For the good of the country, we must pay graduate student researchers a living wage
Mark Lautens is a professor at the University of Toronto and AstraZeneca Professor of Organic Synthesis.On April 28, the federal government announcedsupported by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund . The amounts are some of the largest grants in Canadian history, and will support important interdisciplinary initiatives at our institutions of higher learning, from coast to coast.
It takes years of hard work to earn a master’s or doctoral degree in a research lab – that’s why graduate students in these positions are paid stipends, to offset their costs of living. However, those stipend levels have not changed in decades.
The starting research grant for a new faculty member today is nearly identical to what I received in 1987: around $35,000. The current average value of a Discovery Grant, supporting fundamental research, is on average around $40,000 a year at our Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council .
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