About The Fellowship

While Sinclair Fellows are expected to engage in studies that will enrich their capabilities as journalists, whether or not the fellowship year leads to an academic degree or other formal qualification during the fellowship year is a matter of personal choice.

The total value of the Gordon  Sinclair Fellowship is $13,000 in Canadian funds, with an additional award of $2,000 paid upon  acceptance by the Foundation of the Gordon Sinclair Memorial Essay at the conclusion of the fellowship year.

The Sinclair Fellowship may be tenable at any recognized university in Canada or abroad, which agrees to accept the terms and conditions of the program.

Eligibility

Journalism students who graduated from one of the following university journalism programs in 2009, or who expect to graduate in the first half of 2010, are eligible to apply for the Gordon Sinclair Fellowship:

Carleton University
Concordia University
Kwantlen University College
Ryerson University
St. Thomas University
Thompson Rivers University
Université Montréal
Université du Québec à Montréal
University of King's College
University of Regina
Laurier-Brantford
Université Laval
University of British Columbia
University of Western Ontario

Obligation to Publish

Each Sinclair Fellow will undertake to prepare a paper based upon research undertaken during the fellowship year and related to journalism.  This paper, subject to editorial revision, will be published. The remaining $2,000 will be provided to the Fellow when a satisfactory essay has been produced by the Fellow and has been accepted for publication.

Deadlines

A call for applications is published  each year. The deadline for applications is March 5, 2010.

Further Information

If you have any questions, you can contact the Executive Director of the Gordon Sinclair Foundation, Prof. Allan Thompson, at:

gsfellowship@gmail.com

Please mention Gordon Sinclair Fellowship in the subject line of the email message.