The UBC Pop Culture & Comics Studies Clusters are excited to announce the launch of two new funding opportunities for UBC graduate students, contingent faculty, and junior scholars.
Pop Pedagogies Award Program: Call for Applications
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.
The application is open to UBC community members, with priority given to contingent faculty, junior faculty, and graduate students. We also welcome co-applications from the Vancouver community for execution in K-12 education and the non-profit sector.
DEADLINE: May 9, 2025
VALUE: up to $1,500 CAD
For more details and information on how to apply, visit our website here.
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Research-to-Comics Graduate Awards: Call for Applications
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.
Whether your research is in the humanities, sciences, or any field in between, we welcome proposals that think creatively about how academic knowledge can be communicated through comics as an arts-based method.
DEADLINE: Accepted on a rolling basis; adjudicated quarterly.
VALUE: up to $1,000 CAD
For more details and information on how to apply, visit our website here.