Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Recruitment Fellowships
The Alberta Innovates Recruitment Fellowships (AI RF) are to assist with the strategic recruitment of top postdoctoral fellows (“Trainees”), with health related work, to the University of Alberta and the province of Alberta.
$70,000 CAD per year for up to two years. Incoming postdoctoral fellow’s appointment must start between April 1, 2023 – December 1, 2023.
Top-Up: $15,000 - For Trainees in receipt of any other major comparable award (i.e. Killam, Notley, Tri-Council fellowships, etc.). The Stipend Incentive may be increased as necessary to ensure the combined value of the awards does not fall below $70,000 CAD per year.
The intent of the AI RF program is to bring outstanding candidates from outside the University of Alberta. There are no citizenship restrictions on this award. All Trainees must:
- Have completed a PhD at the time of award implementation;
- Be an incoming postdoctoral appointee to the University of Alberta. In the context of this competition, "incoming" means having an appointment start date no sooner than April 1, 2023;
- Incoming applicants must be newly recruited from outside of the University of Alberta; applicants must not already hold, or have held, a postdoc position at the University of Alberta or be employed at the University of Alberta
- Current University of Alberta postdoctoral fellows who plan to start another appointment at the University of Alberta as of April 1, 2023 are not eligible to apply
- Not have applied more than once before for a postdoctoral fellowship from Alberta Innovates;
- Proposed projects must:
- Involve health-related R&I activities that are strongly aligned to at least one strategic priority;
- Be performed at the University of Alberta; and
- Be approved for funding by Alberta Innovates.
Prospective postdoctoral fellows should first contact a Faculty member in the Department to which they wish to apply, who is willing to act as a potential supervisor for the Fellowship. Once a supervisor has been confirmed, applicants must complete the Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship Application form.
Potential postdoctoral fellows must submit their complete application (points 1-6 noted below) as one PDF via email to grad.awards@ualberta.ca by Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 11:59 pm MDT/Edmonton Time. Three letters of reference (point 7 noted below) are also to be sent directly to FGSR by applicants referees by December 15. To avoid lost or emails sent to spam, applicants are to request Award Services to confirm receipt of their application upon email submission. Applicants who do not receive an email reply from grad.awards@ualberta.ca confirming receipt of their application within 2-3 business days are responsible for following up with FGSR.
A complete application includes (refer to the Application form for detailed instructions):
1. Alberta Innovates Postdoctoral Fellowship Application form
2. Project proposal with statement on relevancy to AI priority areas (1 page maximum)
3. Summary of career goals (1 page maximum)
4. Applicant CV
5. Supervisor statement of support (on institution letterhead and signed by the supervisor)
6. Copy of results letter(s) from any competitions that the applicant has applied to previously for the same project (e.g., CIHR competition results)
7. Three Letters of Reference. As these letters are confidential, they must be submitted directly by the referees via email to grad.awards@ualberta.ca. Letters submitted by the applicant will not be accepted:
- Only have three appraisals sent. Any additional letters will be removed prior to the competition
- Applicants are responsible for supplying their referees with the documents necessary for them to write their respective letters.
December 15, 2022: Deadline for applicants to submit their complete application (points 1-6 noted above) as one PDF via email to grad.awards@ualberta.ca. The three letters of reference are also due at FGSR by applicants referees by December 15. To avoid lost/spammed emails, applicants are to request Award Services to confirm receipt of their application upon email submission. Applicants who do not receive an email reply from grad.awards@ualberta.ca confirming receipt of their application within 2-3 business days are responsible for following up with FGSR.
December 16 – 23, 2022: applications will be reviewed for eligibility and completeness. Once the application is submitted to FGSR, no revisions will be permitted. Incomplete applications including those submitted with missing documents and missing signatures will be rejected. FGSR will not follow up regarding applications that are incomplete and the application will automatically be rejected.
January 3 – Mid February, 2023: Review and adjudication by Postdoctoral Fellowship Selection Committee members
Mid – End of February, 2023: Postdoctoral Fellowship Committee Final Selection Meeting
End of February – Beginning of March, 2023: Alberta Innovates to approve selected awardees
March 2023 – Results letters are sent to all applicants
April 1, 2023 – Incoming postdoctoral fellows appointment start date to be between April 1 – December 1, 2023