About the Stimulus Grant Initiative
The UBC Department of Psychiatry, in partnership with the UBC Institute of Mental Health (UBC IMH) and BC Children’s Hospital, have launched the Stimulus Grant Initiative, which aims to increase research capacity and support for clinicians and for junior academics who wish to undertake:
- Small, self-contained studies without other funding
- Pilot studies toward the pursuit of more comprehensive initiatives and/or grant applications
Accepting applications from June 1st to October 1st each year.
Granting Streams
The Stimulus Grant Initiative comprises three streams:
- Stimulus-Clinician Grant
- Stimulus-Junior Academic Grant
- Stimulus-Child & Youth Mental Health Grant.
Meet Our 2022/2023 Awardees
Dr. Michael Song
PGY1 Resident
Recipient of the Stimulus-Clinician Grant
Epigenetic markers for adverse childhood experiences among complex concurrent psychiatric disorders: a pilot study
Dr. Heather Palis
Postdoctoral Fellow
Recipient of the Stimulus-Junior Academic Grant
Examining ten-year trends of ADHD diagnosis and treatment in British Columbia among people with concurrent substance use disorders and history of incarceration
Dr. Clara Westwell-Roper
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Subspecialty Resident
Recipient of the Stimulus-Child and Youth Mental Health Grant
Longitudinal variation in markers of stress and inflammation in youth with obsessive-compulsive disorder and their parents participating in group family-based cognitive behavioural therapy
Dr. Ruiyang Ge
Research Associate
Recipient of the Stimulus-Child and Youth Mental Health Grant
Individual-Level Deviations from Normative Neuroanatomical Models in Youth with Mood Disorders
Eligibility Criteria
Applications to each stream will be assessed separately based on criteria that embrace equity, diversity, and inclusion in addition to scientific merit.
The proposed projects in the Clinician and Junior Academic Streams can be on any topic that is directly related to mental health.
The Stimulus-Child & Youth Mental Health Stream is sponsored by the BC Children’s Hospital Chair in Pediatric Mental Health, and proposed projects should focus exclusively on topics that are related directly to child and adolescent mental health.
Stream-Specific Eligibility Criteria for the Principal Applicant
Stimulus-Clinician Grant
The principal applicant:
- Must have a clinical, non-academic position
- Can be at any career stage including being a resident in the General Track of the UBC Psychiatry Residency Program Must have a primary affiliation with the UBC Department of Psychiatry
Stimulus-Junior Academic Grant
The principal applicant:
- Can be a Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate/Scientist, Assistant Professor (academic or partner track), or Resident in the Research Track of the UBC Psychiatry Residency Program.
- Must have a primary Affiliation with the UBC Department of Psychiatry
Stimulus-Child & Youth Mental Health Grant
The principal applicant:
- Can have a clinical, non-academic position at any career stage including residents in the main or research track
- Can be a Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate/Scientist, or Assistant Professor (academic or partner track)
Must be connected to the BC Children’s Hospital Healthy Minds Centre
Eligibility Criteria Common to all Streams
- Each application must have only ONE Principal Applicant fulfilling the criteria shown above
- Each application must have only ONE Co-Applicant; the Co-Applicant must be either an Associate Professor or a Full Professor at the UBC Department of Psychiatry
- Each application can have multiple collaborators; collaborators can be clinicians or academics of any stage; collaborators can be from any UBC department or any institution in Canada or abroad
- Both the Principal Applicant and the Co-Applicant must confirm that no other funding is available or pending for the proposed project at the time of submission; the Stimulus Grants cannot be used to supplement existing funding
- Maximum Duration of each proposed project: 24 months
- Maximum Budget for each Project: $20,000 covering only eligible costs
- The same application cannot be submitted to more than one of the Stimulus Initiative Streams
Eligible Costs
Eligible Costs
- Salary support for the Principal Applicant
- Salary support for personnel essential for conducting the study (other than the Principal Applicant); can include salary support for research assistant or technician
- Lab costs or neuroimaging costs essential for the project
- Equipment or software licenses that are necessary for the project
- Cost of animal care/procurement if essential for the project
- Participant reimbursement essential for the project
- Expenses for training courses if essential for the project
- Travel expenses for the Principal Applicant if essential for the project (e.g., for data collection or training) (excludes any conference attendance)
- Expenses to cover open-access publishing for work resulting directly from the project (up to 3500 USD per article)
Non-Eligible Costs
- Salary support for the Co-Applicant or the Collaborators
- Any travel expenses for the Co-Applicant or Collaborators
- General equipment (e.g., laptops, personal computers)
- Any expenses associated with attendance at scientific conferences (i.e., registration, accommodation, travel fares)
Application Guidelines
Each Application Package must include:
A three-page APPLICANT PROFILE for each principal applicant (max. 2). Download and edit the PDF template
A three-page PROJECT PROPOSAL. Download and edit the PDF template
Please submit your application package as a single PDF document to Margaret Koshi at margaret.koshi@ubc.ca. Only applications using the templates provided will be considered. Should you have any specific questions about the Stimulus Grants, please direct them to Dr. Sophia Frangou at sophia.frangou@ubc.ca.
Application Timeline
Each year, applications for the Stimulus Grant Initiatives will be accepted between June 1st and October 1st.