The Piternick Research Award was endowed by family and friends in honour of Anne and George Piternick.
Professors Anne and George Piternick taught at the School for a combined total of 48 years during which they provided, through their teaching and personal research projects, a stimulating scholarly atmosphere for library and information science research. The award will be given annually to an iSchool doctoral student to support their research.
Guidelines and procedures
- Students must address their application to the Chair of Doctoral Studies (Dr. Lisa Nathan); completed applications should be submitted to the iSchool Program Assistant (ischool.program@ubc.ca).
- Faculty members of the Doctoral Studies Committee will adjudicate the applications.
- The application for the award should include a cover letter.
- The application must include:
- Title of the research project.
- A research proposal outlining the objectives of the project and methodology (maximum of 1 page).
- Budget, with a detailed rationale for expenses.
- Timeline, with respect to the student’s program, and when the requested funds will be spent.
- It is anticipated that the award will cover such research expenses as (but not limited to) consulting resources or experts in the research area, participating in a doctoral consortium, interviewing research subjects, visiting collections, programming expenses, or software for data analysis, and presenting research results in a poster or paper. Any travel related requests should reflect UBC policies, including UBC’s Climate Emergency statement and the iSchool’s climate crisis statement.
- The Committee reserves the right to split the award into multiple awards or not to give the award in an individual year.
- The amount of the award will be advanced to the recipient; the advance must be cleared, with receipts for expenses, within 12 months.
- Recipients of the award must present to the Doctoral Studies Committee a short follow-up report, detailing how the funds were spent (no receipts needed) and the benefits realized within a year of receipt of the award; this should be emailed to the iSchool Admin Manager (ischool.admin@ubc.ca).
Deadline: January 15, 2024
Notifiation: Approximate timeline for announcement of award is the week of February 19, 2024.