Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security Scholarship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 5, 2026

Applications are open for the Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security Scholarship 2026. The Centre offers scholarships that acknowledge the contribution of David Emerson, Wallace McCain, Purdy Crawford, and W. Geoffrey Beattie as previous Chairs of the Maple Leaf Foods’ Board of Directors. Four scholarships are distributed yearly to assist Master or PhD college students who suggest analysis to advance a greater understanding of meals insecurity in Canada.

They encourage any scholarship functions that look to fill information gaps on meals insecurity in Canada, with explicit (however not unique) curiosity within the following key areas:

• Predictors and threat elements
  • Who is most in danger for meals insecurity in Canada and what’s the expertise of meals insecurity for these teams?
  • What are the determinants of meals insecurity and are there any mediating or moderating elements?
• Impacts and efficacy of potential interventions
  • How can we alleviate meals insecurity in Canada, notably for teams most impacted – together with Black and Indigenous households, single adults (18-64), and other people with disabilities?
  • What applications, insurance policies and/or market devices must be used – together with meals prescription and/or meals profit insurance policies and applications?
  • Who must be concerned?

Scholarship

• Four $15,000 scholarships will probably be awarded in the summertime of 2026 for analysis spanning as much as two years in size. A Research Sub-Committee of the Centre’s Board evaluations all functions and makes suggestions to the Centre’s Board Chair for approval.

Eligibility

For candidates to be thought of, they need to meet the next eligibility necessities:

• A grasp’s or PhD scholar of any self-discipline, enrolled at a Canadian college
• In good educational standing with their educational establishment
• Entering their second or third yr of graduate study and are ready to start their thesis analysis within the 2026/2027 educational yr
• Conducting thesis analysis that seeks to fill gaps in information on meals insecurity
• Cannot have obtained the scholarship previously for the identical diploma (for instance, you probably have obtained a scholarship for your grasp’s, you can not reapply until you at the moment are making use of whereas a PhD scholar).

Application

Proposal necessities embrace:

• A curriculum vitae (CV)
• A letter of reference from a analysis supervisor (this letter might be despatched by your supervisor on to the Centre at [email protected], if most popular. The title of the e-mail ought to embrace the identify of the applicant)
• An overview of the next (this part must be not than 6 single-spaced pages, excluding references)
  • The analysis goal, analysis query, goal inhabitants, and goals
  • A short background and rationale
  • Proposed methodology
  • How the analysis fills information gaps about meals insecurity in Canada
  • Knowledge translation plans
  • Other sources of funding for the analysis
  • An rationalization of how the analysis aligns with the Centre’s objective and the analysis focus areas

Full proposals are submitted utilizing a fillable kind. For analysis supervisors who’re emailing a reference letter on to the organisers, embrace the total identify of the candidate within the title of the letter and ship to [email protected].

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For extra data, go to Scholarship in Food Insecurity.