ENRICH Doctoral Salary Award for Black and Indigenous Scholars 2025 (up to $30,000)

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About ENRICH Doctoral Salary Award

These awards are intended for Black or Indigenous research scholars who wish to pursue a career as a perinatal and/or child health researcher. Through an individualized research development plan, learners in ENRICH will enhance their skills ranging from research methods, to managing multi-site teams, to personal wellness, and other relevant topics for researchers.

• Sponsor Organisation: ENRICH (Empowering Next-generation Researchers In perinatal and Child Health)

Benefits of ENRICH Doctoral Salary Award

• This award will provide $30,000 of salary support each year for up to 3 years maximum. For Doctoral learners who defend their thesis before the 4-year term ends, the last day of the month that the revised thesis is accepted will act as the new end date for the award. It is the supervisor's responsibility to inform ENRICH of this change. If funds are paid out beyond this time point, then it will need to be refunded to ENRICH by the Host Institution and/or
  supervisor.
• Learners are eligible for medical or a family caregiver's leave. The latter is to provide care or support to certain family members who have a serious medical condition. Awards will be placed "on hold" for the duration of the leave with supported documentation from the local institution. Awards will resume upon the return of the individual to the training environment.
• The Award recipients and their supervisors will have their expenses paid to attend the ENRICH Annual Symposia and relevant Regional Mini Symposia. A written commitment from the supervisor/mentor stating their agreement to attend Annual Symposia, for each year that the learner is in the program, is mandatory with the application.

ENRICH Doctoral Salary Award Requirements

This award is open for Black or Indigenous scholars only.

Location of Tenure: The award must be held at a Canadian Academic Institution, and/or child health research institute affiliated with a Canadian University.

Timing: Applicants must have at minimum 2 active years remaining in their doctoral studies from the ENRICH funding start date, which is May 1st of each year. Any interruption in a candidate’s career should be explained in a CIHR Biosketch Common CV.

Active Salary Awards: Applicants who already have a multi-year salary/stipend award from a local, provincial, or national organization/institution are ineligible for this award. Please apply to the REACH Award. 

Citizenship: This program is open to Canadians and permanent residents of Canada.

Regional Leaders are available to help you: Sixteen Canadian Pediatric Academic Centres have a Regional Leader. Please contact the Regional Leader closest to your academic institution. They are knowledgeable about the ENRICH program and competition processes.  You do not need their sign-off to submit an application.  Please contact them well in advance of the application deadlines (45-60 days) to make sure that they have enough time to help you.  A list of our Regional leaders can be found HERE. 

Application Date and Process

A FULL application will be due January 10 of each year at 5 pm PST. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. If the application competition date falls on a weekend or statutory holiday, applications will be due on the first business day following at 5pm PST.

When you are ready to submit your application online, you will be asked to upload each of the required documents below.

A complete FULL application that is due January 10th consists of:

Kindly complete this digital application for the ENRICH Doctoral Award for Black and Indigenous Scholars. Please have the following documents ready for upload during this process:

1. Proof of citizenship/permanent residency. Please name the file “1 CandidateLastname_Citizenship.”
2. Itemized response (for resubmissions only). Please name it “2R CandidateLastname_Reviewer Response.”
3. Research Proposal document.  Please name the document “2 CandidateLastname_Research Proposal.”
4. Your CIHR Biosketch and name it “3 CandidateLastname_Biosketch.”
5. Your Primary Supervisor’s CIHR Biosketch. Please name it “3a Supervisor 1 CandidateLastname_Biosketch.”
6. All other Co-supervisor’s CIHR Biosketch (when applicable). Please name it “3b Supervisor 2 CandidateLastname_Biosketch,” “3c Supervisor 3 CandidateLastname_Biosketch,” etc.
7. Indigenous Community Support Letter (when applicable). Please name this support letter “4 CandidateLastname_Indigenous Community Support.”
8. Signature page. Please name it “5 CandidateLastname_Sig Page.” Click to download Signature Page.

If you have any questions or concerns during this process please email [email protected].

French applications: Applications may be submitted in French. Please note, you are requested to advise the ENRICH Program office of your intent to submit in French a minimum 4 weeks prior to the application deadline.  If you are successful in the written portion, interviews can be accommodated in French at the candidate’s request.

Application Deadline

10 January, 2025

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