Autism Scholars Award

Award type: 
Scholarships
Award description: 

With the support of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU), a Scholar Awards Program in Autism was established to ensure that Ontario attracts and retains pre-eminent scholars.  The community of autism scholars fostered by this Awards Program will excel, according to internationally accepted standards of scientific excellence, in the creation of new knowledge concerning child autism, and its translation into improved health for children, more effective services and products for children with autism, and increase the province’s capacity in diagnosis and assessment of autism and a strengthened treatment system.

Value description: 
  • $18,000 for master's students
  • $20,000 for doctoral students
Eligibility & selection criteria: 

For full details regarding this award, please refer to the external Autism Scholars Award website.

Level: 
Masters, Doctoral
Program:
Open to any program
Citizenship: 
Canadian/Permanent resident
Selection process: 
Application required
Term: 
Fall
Application deadline: 
December 1
Additional instructions: 

Application Package:
Completed application packages must be submitted to Laura Frazee by December 1. Complete application packages include the following:

  1. Application: available at https://cou.ca/resources/awards
    1. “Signature of Dean of Graduate School” on application form is not required at the time of submitting application. However, supervisor signature should be obtained.
  2. Curriculum vitae: including information concerning the eligibility criteria
  3. Statement of research: explaining the research to be undertaken during the period of graduate study (maximum 1,000 words). Must be written by the candidate.*
  4. Non-technical summary (maximum 500 words). Must be written by the candidate.*

*one additional page may be included for citations/diagrams.

Transcripts:

  • Upon receipt of a complete application, GSPA will automatically generate an official UW transcript and retrieve copies of official non-Waterloo transcripts which were submitted as part of the applicant’s admission application.
  • Applicants do not need to submit transcripts with their application. Instead, applicants must list in the body of their submission email to Laura Frazee all previous institutions (and degrees, if applicable) that they have attended including Waterloo; (e.g. University of Waterloo – Bachelor of Science; University of Toronto - Master of Science; Western University – single course).

Reference Letters:

  • Two reference letters are required.
  • Applicants must ask each assessor to email letters directly to Laura Frazee by December 1. Letters must not be submitted by the applicant. All letters must be signed and on letterhead.
  • Letters should focus on an evaluation of the applicant’s research to date, and the research being undertaken during the period of graduate study for which the applicant will hold an Autism Scholars Award, if successful.
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