Journals

  • Graham Seed Fund

    The Graham Seed Fund (GSF) is designed to broadly encourage innovative health-care solutions to challenges of today and tomorrow. The GSF seeks to leverage and build health system partnerships by providing resources for collaborating directly with a full range of health providers and clinicians. It is anticipated that this collaborative, interdisciplinary model will help to quickly advance solutions for challenging areas in health technology.

    This five-year initiative (2022-2026) responds to one of University of Waterloo’s strategic priorities of creating a globally recognized hub for innovative and transformative health technologies. With funding made possible from the J.W. Graham Trust Endowment Fund, the GSF is primarily intended to cover the cost of hiring highly qualified personnel (HQP), with the aim of leveraging the seed funding to generate preliminary research results that can be used in funding applications to external granting agencies and organizations.  As it has evolved, the Graham Seed Fund will be the primary means of supporting University of Waterloo initiatives as part of our participation in the Care Next coalition. 

    This opportunity is for all faculties at the University of Waterloo, with a preference for early and mid-career researchers to lead the applications

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    LITE Seed Grant

    LITE Seed Grants can help you investigate small-scale teaching and learning research projects and attend activities to develop your instructional skills. Read the guidelines below to learn about project ideas, eligibility criteria for applicants and expenses, the application and adjudication process, and useful resources.

    LITE Seed Grant proposals may focus on:  

    • assessing new approaches to teaching and learning (what is possible and does it work?) 
    • critically examining student learning with existing instructional approaches (what is happening and what could be improved?)
    • pursuing instructional development opportunities (how could I teach differently to better facilitate deep student learning?).

    Amount: Up to $7,500 

    Application Deadline: (2 annually): June 1st, and October 1st

    Consultation deadline: Two weeks prior to application deadline