A Key Initiative of the Queen's Strategy
The Principal’s Global Scholars and Fellows Program is a university-wide initiative to increase academic and research activity between Queen’s faculty members, students, and post-doctoral fellows in Queen’s four priority geographies (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, Southeast Asia).
It also supports faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and students displaced by war, conflict, and political instability.
The program is comprised of two streams.
Stream 1: Principal’s Global Scholars
Principal’s Global Scholars provides forcibly displaced students and those who hold precarious immigration status with an admissions pathway and funding to complete their degree at Queen’s.
Undergraduate Students
The Principal’s Global Scholars at the undergraduate level are identified through Queen’s long-standing partnership with the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) Student Refugee Program.
This program provides resettlement in Canada and access to post-secondary education to refugees in selected countries of asylum. The Principal’s Global Scholars and Fellows Program expands Queen’s commitment to WUSC and we encourage interested applicants to visit WUSC for information on how to apply.
Graduate Students
The Principal’s Global Scholars Award for Graduate Students was a two year pilot project to support newly admitted students who have experienced forced migration within the past five years in eligible, full-time research-based graduate degree programs and the Smith MBA program. Information for future intakes is pending review.
Stream 2: Principal’s Global Fellows
Principal’s Global Fellows Program provides funding to increase academic and research activity between Queen’s faculty members in the four priority geographies identified in Queen’s Global Engagement Strategic Plan. It also supports faculty and post-doctoral fellows displaced by war, conflict, and political instability.
Principal’s Global Fellows Fund
The Fund provided funding for Queen’s faculty members and their counterparts in the four priority regions identified in the Queen’s Global Engagement Strategic Plan (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia) to collaborate for the purposes of advancing an academic, research, student learning, or scholarly initiative.
Scholars at Risk
Queen’s provides support for displaced faculty members that are identified through our affiliations with partner organizations: Scholars at Risk, the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund and Artist Protection Fund, among other international and national organizations. We encourage interested scholars to connect with these networks and explore their formal application processes for placement support.
