The UBC Department of English Language & Literatures is pleased to invite graduate students, honours students, major students, and postdoctoral fellows in the Faculty of Arts to an engaging session with Dr. Matthew Wyman-McCarthy.
This hybrid session will provide practical advice on how to approach research funding applications, with specific focus on the Canada Graduate Research Scholarships (formerly SSHRC doctoral and master’s awards) and Canada Postdoctoral Research Award. Topics to be covered include grant writing as a genre, how to strategically craft a program of work, and tips for success. Attendees are encouraged to bring questions for the Q&A portion. Light refreshments will be served.
About the Speaker
Dr. Matthew Wyman-McCarthy is a research facilitator and academic editor with expertise in the Canadian research funding landscape. He works with researchers across the humanities and social sciences on all stages of application development, from project design to budgeting to fine tuning. Dr. Wyman-McCarthy holds a PhD in History from McGill University and was a postdoc at Columbia University and the University of New Hampshire prior to pivoting to alt-ac roles.
