Presentation

Bursaries worth $500 CAD will be awarded to applicants who are writing their Master's or PhD thesis on a subject related to La Fondation Aubin's fields of interest, namely, the humanities and social sciences, and within them, political economy, world history of the labour movement and revolutions, the history of Québec and Canada, Marxism, activism, historiography, philosophy, nationalisms, women's studies and First Nations studies.

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Conditions

Any researcher may apply, regardless of citizenship, provided he/she is enrolled in a university. Applicants must have completed or be about to complete their degree before the summer of 2011.

Applicants who are shortlisted will be asked to present their work and hypotheses at a public event. They will be invited to take part in the Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson Research Centre's activities and will have priority access to the Centre's documentation and to a workstation. Applicants shall undertake to submit a scientific article to La Fondation during the year the bursary is awarded. Their research findings may be published in La Fondation's papers.

Instructions

The applicant's file must include:

• a) Letter of motivation;

• b) One-page description of the article to be submitted (problem statement, hypothesis, outline), based on the work to be done during the research period at the Research Centre;

• c) Academic record and CV;

• d) Proof that applicant has submitted, or is about to submit, his/her thesis or dissertation;

• e) Complete contact information.

Awarding process

La Fondation's Advisory Committee will receive applications and proceed to an initial selection. The applicants who are chosen will be asked to present their projects and hypotheses at a public event held at La Fondation Aubin. Following these presentations, the Advisory Committee will choose the bursary recipients.

The Advisory Committee did not award bursaries in 2008.

The deadline for submitting applications is November 15, 2011. The public presentations are planned for December.

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Bursary 2009 : 

We have reached the end of the selection process to award the 2009 bursary. The Advisory Committee had a difficult time choosing a single recipient due to the applicants' quality presentations and their many research ideas. The articles will be presented in our research centre's collected papers.

The 2009 Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson bursary has been awarded to:

"At the service of students and the nation: Union ideology and the Québec student movement in the 1960s", by Alexandre Leduc

On behalf of all our members, we want to congratulate and encourage him. We are well aware of the effort all the applicants made this year. We want to encourage them also to continue their research and to use the collection in our centre, where they will be given every consideration.