NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships

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Deadline
Likely in September 2024
Annual Value
$21,000
Citizenship
Canadian
Permanent Resident
Degree Level
Doctoral

 

The NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships – Doctoral (PGS-D) program provides financial support to high-calibre scholars who are engaged in an eligible doctoral program in the natural sciences or engineering. This support allows these scholars to fully concentrate on their studies and seek out the best research mentors in their chosen fields.

Applications to the PGS D program will automatically be considered for the Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship – Doctoral (CGS D) award , which is offered to the top-ranked applicants; the next tier of meritorious applicants will be offered a PGS D award.

Fall 2022 competition deadlines:

• Application deadline (through The University of British Columbia): Tuesday, 12 September 2023 at 12:00 pm PT
• Graduate program nomination deadline (to Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies): Tuesday, 10 October 2023 at 4:00 pm PT

Late applications will not be accepted.

 

Eligibility

Complete eligibility criteria are available on the CGS-D program page  (the NSERC PGS D shares eligibility criteria with the CGS D).

However, this additional eligibility criteria is specific to the NSERC PGSD:

• Applicants may take up their PGS D at any eligible Canadian institution. They may also take it up at any eligible foreign institution, provided they have received a previous degree from a Canadian institution.
• If an applicant is offered a CGS D but decides to take the award to an eligible foreign institution, and is eligible to do so, they must decline the CGS D to be offered a PGS D award in its place.

Refer to the NSERC PGSD program page for details.

Evaluation Criteria

Complete evaluation criteria are available on the CGS-D program page  (the NSERC PGS D shares evaluation criteria with the CGS D).

Application Procedures

Refer to the Application Procedures on our CGSD webpage for detailed instructions (the NSERC PGS D shares application procedures with the CGS D).

Note regarding transcripts: UBC requires the provision of official transcripts as part of each application package. Please refer to the Application Procedures section on our CGSD webpage for detailed information. Applications that do not provide official or allowable transcripts may be deemed ineligible.

Nomination Procedures

Refer to the Nomination Procedures on our CGSD webpage for detailed instructions (the NSERC PGS D shares nomination procedures with the CGS D).

Adjudication Procedures

Refer to the Adjudication Procedures on our CGSD webpage for details (the NSERC PGS D shares adjudication procedures with the CGS D).

Meet Award Holders

Carrie Peters

Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology (PhD)

Motor system involvement in action observation

Rubaiya Rumman

Doctor of Philosophy in Civil Engineering (PhD)

Wood fly ash-based self-healing concrete using encapsulated chemical agents

Joseph Zsombor-Pindera

Doctor of Philosophy in Chemistry (PhD)

Exploring the electronic structure and reactivity of transition metal complexes of redox non-innocent ligands through spectroscopy and computational chemistry

Josef Garen

Doctor of Philosophy in Botany (PhD)

Impacts of temperature on plant carbon metabolism and water use

Melody Salehzadeh

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Local regulation of glucocorticoids in the nervous and immune systems

Antoine Belley

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD)

Probing beyond standard model physics through ab initio calculations of exotic weak processes in atomic nuclei

Eric Press

Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology (PhD)

Modular optic flow processing during natural locomotion

Sharada Balaji

Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (PhD)

Characterizing white matter: Adventures with quantitative magnetic resonance imaging

Deanna Pepin

Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology and Immunology (PhD)

Impact of osmotic perturbations on the gut microbiota

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Further Information

NSERC's FAQs  provide helpful information for applicants.

For further information, please visit the NSERC PGS-D page .