University of British Columbia Graduate Student Travel and Research Dissemination Fund 2027

Graduate students are eligible to receive the Graduate Student Travel and Research Dissemination Fund once per degree program. The Travel and Research Dissemination Fund provides funding support of $500 per graduate student.

Travelling outside of Canada: When students are planning travel outside of Canada for university purposes, they have obligations under UBC’s Student Safety Abroad Policy (SC12). Students are required to have adequate travel medical insurance, to register their travel on UBC’s Safety Abroad Registry, and to use the resources provided by UBC to support safe travel planning and risk management. In locations where the Government of Canada has official travel advisories in place, students are required to request High-Risk Authorization before travelling. 

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Documents
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineDecember 1, 2026
• Study LevelMasters , PhD
• SponsorUniversity of British Columbia
• City to studyVancouver
• School to studyUniversity of British Columbia
• Course to study
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

CAD $500

Requirements

To be eligible for the Travel and Research dissemination Fund:

The Travel and Research Dissemination Fund assists graduate students in sharing the results of their research with professional audiences, to contribute to students' professional development, and to provide them with career advancement opportunities.

• Students must be registered in a UBC-Vancouver graduate program administered by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. This excludes a small number of programs, such as MBA, MM, MEng, etc. To check if your program is administered by the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, please refer to the list of graduate programs offered at UBC.
• Part-time graduate students are eligible for this award.
• Expenses associated with a presentation or with open access publishing are eligible
• The $500 award offer is limited to once per degree program

Presentation

• Students must be selected through a competitive, open, and publicly advertised process to:
  • present a paper or poster virtually or in person at an academic conference, such as annual disciplinary meetings or more focused workshops or symposia, or
  • participate in, perform or exhibit an artistic work virtually or in person.
• The conference or competition must take place while the student is enrolled full-time in a graduate degree program. Students on official on-leave status are not enrolled full-time. Full-time enrollment ceases at the end of the month when all degree requirements are completed, not at the time of convocation
• Multiple students cannot receive the full award for the same paper / poster / performance. In cases where there are multiple presenters of a co-authored paper or poster, a single student (normally, the student who made the greatest contribution to the paper or poster) may apply for and receive the award.
• Students must not have previously received the award during the same degree program

Open Access Publishing

• If a student has a peer-reviewed publication accepted for open access publication and the open access incurs a fee (often, "article process charge") from the journal or publisher, this fee is eligible for the award
• The student must be enrolled in their program at the time of acceptance of the publication.
• Students must not have previously received the award during the same degree program

Please be sure to learn about open access publishing before submitting to journals/publishers, and be particularly aware of the risks associated with “predatory publishers”.

• For journals, any included in the Directory of Open Access Journals, or those whose editorial policies meet the criteria for inclusion in DOAJ, are eligible.

Application Documents

Students must submit the following to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies:

• Completed Graduate Student Travel and Research Dissemination Fund Application. Application must be signed by student and faculty supervisor.
• Proof of conference presentation or program agenda, or proof of open access publishing charge
• NEW!  Prior to 2023, the award operated on a reimbursement model (ie. receipts required).  As of 2023, receipts are no longer required – all eligible applicants will receive a $500 award offer.

Note: The complete application should be submitted by email to [email protected] only after travel or open access publishing has taken place. Applications for future travel will not be accepted. 

Application Deadline

How To Apply

For more information, visit University of British Columbia scholarship webpage.