ACCDMi Scholarships

Eligibility

To be eligible for an ACCDMi scholarship you must be:

2025 ACCDMi Scholarships

  • You must meet the eligibility conditions for September 2025-August 2026.

  • Please contact your supervisor for information on how to apply. The deadline to apply is Friday October 17 or until positions are filled.

  • The terms of the scholarships are below.

2026 ACCDMi Recruitment Scholarships

  • You must meet the eligibility conditions for September 2026-August 2027.

  • 2026 ACCDMi Recruitment Scholarships will support faculty offers for new graduate students or postdoctoral fellows applying for admission in Fall 2026 to be held at an AARMS member university. The ACCDMi Scholarship will be included as part of the admissions offer from the university. The ACCDMi supervisor will put the ACCDMi scholarship towards their contribution to the graduate student’s or postdoctoral fellow’s salary.

  • If you are interested in 2026 ACCDMi Recruitment Scholarships, you should contact your prospective supervisor to discuss whether they are willing to supervise your proposed graduate studies or postdoctoral fellowship. Your prospective supervisor can be any ACCDMi member and co-supervision (including cross-institution co-supervision) is also a possibility. You should discuss potential research projects with your potential supervisors.

  • Prospective graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are also encouraged to apply to AARMS’ other programs which include the AARMS postdoctoral fellowships and AARMS graduate scholarships. If you are considering this, please discuss it with your proposed supervisor.

  • Please contact Amy Hurford by email if you wish to discuss the 2026 ACCDMi Recruitment Scholarships, specifically.

Evaluation of ACCDMi Scholarship applications.

  • Applicants must satisfy the eligibility requirements.

  • For eligible applicants, a combination of the following is the basis for awarding the scholarships. That the applicant has outstanding potential to:

  • contribute to the mandate of ACCDMi through their research,

  • advancement of an underrepresented group in the discipline; and/or

  • potential to support cross-institutional collaborative research within ACCDMi.

Terms of ACCDMi Scholarships

  • ACCDMi Scholarship recipients will be featured on the ACCDMi website.

  • ACCDMi Scholarship recipients are required to participate in ACCDMi events. Where there is a cost associated with an event ACCDMi Scholarship recipients are encouraged to pursue sources of financial support, such as ACCDMi, the AARMS Junior Travel Researcher Travel Support Program, discussing this with their supervisors, or committing to participate remotely.

  • Scholarship amounts are provided to the supervisor to be used towards the trainee’s stipend. The scholarship award recognizes the trainee for their contributions to collaborative research. Amounts are provided to the supervisor because it is the supervisor’s responsibility to ensure the ACCDMi research is completed.