The YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship is aimed to promote intensive collaboration between a Faculty Associate of the Centre and a research collaborator at another research institution (university, NGO, etc.). The fellowship provides support for a collaborator, usually from Asia, to visit Toronto for the specific purpose of jointly working on a research proposal, project or publication.
The fellowship provides up to a maximum of C$15,000 in reimbursement for travel and accommodation expenses incurred by the research collaborator. Visiting researcher will usually spend one to three months in Toronto. YCAR provides the visitor with a desk and library access for the Fellowship’s duration. Priority will normally be given to applicants who have not received funding in the past two years. Preference may be given to applicants with existing collaborations at the time of application.
Faculty Associates nominating a collaborator for the fellowship are encouraged to consult the YCAR Director prior to applying. Additionally, the nominator is encouraged to seek funds from other sources in support of the visit.
Applications for a proposed visitor in the 2025–26 academic year are accepted until 01 May 2025 EDT and should be submitted by the YCAR Faculty Associate making the nomination, not the proposed visitor.
A complete application will consist of:
1) Current CV of both the Applicant and Research Collaborator (PDF)
2) A document (Word or PDF) that includes the following:
- statement outlining the proposed collaborative work
- details of the planned output that will result from the Fellowship
- timeline of the proposed visit and output
Submit an application at this link.
For further information, contact ycar@yorku.ca.
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Past Research Collaboration Fellowship Awardees
— 2024—
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Shubhra Gururani (Anthropology) and Ghazala Shahabuddin (Ashoka University, India)
Title of collaborative work: Re-wilding’ the Urban Periphery: An interdisciplinary study of the changing politics of nature in India’a National Capital Region (NCR)
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Thomas Klassen (School of Public Policy and Administration) and Sophia Seung-Yoon Lee (Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea)
Title of collaborative work: Platform Workers' Working Conditions and Social Protection
— 2022—
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Wendy Wong (Design) and Kin Wai Chu (KU Leuven)
Title of collaborative work: A Hong Kong Comic Studies Reader
— 2021—
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Cary Wu (Sociology) and Paramjit Singh (Panjab University)
Title of collaborative work: Structural Determinants of Urbanization in India and China
— 2020—
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Tania Das Gupta (Equity Studies) and Sugandha Nagpal (O.P. Jindal Global University)
Title of collaborative work: COVID-19 and Punjabi Migration
— 2019—
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Zulfikar Hirji (Anthropology) and Jason Keith Fernandez (University Institute of Lisbon & Al‐Zulaij) Collective
Title of collaborative work: Between Goa and Mombasa: Connected Religious Communities in the Indian Ocean (1700–1900)
— 2018 —
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Abidin Kusno (Environmental Studies) and Manneke Budiman (University of Indonesia)
Title of collaborative book projects: “Palgrave Series on Indonesian Politics, Culture and Society” and “Moments, Memory and Mobility in Urban Spatial Politics in Indonesia”
— 2018 —
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Raju Das (Geography) and Deepak Mishra (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Title of collaborative work: Uneven Development in Neoliberal India: Processes and Linkages
— 2016 —
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: R. Patrick Alcedo (Dance) and Ruth Pison (University of the Philippines, Diliman)
Title of collaborative work: An Empire Stages Back: Nationalism, Postcoloniality, and the Diaspora in Philippine Folk Dance
— 2015 —
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Lisa Drummond (Urban Studies) and Le Thi Van Hue (Centre for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (CRES), Vietnam National University, Viet Nam)
Title of collaborative work: Social Differentiation and Access to Clean Water, a Case Study from Bac Ninh.
— 2015 —
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Radhika Mongia (Sociology) and Gayatri Menon (Azim Premji University, Bangalore, India)
Title of collaborative work: Tarmac Transformations
— 2013 —
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Kabita Chakraborty (Children’s Studies) and Emma Dalton, Japanese Studies (Kanda University of International Studies, Chiba, Japan)
Title of collaborative work: Representations of gender and race in heterosexual dating/matrimonial websites
— 2013 —
Research Collaboration Fellowship Recipient: Raju Das (Geography) and Mohanakumar S. (Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India)
Project: Joint article on agrarian distress and crisis, more specifically on farmer suicide