This award will assist students from Canadian universities with expenses incurred during collaborative visits to other laboratories, research facilities, field stations or sites to conduct zoological research. The intention is to support ancillary research activities that will supplement and enhance the applicant’s core research program, and not to fund the core research itself which is the responsibility of the applicant’s supervisor.

Terms of Reference

Award: Cash award of up to $1000.

Source of Funding: CSZ Student Section

Frequency of Availability: Normally a maximum of three per year

Application Procedures

Applications are to be made to this link. Applications shall include:

1. A research proposal (1 page single-spaced, maximum) providing an account of the work to be done, clearly stating: (a) the financial need and significance of the proposed research, and (b) a description of how the collaboration will benefit the recipient’s research program.

2. A brief curriculum vitae.

3. A letter of recommendation from the head of the research group in which the applicant is presently working.

4. A letter of recommendation from the head of the research group in which the proposed work will be done, or, if not applicable, a letter of support from another individual qualified to comment on the justification of the proposed research.

Application Deadline

February 28, 2026

Other Conditions

There are no restrictions on the nationality of the hosting facility;

Applicants should currently be undertaking studies at a Canadian university;

Only one application per person per year will be assessed;

An application cannot be submitted for work already completed.

Recipients will be required to:

Acknowledge to CSZ Treasurer receipt of the award;

Produce a 250-500 word report of the results obtained under the Award and submit to CSZ Student Councillors for publication in the CSZ Bulletin, the CSZ archives and on the CSZ web page;

Acknowledge the CSZ in any publications resulting from the Award.

Awardees

2025 - Marshall Ritchie (Carleton University), Juliane Vigneault (Université du Québec à Rimouski), and Eleni Diakanastasis (York University)

2024 - Karen Kadamani (University of Ottawa), Liam Eaton (University of Ottawa), and Ivana Komendić (McGill University) 

2020 – Mike Lawrence, University of Manitoba

2019 – Giulia Rossi, University of Guelph

2018 – Chloé Berger, Université Laval

2017 – Gigi Lau, University of British Columbia, and Till Harter, University of British Columbia

2016 – Cayleih Robertson, McMaster University.

2015 – Yvonne Dzal, University of British Columbia.

2014 – Nathan Furey, University of British Columbia.

2014 – Supplemental “students’ choice” grant – Matthew Gilbert, University of Alberta.

2013 – Adam Reddon, McMaster University.

2012 – Christophe LeMoine, University of Ottawa.

2011 – Milica Mandic, University of British Columbia.

2010 – Constance O’Connor Carleton University.

2010 – Supplemental “students’ choice” grant – David Toews, University of British Columbia.

2009 – Allison McDonald, University of Western Ontario.

2006 – Daniel Baker, University of British Columbia.