SSHRC Partnership Grant 2021 Competition: York’s Internal Notice of Intent (iNOI)

SSHRC has not formally launched the 2021 competition, but York University is launching an internal Notice of Intent (iNOI) process early given the competitiveness and strategic importance of the competition to the university. If you are interested in pursuing a SSHRC Partnership Grant, please review the full internal posting about the NOI, which can be found here.

VPRI Funding for Scholarly Events and Outreach Activities

Deadline: September 1, 2020

Value:  normally $500-$1,500

Duration: within 12 months

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. Application can be found here.

VPRI Funding for Indigenous Scholarly Events and Outreach Activities

Deadline: September 1, 2020

Value: normally $500-$1,500

Duration: within 12 months

The Office of the VPRI offers funding to support scholarly events or outreach activities that address Indigenous priorities and needs, strengthen York’s Indigenous research culture and build the profile and reputation of sound Indigenous-focused research at York University.  Priority will be given to proposals from Indigenous applicants. Application can be found here.

LA&PS Seed Grant for Collaborative Research Initiatives

Deadline: September 15, 2020

Value: up to $5000

LA&PS full-time faculty members are invited to apply for seed funding to build new research collaborations with scholarly and/or community partners by supporting the specific costs associated with bringing key partners together to explore and develop new research and research funding opportunities. These initiatives must involve at least one LA&PS faculty member working with collaborators, who can be faculty or external community members (locally or globally). The funding is designed to offset costs associated with bringing the collaborators together for a preliminary planning meeting or small-scale workshop. Application can be found under section #1 on this web page.

SSHRC Explore

Deadline: October 31, 2020

To provide support to full-time faculty, professional librarians, and current Postdoctoral Fellows for stand-alone small scale projects and for projects that will lead to the development of larger SSHRC applications or other external funding. Application form.

SSHRC KmB

Deadline: October 31, 2020

To provide support to full-time faculty, professional librarians, and current Postdoctoral Fellows for small-scale knowledge mobilization activities such as stakeholder consultations, policy briefs, publication subventions, workshops, etc.  Application form.

For a general listing of internal funding opportunities, visit here.

SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant: Skills and Work in the Digital Economy

Deadlines:
• ORS deadline for technical review: August 20, 2020
• Agency deadline:  September 3, 2020

Value: up to $30,000

Duration: 1 year

SSHRC in partnership with Future Skills Centre of Canada recently launched a Knowledge Synthesis Grants (KSG) competition to assess the state of research knowledge on the topic of “Skills and Work in the Digital Economy.” (Application forms can be accessed by logging into your SSHRC account here, and then clicking on “Create New Form.”)

Note: Knowledge Synthesis Grants are not intended to support original research.  Rather, they are intended to support the synthesis of existing research knowledge and the identification of knowledge gaps. This call is focused on the state of research knowledge emerging over the past 10 years.

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: September 1, 2020
• Agency deadline: September 15, 2020

Value: $7,000 to $25,000

Duration: 1 year

These grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. In addressing an organization-specific need, challenge and/or opportunity, these partnerships let non-academic organizations and post-secondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest. (Application forms can be accessed by logging into your SSHRC account here, and then clicking on “Create New Form.”)

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants – COVID-19 Special Initiative

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: September 1, 2020
• Agency deadline: September 15, 2020

Value: $7,000 to $25,000

Duration: 1 year

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges globally. While much needed focus to date has been on developing and testing effective countermeasures to control the spread of the virus, examining the longer-term impacts of the pandemic — and the ensuing economic slowdown — on individuals, businesses and communities is just as important.

Through the June 15, 2020 and September 15, 2020 rounds of its Partnership Engage Grant competitions, SSHRC will invest up to $1.5 million in special initiative funding to COVID-19 related projects.

Note: SSHRC recently updated the eligibility section of this competition to allow researchers who have already submitted a PEG application in 2020 to be able to apply to the PEG COVID-19 Special Initiative.

Application forms can be accessed by logging into your SSHRC account here, and then clicking on “Create New Form.”

SSHRC Insight Grant

Deadlines:
• Deadline to guarantee a full substantive review of draft application by LAPS pre-award staff member: August 24, 2020
• Verified application, final budget, and ORS checklist due at LAPS: September 29, 2020 by 9 am
• Agency deadline: October 1, 2020

Value: $7,000 - $400,000

Duration: 2 to 5 years

Insight Grants support research projects proposed by scholars in the humanities or social sciences that are judged worthy of funding by their peers and/or other experts. Insight Grant research initiatives can be undertaken by an individual researcher or a team of researchers working in collaboration.

