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After a summer pause, the Individualized Professional Skills grant program is now again accepting applications. The IPS Program is designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars fill in the funding gaps for pursuing opportunities that support your professional development in a variety of career trajectories.
After a summer pause, the Individualized Professional Skills grant program is now again accepting applications. The IPS Program is designed to help graduate students and postdoctoral scholars fill in the funding gaps for pursuing opportunities that support your professional development in a variety of career trajectories.
We are currently accepting applications to support experiences occurring between July 2023 and June 2024.
Curious about IPS? We encourage you to come to one of our Meet & Eats, which will be held on October 20 and November 3 this quarter. At these lunchtime events, past awardees will give brief presentations sharing their experiences from their IPS-sponsored professional development opportunities. Attending a Meet & Eat is a great way to learn more about the program, and to get tips on finding opportunities and completing the grant application.
Awards up to $1200 will be granted to eligible UCSB graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from any discipline who wish to individually tailor their career paths with outside professional development opportunities. These opportunities include but are not limited to:
- Attending workshops, industry trade shows, trainings, certificate programs, and other professional events
- Visits to potential industries and companies
- Visits to job shadow potential mentors or others in a chosen industry
- Career-focused professional organization events
- And more!
The purpose of the IPS program is to help grad students and postdocs take greater agency in their own career path by funding exploration of a range of professional development opportunities across a variety of career and skill interests. The program also includes increased awareness of valuable experiences, career readiness, post-event follow through, and peer-to-peer networking.
Please note that IPS grants are not awarded to support academic development opportunities, such as academic conferences or workshops.
Please visit the IPS webpage on GradPost for more information, including application instructions and the link to the application portal.