The UBC Comics Studies and Pop Culture Cluster offers several funding opportunities to UBC faculty, students, and the community.
Popular Media for Social Change: Pop Pedagogies Award Program
The Popular Media for Social Change Research Excellence Cluster is excited to announce the launch of the Pop Pedagogies Award Program for the 2025-2026 academic year. This program will provide a $500 CAD award to exemplary pop pedagogy scholars and $1,000 CAD in reimbursable expenses to support UBC community members in the development of innovative lesson plans, modules, or units that meaningfully integrate popular media and culture (imagined broadly) into teaching and learning. Six grants will be awarded in each of the next two years, with the expectation that award recipients contribute their materials to the Pop Pedagogies Lesson Plan Archive and present their work at the 2026 Pop Pedagogies Symposium at UBC.
For more information and how to apply, see here.
Call for Applications: Research-to-Comics Graduate Awards
UBC Comics Studies Cluster
The UBC Comics Studies Cluster is excited to announce a new initiative supporting UBC graduate students in transforming their research into compelling short comics and graphic narratives!
We invite applications for awards to commission a cartoonist or comic artist to create an 8–12-page comic based on your graduate research. This is a unique opportunity to share your work with broader audiences through visual storytelling as arts-based knowledge mobilization.
For more information and how to apply, see here.