V ANIER -B ANTING T IMELINE (2015/2016 O UTMODED !) June 5, 2015 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

APPLYING FOR A BANTING FELLOWSHIP – A RECENT PHD’S

PERSPECTIVE

• Dr. Emma Rosalind Peacocke

English Department, Queen’s University October 11, 2017

OVERVIEW

 How does the Vanier-

Banting differ from

• ther applications?

 Timeline  Documents  How to present

content

 How is it the same?

Titian’s Danae (1544-1545), courtesy of the Capodimonte Museum, Naples, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Bring on the deluge of gold!

VANIER-BANTING TIMELINE (2015/2016 – OUTMODED!)

 June 5, 2015 – email inviting me

to apply for a Banting fellowship

 June 15 – Queen’s internal

deadline for one-page letter of intent, CV, supervisor’s supporting statement

 Aug. 24 – Queen’s internal

deadline for all materials

 Sept. 23 – Banting’s own deadline  Feb. 4, 2016 – advised of the

decision

 May 30 – can officially tell people  For this year’s dates and

requirements: http://www.queensu.ca/postdoc/pr

• spective-scholars/external-

funding-sources-funding-and- fellowships/banting-post-doctoral

Courtesy of http://www.fitzmuseum.cam. ac.uk/collections/furniture/20 0549, by Raymond Champenois, 1670

VANIER-BANTING DOCUMENTS: WHERE YOU DO PAPERWORK

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Fairly standard Tri-Council web CV form

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Signed form from Dean of Graduate Studies confirming PhD

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the weirdest!

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Supervisor Biography and Institutional Synergy

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Most postdoc applications ask you to explain why your research and institution fit well together

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The Banting gives a lot more room for detail

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I was lucky, in that already at Queen’s with Bader Postdoc

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So my supervisor already knew me

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Institutional Letter of Endorsement

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Picking research keywords, research title (actual and lay)

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Bibliography

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New this year: “Arm’s-length reference”

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Maybe ask external examiner from PhD?

Courtesy of http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/ O17810/trompe-loeil-with-writing-materials-oil- painting-colyer-edwaert/ 1702

VANIER-BANTING DOCUMENTS: WHERE YOU WRITE MEANINGFULLY

 Significance of Research

Contributions

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1 page



3 top contributions



Quite useful to quote anonymous reader/reviewer of article

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Where you published



Something easily identified as unique (e.g., sole essay in major collection dealing with poet’s comic work)

 Significance of Leadership

Contributions

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One page



Includes teaching



Running speaker series, etc.



If you’ve done any reviewing . . .

 Research proposal 

The major one!



4 pages

Courtesy of http://collections. vam.ac.uk/item/O85757/man-writing-

• n-lanterns-painting-unknown/ ,

China, c. 1790

RESEARCH PROPOSAL: HOW TO PRESENT CONTENT

 Unsuccessful SSHRC

postdoc application

 Successful Banting

postdoc application

 What changed?  Included more Canadian

content, contemporary affairs

 E.g., from early 19th-c

university to an Arctic University

Courtesy of http://www.historymuseum.ca/ event/grand-hall/ , Morning Star by Alex Janvier

The more work you do

• n the

application, the more tickets you’ve bought in the application lottery

Courtesy of http://collections.va m.ac.uk/item/O1274 964/aylesbury- festival-lottery- poster-unknown/

THE BANTING APPLICATION: HOW IT’S

SIMILAR TO OTHER APPLICATIONS

 Well-defined structure of

proposal

 Perpetual to-and-fro

between



delineating what’s happening in your field,



and how your contribution is

• riginal

 Insightful advice (with

general application): http://www.queensu.ca/post doc/prospective- scholars/external-funding- sources-funding-and- fellowships/tips-applying- banting-post



E.g., examples are terrific

Courtesy of http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ item/O56347/francis-williams-the-scholar-of-oil- painting-unknown/ (Francis Williams, poet and scholar, oil painting, 1745, anonymous painter. The large head may be “to emphasise his intellectual rather than physical stature.”)

FAMILIAR STRUCTURE TO RESEARCH PROPOSAL

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Introduction

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Overall picture and why we care

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Title, what it’s about



Something eye-catching

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Statement of relevance



Includes one sentence on each chapter



Good place to say where you’ll publish

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Relationship between previous work and current project



Vital extension that is too big to do within PhD?



New project, with continuity with old project?

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Also a good place to say where you’ll publish

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Paragraph on what kinds of scholarship you’ll draw on, methodology

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Chapter-by-chapter summary

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Each mini-summary gives the state of scholarship in this area, and then how you will change it



Specific examples are revitalizing



A quotation from a primary source is like a breath of fresh air

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Detailed plan and timeline for how you will complete this project

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A detailed, plausible plan of campaign

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E.g., I will write and submit a book proposal with 2 sample chapters

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Talk about resources where you’ll hold your fellowship



Any archival trips you will undertake

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Schedule

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Ends with what the fellowship will do for you and what you will do for it

Courtesy of http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ item/O64092/lucia-di-lammermoor-costume

• design-stone-alix/

BREAK A LEG!

By Pietro Antonio Rotari, c. 1755, courtesy

• f the Norton Simon

Museum, California

emma.peacocke@queensu.ca , happy to share my application materials