-based research methods including, but not limited to, community-based resource and environmental management, conservation and planning; has achieved a minimum degree grade point average of 3.5 (or equivalent) on the last 60 credit hours of courses (graduate and undergraduate); does not already hold a UMGF, SSHRC or other major award greater than $15,000. *Approved research areas are: community-based resource (or environmental) management; community-based planning for green options (e.g. solar energy); community-based conservation; Indigenous-led conservation and/or biocultural restoration; Indigenous reconciliation through conservation partnerships (e.g. environmental guardians); land use, food security and gender in northern Indigenous communities; and Indigenous knowledge and science (e.g. reconciling ways of knowing).
Value	$10000
Currency	Canadian
Tenable at	University of Manitoba
Deadlines	February 25
Application Details	Completed application packages should be emailed in one single PDF document to ilka.cudmore@umanitoba.ca. Please see this website for more details: https://umanitoba.ca/environment-earth-resources/student-experience/funding-and-awards Please contact Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth and Resources for all application inquiries. Modified: January 18, 2022