CAPI Student Fellowships
Two CAPI Student Fellowships valued at $2,500 each are available on an annual basis to support student research and study in the Asia-Pacific region:
- one Student Research Fellowship to encourage excellence in research on the Asia-Pacific region, and
- one Student Language Fellowship to support the study of languages of the Asia-Pacific region
Closing date: 31 March at 4pm Pacific Time each year
Contact: CAPI at 250-721-7020 or capi@uvic.ca for more information.
Eligibility
To be eligible applicants must:
- be enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate program at UVic during the year of application;
- be returning to UVic for further study after going abroad;
- have a B+ average over the most recent 15 units completed.
The CAPI Student Research Fellowship is restricted to Master or Ph.D. level candidates. Applicants must have the written approval of their Supervisor.
The CAPI Student Language Fellowship is open to undergraduate students in their third year and above, as well as to graduate students. Applicants must have a B+ average for the equivalent of two years of language training unless the language to be studied is not taught at UVic.
Terms
1. Individuals who accept this Fellowship are responsible for arranging their own: visas/permits as required; language program/field work; health insurance coverage; and accommodation. CAPI accepts no responsibility other than disbursal of the award.
2. Funds are awarded as a reimbursement for travel costs and, in the case of the Language Fellowship, tuition fees. Upon returning to UVic, the student must provide airline receipts, boarding passes, local transport receipts etc. to CAPI; submit a two-page report or article for the CAPI newsletter; and, if requested by CAPI, present a CAPI lunch time seminar.
3. Language training applications should include a letter of acceptance from a Language Program (may be forthcoming at time of application, with acceptance letter required before release of funds).
4. Fellowships are awarded solely at the discretion of the Selection Committee, whose decision is final.
5. The Fellowships should be used within one year of the year of the date they are awarded.
Preparing and submitting your application
A complete application should include:
- A completed Application Form
- A copy of your resume
- An up-to-date copy of your transcript (unofficial versions are fine for the application stage)
- For the CAPI Student Research Fellowship, a two-page description of your proposed research project and activities, AND a letter of support from your Faculty Supervisor
- For the CAPI Student Language Fellowship, a one-page description of your proposed program of language study is required, including reasons for your selection of the proposed program.
Applications must be submitted electronically to: capi@uvic.ca
Please note: Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted.
2024 Student fellowship recipient
Esther Suwannanon |
UVic department of study:
PhD candidate, Individual Interdisciplinary Studies
Project title: Re-writing the History of Trans medicine in Thailand: Medical Archive Research (1951-1975)
| Year | Name | Program of study | Project |
| 2023 | Arvind Kumar | PhD student, Faculty of Law | Indigeneity, Self-Governance, and Autonomy: Re-imagining Governance in Adivasi Regions in the context of Adivasis participation in the Naxal Movement |
| 2023 | Nhan 'Mac' Nguyen | PhD Candidate, Gustavson School of Business | Love of country: Organization’s patriotism and its strategic use to legitimize innovation |
| 2022 | Xue Ma | PhD student, Department of Anthropology | People’s Currency in Digits: State, Market and Society in China’s Digital Money Transformations |
| 2022 | Kaitlyn Zerr | MSc Candidate, Department of Biology | Eyes on the Reef: Using remote cameras to assess the impact of tourism on reef manta ray (Mobula alfredi) behaviour at cleaning stations in the Maldives |
| 2021 | Lynn Ng | PhD student, Department of Political Science | The occupational experiences of migrant workers in the eldercare sector in Singapore and Taiwan |
| 2020 | Kevin Bruce | MSc student, UVic Department of Biology | The fluid backbone of coral reefs: changes in reef structure through a climate-change induced mass coral mortality event |
| 2019 | Ratana Ly | PhD student, UVic Faculty of Law | A Legal Pluralist Approach to Realizing the Occupational Safety and Health of Construction Workers in Cambodia: Regulating Multinational Construction Corporations |
| 2018 | Kristina Tietjen | MSc student, UVic Department of Biology | Coral reef recovery rates along a gradient of local disturbance following unprecedented heat stress |
| 2018 | Can Zhao | PhD student, UVic Department of Political Science | Uber Revolution: state governance of capital and labor in China, France, and the United States of America |
| 2017 | Alexandra Lloyd | MA student, UVic Department of Anthropology | “How do transnational Indonesian women studying abroad in Australia navigate sexuality in shifting sociopolitical contexts? How are women’s everyday lived experiences impacted by hegemonic cultural expectations in a transnational context?” | working paper: "It's about the fear of judgment": Transnational Indonesian women and the surveillance of sexuality |
| 2017 | Dennis Gupa | PhD student, UVic Department of Theatre | “Sea Rituals, Climate Change and Applied Theatre: Indigenous Elders Perspectives on Traditional and Sustainalbe Ecology” |
| 2016 | Charlene Mohammed | MA Student, UVic Department of Anthropology | “To share or not to share: Food security and social inequality among migrant domestic workers in Singapore” |
| 2015 | Alessio Kockel | PhD candidate, UVic Department of Geography | “Evaluating the trade-offs of systemic conservation planning approaches for designing networks of marine protected ares in the Philippines” |
| 2014 | Debra McKenzie | PhD candidate, UVic Faculty of Law | “Hybrid Law in the Kingdom of Tonga: Maintaining the dynamism of tradition” |
