Student & Postdoctoral Scholar Funding

Undergraduate Student Funding Opportunities

Targeted funding opportunities for undergraduate students include:

  • Undergraduate Summer Research Internships Program: Provides undergraduate students with engaged research experiences and opportunities to learn new research methods and techniques alongside faculty mentors.
  • Head and Heart Program: Aims to open space for Indigenous students to use Indigenous Knowledge systems and language within undergraduate summer research projects across a wide variety of academic disciplines.
  • NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) University Awards: Meant to stimulate your interest in research in the natural sciences and engineering. If you would like to gain research experience in an academic setting, these awards can provide you with financial support through your host university. NSERC encourages qualified Indigenous students to apply to this program.

Graduate Student & Postdoctoral Scholar Funding Opportunities

Targeted funding opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars include:

Internal Opportunities

  • Academic Joint Fund for Support of Graduate Student Research and Scholarship: Initiated to help support the creation of events that bring external participants to share their research and interact with Western's graduate students.
  • BrainsCAN Graduate Studentship Program: Developed to attract the most promising prospective master’s and doctoral students in cognitive neuroscience. Open to prospective graduate students not enrolled in a graduate program at Western.
  • BrainsCAN Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Developed to attract promising early career neuroscientists whose innovative work has achieved impact and demonstrated great potential for continued contributions.
  • Western Postdoctoral Fellowship Program: Provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, nationally and internationally, who will contribute positively to research excellence at the university and help advance Western's strategic research plan. 
  • Western Research Scholar Awards: Provides additional funding to successful applicants to Tri-Agency postdoctoral fellowship programs as a means of helping attract and support the most promising postdoctoral scholars to conduct research-intensive projects on a full-time basis at Western. 

External Opportunities