A Key Initiative of the Queen's Strategy
The Principal’s Global Scholars and Fellows Program is a university-wide initiative to increase academic and research activity between Queen’s faculty members, students, and post-doctoral fellows in Queen’s four priority geographies (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, Southeast Asia).
It also supports faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and students displaced by war, conflict, and political instability.
The program is comprised of two streams.
Stream 1: Principal’s Global Scholars
Principal’s Global Scholars provides forcibly displaced students and those who hold precarious immigration status with an adŃýĽ§Ö±˛Ąs pathway and funding to complete their degree at Queen’s.
Undergraduate Students
The Principal’s Global Scholars at the undergraduate level will be identified through Queen’s long-standing partnership with the .
This program provides resettlement in Canada and access to post-secondary education to refugees in selected countries of asylum. The Principal’s Global Scholars and Fellows Program expands Queen’s commitment to WUSC and we encourage interested applicants to visit for information on how to apply.
Graduate Students
The Principal’s Global Scholars Award for Graduate Students supports newly admitted students who have experienced forced migration within the past five years in eligible, full-time research-based graduate degree programs and the Smith MBA program. This is a two year pilot program.
Five awards will be made annually. One $25,000 (one time) award for the Smith MBA program and four $10,000 awards (one time) for students in all other eligible programs. More information and application deadlines for 2025-26 will be available shortly.
Stream 2: Principal’s Global Fellows
Principal’s Global Fellows Program provides funding to increase academic and research activity between Queen’s faculty members in the four priority geographies identified in Queen’s Global Engagement Strategic Plan. It also supports faculty and post-doctoral fellows displaced by war, conflict, and political instability.
Principal’s Global Fellows Fund
The Fund provides up to C$10,000 for Queen’s faculty members and their counterparts in the four priority regions identified in the Queen’s Global Engagement Strategic Plan (Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, South Asia, and Southeast Asia) to collaborate for the purposes of advancing an academic, research, student learning, or scholarly initiative.
Faculty members from the partner university will be designated Principal’s Global Fellows.
Priority will be given to collaborations with Queen’s strategic partner institutions.
Explore the Full Terms and Application Form
Scholars at Risk
Support for displaced faculty members is provided through Queen’s existing partnerships with , the and , the , and other international and national organizations. Support is provided for one academic year, with the possibility of renewal.
Learn More / Contact:
- Scholars interested in applying to be hosted at Queen’s University can contact and global@queensu.ca.
- For more information, including on how to host a scholar, go to Queen’s Scholars at Risk or email global@queensu.ca.
