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Award Payments

If you have received one of the awards listed below, please click on the corresponding link below to learn how to activate your award. 

SFU Internal Awards (GFs, SGESs, Major Entrance Award, TMRA, GIRTA, SFU Private Awards)

For awards provided by SFU, you must provide DGS with the:

  • signed and dated Award Acceptance Form (you will have received this via email)
  • completed Direct Deposit Form & void cheque

Donor Designated/External Awards (BCIC, MSFSS, NSERC IPS, Pacific Leaders, PICs)

For Donor Designated awards: you must provide DGS with the:

  • award letter as provided by the agency (outlining the award dates and value)
  • completed Direct Deposit Form & void cheque

CIHR: Vanier, Doctoral and Master's Level Awards

Please submit the following documents to activate your CIHR Award:

  • a copy of the CIHR Offer of an Award, which includes the award name, start date, duration and value
  • a copy of the CIHR Response to an Offer of Award
  • CIHR Confirmation of Commencement, signed by award-holder and supervisor
  • CIHR Master's Awards Confirmation of Registration Form. Award-holders are required to submit this form to DGS for completion - the completed form will be sent to CIHR on your behalf.
  • signed Tri-Council Payment Authorization Form (sent to you by DGS)
  • completed Direct Deposit Form & void cheque

Send directly to CIHR the following:

NSERC: Vanier, Doctoral and Master's Level Awards

Please submit to DGS via paper or email, the following documents to activate your NSERC Award:

Send directly to NSERC via paper, email or fax, the following:

SSHRC: Vanier, Doctoral and Master's Level Awards

Please submit to DGS the following documents to activate your SSHRC award:

USRA (NSERC USRA, VPR USRA Sciences or USRA Social Sciences and Humanities)

The steps for initiating the payment for Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRA) is as follows:

  • Accept the award by returning the Award Acceptance Form to DGS
  • Submit the Personal Data Form and voided cheque to the department in which you will be holding the USRA
  • The department will create a Student Research Appointment Form (FPP4 — for the Supervisor's portion of the award) and forward it, together with your personal data form and cheque to Payroll
  • The department is required to send a copy of the FPP4 to the Dean of Graduate Studies office

See also FAQs about payments.

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Note: The Award Acceptance Form was sent to you via email.

Signed and scanned forms can be emailed to: 

dgsaward@sfu.ca

Completed forms can also be sent to:

Awards Assistant
Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies (DGS)
Maggie Benston Student Services Centre 1100
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, British Columbia   
Canada V5A 1S6

We accept courier envelopes but you must pay the courier fee.

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