Applicants choose from one of two streams, depending on the amount of funding required. Both streams will be adjudicated by the same committees, and will receive the same rigorous level of merit review. The deadlines and application process are identical for both; however, the targeted success rate for Stream A is higher than for Stream B. Stream A is for budgets between $7000 and $100,000; Stream B is for budgets between $101,00 and $400,000. (Application forms can be found by logging into your SSHRC account here, clicking on “Create New Form,” and selecting the Insight Grant from the list provided.)

SSHRC Connection Grant

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: October 19, 2020
• Agency deadline: November 2, 2020

Value:  $7000 to $25,000 for events, and up to $50,000 for other outreach activities; higher amounts for outreach activities may be considered if well justified

Duration: 1 year

These grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities.  To access an application form and full instructions, log into your SSHRC account.  In most cases, the appropriate application to select is “Connection – Individual.”

SSHRC Partnership Development Grants

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: November 2, 2020
• Agency deadline: November 16, 2020

Value: $75,000 to $200,000

Duration: 1-3 years

SSHRC invites applicants and their partner organizations who wish to propose formal disciplinary, interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, international and/or cross-sector partnership arrangements to apply for support through this funding opportunity. Funds are available to support a variety of formal partnership development initiatives in all of the disciplines and themes eligible for funding at SSHRC. Please see the definitions for formal partnership and partner organization before beginning an application. (Application forms can be accessed by logging into your SSHRC account here, and then clicking on “Create New Form.”)

CIHR Team Grant : More Years Better Lives (MYBL) 2020

Deadlines:
• ORS deadline for technical review: September 1, 2020
• Agency deadline: September 15, 2020

Value & Duration: maximum amount per grant is $83,333 per year for up to 3 years, for a total of $250,000 per grant  (max 2 grants will be funded in this competition)

Since high levels of inequality are damaging both to individuals and society, the Joint Programming Initiative “More Years, Better Lives” seeks to identify who benefits and who loses from demographic change. One key change is in the relationship between generations. Historical assumptions about mutual responsibilities and benefits may no longer be valid as we move from a three-generation society to a four- or five- generation one. This call focuses on three issues: 1) income and wealth; 2) caring responsibilities; and 3) social and political participation.

In addressing these topics, proposals are expected to pay particular attention to cross-cutting issues of gender, ethnicity, and social class, all of which have a major bearing on inequalities. Other issues that may be relevant include: the impact of disability, changing welfare systems, retirement and housing policies, and the ways in which people’s circumstances are affected by life events, like divorce, migration, unemployment and bereavement.

CIHR Project Grant

Deadlines:
• Agency Registration Deadline (Mandatory): September 16, 2020
• LA&PS Deadline for final application and ORS checklist: October 12, 2020 at 9am
• Agency Deadline: October 14, 2020

The CIHR Project Grant is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects or programs of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

CIHR: Additional Funding Opportunities

A list of funding opportunities through CIHR can be found on this page of the agency’s website. Please be attentive to any COVID-19 update that appears as part of the posting for specific opportunities.

NSERC PromoScience Program

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS technical review: September 1, 2020
• Submission to ORS for final proposal and fully signed ORS Checklist: September 11, 2020 by 9:00 am
• Agency deadline: Sept. 15, 2020

Value: up to $200K per year

Duration: up to 3 years

This program offers financial support for initiatives that promote the natural sciences and engineering to Canada's young people, particularly to groups such as girls and Indigenous peoples that are under-represented in scientific and engineering careers. It supports hands-on learning experiences for young students and their science teachers.  Grants may be used to cover improvements to program content or delivery, as well as for new programs and activities.  Grants can also be used to cover operational costs such as salaries, travel, postage, materials and supplies, provided that they relate to the promotion of science and engineering.

Activities that encourage Indigenous undergraduate students to pursue graduate studies in the natural sciences and engineering are eligible.

Note: NSERC will not fund 100% of the costs of a proposed activity. NSERC’s contribution is generally up to one-third of a program’s funding, but NSERC will allow more flexibility if justified for competition 2020 given the circumstances surrounding COVID-19.

Note: Post-secondary institutions will be limited to one PromoScience application per department. Faculties that do not have departments will be limited to one application from that Faculty. If multiple applications come in per department/Faculty, as applicable, the Faculty will select which applications go forward. Therefore please notify your Faculty research office as soon as possible if you are interested in applying.

