Funding our Members: Call is Open Now! Deadline: April 14

• Inter- and/or cross-disciplinarily
  • Request includes team members and demonstrated contributions from multiple departments and/or faculties
  • Request includes explicit statement of how proposed project crosses disciplinary boundaries
• New teams and/or new directions
  • Proposal describes either ways in which the team constitutes a new partnership or takes an existing partnership in a new direction
• Commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion, minimally within the team and, if relevant, as an outcome of the project
• The clarity and feasibility of the following request components:
  • Project rationale and timeline
  • Outcomes (such as events held, communications/publications, reports, policy briefs)
  • Budget
  • Roles of team members
• Whether the request provides a clear plan and timeline for leveraging LangSci funds for external funding

LangSci has separate envelopes of funding for direct and indirect research costs.

In preparing your budget, you should indicate what expenses are direct costs of research (such as GRA/UGRA salaries, data collection, honoraria for research participants and consultants, data entry, or stimulus/interview question creation) versus indirect costs of research (such as costs associated with hosting workshops, talks, seminars, and knowledge exchange/mobilization activities – e.g. catering, invited speaker travel and per diems, GAA salaries and benefits, honoraria and travel costs for community partners, and the costs of generating materials for public information such as reports, policy briefs, infographics, and other materials).

Please note that budgets may comprise solely direct costs, indirect costs, or a combination of the two.

Spending should adhere to the UBC Expenditure Guidelines, especially with regard to per diem rates and Hospitality & Entertainment expenditures. Please contact Language Sciences (language.sciences@ubc.ca) with questions regarding eligibility and approval of specific expenditures.

At this time, Language Sciences cannot provide funding to support development of course materials. If you are interested in matching funds for something like Teaching and Learning Enhancement Funds, please reach out to Language Sciences (language.sciences@ubc.ca).

Principle Investigators must be faculty at UBCV and UBCO.  However, LangSci highly encourages the involvement of trainees and colleagues at UBC and other institutions.