January 30, 2012
1. Internal Notices
2. Internal Grants
3. External Notices
4. External Grants and Fellowships
5. Call for Papers
Internal Notices
Climate Consortium for Research Action and Innovation Survey
The Climate Consortium for Research Action and Innovation (CC-RAI) at York University formed an interdisciplinary collaboration working group. One of the primary goals of this group is to map expertise that presently exists at York University with respect to climate change in order to identify who may be interested in collaborating on this type of research in the future.
Those who have not yet participated in the CC-RAI survey are encouraged to do so.
Internal Grants
York Incentive Grant
Deadline: - Mar. 1, 2012
To provide support to defray costs that are essential to the preparation of a successful grant application, such as those associated with assembling collaborative teams. It is intended to assist in the quest for large-scale initiatives involving external funding of at least $75,000. These grants are not awarded to support the preparation of applications for the usual programs of research support (e.g., CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC).
Contract Faculty Research Grants Fund (CUPE)
Deadline: Mar. 1, 2012
To encourage individual research and study by defraying research costs. Value: Research grants - up to $8,000. Release time course directorship grants - salary equivalent to one full-course directorship.
LA&PS International Conference Travel Fund
Deadline: Mar. 1, 2012
Full-time YUFA faculty members in LA&PS are invited to apply for funding to disseminate their work at a conference outside of Canada/United States. LA&PS full-time faculty members who are cross-appointed with other faculties are eligible to apply. In the case of CLAs and SRCs, travel must also occur within the term of the appointment. Applications from junior faculty members are encouraged.
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Mariano A. Elia Research Fund
Deadline: Mar. 1, 2012
To support small-scale research projects where a significant contribution to Italian-Canadian studies will be made and the prestige of the university enhanced. Eligible expenses include research costs and travel to conferences.
York Ad Hoc Conference Travel Grants
Deadline: Mar. 15, 2012
The Ad hoc Committee is a last resort source for funding travel to conferences. To provide full-time faculty members and librarians with travel grants to conferences at which a substantial presentation is being made. An individual is eligible to receive one grant per fiscal year (May 1-Apr 30).Value: Up to the cost of return minimum airfare.
SSHRC Small Grants Program
Deadline: Mar. 31, 2012
To provide support to full-time faculty members and professional librarians for pilot studies, young faculty, 'opportunistic' small projects, and projects not readily funded elsewhere.
External Notices
SSHRC Draft Policy Statement on Section 41 of the Official Languages Act
SSHRC is launching a consultation on a draft policy statement that will guide its implementation of Part VII (Section 41) of the Official Languages Act (OLA). This legislation requires all federal organizations, within the scope of their respective mandates, to take positive measures to enhance the vitality of the English and French linguistic minority communities in Canada, to support and assist their development and to foster the full recognition and use of both English and French in Canadian society.
Ultra High-speed Fibre Optic Network to the Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment
CANARIE, Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network, and the University of Waterloo today announced an extension of the ultra high-speed fibre optic network to the Waterloo Summit Centre for the Environment in Huntsville, Ontario. The link will enable researchers and scientists at the university's Department of Environment and Resource Studies to collaborate in real time with colleagues in Canada and worldwide, accelerating research in ecosystem resilience and adaptation and ecological monitoring.
"Not Even Past" Website
The Department of History at the University of Texas, Austin would like to bring its website to the attention of scholars and the general public.
External Grants and Fellowships
NSERC Funding Opportunites
- NSERC CREATE Program
PIs submit LOI to Faculties: Feb. 24, 2012
Faculties submit LOIs, rankings, and letters of support to VPRI/SPORT: Mar. 2, 2012
SPORT Meeting and decisions by VPRI: week of Mar. 12, 2012
Decisions communicated to applicants and faculties: Mar. 19, 2012
ORS deadline fore CREATE grant full draft for review and feedback: Apr. 17, 2012
NSERC Deadline: May 1, 2012VPRI/ORS is anticipating the announcement of the NSERC Call for Letters of Intent (LOI) for the fifth Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) competition. The program is targeted at supporting undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. Successful applicants will consist of a group of accomplished researchers, who will work collaboratively to offer a defined research training program to a group of trainees. Effective for the 2012 competition, the CREATE Program will offer two new opportunities within its current budget envelope: Industrial Stream and International Collaboration.