NSERC Idea to Innovation Grants

Deadlines:
• ORS Deadline for technical review: September 14, 2020
• Deadline for Submission on-line and to ORS for required review: by no later than 12 noon on September 28, 2020
• Agency deadline: September 28, 2020

Value & Duration: See ORS posting for details

NSERC is accepting applications to the Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants Program.  This program is available to University researchers to accelerate the pre-competitive development of promising technology originating from the university and college sector and promote its transfer to a new or established Canadian company. The I2I Program provides funding for four phases (Market Assessment, Phase I, Phase Ia and Phase IIb). Please review the ORS posting for full details.

Ontario Ministry of Transportation: Road Safety Research Partnership

Deadlines: See ORS Posting

Value: MTO will fund up to 3 projects out of a combined pool of $150,000 per year; 15% overhead required

Duration: up to 6 months or 18 months, depending on the priority area addressed (please see the Proposal Guidelines)

For the 2020-2021 competition, proposals must involve one of the following four key priority areas: 1) Driving training and testing (digital technologies; or commercial drivers with reduced vision); 2) Emerging vehicles and alternative mobility; 3) Impact of COVID-19 on road safety; and 4) Impaired driving (impact of partial vehicle automation; cannabis edibles). See ORS posting for more details.

Guggenheim Fellowships

Agency deadline: September 17, 2020

Duration: 6-12 months

The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible. No special conditions are attached to the funds – Fellowship recipients may spend their grant funds in any manner they deem necessary to their work. The United States Internal Revenue Service, however, does require the Foundation to ask for reports from its Fellows at the end of their Fellowship terms.  View the ORS posting for more details.

2020-21 Sloan Research Fellowships

Agency deadline: September 15, 2020, 11:59PM EDT

Value: $75,000 USD

Duration: 2 years

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Candidates must be tenure-track, though untenured, as of September 15, 2020. The awards are for researchers in the fields of chemistry, computer science, Earth systems science, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience, physics, or a related field.

The SIRI team in ORS is available to support nominations. Please contact Abby Vogus, SIRI Specialist, at avogus@yorku.ca to discuss timelines and how the team can assist.

WSIB 2021 Grants Program

Deadlines: See ORS Posting

Value: up to $150k/year

Duration: up to 2 years

To enhance workers’ compensation system outcomes by supporting innovative proposals that are aligned with the WSIB’s strategic mandate.  The central areas of focus for the 2021 WSIB Grants Program support the WSIB’s strategic plan with a focus on the impact of COVID-19. Three considerations for potential proposals include:  1) COVID-19 is changing how we work; 2) COVID-19 is changing how we approach health and safety; and 3)  COVID-19 is changing how we support return-to-work and recovery.

Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities

Agency deadline: October 5, 2020

Value & Duration: $20,000 per semester (up to $60,000 for a year)

The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities Program exists to promote the practices of, and approaches to, the humanities and arts — broadly conceived — as important sites of creative and critical engagement with the major concerns of our times. Shadbolt Fellows in the Humanities will be engaged academic scholars, artists, knowledge keepers, practitioners or writers in the humanities and arts. Fellows will  help us imagine how we can make the world we live in better through acts of world-making in the creative arts and/or publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities, in alignment with the fundamental values of advancing reconciliation and equity, diversity and inclusion, communication, coordination, and collaboration. Normally, fellowships will be held for one academic year (September to August), but can be held for one or two terms (September to December and/or January to April and/or May to August)

Fulbright: Awards for Canadian Scholars

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: October 30, 2020
• Agency deadline: November 15, 2020

The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program operates on the principle of reciprocal exchange and provides the opportunity for outstanding Canadian scholars to lecture and/or conduct research in the United States.

Traditional Awards: US$12,500 for one semester (4 months). These awards are field open and can be taken up at any university, think tank, or government agency in the United States.

Research Chairs Program: The award values range from US$25,000 to US$50,000 and from four to nine months.

Additional opportunities open to Canadian scholars, with alternative/rolling deadlines can be found on this page of the Fulbright Canada website.

Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies

Agency deadline: November 1, 2020

Value: $3,000 USD

Duration: 1 month

The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press and the Delaware Art Museum are pleased to offer a joint Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite studies, funded by the Amy P. Goldman Foundation. This one-month Fellowship, awarded annually, is intended for scholars conducting significant research in the lives and works of the Pre-Raphaelites and their friends, associates, and followers.  Research of a wider scope, which considers the Pre-Raphaelite movement and related topics in relation to Victorian art and literature, and cultural or social history, will also be considered. Projects which provide new information or interpretation — dealing with unrecognized figures, women writers and artists, print culture, iconography, illustration, catalogues of artists’ works, or studies of specific objects — are particularly encouraged, as are those which take into account transatlantic relations between Britain and the United States. Applicants, whose research specifically utilizes holdings of the University of Delaware Library, the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Helen Farr Sloan Library and Archives, are preferred.