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Submissions are now being accepted for the 2018 CRTC Prize for Excellence in Policy Research!

SSHRC has recently launched its annual Storytellers contest, challenging postsecondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research affects our lives, our world and our future prosperity.

The Federal government recently announced the creation of 10,000 paid internships to help Canadian students better prepare for the modern-day workforce. Fulfilling a budget commitment, the government is investing $221 million in Mitacs, providing students with career-building opportunities while also helping Canadian companies innovate and compete globally.

Mitacs has partnered with the United Way to support research on themes surrounding social inclusion in five regions across Canada.

A new section of the Graduate Studies in Law website features information on postdoctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, as well as profiles of the law school’s current postdoctoral fellows.

Doctoral student Siobhán Airey, a member of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the Faculty of Law, recently presented at two conferences in the United Kingdom arising from her IRC-EU Marie-Curie Fellowship.

Doctoral student Salvador Herencia, Director of the Human Rights Clinic at the University’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre, has contributed to a new publication from Cambridge University Press entitled Law and Memory: Towards Legal Governance of History.

HRREC member Tenille E. Brown, a PhD Candidate and Part-time Professor at the Faculty of Law, has been selected as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Kent Law School, in England.

On October 17, 2017, doctoral student Alexandre Genest defended his PhD dissertation, entitled “Performance Requirement Prohibitions in International Investment Law”, as part of a double PhD programme at the University of Ottawa and the University of Leiden, the oldest university in the Netherlands.

The Government of Mexico is offering scholarships to Canadians for study or research at participating Mexican post-secondary institutions.