Student Research Stipends

The call is now open! Deadline to apply is November 11, 2024

Overview

Dialogue McGill’s Research Program promotes innovative research on facilitating access to health and social services for English-speaking communities in Quebec. Graduate students with relevant research interests can obtain a research stipend for one academic year.

Students supervised by a faculty member/independent researcher who lead research projects that align with our research mandate are invited to submit a proposal to Dialogue McGill for funding.

One (1) year stipend, non-renewable

Graduate-level | $5,000

Eligibility Criteria

Master’s and doctoral students enrolled in a Quebec-based university are eligible.

Research project requirements

Research projects need to align with Dialogue McGill’s research objectives and need to demonstrate an anticipated impact on the accessibility or delivery of health and social services for English-speaking communities in Quebec. Research projects looking to better understand and/or facilitate access to health and social services for English-speaking communities in Quebec are eligible.

All student-run research projects need to be completed under the supervision of a faculty member and/or independent researcher. Student research projects related to honours theses and graduate theses are eligible.

Example of eligible research themes include, but are not limited to:

  • Implementation and evaluation of new strategies to increase health and social services access for English-speaking communities;

  • Assess professionals’ English fluency competency and the impact on the provision of health care and social services;

  • Secondary data analyses, literature reviews, and meta-analyses for relevant topics;

  • Evaluation of strategies to build capacity and/or retention of bilingual health care and social service professionals based in Québec;

  • Evaluation of English language instruction for future or current health care and social service professionals;

  • Projects that focus on adaptation of promising information technology tools, data analysis, or interventions for English-speaking Quebecers;

  • Proposals that aim to replicate past successful research projects that aligned with Dialogue McGill’s Research Program mandate. Ethics approval.

Ethics Approval

Dialogue McGill welcomes research proposals that already have received research ethics approval or are exempt at the time of application. If an ethics application is pending, applicants must clearly state how most of the research project will be completed by March 31, 2025. A progress report will be due by April 10, 2025 and students will need to demonstrate measurable outputs at this time. 

Conditions for funding

Successful applicants external to McGill University will need a supervisor to sign a subaward agreement for a stipend funding transfer. Funded students must acknowledge Dialogue McGill in all formal communications and publications related to the project. Guidelines are provided upon acceptance. Funded applicants must also report any knowledge transfer activities resulting from the completed project for up to 5 years.

Objectives

Dialogue McGill's research mandate focuses on understanding the key factors that facilitate or impede access to health and social services for Quebec’s Official Language Minority Communities.

Our main objectives are to support, consolidate and expand a growing body of original and interdisciplinary research on the equity and quality of service access for linguistic minorities. The long-term objectives of these initiatives are to provide effective health and social services in the minority language to Official Language Minority Communities in Quebec.

To meet these objectives, Dialogue McGill funds student research projects that improve the access and delivery of healthcare and social services by generating new knowledge or by evaluating initiatives in applied settings.

Funding announcement

Funding results will be announced in December 2024. If there are discrepancies between the results date on this website and any application forms, the date on this website is considered correct.

Queries

For any questions regarding this funding call, please email research.dialoguemcgill@mcgill.ca

Application Process

Students wishing to apply must submit the required documents to Dialogue McGill by November 11, 2024.

Required documents

Students must submit the following documents at the time of application:

  • Proof of enrolment at a university in Quebec

  • A copy of current transcripts (official or unofficial)

  • Form 1: Project Proposal

  • Form 2: Student-Supervisor Agreement & Ethics Approval

The following items will be requested in the application forms:

  • Research proposal (approx. 1 - 2 pages). The research proposal needs to be written by the student under the supervision of their supervisor. It must include:

    • Title

    • Theoretical background

    • Objectives

    • Methodology

    • Data analysis plan

    • Practical implications

  • Project timeline including the planned dates for research activities over the course of the academic year, including anticipated deliverables

  • Ethical considerations

  • The implications of the projects. Students need to describe how the proposed research, and anticipated results, could impact English-speaking communities and/or health and social service professionals in Quebec.

Application Forms

Past Student Calls

Past student calls are listed below. Past calls were collectively referred to as Health Care Access for Linguistic Minorities (HCALM). To see a complete list of our funded student projects, please visit the student research page.

