April 12, 2016 Issue
The LA&PS Research Office publishes a bi-weekly Research Digest to keep faculty members informed about important research issues and opportunities.
If you or your unit is planning an event, a notice or a funding opportunity that you would like included in our Digest Newsletter, please send these to lapsrsc@yorku.ca.
In this issue:
Internal Notices
Retired YUFA Faculty and External Grants
Retired YUFA Faculty members are welcome to apply to external funding agencies for grant monies. The University will sign off on such applications, and set up 500 cost centres in the event of an award. Retired faculty in LA&PS can seek the support of pre-award and post-award services through the research unit of the Dean's Office in relation to external funding.
Internal Grants
LA&PS Minor Research Grant
Deadline: Apr. 15, 2016
Within the eligibility requirements set out in the guidelines, YUFA Faculty in LA&PS can apply for up to $5000 from this fund.
More details here.
SSHRC Grant in Aid of Travel
Deadline: May 1, 2016
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.
More details here.
Specific Research Grant
Deadline: May 1, 2016
The program permits, under certain conditions, a researcher to receive a research grant in lieu of salary through a mechanism which includes peer review.
More details here.
External Notices
Setting the Context: Research & Syrian Refugee Resettlement in Canada
In April 2016, Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and SSHRC will formally announce the launch of a joint initiative and call for proposals to support peer-reviewed research on Syrian refugee resettlement in Canada. The call for applications will open in April, 2016, with links on both IRCC and SSHRC websites.
The key objective of this joint initiative and call is to award supplementary support to active SSHRC funded researchers working in areas related to immigration and refugee resettlement. The call seeks to support research addressing pressing short-term issues related to the current refugee resettlement effort, in order to inform and support the efforts of policymakers, service organisation and other stakeholders.
External Grants and Fellowships
SSHRC Connection Grant
ORS Deadline: Apr. 18, 2016
Agency Deadline: May 1, 2016
Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.
More details here.
Canada Council: Killam Research Fellowships
ORS Deadline: Apr. 29, 2016
Agency Deadline: May 15, 2016
A fellowship from this program provides two full years of release time, beginning no later than 1 January following notification of the fellowship (you may not request less than the full two-year fellowship period). The support for the second year depends on approval of your interim report.
More details here.
Association of Commonwealth Universities Titular Fellowships
ORS Deadline: May. 2, 2016
Agency Deadline: May 15, 2016 by midnight BST
To enable the universities of the Commonwealth to develop the human resources of their institutions and countries through the interchange of people, knowledge, skills and technologies.
More details here.
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies Visiting Research Fellowships
Agency Deadline: May 15, 2016
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Visiting Research Fellowship program seeks applications for the 2016-2017 academic year. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage.
More details here.
Ontario Arts Council: Writers' Works in Progress
Agency Deadline: June 15, 2016
To assist professional writers to complete book-length works of literary merit.
More details here.
Toronto Arts Council: Grants to Writers
Agency Deadline: June 15, 2016
Toronto Arts Council Writers Program supports the creation of new literary works or works-in-progress in the genres of fiction (including novels, short stories, children's literature, graphic novels, etc.), literary non-fiction, poetry and oral traditions such as storytelling, dub, rap and spoken-word.
More details here.
Digging into Data Challenge
ORS Deadline: June 15, 2016
Agency Deadline: June 29, 2016
The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) has launched the next round of the Digging in Data Challenge, which supports research projects that use “big data” approaches to address questions in the social sciences, humanities, and engineering. NSERC, SSHRC and the Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FRQNT/FRQSC) are all involved.
More details here.
TOEFL® Committee of Examiners 2017 Research Program
ORS Deadline: July 2, 2016
Agency Deadline: July 15, 2016
TOEFL COE research grants are intended to support research on topics related to the TOEFL iBT® test and the TOEFL ITP® Assessment Series, promoting high-quality language assessment research as judged by the COE and Educational Testing Service (ETS). Applications that employ diverse and innovative research methodologies are encouraged.
More details here.
Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research
ORS Deadline: July 2, 2016
Agency Deadline: July 15, 2016
The annual national Prize provides funding to outstanding rising star researchers who are affiliated with a Canadian academic or clinical research institution in the field of mental health, to encourage them to continue to pursue their research interests.
More details here.
Calls for Papers
Association for Jewish Studies 48th Annual Conference
CFP Deadline: May 5, 2016
The Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies in the largest annual international gathering of Jewish studies scholars.
More details here.
