Core Membership
The VISTA Core Membership provides benefits, such as enhanced technical support and funding for research projects, research travel, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and prototyping funds. It also comes with the right and expectation to serve in the VISTA administrative structure.
Associate Membership
The VISTA Associate Membership provides benefits to faculty such as access to some technical support and funding for graduate students, as well as other funding through collaboration with VISTA Core members.
Affiliate Membership
The VISTA Leadership Committee invites VISTA Core members to nominate domestic and international non-York academic colleagues for Affiliate membership.
VISTA Affiliate Membership provides benefits to non-York (external) faculty, both directly and via their collaborations with VISTA Core members. Affiliate members will have the opportunity to attend, either in person or remotely, a large array of VISTA-related seminars and events. Further, Affiliate members can benefit from VISTA funding opportunities through their collaborations with VISTA Core members. Eligibility and nomination criteria for Affiliate membership are listed in the table below.
Please submit your nomination to applyvista@yorku.ca. Applications are considered on a rolling basis. Complete guidelines can be found below.
OVERVIEW
Eligibility
- Nominee must demonstrate a strong history of research in a vision-related area.
- History of, or strong interest in collaborating with VISTA Core and/or Associate members.
Nomination Criteria
- Letter of interest
- Letter of support/nomination signed by one current VISTA Core member.
- CV of nominee
- Self-Identification Survey by nominee (voluntary).
*For those already engaged in a VISTA collaboration, the need for a letter of interest would be waived. Applicants in this category may submit a CV, a nomination letter, and an email expressing their interest in becoming a VISTA Affiliate member.
Note that VISTA funding cannot be provided to members outside of York University.
