Competition

* Unless explicitly noted, all times indicated for deadlines are for the appropriate NL timezone (NST or NDT)

The Polar Knowledge Canada (POLAR) Fellowship Program opens January 13, 2025.

POLAR will be offering Five (5) fellowship award opportunities of $50,000 (from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026).

The POLAR Fellowship is for post-doctoral researchers and visiting researchers. Visiting researchers refers to university-based researchers, community-based researchers, and Indigenous knowledge-holders.

Applicants must be affiliated with a recognized university and with a Northern institute for the duration of their fellowship.

A POLAR Fellowship aims to support eligible individuals who wish to continue to develop their northern expertise and advance their research under one of POLAR's S&T Goals. Eligibility criteria will be updated soon. You may consult the 2025-2026 POLAR Fellowship Guidelines for this year’s eligibility criteria.

The POLAR Fellowship Program aims to:

• connect post-doctoral candidates and visiting researchers with northern-based research institutions;

• support projects that work across disciplines and connect multiple knowledge holders and knowledge systems; and

• advance knowledge to contribute to northern scientific and community priorities.

POLAR Fellowship Guidelines 2025-2026.

For this fellowship competition, applicants submit directly to the  funding agency as per their instructions. Applications are not submitted through Memorial's Researcher Portal, nor to the Faculty of HSS, or Research, Initiatives and Services (RIS).