Information Session on SSHRC Insight Grant

The Office of the Vice-President Research is hosting an informal SSHRC session to provide information specific to the Insight Grant program.  The format will consist of a panel of experienced and knowledgeable individuals including:
-          Drs. Gary Entwistle and Dwight Newman, SSHRC review committee members,
-          Fatima Bidas (via video conference), SSHRC Program Officer,
-          Nicole Benning, Grants Specialist,
-          Sarah Savage, Research Facilitator, and,
-          a successful applicant (TBA).

The first two hours will consist of the panel discussion, and questions and answer period.  The last hour is allocated for consultation and discussions with Linda McMullen, research facilitator(s), and/or grants specialist(s).

Session Facilitator:  Dr. Linda McMullen, SSHRC Lead
Date:                     April 27th
Time:                     9:00 – 12:00
Location:              EDUC31/Studio B

Please RSVP to Joni Aschim (joni.aschim@usask.ca) by April 23, 2012

SSHRC Public Outreach Grants: Workshops and Conferences

November 2011 Competition

Overview
Value	No maximum limit
Duration	1 year
Application deadline	November 28, 2011
Results announced	March 2012
Apply	Application form not available

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Context

Knowledge mobilization is a core priority for SSHRC, one aimed at facilitating and enabling the movement of knowledge in the social sciences and humanities to and from various sectors of society in order to inform Canadian and international debate, decisions and actions.
SSHRC actively supports connecting, disseminating, exchanging and co-creating knowledge to meet the needs of society. The aim is to ensure that people who stand to benefit from research results (e.g., policy-makers, business leaders, community leaders, educators, and members of the media, as well as academics in various fields) have the knowledge they need, when they need it, in useful forms.

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Objectives

Public Outreach Grants are designed to mobilize and/or leverage existing and ongoing research in the social sciences and humanities for a range of audiences beyond academia. Through this funding opportunity, SSHRC encourages researchers to find effective ways to disseminate, transfer, exchange, synthesize and broker research results to wider audiences.
Funding is available for knowledge mobilization events in the open category or any of SSHRC's priority areas:

• Open: Applicants may submit knowledge mobilization projects drawing from any eligible SSHRC discipline.
• Canadian Environmental Issues
• Northern Communities: Towards Social and Economic Prosperity
• Innovation, Leadership and Prosperity
• Aboriginal Research
• Digital Economy

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Description

The Public Outreach Grants: Workshops and Conferences funding opportunity supports knowledge mobilization events directed primarily to non-academic audiences. This includes:

• Workshops: Smaller, invitational, interactive events that link researcher(s) and target audience(s). Applicants are encouraged to produce a concrete deliverable where appropriate (synthesis, report, policy document, etc.).
• Conferences: Larger, possibly interactive, open events that link target audience(s) and researcher(s). Applicants are encouraged to produce a concrete deliverable where appropriate (synthesis, report, policy document, etc.).
• Innovation forums: A new initiative from SSHRC, innovation forums are brainstorming events that: a) are short, small in scope and intensive; b) include participants from both academic and non-academic sectors; and c) use interactive, facilitated formats organized around setting new research agendas and/or developing new research questions or methodologies. 
• Summer institutes: Drawn from the Image, Text, Sound and Technology funding opportunity, a summer institute is an intensive, short, interactive event that facilitates the mobilization of cutting-edge digital media technologies and skills to researchers, students and other audiences where appropriate.

Public Outreach Grants are not intended to support traditional means of dissemination to the research community (such as academic conferences). SSHRC does, however, support such efforts through funding opportunities such as Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences. Applicants cannot submit an application to the Public Outreach Grants: Workshops and Conferences funding opportunity and the Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences funding opportunity in the same calendar year.
Target audiences for all events and activities should include, but are not limited to:

• policy-makers;
• organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors;
• communities of interest (geographic or virtual);
• other areas of Canada beyond the scope of the original research;
• students at all levels (i.e., primary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities);
• the general public; and
• international audiences.

Applicants are encouraged to describe how the proposed knowledge mobilization activities are expected to increase the capacity of selected audiences to understand and use research results.

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Value and Duration

Applicants must situate their proposals within one of three funding levels: under $50,000, $50,000 to $100,000, and over $100,000. There is no maximum value for the last category; however, applicants should ensure their plans can be implemented in one year. The applications will be adjudicated according to merit and the adjudication criteria outlined below. The level of funding requested should be justified in detail and appropriate to the activities undertaken by the proposed project.
Public Outreach Grants will be tenable for one year only, with the possibility of one one-year extension. Grant holders must apply to the Public Outreach Grants program officer for any extensions. This is a one-time call for proposals.

