Join UBC Psychology in advancing healthy lives, a healthy planet and healthy societies.
Your vision of a healthier, more sustainable world is possible. In the face of humanity’s most critical and complex issues, UBC Arts students, researchers, and alumni are asking the hard questions. They’re diving deep and sharing evidence-based ideas and equitable solutions for a better future.
What happens here can change everything. Your support is the catalyst.
The Psychology Inclusive Excellence Student Fund
Join us in championing diversity and inclusion within the psychology community at UBC.
Your support directly funds initiatives such as Early Research Awards and PSYC 240 Tuition Awards to support early research training for undergraduate student researchers who face obstacles to working in a research lab. Entrance Enhancement Awards help recruit outstanding graduate students from diverse backgrounds, paving the way for inclusive excellence in psychology.
How to donate:
Learn about the awards the PIE Fund supports:
Early Research Awards ($2,500 from PIE + $2,500 from faculty supervisor) are awarded to early-stage undergraduate students to fund summer or academic term research internships in a lab. These awards are adjudicated along with other Quinn/NSERC awards in Term 2 but target students from marginalized backgrounds who would not be competitive for those existing awards because they have less research experience.
PSYC 240 Tuition Awards ($582 each, regardless of domestic/international status) are awarded to students who self-identify as having a financial barrier to gaining their first research experience through PSYC 240 (i.e., cannot afford the tuition for this course). These awards will be granted on a non-competitive basis (random draw), contingent on an applicant securing a PSYC 240 lab placement. The funding cycle takes place during the PSYC 240 application period each summer.
Entrance Enhancement Awards ($3,000 from the PIE Fund) will be awarded to incoming graduate students to be applied on top of a minimum funding package. These awards and other GES award decisions will be adjudicated to help supervisors attract outstanding incoming graduate students from marginalized backgrounds underrepresented in psychology.
How you can help:
Any amount is appreciated, but every $3000 raised will provide one Entrance Enhancement Award to an incoming graduate student, and every $2500 will provide departmental funds for one Early Research Award for a beginning undergraduate researcher. Every $600 will provide a Psych 240 Tuition Award for an undergraduate student who might not otherwise be able to afford tuition for Psych 240.
UBC Psychology Department Annual Fund
Your generosity plays a vital role in shaping the future of UBC Psychology.
By contributing to our annual fund, you help us enhance the educational experience for students, advance research excellence, and strengthen the department. Your gift ensures that we continue to foster innovation, discovery, and a deeper understanding of psychology—benefiting not just our students, but the wider community.
UBC Psychology Clinic Fund
The UBC Psychology Clinic is an outpatient mental health and state-of-the-art training clinic at the University of British Columbia. With donor support, we can continue improving the research-informed psychology services that we provide to many individuals who are facing mental illness. Donations would help ensure that our trainee therapists can access specialized training materials and courses in order to best serve our clients.
Other funding initiatives
Centre for Gambling Research at UBC
The Centre for Gambling Research at UBC studies cognitive, behavioural, clinical, and neuroscience aspects of gambling, and was established to advance the understanding of the psychology of gambling in order to reduce the harms associated with problem gambling and improve evidence-based gambling policy.
Dr. Michael Quinn Memorial Endowment
The Quinn Endowment funds a number of programs, including the annual Quinn Memorial Lecture which showcases some of the most innovative psychology research from renowned experts, and the Quinn Exchange Fellowship which allows graduate students to work at comparable research labs anywhere in the world for up to a year.
Stanley Coren Prize in Psychology
The Stanley Coren Prize has been endowed by Dr. Stanley Coren, Professor Emeritus in UBC’s Department of Psychology. The prize is awarded on the recommendation of the department to a graduate student presenting an outstanding Master’s thesis in psychology.
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