Tuition-Free Fellowships: Call for Paper Proposals

Submission Deadline: March 31st, 2025

We are now accepting paper proposals for academic and policy research on cross-border management issues and challenges.

We welcome any proposal subject that is related to: cross-border management, border law, trade and customs borders, human mobility across borders, Indigenous internationalisms and border crossings, border security, ecological borders, border disputes, and artificial intelligence in border management.

Successful applicants will be receive a tuition-free fellowship for our Summer Institutes, where they will learn from leading academics and policy officials about contemporary borders and earn a certificate in the institute(s) of their choice.

Fellows will be supervised by professors/lecturers at the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada) and the papers produced may be published in our academic journal, BIG_Review.

Submission Guidelines

To respond to this Call for Paper Proposals, please submit your application at the button labelled “Complete Application Form” no later than Monday, March 31st at 11:45 PM (PST). Successful applicants will be notified by the end of April 2025.

Proposals should be a maximum of 500 words, including title and biography, and should discuss the motivation for, objective and possible outcomes of your research as well as explain the datasets and methodology to be used in your research. Proposals must be uploaded to the online application as a PDF document in accordance with the following requirements:

– File name: Last name, First name_2025 BIG Summer Inst Proposal

– Times New Roman 12 pt. font

– Double-spaced

– Written in English or French

For more information on the application and award process, see the “Detailed Call for Paper Proposals” and submission guidelines below.