CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Deadline: October 31, 2022
2022-23 Dr. Joy Calkin Student Bursaries
Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights
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The Landon Pearson Resource Centre for the Study of Childhood and Children’s Rights at Carleton
University invites applications for the 2022-23 Dr. Joy Calkin student bursaries. The Muttart
Foundation funded the bursaries in 2021 as a gift to the Hon. Landon Pearson; they were named in
memory of Dr. Joy Calkin, a long-time Member and Director of The Muttart Foundation, who
passed away in 2020. To honour Joy Calkin and to celebrate Landon Pearson and her concern for rights in infancy
and early childhood, the student bursaries are awarded each year to a senior undergraduate student, a
senior Indigenous student, and a graduate student undertaking early childhood research such as
maternal and child health, using a children’s rights- respecting approach.
Each student bursary is in the amount of $5,000. The funds are to be used to for education-related
expenses ($4500) and subsequent travel costs ($500) to enable award recipients to present their
findings at the annual Child Rights Academic Network (CRAN) conference in Ottawa, Ontario.
Three awards will be presented annually: one award to a senior undergraduate student (4th year
standing), one award to a graduate student (MA or PhD standing, any year), and one award to a
senior Indigenous student (4th year or graduate student standing).
Each recipient receives $5,000 issued upon acceptance of the award.
Each recipient agrees to use $500 of the award to supplement the costs of traveling to the CRAN
annual conference during the year of the award where they will make a short 10-minute
presentation on their work. CRAN typically takes place the final Friday in April each year at
Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.