To support their study and research, graduate students in the Department of Linguistics over the years have received major awards from provincial, national, and international funding agencies such as Rotary International, the Commonwealth Scholarships, BC Science Council GREAT Awards, The BC Advanced Systems Institute, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Our students are also eligible to receive financial aid through fellowships and scholarships, and teaching and research assistantships flowing from the University of Victoria.

The awards are made on the basis of academic excellence, research potential, expertise, and abilities. While the Department would like to see more funding for graduate students, we are currently able to provide some funding to all graduate students who apply for it. The principal awards available from sources at the University of Victoria include:

The Geoffrey & Alix O’Grady Scholarship in Linguistics

One or more scholarships are awarded to graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and promise as researchers in the Department of Linguistics. Preference will be given to students entering the second year of a graduate program in Linguistics.

Recent recipients of this scholarship:

2009-2010  Nicholas Travers

Thomas M. Hess Scholarship in Indigenous Language Revitalization

The purpose of this Fund is to provide scholarships for First Nations students in the Faculty of Humanities or Education who show promise in learning or revitalizing an indigenous language.
 
This scholarship will be awarded to an indigenous student(s) who has shown promising progress in an indigenous language course or program at UVic. Students may be selected from the Faculty of Humanities or Education, and be enrolled in an Indigenous Language course, or an undergraduate Indigenous language program such as the Certificate in Aboriginal Language Revitalization, or a degree program in linguistics or education which focuses on the revitalization and learning of Indigenous languages.

Lucie Daigle Memorial Scholarship in Linguistics

While Lucie Daigle was in the final stages of ovarian cancer, she and her husband John Greene decided to "pay forward" the financial aid she had received while an MA student in the Department of Linguistics at UVic. They wished to do this by establishing a scholarship in her name for future graduate students in Linguistics. Lucie Daigle was raised in a Quebec farming community. She was inspired by her older sister who learned languages and explored the world. Lucie loved learning languages too and saw such learning as they way to open out to the world. At the age of 17 Lucie took a job as an au pair in Ottawa in order to learn English. Here she discovered a passion to learn more about the language and about English Canada. While studying toward a teaching degree at Université Laval, Lucie met Lynne Bain from Victoria BC. This meeting led to an exchange term at the University of Victoria and a lifelong friendship. After completing her BEd, Lucie returned to UVic as a Master's student in Linguistics. After graduation, Lucie took on the role of Director of French Studies in Continuing Studies at UVic. However, Lucie was a born teacher. She eagerly accepted an opportunity to teach in the Department of French, establishing herself as a particularly fine lecturer. Lucie was tremendously admired by both students and faculty.

The University of Victoria is grateful for Lucie and John's foresight in setting up the Lucie Daigle Memorial Scholarship in Linguistics.

Recent recipients of this scholarship:

2008-2009    Haley DeKorne

University of Victoria Fellowships

These fellowships are awarded competitively each year to one or two students entering the Department. The awards currently have the value of $13,500 (MA students) or $15,000 (PhD students).

Excellence Recruitment Awards

These entrance awards (in amounts from $1000 to $6000) are available for recruiting excellent graduate students to the Department.

President's Research Scholarships

These scholarships are awarded to all students who are also the holders of major national or international research awards from sources external to the University of Victoria. They are in the amount of $2000 or $4000.

Teaching Assistantships and Graduate Teaching Fellowships

This funding is awarded to qualified graduate students on the basis of their expertise and abilities, the stage in their graduate programs, and their level of financial support from other sources. Each assistantship plus teaching fellowship averages approximately $5000 annually.

The following MS-Word documents explain this funding for the 2013/14 Academic year:

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Research Assistantships and Graduate Research Fellowships

This funding is awarded to qualified graduate students on the basis of academic excellence and area of specialization. These awards are made by research grant holders; the amounts vary from project to project from approximately $4000 to $10,000 annually.

The Henry and Michiko Warkentyne Graduate Scholarships in Linguistics

One or more scholarships are awarded to graduate students who have demonstrated oustanding academic achievement and promise as researchers, with preference given to students entering the second year of a graduate program in Applied Linguistics or Phonetics. The award is usually in the amount of approximately $500.

Graduate Student Society Travel Grants

These grants are available to full-time graduate students for travel to conferences or for research. The form is available from the gradstudies section of the UVic website at:

http://web.uvic.ca/gradstudies/pdf/TravelGrantAPPLICATION_REGS.pdf

The Department of Linguistics has designated funds for graduate students in addition to travel grants approved by the Faculty of Graduate Studies and GSS. Application available here: Travel Funding Application (word doc) .