The Isabelle Boisvenu Fund was established in memory of Isabelle Boisvenu who died accidentally in December, 2005. With her father Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, she was significantly involved in setting up AFPAD.

This fund, managed independently from AFPAD activities, was created to help research in the field of victimology by means of scholarships or subsidies granted to university students. For this purpose, a management committee consisting of a representative of the Boisvenu family, an AFPAD representative and one from the university environment annually overviews the various guidelines that govern the granting of scholarships.

This fund is set up in the memory of Isabelle Boisvenu, who died in December, 2005. It aims at getting to know more about problems facing collateral or indirect victims of manslaughter or criminal disappearance.

Number of scholarships : Two scholarships


Amount

•$2,500 each, granted in full at the time the choice of the recipients is made.

• The scholarships are non renewable.

Goals

•Encourage students to undertake research on the little researched fields of manslaughter and\or the disappearance of a family member;

•Contribute to the support of research on the impact of manslaughter and disappearances, particularly as lived by victims' families.

Fields of studies covered

Any relevant field of study that can allow the advancement of knowledge about the impact of manslaughter or disappearances on families. Targeted fields: criminology, victimology, law, sociology, history and other human sciences, journalism, health sciences (medicine, nursing, psychology, traumatology, etc.) or any other relevant field.

Covered cycles of study

Preference will be given to students of second and third university cycles.

Establishments

All university and education establishments.

Conditions of eligibility

•Full-time registration in a curriculum since the fall 2010 session;

•Have a current research project underway in your own department and have registered the title and the goals of your research project in an official manner;

•Students are eligible at all stages of their research: from the time the project is submitted to the time it is edited.

Winner selection criteria

•The quality of the project and its capacity to further knowledge in the fields of assistance, recognition, support for the families of the persons victims of manslaughter or disappearance but also in understanding the traumas undergone by families or any other relevant domain;

•The quality of the student.

Renewable: No

Contents of the application file to be submitted to AFPAD

•Proof of the student's full-time registration in his (her) curriculum;

•Proof the project was registered or of the research intention within the student's establishment;

•The candidate's CV ;

•A two or three page maximum research project summary containing title, goals and methodology of the project, as well as the name of the project manager;

•A letter of intent stating how the scholarship will help the student pursue his (her) project.

Granting of scholarship

•GUARANTEES: the granting of the scholarship will in no way depend on the results of the research and no such influence will be attempted. Similarly, no privilege of quotation of the project's preliminary results (media or other) is required;

•The student undertakes to create a brief 10 to 15 page document, presenting the results and the main highlights of his research and clarifying how the AFPAD scholarship helped in the realization of his (her) work;

•For the purpose of its mission, AFPAD can reproduce or use all or part of the project's results once it has been completed and turned in.

•The student undertakes to come and orally present the preliminary results of his (her) research during the AFPAD's Annual General Assembly. (Particular cases such as research conducted overseas or the impossibility of getting about must be negotiated directly with AFPAD).

Deadline

Applications must be submitted before December 31, 2011

•By Email at the following address: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

•In person or in writing at the following address:

•Recipients names will be announced in January, 2012