This call is now closed. To view the funded projects, click here

Research themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Innovation pertaining to language in mental health services (e.g., digital solutions, artificial intelligence, economics).

  • Quality improvement initiatives.

  • Secondary data analyses and/or literature reviews (also acceptable if they are part of ongoing projects.)

  • Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to mental health services.

  • Cultural and linguistic competency.

  • Mental health and social inequalities with a particular emphasis on vulnerable, hard-to-reach groups.

  • Retention of mental health professionals (in urban, remote, or rural communities)

  • Second language instruction for mental health professionals.

  • Linguistic minorities in mental health education and practice.

  • L2 (language that isn’t one’s native) capacity creation and development among mental health professionals.

Proposals needed to focus primarily on issues related to access to health care/social services for linguistic minorities in Quebec. 

The program runs for the full academic year (September 2021 to April 2022), and is intended for students from any Quebec university whose current or developing research interests focus on the intersection of language and mental health provision (honours thesis, graduate project, master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation).

This call is now closed. To view the funded projects, click here

Research themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Innovation pertaining to language in health/social services (e.g., digital solutions, artificial intelligence, economics)

  • Cultural and linguistic competency

  • Health or social inequalities with a particular emphasis on vulnerable, hard-to-reach groups

  • Retention of health professionals (in urban, remote, or rural communities)

  • Second language instruction for healthcare/social service professionals

  • Linguistic minorities in medical education and practice

  • L2 (language that isn’t one’s native) capacity creation and development among health professionals

The program runs for the full academic year (September 2021 to April 2022), and is intended for students from any Quebec university, whose current or developing research interests focus on the intersection of language and healthcare or social service provision (honours thesis, graduate project, master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation

This call is now closed. To view the funded projects, click here

Research themes included, but were not limited to, the following:

  • Innovation pertaining to language in health/social services (e.g., digital solutions, artificial intelligence, economics)

  • Cultural and linguistic competency

  • Health or social inequalities with a particular emphasis on vulnerable, hard-to-reach groups

  • Health geography and spatial statistics

  • Retention of health professionals (in urban, remote, or rural communities)

  • Second language instruction for healthcare/social service professionals

  • Linguistic minorities in medical education and practice

  • L2 capacity creation and development among health professionals

The program ran for the full academic year (September 2020–April 2021) and was intended for advanced undergraduate or graduate students from any Quebec university, whose current or developing research interests focus on the intersection of language and healthcare or social service provision (honours thesis, graduate project, master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation).

This call is now closed. To view the funded projects, click here

Research themes included, but were not limited to, the following:

  • Innovation pertaining to language in health/social services (e.g., digital solutions, artificial intelligence, economics)

  • Cultural and linguistic competency

  • Health or social inequalities with a particular emphasis on vulnerable, hard-to-reach groups

  • Health geography and spatial statistics

  • Retention of health professionals (in urban, remote, or rural communities)

  • Second language instruction for healthcare/social service professionals

  • Linguistic minorities in medical education and practice

  • L2 capacity creation and development among health professionals

The program ran for the full academic year (September 2019–April 2020) and was intended for advanced undergraduate or graduate students from any Quebec university, whose current or developing research interests focus on the intersection of language and healthcare or social service provision (honours thesis, graduate project, master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation).

This call is now closed. To view the funded projects, click here

Research themes included, but were not limited to, the following:

  • Innovation pertaining to language in health/social services (e.g., digital solutions, artificial intelligence, economics)

  • Cultural and linguistic competency

  • Health or social inequalities with a particular emphasis on vulnerable, hard-to-reach groups

  • Health geography and spatial statistics

  • Retention of health professionals (in urban, remote, or rural communities)

  • Second language instruction for healthcare/social service professionals

  • Linguistic minorities in medical education and practice

  • L2 capacity creation and development among health professionals

The program ran for the full academic year (September 2018–April 2019) and was intended for advanced undergraduate or graduate students from any Quebec university, whose current or developing research interests focus on the intersection of language and healthcare or social service provision (honours thesis, graduate project, master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation).