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COVID-19 PWIAS Working Groups

The PWIAS has funded four new Working Groups, focusing on how COVID-19 affects our society in areas such as personal privacy, higher education, epidemiology, and religion.

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Virtual Roundtables

Virtual Roundtables will support interdisciplinary working groups comprised of international scholars and non-academic participants, drawn from multiple disciplines.

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A Systems Approach to Social Change: New Funding Call

Open Call
Funding of up to $20,000 is available for new interdisciplinary groups working to produce publications that take a systems approach towards understanding and addressing the root causes of our society's many interlocking crises and challenges.

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2020 Wall Scholars

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Wall Scholars Research Award is available to full-time, tenured or tenure-track UBC faculty members, to spend one year in residence at the Peter Wall Institute, in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment.

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International Research Roundtables

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Institute has temporarily suspended funding new International Research Roundtables that involve international travel and in-person meetings.

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International Visiting Research Scholars

The Institute provides support to invite outstanding international scholars to work collaboratively with UBC faculty members on innovative research.

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Wall Solutions

This program seeks projects exploring immediate solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic and its consequences to society. Outcomes should aim to implement such solutions through collaborations with community partners.

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