Zaak Walton Killam

Killam Postdoctoral Fellow Orientation Guide

Welcome to Dalhousie University. We hope your TRAVEL EXPENSES time here will prove to be a rewarding and enjoyable experience. The information in this Travel grants are provided to meet the cost of guide has been compiled to assist you transportation by the most direct route, from throughout the duration of your fellowship. If your present residence, at the time of being you have any questions or encounter any offered the award, to Halifax. Grants will not problems, please contact: exceed the cost of an economy airfare for you and your spouse (if applicable). No allowance Danielle Pottie, Killam Administrator can be made for the transportation of children or Tel: (902) 494-6246 personal effects. In order to be reimbursed for E-Mail: [email protected] your airfare, a travel expense claim form (on-line at www.dal.ca/finserv under “Travel Form”) PAYMENT OF FELLOWSHIP must be completed and submitted with the ticket stubs, original receipts, and boarding passes. Your annual fellowship is $45,000 (including The completed form should be brought to the benefits) and will be paid to you on a monthly Faculty of Graduate Studies. Once the form is basis. Pay is deposited directly into your bank received, it will take approximately ten days to account on the 27th of each month, or the Friday two weeks for the money to be deposited in your before if the 27th falls on a weekend. account. The same process occurs when your fellowship ends (your cheque will be forwarded SOCIAL INSURANCE NUMBERS: to your new address). INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS BENEFITS Anyone receiving income in Canada, including scholarship and fellowship funds, must have a Effective for the 2012 and beyond competitions a Social Insurance Number (SIN). series of insured benefits will be available to Post Doctoral Fellows (PDFs). For details on the If you do not have a SIN, you must apply for it benefits offered please visit before you can receive any income. You can do http://dalgrad.dal.ca/docs/pdf_benefits.pdf. this by visiting the Human Resources and Skills The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship will cover Development website at the pdf’s cost for benefits. http://www.hrsdc.gc.ca/ or by visiting Halifax Human Resources Centre Canada, Halifax RESEARCH GRANT Shopping Centre, Tower 2, 2nd Floor, 7001 Mumford Road. You must request proof that you Killam Postdoctoral Fellows are eligible to apply have applied for a SIN and submit it to the for one research grant in the amount of $3,000 Faculty of Graduate Studies as soon as possible. during the term of the fellowship. The Research When you receive your SIN, please report the Grant Application and Guidelines are available number to the Faculty of Graduate Studies at http://killamtrusts.dal.ca/ for your use. immediately.

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CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANT research undertaken during the period of your fellowship. Killam Postdoctoral Fellows are eligible to apply for a conference travel grant in the amount of TEACHING AND OTHER WORK $1,000 during the term of the fellowship. The Conference Travel Grant Application and Fellows may engage in teaching or other similar Guidelines are available at duties in the University; such activities must not http://killamtrusts.dal.ca/. Please note that the involve more than three hours per week of the deadline for receipt of applications is a Fellow’s time. Remuneration for this work is to minimum of one month before the be paid by the department at the rates stipulated conference you plan to attend. Confirmation that in the CUPE collective agreement for Part-Time you will be presenting at the conference must Academics and Teaching Assistants. No other accompany the application form. paid work at Dalhousie or elsewhere may be undertaken by a Fellow without the permission ANNUAL KILLAM CELEBRATION of the Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies.

Each fall, usually in early November, a VACATION AND OTHER ABSENCES celebration is held to honour all Dalhousie Killam Fellows and Scholars. The celebration is Killam Fellows are entitled to take a four-week attended by the Killam Trustees and invited vacation each year at a time prearranged with members of the Dalhousie community. You will your department. Any other absences, including receive an invitation to the event for you and one off-campus research, must be approved by the guest. It is hoped that you will be available to Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies. attend this event and that it will provide the opportunity to meet other Killam Fellows and Scholars as well as the Killam Trustees.

CHANGE IN FELLOWSHIP END-DATE F A C U L T Y O F G R A D U A T E S T U D I E S

The Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship is tenable Address: Henry Hicks Academic for two years. If, for some reason, you must end Administration Building your fellowship prior to the completion of your 3rd Floor, Room 314 term, you should write a letter to the Dean, Dalhousie University Faculty of Graduate Studies with the following 6299 South Street information: your revised end date, the reason PO BOX 15000 for leaving early, and a brief report on your Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 4R2 fellowship experience and accomplishments. Tel: (902) 494-2485 Fax: (902) 494-8797 PUBLICATIONS E-Mail: [email protected] Web: www.dalgrad.dal.ca It is hoped that during the course of your fellowship you will have the opportunity to publish work arising from your research. The Killam Trustees ask that you acknowledge the Killam Trusts in any published work arising from

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