If you are a full-time Master’s student and worked a TA or RA position in your first year, you are guaranteed 130 paid hours of work in your second year of studies; if you are a full-time PhD candidate and received a TA or RA position in your first year, you are guaranteed 130 paid hours of work in your second, third, fourth and fifth years of study. Each individual department is responsible for posting a list of all the persons for whom it must respect an obligation for reappointment and for informing its graduate students about this list by June 30 of each year.
CUPE 2626 offers different sources of funding to help members with expenses related to tuition fees, cost of dependent care, presentations at academic conferences, organization of projects, and unforeseen circumstances.
CUPE 2626 members can apply to these Funds:
You can find and apply for various scholarships and bursaries available to uOttawa students.
To do so, access the University’s online research engine.
Your Faculty offers travel grants for graduate students that present a publication directly related to their thesis at a conference.
To apply, please check with your department’s administration.
The Graduate Student Association (GSAÉD) offers financial support for graduate students that participate in conferences, organize their own academic events or find themselves in dire financial need due to unforeseen circumstances.
No student should need to choose between buying food or textbooks. Any member of the University of Ottawa community — undergraduate as well as graduate students — can access the various services provided by the Student Federation at the University of Ottawa’s Food Bank.