President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award

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President's Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Awards (PAEIPA) totalling approximately $4.3 million per year are provided to recognize the significant contributions of PhD students to the research activities of the university. The awards are available to all new and continuing PhD students, except Joint PhD students who are not being assessed tuition at UBC for the term (see "Eligiblity" for details).

Award values per student will be approximately:

• $555 per year for domestic students being assessed continuing tuition fees (year 4 and later)
• $1,215 per year for domestic students being assessed full tuition fees (years 1-3)
• $1,425 per year for international students.

Note: as with most graduate award funding at UBC, students are assigned this funding in three instalments - each instalment is 1/3 of the total annual amount, assigned at the beginning of each term (September, January and May) of the academic year.

 

Eligibility

The awards are available to all new and continuing PhD students except:

• Those students who are not assessed tuition (ie. Joint PhD students who are not being assessed tuition at UBC for the term)

Note: Prior to September 2022, students who had their tuition paid by a sponsor or students who received a UBC staff tuition waiver were not eligible for the PAEIPA.  As of September 2022, they are now eligible.

Application Procedures

The award will be assigned automatically to eligible students; students do not need to apply.

Meet Award Holders

Katherine Hastings

Doctor of Philosophy in Population and Public Health (PhD)

Co-design of a suicide care framework within an integrated youth service network in BC

Dante Prado

Doctor of Philosophy in Germanic Studies (PhD)

Laughter amidst wars and crises in German modernism

Caitlyn Yates

Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology (PhD)

Degrees of Visibility: the Journeys of Extra-continental Migrants through the Americas

Meghna Mohandas

Doctor of Philosophy in Planning (PhD)

Private space as political ‘genderscape’: How social and political contexts shape the rental housing experiences of Indigenous migrant women in Bengaluru, India

Matthew Tomkinson

Doctor of Philosophy in Theatre (PhD)

Peter Weiss’s Marat/Sade: A Podcast

Tonje Molyneux

Doctor of Philosophy in Human Development, Learning, and Culture (PhD)

Supporting systemic, school-based social and emotional learning through teacher professional development

Neha Sharma-Mascarenhas

Doctor of Philosophy in Resources, Environment and Sustainability (PhD)

Analyzing data and policy outcomes for repair, reuse, and recycling for end-of-life electronics

Loulou Cai

Doctor of Philosophy in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (PhD)

The impact of chronic/latent viral infections on markers of inflammation and cellular markers of aging in people living with HIV

Aram Bajakian

Doctor of Philosophy in Music, Emphasis Ethnomusicology (PhD)

Navigating nostalgias: Musical identities in the Armenian diaspora

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