Studentships and fellowships
Supporting the next generation of mental health research
We invest in students and early-career researchers to strengthen mental health research and help promising ideas move forward. Our studentships and fellowships connect emerging researchers with academic expertise, community partners and people with lived experience. This helps ensure that research is grounded in real needs and positioned to generate evidence that can inform future research, services and decisions.
Looking for funding?
Explore our current and upcoming calls for proposals, including eligibility, funding, deadlines and application information.
How our funding model works
We support research that brings academic knowledge together with community experience.
Our studentships and fellowships bring together academic expertise, community and service-delivery partners and people with lived experience. This collaborative model helps ensure research is relevant, ethical and has real-world impact.
Academic supervisor
Provides academic guidance and mentorship throughout the research project
Community or service-delivery partner
Helps shape the research questions and supports knowledge mobilization and real-world impact.
Lived experience and community input
Ensures the research is informed by lived experience and addresses real needs.
When do we offer funding?
We generally offer one to three studentship funding cycles each year, depending on available partnerships and research priorities. We only accept applications while a call is open.
These cycles may include:
an early-year call supporting research across a range of mental health topics
our annual Indigenous studentship call, launched around the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
targeted opportunities focused on specific research areas, communities or regions
Award types
Studentships generally support students and early-career researchers completing shorter research projects.
Fellowships provide longer-term support for postdoctoral researchers.
Specific eligibility, funding and duration vary by call.
Research made possible through partnership
Partnership is central to how we fund research. Our multi-year collaboration with Mitacs supports many of our studentships and fellowships. We also work with foundations, research funders and other organizations to expand opportunities for emerging researchers and support work in areas where new evidence can make a meaningful contribution.
Our funding partners are recognized alongside the opportunities and research they help make possible.
In this section
How our funding model works
See the research in action
Funding is only the beginning.
Meet the researchers currently working on MHRC-supported projects and see how they are working with communities to explore important mental health questions.
You can also learn what happened after earlier projects were completed, including their findings, resources and broader contributions.