Note: An internal competition prevails in relation to this opportunity
- NSERC Idea to Innovations Program
ORS Deadline: Mar. 27, 2012
Agency Deadline: Apr. 10, 2012
This program is available to University researchers to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology and promote its transfer from Canadian universities to Canadian companies. The I2I Program provides funding in two phases (Phase 1- Reduction-to-Practice and Phase II – Technology Enhancement) depending on the maturity of the technology and the involvement of an early stage investment partner.
Proposals under this program must include a detailed technology transfer and commercialization plan prepared and endorsed by the university. Please contact Sarah Howe (showe@yorku.ca, ext. 20579), Associate Director, Intellectual Property and Research Agreements, prior to preparing your application.
- NSERC Strategic Project Grants
ORS Deadline: Apr. 2, 2012
Agency Deadline: Apr. 15, 2012
To increase research and training in targeted areas that could strongly enhance Canada's economy, society and/or environment within the next ten years. This year's target areas are: 1) Environmental Science and Technologies; 2) Information and Communications Technologies; 3) Manufacturing; and 4) Natural Resources and Energy
Research on Women's Health and the Environment
Deadline: Feb. 10, 2012
The National Network on Environments and Women's Health (NNEWH) invites York faculty members interested in the connections between women's health and the environment to submit proposals for research projects to be undertaken over the next two years.
IDRC Call for Concept Notes for its Canadian Partnerships
Agency Deadline: Feb. 13, 2012
The International Development Research Centre (IDRC) recently announced a Call for Concept Notes for its Canadian Partnerships (CP) Small Grants program. This program support research, knowledge – building, and knowledge-sharing projects and fund events and small dissemination activities and products.
Eberly Family Special Collections Library Travel Awards, Penn State
Agency Deadline: Feb. 29, 2012
The Eberly Family Special Collections Library on the University Park campus of Penn State announces travel awards of $1,200 for researchers whose work would benefit from access to the collections held at Penn State.
Grolier Club Library William H. Helfand Fellowship
Agency Deadline: Mar. 9, 2012
The Grolier Club Library is pleased to announce its ninth annual fellowship offering in the history of the book, named in honor of Grolier Club benefactor and former president William H. Helfand. Awards of up to $3,000 are available for research in the Library's areas of strength, with emphasis on the book and graphic arts, antiquarian bookselling, and the private collecting of books and prints.
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CIHR Knowledge Synthesis Grant
Deadline: Apr. 2, 2012
The purpose of this funding opportunity is to support teams of researchers and knowledge users to produce knowledge syntheses and scoping reviews that will contribute to the use of synthesized evidence in decision-making and practice.
Institute for Current World Affairs Fellowship Program
LOI Deadline: Aug. 1, 2012
Full Application Deadline: Sept. 1, 2012The ICWA fellowship program aims to nurture deep expertise in foreign countries and cultures by supporting a Fellow who carries out a program of self-designed, independent study abroad for a minimum of two years.
Call for Papers
Geographies of Promise and Betrayal: Land and Place in US Studies
CFP Deadline: Mar. 15, 2012
The Canadian Association for American Studies has issued its call for papers for its annual conference, which is to be held in Toronto on Oct. 25-28, 2012.
Reconfiguring Authorship
CFP Deadline: Mar. 31, 2012
The Research on Authorship as Performance project at Ghent University invites proposals for 20-minute papers as well as for complete panels, for a conference on the theme of "Reconfiguring Authorship".
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Jan. 30, 2012 Speaker: Susan Stryker The American Model: Current American Politics as a Failed Response to Structural Crisis
Jan. 30, 2012 Speaker: Wallace Katz Don't shoot the Messenger: Personalities, Excitement in Communications in the Age of Napoleon
Feb. 2, 2012 Speaker: John McErlean FA Research Celebration
Feb. 6, 2012 Prosecuting War Crimes: The Beginnings of the International Criminal Court
Feb. 7, 2012 Speaker: Paul Brienza Is Aboriginal Electoral Engagement a Question of Justice?: Examining Participation and Attitudes in Canada
Feb. 8, 2012 Speaker: Jennifer Dalton Twitter Hands-on Session
Feb. 7, 2012 KMb101 Information SessionFeb. 13, 2012 Protest in the 21st CenturyFeb. 15, 2012
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RSVP: rirons@yorku.ca Problematizing "Field-Work"Feb. 16, 2012
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Clear Language Writing and Design (Intro)
Feb. 27, 2012 O3 Information Session
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