Position type
Research resident

Cohort size
‍15-20 residents

Duration
January 2025 - April 2025

Who
Open to all McGill students of all levels (undergraduate, master's, PhD, post-doc) who are in good academic standing and to students who have graduated from McGill in the past 12 months.

Stipend
$3000

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‍Function
A unique opportunity for graduate students to develop an original, creative and rigorous academic project where they:

• Pursue their project freely and rigorously for 4 months
• Create knowledge and acquire new skills
• Connect with other out-of-the-box thinkers
• Think beyond the acknowledged, the recognized, the comfortable
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In-person presence at B21 is required. It leads to essential interdisciplinary connections and conversations. Details on in-person programming are below:

1. Requirements
15 hours of physical presence at Building 21 per week where fellows:

• Conduct rigorous research in the space
• Attend one weekly Lightning session
• Schedule a one-on-one with a B21 staff once every two weeks

2. Events
B21 hosts weekly programming that fellows have the option to attend and include in their weekly 15 hours. Events include:

• "I'm Not Sure.?!" talks
• The Edge Effect exploration
• Mmm...Matterless Matters Mercredi potluck
• Special guest speakers

3. Responsibilities
To cultivate a community of scholars aligned with the BLUE ethos, we ask you to:

• Develop your project freely in the space
• Dive into meaningful conversations with fellow scholars
• Present your project with the community
• Seek the magic of inspiration

4. Research Idea Gallery
Scholars will be asked to present their work to the community at the end of the residency in a final project gallery.

We are open to all imaginings from different backgrounds and expertises.

Here are some projects we loved. Projects can be entirely domain-specific, or an interdisciplinary mix.

• Su Yu Ding: Recalculating the Cosmological Constant (2018)

• Ève-Marie Marceau & Antoine Pouline: Detecting the sublime in poetry using mathematics (2023)

• Mathilde Papillon: Understanding the Double Rigid Pendulum with Laban’s Dance Theory (2019)

• Mohamed Debbagh: Simulating digital plant growth using generative models (2024)

• Alex Nicholas Chen: Can there be a slow social media? (2023)

• Bior Ajak: Refugees of the Future (2020)

• Claudia Reihert: Designing experiments to understand feature hierarchies in Autism Spectrum Disorder (2020)

• Adam Ghadi-Delgado: Crafting a manifesto for sustainable architecture (2020)

• Alyssa Coghlin: Creating workshops to ground social work language in embodied practices (2020)

• Minju You: Investigating memories and dreams through indigenous narratives, films, and discussions (2021)
  

• Émile Chamberland: Exploring fungi intelligence through parallels with human and natural systems (2022)

Eligibility and Requirements

Community Guidelines