2017-2018 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Competition

The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program is designed to support world-class postdoctoral researchers. The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships are Canada’s most prestigious and highest valued award for postdoctoral researchers today. Researchers can take up the award at a Canadian university, or at a university outside of Canada (e.g. Australia). 

Funding

The fellowship provides $70,000CAD per year, for two years. 

Eligibility Highlights

Applicants to the 2017-2018 Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships must have fulfilled all degree requirements for a PhD (or equivalent) or health professional degree between September 20, 2014 and September 30, 2018 (inclusively). 

Canadian citizens, permanent residents of Canada, and foreign citizens are eligible to apply. Applicants who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada may only take up the fellowship at a Canadian institution. Similarly, applicants who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada—and who obtained their PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree from a foreign university—may only take up the fellowship at a Canadian institution. But applicants who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada and who obtained their PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree from a Canadian university may hold their Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship at either a Canadian institution or an institution outside of Canada.

For more information on further eligibility requirements, visit: http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/

Key Deadlines & Application Process

The application deadline will be September 20, 2017 at 20:00 EDT for the 2017-2018 competition. Please note that many Canadian institutions typically have internal deadlines for the Banting Fellowship scheme. Institutional deadlines vary, and can be as early as May/June. Applications must be completed in full collaboration with the proposed host institution (i.e. host institution endorsement is required). For more information on the program and how to apply, visit: http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/

 

Pure Record Instructions

Applicants coming from Monash, or intending to hold the fellowship at Monash, must create an Application Record in Pure and submit the record to the MRO Pre-approval workflow.

·              Select Funding Organisation: Government of Canada

·              Select Funding Opportunity: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship

If you would like MRO to check your application before submission: attach a draft application to the Pure record and submit it to Pre-approval one week prior to your intended submission date to the desired host institution.

For any further questions, please email the MRO <mro-arc@monash.edu>.