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

A PPLYING FOR A B ANTING F ELLOWSHIP – A RECENT P H D’ S PERSPECTIVE Dr. Emma Rosalind Peacocke English Department, Queen’s University October 11, 2017

O VERVIEW  How does the Vanier- Banting differ from other 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!

V ANIER -B ANTING T IMELINE (2015/2016 – O UTMODED !)  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 Courtesy of http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.  For this year’s dates and requirements: ac.uk/collections/furniture/20 http://www.queensu.ca/postdoc/pr 0549, by Raymond ospective-scholars/external- Champenois, 1670 funding-sources-funding-and- fellowships/banting-post-doctoral

V ANIER -B ANTING D OCUMENTS : W HERE Y OU D O P APERWORK Fairly standard Tri-Council web CV form  Signed form from Dean of Graduate  Studies confirming PhD the weirdest!  Supervisor Biography and Institutional  Synergy Most postdoc applications ask you to  explain why your research and institution fit well together The Banting gives a lot more room for  detail I was lucky, in that already at Queen’s  with Bader Postdoc So my supervisor already knew me  Institutional Letter of Endorsement  Picking research keywords, research title  (actual and lay) Bibliography  New this year: “Arm’s-length reference”  Maybe ask external examiner from  Courtesy of http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/ PhD? O17810/trompe-loeil-with-writing-materials-oil- painting-colyer-edwaert/ 1702

V ANIER -B ANTING D OCUMENTS : W HERE Y OU W RITE M EANINGFULLY  Significance of Research Contributions 1 page  3 top contributions  Quite useful to quote anonymous  reader/reviewer of article 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 One page  Includes teaching  Running speaker series, etc.  Courtesy of http://collections. If you’ve done any reviewing . . .  vam.ac.uk/item/O85757/man-writing-  Research proposal on-lanterns-painting-unknown/ , The major one!  China, c. 1790 4 pages 

R ESEARCH P ROPOSAL : H OW TO P RESENT C ONTENT  Unsuccessful SSHRC postdoc application  Successful Banting postdoc application  What changed?  Included more Canadian Courtesy of http://www.historymuseum.ca/ content, contemporary event/grand-hall/ , Morning Star by Alex Janvier affairs  E.g., from early 19 th -c university to an Arctic University

The more work you do on 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/

T HE B ANTING A PPLICATION : 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  original  Insightful advice (with general application): http://www.queensu.ca/post doc/prospective- scholars/external-funding- sources-funding-and- Courtesy of http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ fellowships/tips-applying- item/O56347/francis-williams-the-scholar-of-oil- banting-post painting-unknown/ (Francis Williams, poet and E.g., examples are terrific scholar, oil painting, 1745, anonymous painter. The  large head may be “to emphasise his intellectual rather than physical stature.”)

F AMILIAR S TRUCTURE TO R ESEARCH P ROPOSAL Introduction  Overall picture and why we care  Title, what it’s about  Something eye-catching  Statement of relevance  Includes one sentence on each chapter  Good place to say where you’ll publish  Relationship between previous work and current project  Vital extension that is too big to do within PhD?  New project, with continuity with old project?  Also a good place to say where you’ll publish  Paragraph on what kinds of scholarship you’ll draw on,  methodology Chapter-by-chapter summary  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 Detailed plan and timeline for how you will complete this  project A detailed, plausible plan of campaign  Courtesy of http://collections.vam.ac.uk/ E.g., I will write and submit a book proposal with 2 sample  chapters item/O64092/lucia-di-lammermoor-costume Talk about resources where you’ll hold your fellowship  -design-stone-alix/ Any archival trips you will undertake  Schedule  Ends with what the fellowship will do for you and what  you will do for it

B REAK A L EG ! By Pietro Antonio Rotari, c. 1755, courtesy of the Norton Simon Museum, California emma.peacocke@queensu.ca , happy to share my application materials