Student Research Stipends

Eligibility Criteria

Master’s and doctoral students enrolled in a Quebec-based university are eligible.

Research project requirements

Research projects need to align with Dialogue McGill’s research objectives and need to demonstrate an anticipated impact on the accessibility or delivery of health and social services for English-speaking communities in Quebec. Research projects looking to better understand and/or facilitate access to health and social services for English-speaking communities in Quebec are eligible.

All student-run research projects need to be completed under the supervision of a faculty member and/or independent researcher. Student research projects related to honours theses and graduate theses are eligible.

Example of eligible research themes include, but are not limited to:

• Implementation and evaluation of new strategies to increase health and social services access for English-speaking communities;

• Assess professionals’ English fluency competency and the impact on the provision of health care and social services;

• Secondary data analyses, literature reviews, and meta-analyses for relevant topics;

• Evaluation of strategies to build capacity and/or retention of bilingual health care and social service professionals based in Québec;

• Evaluation of English language instruction for future or current health care and social service professionals;

• Projects that focus on adaptation of promising information technology tools, data analysis, or interventions for English-speaking Quebecers;

• Proposals that aim to replicate past successful research projects that aligned with Dialogue McGill’s Research Program mandate. Ethics approval.

Ethics Approval

Dialogue McGill welcomes research proposals that already have received research ethics approval or are exempt at the time of application. If an ethics application is pending, applicants must clearly state how most of the research project will be completed by March 31, 2025. A progress report will be due by April 10, 2025 and students will need to demonstrate measurable outputs at this time. 

Conditions for funding

Successful applicants external to McGill University will need a supervisor to sign a subaward agreement for a stipend funding transfer. Funded students must acknowledge Dialogue McGill in all formal communications and publications related to the project. Guidelines are provided upon acceptance. Funded applicants must also report any knowledge transfer activities resulting from the completed project for up to 5 years.

Objectives

Dialogue McGill's research mandate focuses on understanding the key factors that facilitate or impede access to health and social services for Quebec’s Official Language Minority Communities.

Our main objectives are to support, consolidate and expand a growing body of original and interdisciplinary research on the equity and quality of service access for linguistic minorities. The long-term objectives of these initiatives are to provide effective health and social services in the minority language to Official Language Minority Communities in Quebec.

To meet these objectives, Dialogue McGill funds student research projects that improve the access and delivery of healthcare and social services by generating new knowledge or by evaluating initiatives in applied settings.

Funding announcement

Funding results will be announced in October 2024. If there are discrepancies between the results date on this website and any application forms, the date on this website is considered correct.

Queries

For any questions regarding this funding call, please email research.dialoguemcgill@mcgill.ca