For further information, please see http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/public_outreach-sensibilisation_public/workshops-ateliers-eng.aspx.  Please also feel free to get in touch with me at sara.mueller@usask.ca

SSHRC Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination

November 2011 Competition

Overview
Value	No maximum limit
Duration	1 year
Application deadline	November 28, 2011
Results announced	March 2012
Apply	Application form not available

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Context

Knowledge mobilization is a core priority for SSHRC, one aimed at facilitating and enabling the movement of knowledge in the social sciences and humanities to and from various sectors of society in order to inform Canadian and international debate, decisions and actions.
SSHRC actively supports connecting, disseminating, exchanging and co-creating knowledge to meet the needs of society. The aim is to ensure that people who stand to benefit from research results (e.g., policy-makers, business leaders, community leaders, educators, and members of the media, as well as academics in various fields) have the knowledge they need, when they need it, in useful forms.

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Objectives

Public Outreach Grants are designed to mobilize and/or leverage existing and ongoing research in the social sciences and humanities for a range of audiences beyond academia. Through this funding opportunity, SSHRC encourages researchers to find effective ways to disseminate, transfer, exchange, synthesize and broker research results to wider audiences.
Funding is available for knowledge mobilization activities in the open category, or any of SSHRC's priority areas:

• Open: Applicants may submit knowledge mobilization projects drawing from any eligible SSHRC discipline.
• Canadian Environmental Issues
• Northern Communities: Towards Social and Economic Prosperity
• Innovation, Leadership and Prosperity
• Aboriginal Research
• Digital Economy

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Description

The Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination funding opportunity supports activities that help share the results of academic research with non-academic audiences.
Dissemination activities include, but are not limited to:

1. adapting texts or presentations for different audiences (including translations into French, English or an aboriginal language);
2. policy briefs;
3. knowledge syntheses;
4. articles in newspapers or weekly or monthly magazines, whether specialized or general interest (publications in scholarly journals are not eligible);
5. interactive technologies, databases and audio-visual products;
6. media events (such as interviews, or television or radio presentations);
7. press conferences;
8. public debates or testimonies;
9. software or NetWare;
10. educational aids, instruments or equipment;
11. artistic exhibits, performances or festivals;
12. submissions to public commissions, roundtables or workshops; and
13. virtual networking and interactions.

If a proposed activity is not listed above, applicants should consult the program officer to ensure that they are eligible for this funding opportunity.
Note: All activities should be set in the context of a cohesive and fully articulated mobilization plan or strategy. Applicants are encouraged to describe how the proposed knowledge mobilization activities are expected to increase the capacity of selected audiences to understand and use research results.
Target audiences include, but are not limited to:

• policy-makers;
• organizations in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors;
• communities of interest (geographic or virtual);
• other areas of Canada beyond the scope of the original research;
• students at all levels (i.e., primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities);
• the general public; and
• international audiences.

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Value and Duration

Applicants must situate their proposals within one of three funding levels: under $50,000, $50,000 to $100,000, and over $100,000. There is no maximum value for the last category; however, applicants should ensure their plans can be implemented in one year. The applications will be adjudicated according to merit and the adjudication criteria outlined below. The level of funding requested should be justified in detail and appropriate to the activities undertaken by the proposed project.
Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination will be tenable for one year only, with the possibility of one one-year extension. Grant holders must apply to the Public Outreach Grants: Dissemination program officer for any extensions. This is a one-time call for proposals.

For further information, please see http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/public_outreach-sensibilisation_public/dissemination-diffusion-eng.aspx.  You are also welcome to contact me at sara.mueller@usask.ca

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SSHRC Insight Grant Information Session

Faculty in the College of Education, the College of Law, and the University Library are invited to attend an informal information session about the SSHRC Insight Grant.

The session will be held in Education 3050 on September 8 from 4:00-5:00.

SSHRC Internal Review Process - SSHRC Insight Grants 2011

SSHRC Internal Review Process: 2011 Insight Grant Competition

 

July 25^th

·      By this date, applicants should have notified Linda McMullen, SSHRC Leader of their intention to submit a SSHRC application. In consultation with the research facilitator of the applicant’s college/unit, Linda will assist in identifying a mentor to work with the applicant, if desired. Where applicable, comments received on a previous application should be reviewed. Applicants should also work with the research facilitator from their college/unit throughout the application process.

Aug. 8^th 2:00 to 4:00; Location TBD - SSHRC Workshop 

·      Two-hour session: getting to the specifics of a successful SSHRC application.  This panel session comprises a discussion of the application requirements for the Insight Grant competition, tips from a successful U of S SSHRC applicant, and information on the review process from a member of an adjudication committee. 

