Deadlines:  Rolling deadlines. Please submit a completed application at least 6 weeks before the event is scheduled to take place.

Objective: The Office of the VPRI offers seed funding to support events or outreach activities that strengthen the research culture and build the profile and reputation of research at York University. 

Value: Successful applicants can normally expect funding in the range of $500-$1,500 depending on the level of demand across the University and the scope of the activity.   

Duration: All funds that are unused 12 months following the award decision must be returned to the Office of the VPRI.   

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Contact: Angela Magro

Deadlines: November 1 and March 1

Objective: 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.

Value: Not specifically stated. "Limited resources do not allow support for major projects."

Duration: Not stated.

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Contact: Alon Teper

Deadlines: February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1

Objective: To provide assistance for attendance at national and international scholarly conferences for which the applicant is giving a paper, making a poster presentation, or featured at a solo or 2 person opening of an exhibition, a principal screening, premier performance of dance, theatre or musical production.

Value: Generally, up to a minimum APEX or Charter Class airfare.

Duration: Not applicable.

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Contact: Fazyah Mohammed

Deadlines: October 31 and March 31

Objective: To provide support to full-time faculty members and professional librarians for pilot studies, junior faculty, ‘opportunistic’ small projects, and projects not readily funded elsewhere.

Value: Up to 4,000

Duration: One year.

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Contact: Fazyah Mohammed

Note: This fellowship is not offered every year. Please contact ORS to confirm the next competition year.

Deadline: January 15 (not offered in 2012)

Objective: To recognize merit in research or creative work by providing an individual scholar with opportunities to complete works or projects requiring a period of intensive effort, free of teaching and other university responsibilities.

Value: Full salary and benefits.

Duration: One academic year.

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Contact: Alon Teper

Conference Grants

Deadlines: December 15

Objective: To help defray the cost of conferences held at either the York or Glendon campus which are open to faculty and students.

Value: Not specifically stated, but usually in the $500-$1,000 range.

Duration: Not applicable.

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Periodical Support

Deadlines: December 15

Objective: To support the publication of a new periodical.

Value: Not stated.

Duration: Grants are for one year only, and renewals are rare.

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Deadlines: March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15

Objective: To provide full-time faculty members and librarians with travel grants to conferences at which a substantial presentation is being made.

Value: Up to the cost of return minimum airfare.

Duration: Not applicable.

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Contact: Mala Thakoor

Deadlines: March 1 and August 1

Objective: To provide support to defray costs that are essential to the preparation of a successful grant application, such as those associated with assembling collaboration 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 Operating, NSERC Discovery and SSHRC Insight Grant). Applications will be considered in support of the development of large-scale tri-council applications seeking funding for $1million or more.

Value: Approximately $5,000.

Duration: Eighteen months.

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Contact: Fazyah Mohammed

Deadline: Monday, January 14, 2013

Objective
The Fellowship and the two Scholarships are open to full-time faculty members planning to go on sabbatical or other leave during 2013-2014. The Fellowship will provide the selected faculty member with prime office space in the College for the academic year and the status of a full Senior Resident of the College, with dining privileges (such as attendance of all High Tables subject to College rules). The title "York Fellow of Massey College" remains for life or while mutually agreeable.

The Visiting Scholars will have a carrel in the College and access to Robarts Library and all public rooms in the College. Membership in the Massey Alumni Association is granted to Visiting Scholars at the completion of their program.

Massey College is an independent college situated in the University of Toronto campus, almost directly opposite the Munk School of Global Affairs and very close to the Robarts Library. It consists of a junior fellowship, made up of graduate students, and a senior fellowship, consisting primarily of faculty, of whom an increasing number come from York University.

Value: Not applicable

Duration: One year

Application

There are no application forms, but interested individuals are asked to submit a letter outlining sabbatical or other leave plans, with their reasons for wishing to be at Massey College, with their curriculum vitae to ORS by Monday, January 14, 2013. Please submit the original plus one hardcopy of both the letter and curriculum vitae to: Mala Thakoor, Office of Research Services, 5^th Floor, York Research Tower, (mthakoor@yorku.ca). Applications for both the Fellowship or the Visiting Scholarships will be considered by a panel of senior scholars appointed by the Vice-President Research and Innovation, and applicants may be invited for an interview at Massey College. Results are expected to be announced in March 2013.

Contact: Mala Thakoor

York University President's Research Excellence Award

Deadlines:  Friday January 18, 2013 at 4:30 p.m.

Objective:   The York University President’s Research Excellence Award recognizes established, full-time, active faculty members with distinguished scholarly achievements who have had a notable impact on their field(s) and made a significant contribution to advancing the University’s international reputation for research excellence while significantly and positively contributing to one or more aspects of the York community’s intellectual life.

Value: $10,000 internal research grant deposited to the recipient’s generic research cost centre

Contact: Terry Carter

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