Students who are accepted into the program are encouraged to apply through their prospective supervisors for studentships.

For further information please contact our graduate studies office at: gradstudies.psychiatry@ualberta.ca

Graduate Student Financial Support

All Supervisors are responsible for financial support of Graduate Students under their supervision. This includes:

• After a Graduate Student chooses a research Supervisor, stipend support will be provided from either an operating grant or an independent award to the Graduate Student.
• It is the Graduate Student's responsibility to apply for appropriate external funding, and it is the Supervisor's responsibility to facilitate those applications in a timely fashion.

Supervisors must make students aware of their financial situation by providing a letter of committment detailing the funding, funding source, term of funding; this letter is signed by both supervisor and student.  If funding is being provided by an alternate source such as a different department then a letter from this department will accompany the letter of committment outlining these details.  These letters will accompany the applicaiton that is approved by the Departments Graduate Program Committee.

Major Awards

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) - Provides support ($17,500 to $35,000 annually) to students engaged in master's or doctoral programs in psychology as a natural science.
• Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) - ( Master’s and doctoral research awards from CIHR ($17,500 to $35,000 annually) provide support to students pursuing a degree in a health-related field.
• Alberta Innovates Health Solutions (AIHS) - AIHS Full-time Studentships ($19,000 to $20,000 annually plus $1000 to $1500 research allowance) enable full-time research training in basic bio-medical, health, or mental health sciences.
• Queen Elizabeth II Scholarships - The Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR) awards QEII Graduate Scholarships every year.  The awards are valued at $15000.00 (Doctoral Level) and $10800.00 (Master's Level) each year.

Incentive Awards (top ups for CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC winners)

• Walter H. Johns Graduate Scholarship - $5,008 to students who receive major master’s NSERC, SSHRC, or CIHR awards.
• President’s Doctoral Prize of Distinction - $10,000 in Year 1 of a major doctoral scholarship (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC) and tuition fees in each remaining year of scholarship

Department Awards  

• Department of Psychiatry Travel Award
• Publication Award
• The Roger C Bland Graduate Award in Psychiatric Research
• The Hassan F. A Azim Graudate Award

 Other Awards

• Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR) General Awards - Current senior students may be eligible for the Andrew Stewart Memorial Graduate Prize, the Dissertation Fellowship, and the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship.
• There are many research-related awards, scholarships and bursaries available to students in theFaculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta.
• University of Alberta Administered Awards - A variety of graduate awards are distributed to current students by FGSR each year.
• Recruitment Scholarships -  A variety of recruitment scholarships are available for superior master’s, doctoral, and/or international students, including the F.S. Chia ($24,000 plus tuition). Graduate applicants are nominated by the Department (no specific scholarship application required).

Travel Awards

• Department of Psychiatry Travel Award Application - The Department of Psychiatry has organized this program to give you one opportunity per quarter (1st quarter, April, May, June; 2nd quarter, July, August, September; 3rd quarter, October, November, December; 4th quarter, January, February, March) for travel assistance to expose your research results and conclusions to peer review, test ideas with acknowledged experts, etc. In most cases, this activity will involve attending a major national or international research gathering where you must be actively participating by presenting a paper, poster session, or participating in a panel discussion, etc.  The travel fund will now also support trips to field sites, off-campus research stations, etc.

• Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research (FGSR) Travel Grants -Students may apply for up to $1300 from FGSR for a research travel grant (Mary Louise Imrie, J. Gordin Kaplan, or Profiling Alberta’s Graduate Students awards) once during their master’s and once during their doctoral program.

Further information on graduate awards may be found at FGSR's Awards and Funding web page.

International Student Differential Fee

Tuition costs are higher for international students, but funds are normally available to offset the fee differential.  For further information please contact our graduate studies office at: gradstudies.psychiatry@ualberta.ca