Collaborative Student Project Grant

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1. Call for Proposals

ACTOR is pleased to announce this Call for Proposals

If you are not yet a student-member of ACTOR, please consider asking an ACTOR member to sponsor you.

2. Finding a Research Partner

If you are interested in finding a research partner, please join the ACTOR student slack channel and come to the Timbre Geeks Networking meet and greet in March (details coming soon).

The ACTOR student slack channel is a forum for finding and connecting with research partners.

Names of ACTOR student members can be found on the Participants page under the dropdown for each institution or as a list at the bottom of the page; please write to actor-project.music[at]mcgill[dot]ca to get contact details.

Please be sure to fill in this Internal Directory Form so ACTOR can create your member profile so that others can learn about you and your research interests.

3. Helping You with Your Application

Selection Criteria

Project proposals will be evaluated on criteria including (but not limited to):

Application Pointers

  • See this BEST PRACTICE (English) (français) document

  • Section B: Abstract, 200-300 words

    • Section B is your abstract. It should summarize your main argument or the research question you will investigate,

      • Issue: What is your research?

      • Purpose: Why is your research important?

      • Methods: How will you perform your research?

      • Results and Conclusions: Findings or expected findings.

      • So What: Who cares and why do they care?

  • Section C: Methodology, Research Plans, and Proposed Timbre and Orchestration Resource Module, 200-300 words

    • Section C of your application should convey how you plan to go about your research including how you build upon previous research. It should also include what you foresee your contribution to the Timbre and Orchestration Resource will be (article, video presentation, etc.)

  • Section D: Please describe the collaborative nature of this project, how it is relevant to ACTOR’s mission, 400-600 words.

    • Section D of your application should convey how you plan to work together with your research partner, what aspects of timbre and ACTOR’s mission are relevant to your research, how this project relates to other research you may be undertaking, and how it might relate to the research of each applicant.

  • Section E. Selected Bibliography

    • You should include a short bibliography of the most important works