Financial Support

It is the policy of the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology that all M.Sc. (Thesis) and Ph.D. graduate students should, at all times of their guaranteed funding period, have financial support at a minimum of $20,000/yr for 2 years stipend for MSc students and $28,000/yr for 4 years stipend for PhD Students. This funding can be sourced from scholarships, supervisor funding, Teaching Assistantships, Graduate Fellowships or some combination thereof. For example, a student may hold a Teaching Assistantship for one semester, a Graduate Fellowship for the second semester, and funding from the supervising professor's research grant for the third semester.

The BPK department has developed program-level funding poilcy for PhD students to accompany Graduate General Regulation 1.17.

Supervisor Funding

M.Sc. (Thesis) and Ph.D. graduate students in the Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology are entitled to one-semester funded by the senior supervisor, unless the student and supervisor have agreed to other funding arrangements.

Teaching Assistant/Marker Positions

Many undergraduate courses in Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology have a mandatory laboratory or tutorial component as part of the curriculum. Teaching Assistants are usually hired to run the labs or tutorials. The Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology believes strongly that a graduate student's professional development is enhanced by participation in the learning environment as a learning facilitator and, therefore, every effort is made to place thesis graduate students in the Teaching Assistant positions. In addition, graduate students are frequently hired as Tutor Markers for other undergraduate courses.

The TSSU (Teaching Support Staff Union) represents all teaching support staff at 丁香园AV. Remuneration for Teaching Assistants is based on the size of the class being taught and the number of contact hours.

Available positions for Teaching Assistants and Markers are advertised several months before the start of each semester.

Teaching Assistant/Marker Positions

Travel Allowances

Graduate students may apply for travel/conference allowances from the following groups:

Travel and Minor Research Award (TMRA)

Deadlines: January 5th, May 5th, and September 5th

Applications can be made for future confirmed travel or minor research expense, or past travel or minor research, ie, if you did not have confirmed travel by one deadline you may submit your application for travel happening after that deadline for the next round of TMRA application review.

Applications must be complete including confirmation of supervisor support by the application deadline or the application may not be reviewed.

Each application should be made for a single trip. Students seeking support for multiple trips must submit multiple applications, one per each trip.

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