Philips Ayeni

PhD, MLIS, BLS

GRANTS AND AWARDS

PHILIPS AYENI

Awards and Scholarships

  • First-Place award winner, 2022 ALISE/Jean Tague-Sutcliffe Doctoral Student Research Poster Competition held in Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ($200 USD and complimentary 2023 Doctoral Students to ALISE grant) October 26, 2022.
  • Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) doctoral scholarship 2022-2023 ($28,000 CAD) June 2, 2022.
  • Association for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 2021 New Leader Award ($750 USD) July 31, 2021.
  • Coalition Publica PhD scholarship for research in scholarly communication in Canada ($10,000 CAD) June 7, 2021.
  • PhD Completion Award ($6,000 CAD), McGill School of Information Studies June 10, 2021.
  • McCall MacBain Fellowship – McGill University ($20,000 CAD). Awarded to graduate students in the Faculty of Arts with excellent academic standing, 2020-2021 session.
  • McGill University Differential Tuition Waiver 2018-2020
  • Graduate Excellence Awards, School of Information, McGill University (9 Awards worth $22,000 CAD) 2018-2021.
  • Dorothy Carruthers Prize in Archival Studies, School of Information, McGill University ($1,771 CAD) January 2019.

Conference Travel Awards


  • McGill University Faculty of Arts, Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel (GREAT) Awards ($1,000 CAD) August 16, 2022.
  • McGill University Post Graduate Students Society (PGSS) Travel award ($1,000 CAD) August 9, 2022.
  • Registration fee waiver for ASIS&T Annual Meeting ($350 USD) October 2022.
  • Registration scholarship for ASIS&T Annual Meeting ($160 USD) October 22, 2020
  • Registration award for ASIS&T SIG-USE Symposium on “Grand Challenges in Information Behaviour Research” ($50 USD) October 24, 2020
  • FORCE11 scholarship to attend FSCI Scholarly Communication Institute at UCLA ($1,200 USD) August 5-9, 2019.
  • Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Tuition Scholarship on Open Access intensive course at the University of Victoria June 10-14, 2019.
  • Society for Scholarly Publishing 2019 Student Fellowship ($1,300 USD) to attend 41st Annual Meeting at San Diego, California May 29 – May 31, 2019.
  • Canadian Association of Research Library travel bursary ($1,130 CAD) for Advancing Open event in Vancouver May 6-7, 2019.

Academic Distinctions and Honours


  • Member, Golden Key International Honor Society (November 2019 – Current)
  • Best graduating master’s student (6.6 of 7.0 CGPA), Department of Library and Archival Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria (December 2015)
  • Overall best graduating student (4.81 of 5.0 CGPA), 2010/2011 academic session, Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Nigeria (March 2012)
  • Best graduating student, Department of Library and Information Science, TASUED (March 2012).