Faculty Application

This is the place to sign up to be an SROP Faculty Mentor!

The deadline for faculty to sign up for the Summer 2026 Canada SROP and be included in the profiles at the application soft-launch is Thursday, December 18, 2025. However, we plan to do a big promotional launch in mid-January, and we will post another round of faculty research profiles for everyone who has signed up by January 9, 2026.

The 2026 Canada SROP will run from June 8 to July 30, 2026. For more information about the SROP, please read the About and Faculty pages and peruse the Frequently Asked Questions. If your questions are not answered, then please reach out to Liz or Sonia!

After you submit the application, you will see a confirmation display on this screen and you should receive an email notification. We will send all the faculty members who signed up an informational email at the end of January.

Application Form

Please complete all the information below.

Name *

Your Title or Position

Academic title or position (e.g., Assistant/Associate/Full Profesor, Research Scientist)

Email *

With which of the following SROP Sites are you affiliated?

Research/Project Short Title *

Please provide a few words up to 1 sentence that captures the general research topic or question that you research in your lab. This title will be displayed over your picture on the faculty mentor page that leads to faculty profiles, so this short title should be a short byline that would make students with relevant interests want to click to learn more (e.g., “The cognitive neuroscience of learning” or “Awe and friendship”).

What type of research opportunity are you offering? (check all that apply)

Independent Research Experience: Student involved in most aspects of design, implementation, analysis, and/or reporting
Advanced Research Experience: Student likely not involved in design and mostly helps faciltate the project while they’re there, but will be able to ask their own questions of the data and look at it themselves
Advanced Research Assistant: Student takes a more managerial/senior RA role in project administration, but is mostly helping facilitate a project
Standard Research Assistant: Student will do the same thing that other undergraduate RAs do in your lab
Entry-level Research Assistant: Student will do the same things that other RAs do in their first semester in your lab
Other

Please indicate the type of research opportunity that you are offering. You can check more than one, if you are open to different arrangements. All kinds of opportunities are welcome to our SROP students, because the students range in what they are seeking (and we are adjusting the student application to match this question). Therefore, there is no judgment as to how you rate the type of research opportunity that you are offering. This will help us better match students to your lab!

Faculty Research Description (approximately 250 words) *

Please describe the research that your lab does. If you are comfortable with doing this, then you are welcome to copy-and-paste from your lab website. Applicants will read these descriptions when identifying faculty doing research relevant to their interests. Click here for help writing up a project to use for this research description.

Mentorship Statement (approximately 150 words) *

The goals of the Faculty Mentorship Statement are to express your mentorship philosophy and why you signed up for the SROP to the Applicants. Applicants will see this statement along with your Faculty Research Project Statement. The SROP prioritizes Indigenous and Black students, and so you may consider reflecting on how you approach mentoring students from one of these communities (or mentoring people across diverse backgrounds, in general) to speak to these applicants. Click here for detailed instructions for the Faculty Mentorship Statement.

Research Keywords *

Please provide 3 to 5 keywords (e.g., Neuroscience, Organizational Behaviour) that represent your research, separated by commas. We use these keywords to facilitate students searching for faculty and in the matching process.

If relevant, would you be open to nominating your SROP student for an NSERC, SSHRC, or CIHR summer fellowship (USRA)?

Yes
No
Depends, Ask Me if Relevant

In the Summers of 2024 and 2025, we piloted integrating the SROP with all the Tri-Council’s USRA program for Black Student and NSERC’s USRA program for Indigenous students (e.g., https://undergrad.engineering.utoronto.ca/experiential-learning/research-opportunities/nserc-usra/). If you were matched with an eligible student, then supporting their application would involve about 2 hours of administrative work on your end (i.e., you would need to send a short application to a staff member that we would help you prepare and you later need to submit an “MRA” for the award through UofT’s research portal), but the big difference in commitment is that the student would then work in your lab for 14 – 16 weeks, instead of 8 weeks. The SROP would provide a “top up” on the USRA so that the student would get a total of $10,000 across the USRA and the SROP. We would also pay the “supervisor contribution” that you need to pay for the USRA. So, this would take more time and investment from you, but the USRA award will help them succeed in getting into graduate school AND they will get more money for the summer. Note that last year, the central OVPRI did not communicate the awards properly to payroll in the individual departments (this was a UofT-wide problem), but (a) we don’t think that will be a problem this year and (b) we are looking out for it, so that it WON’T be a problem for OUR students.

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Please upload a picture that can be used as your headshot. By uploading the picture, you give us permission to display it on this website. We ask that the size of your headshot image is at least 400×400 pixels. If you have participated in the SROP before, then we can use your old picture if you leave this blank!

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