| 2014 | Harrison Ellis | BA student, UVic Department of Political Science | “Work Experience and Community Involvement” |
| 2014 | Evelyne Laurin | MA Student, UVic Department of Geography | “Empowerment of vulnerability? Investigating the social impacts of microfinance programs on Cambodian women” |
| 2014 | Danielle Claar | PhD candidate, UVic Department of Biology | "Elucidating mechanisms of coral reef resilience to El Niño on the world’s largest atoll” |
| 2013 | Catherine Lawrence | MA student, UVic School of Public Administration (Dispute Resolution program) | "The Nepal National Diplomacy Training Program Master’s Project" |
| 2012 | Caitlin Wake | PhD student, UVic Social Dimension of Health program | "Exploring the Social Determinants of Health Among Urban Refugees in Malaysia" |
| 2012 | Ruji Auethavornpipat | MA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | "The Teaching and Learning of Mandarin Chinese in Thailand" |
| 2012 | Jing Qian | PhD candidate, UVic Faculty of Law | "People vs. Peoples: A Socio-legal Study on Gap Problems within Administrative Litigation in China" |
| 2011 | Joel Legassie | UVic Department of History | |
| 2011 | David Fargo | UVic Department of Anthropology | |
| 2010 | Harpreet Jaswal | MSc student, UVic Department of Geography | "An integrated approach to disaster management" |
| 2008 | Sayuri Holman | MA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | "Men, matrimony and masculinities: Some implications of changing marriage patterns for Fijian men" |
| 2007 | Genevieve Gamache | MA student, UVic Department of History in Art | "Between nationalism and globalization: Wat Rong Khun and neo-traditional art in Thailand" |
| 2006 | Yuji Matson | MA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | “The Search for Identity’ in Modern Japanese Literature & Cineman: The Collaborations between the Writer Abe Kobo and Film-maker Teshigahara Hiroshi” |
| 2005 | Thane Bonar | MA student, UVic Department of Political Science | "Hanuman's Army: Hindutva and Tribal Conversion in the Dangs" |
| 2004 | Jane Wu | MA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | "In the Name of SARS: Regulated Mass Panic, Shanghai 2003" |
| 2004 | Micaela Campbell | MA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | "No Woman is an Island: Issues of Participation and Representation in the Literary Works of Ayu Utami" |
| 2003 | Jenny Munro | MA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | "Decolonizing the Moral High Ground: HIV/ AIDS and Youth in Papua" |
| 2002 | Kristin Lunn | student, UVic Department of Geography | “Assessing the Role of Thailand’s Marine Protected Areas in Local Fisheries Management” |
| 2002 | Michele-Lee Moore | student, UVic Department of Geography | “Introducing Microbial Culture to Shrimp Farming” |
| 2001 | Hussein Keshani | student, UVic Department of History | “The Bara Imambara of Lucknow (architectural history)” |
| 2001 | Eve Paterson | student, UVic Department of History in Art | “The Spiritual Resonance of Cows in the Art of Contemporary South Asian Women Artists” |
| 2001 | Catherine Sparks-Ngenge | student, UVic Institute for Dispute Resolution | “Indigenous Resistance to Land Resistance to Land Reform in Papua New Guinea: Evaluating the Impacts of the Movement and the Role of the Belief System” |
| 2001 | Sarah Turner | student, UVic Department of Anthropology | “Japanese Macaque Behaviour” |
| Year | Name | Program of study | Language training |
| 2021 | Roopa Kanal | MA student, Department of Art History and Visual Studies | Lessons in Nepali through the Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Centre for Buddhist Studies, at Kathmandu University, to support her research on contemporary Nepali art. |
| 2019 | Will Howling | BCom student, UVic Gustavson School of Business | Bahasa Indonesia language lessons as part of an international exchange at Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from August to December 2019 |
| 2015 | Benjamin Lawrence | PhD candidate, UVic Faculty of Law | Khmer lessons at the Language Institute of Natural Khmer in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to support fieldwork regarding the Cambodian constitution |
| 2012 | Connor Bildfell | BCom student, UVic Peter B. Gustavson School of Business | International student exchange at Peking University |
| 2011 | Chany Chea | UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | For the study of Indonesian at The Australian Consortium for ‘In-Country’ Indonesian Studies, Indonesia |
| 2011 | Alicia Lawrence | UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | For the study of Indonesian at Puri Bahasa, Indonesia |
| 2010 | Kathleen Gregson | MA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | For the study of Indonesian in Bali, Indonesia |
| 2008 | Nicola Bancroft | BA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | For the study of Bahasa Indonesian at Yogyakarta, Indonesia |
| 2007 | Hilary Gorman | MA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | For the study of Indonesian at the University of Surabaya, Indonesia |
| 2006 | Chandler Vandergrift | student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | For the study of Thai at the Advance Alliance Academy Thai Language Center in Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2005 | Genevieve Gamache | MA student, UVic Department of History in Art | For the study of Thai at the Advance Alliance Academy Thai Language Center in Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2003 | Kimberlee Hart | BA student, UVic Department of Pacific and Asian Studies | For the study of Japanese at Doshisha University, Kyoto |
| 2002 | Jordan K.S. Anderson | student, UVic Faculty of Business | For the study of Maylay at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang |
| 2001 | Tanya Lloyd | student, UVic Faculty of Business | For the study of Indonesian at Gadjah Mada University Indonesia |