Aug^.  25th – Final draft of grant (including CV) submitted to Linda McMullen for review by internal committee

·      Full draft (with core content revisions as recommended by mentor, budget, student training, CV, etc.) submitted for internal review. Prior to this deadline, grants should have been reviewed by a mentor, grant writer, research facilitator, and/or colleague with regard to importance, feasibility, budget, student training, format, clarity, composition, and conformity to SSHRC guidelines.   (Applicants must indicate who has been involved in the review process). 

·      In order to gain the most benefit from the process, grants must be submitted in a polished state. Grants not in this format cannot be forwarded to the committee for review.

Sept. 1^st  – Feedback provided by committee on draft proposal back to applicant 

October 8^th  - Deadline for submission of grant to Research Services for compliance check

October 15^th   - SSHRC Deadline for Grant Submission 

Contacts:

SSHRC Leader                                  Linda McMullen       linda.mcmullen@usask.ca;

Research Services                           Joni Aschim              joni.aschim@usask.ca

                                                            Amanda Sawlor       amanda.sawlor@usask.ca

Funding for Grant Writing Assistance:

http://www.usask.ca/research/research_services/internal_funding_opps.php#ProposalDevelopmentAssistance

SSHRC Insight Grant

The program description for the SSHRC Insight Grant (which replaces the SRG) has now been released.  Please see the details here:


http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/insight_grants-subventions_savoir-eng.aspx

Tri-Council Policy Change: Student Stipends

What follows is an announcement of a policy change from the Tri-Councils regarding student stipends in SSHRC and CIHR grants:


This is to advise you of important changes regarding stipends for students and postdoctoral fellows paid from grants from the three federal research granting agencies.
As you are aware, the federal research granting agencies (NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC) have in the past followed different practices with regard to the level of stipends which can be paid to students and postdoctoral fellows. Over the years we had heard from institutions and researchers that these different practices were too rigid, may limit the researchers’ ability to recruit students and provide them with compensation that was competitive and fair, made it difficult to manage interdisciplinary teams and increased the administrative burden on institutions Thus, in March 2011, as part of the ongoing effort to harmonize policies across the three agencies, the agency Presidents agreed that granting agency regulations on support for students and trainees paid through grants should be removed.
The removal of these regulations will address the concerns we had received over the years.
Therefore, beginning September 2011, the policies and practices of the three agencies will be harmonized, and specific minima or maxima pertaining to stipends paid from grants will no longer be in effect. The Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide will no longer stipulate the value of stipends that can be paid from grants. In addition, the agencies will remove the restriction on providing supplements from grants (“top- ups”) to award holders.
Many institutions have already set policies on minimum support packages, where stipend support can be assembled from various sources. In other instances, collective agreements may come into play. The granting agencies encourage institutions to continue to ensure that students and postdoctoral fellows are appropriately compensated, commensurate with the important contributions that they make to the research environment of the institution.

SSHRC CV Workshop

On March 11, I will be running a SSHRC CV workshop for faculty in Law, Education, and the University Library from 1:00 - 4:00 in Murray 161.  If you are interested in attending, please come prepared with a copy of your CV.  The workshop will consist of a brief introduction to the components of the new SSHRC CV and go over some things to consider in selecting achievements to highlight in the SSHRC CV.  Subsequent to the brief introduction, you will have the opportunity to work on your SSHRC CV.  I will be present to answer any technical questions or to advise on how to present your work.

Deadline for Insight Grant Announced: 15 October 2011

IMPORTANT SSHRC UPDATE

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has just announced the deadline for their new SSHRC Insight Grant (replacing the SSHRC Standard grant) competition.

The request for proposals for the first Insight Grants competition will be made available on the SSHRC website in June 2011, with application forms and instructions to be launched in July 2011. The application deadline for this competition will be October 15, 2011. This date is based on both the long-standing deadline of the Standard Research Grants competition, and feedback gathered from the research community during the program architecture renewal consultation process last spring.

Please check back to the SSHRC site for additional information on the main features of the Insight Grants that will be shared over the coming months.

For further information regarding SSHRC’s Insight Programs see:  http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/umbrella_programs-programme_cadre/insight-savoir-eng.aspx

SSHRC Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences

SSHRC Research Workshops and Conferences Funding Opportunity – Spring 2011

The next application deadline is 8:00 p.m., May 2, 2011, given the normal May 1 deadline falls on a Sunday.  The internal deadline to submit to Research Services is April 25, 2011.


Applicants will continue to submit their applications electronically to their research offices for approval, and must continue to adhere to the internal deadlines set by their institutions. The research administrators will approve and electronically submit all applications to SSHRC.

The electronic form and instructions are now available through the SSHRC website: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/site/apply-demande/program_descriptions-descriptions_de_programmes/conferences-colloques-eng.aspx