January 19, 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
2016 Health Research in LA&PS Reception
The 2016 Health Research in LA&PS Reception will take place 21st January 3:30-5pm in the Social Science Lounge, Room 757, South Ross. Bringing together faculty, unit 2s, graduate students and community partners engaged in the important task of health research, this was a highly successful event last year. The Health & Society Program is delighted to host once again.
If you're a member of the LA&PS community engaged in health research, but not yet on the distribution list for the event, please contact Megan Davies at daviesmj@yorku.ca to let her know about your research.
Internal Grants
SSHRC Grant in Aid of Travel
Deadline: Feb. 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.
York Incentive Grant
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2016
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 larger-scale initiatives in the quest for external funding. These grants are not awarded to support the preparation of applications for the standard programs of research support (e.g., NSERC Discovery, SSHRC Connections Grants, and SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grants). Applications will be considered in support of the development of larger-scale tri-council applications.
Mariano A. Elia Research Fund
Deadline: Mar. 1, 2016
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.
More details here.
LA&PS Travel Grant for Dissemination
Deadline: Mar. 1, 2016
LA&PS offers this grant to offset costs associated with the public dissemination of research, scholarship, or creativity. Eligibility: Full-time YUFA faculty members and senior scholars in LA&PS. In the case of CLAs and SRCs, travel must also occur within the term of the appointment. Applications must be submitted in advance of the presentation.
More details here.
Contract Faculty Research Grant
Deadline: Mar. 1, 2016
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. Duration: One year.
More details here.
Contract Faculty Conference Travel Grant
Deadline: Mar. 1, 2016
To support contract faculty members who are giving papers; have been asked to give commentaries or to chair sessions; or are attending conferences. Eligible expenses include travel, registration, accommodation and subsistence. Value: Up to $2,000.
More details here.
LA&PS Support for Scholarly Journals
Deadline: Mar. 31, 2016
The objective of this fund, at present a 5-year pilot initiative, is to offset costs related to the successful operations of scholarly journals for which LA&PS faculty members hold substantial, on-going senior editorial roles.
More details here.
External Notices
Compute Canada's SPARC2 Consultation
In spring 2016, Compute Canada will submit an operations proposal to the CFI Major Science Initiatives (MSI) competition, covering operations from 2017-2022, along with an updated capital plan covering the same period. The organization is committed to receiving direct input to planning priorities during this period.
More details here.
CIHR Extends Certain Deadlines
Due to ongoing technical difficulties currently being experienced by the Canadian Common CV, CIHR will extend the deadline for the submission of registrations/applications to January 20, 2016, for certain opportunities, which are listed here.
Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents
The Association for Documentary Editing welcomes applications for the 45th Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, to be held 31 July – 4 August 2016 at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. Application deadline is Feb. 1, 2016.
More details here.
External Grants and Fellowships
2016 Platzman Fellowship
Deadline: Feb. 15, 2015
The University of Chicago Library invites applications for short-term research fellowships for the summer of 2016. Any visiting researcher, writer, or artist residing more than 100 miles from Chicago, and whose project requires on-site consultation of University of Chicago Library collections, primarily archives, manuscripts, rare books, or other materials in the Special Collections Research Center, is eligible.
More details here.
Ontario Arts Council: Writers' Works in Progress Grant
Deadline: Feb. 17, 2016
To assist professional writers to complete book-length works of literary merit.
More details here.
Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
ORS Deadline, Initial proposal: Feb. 19, 2016
Agency Deadline, Initial proposal: Mar. 4, 2016
The Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) seeks applications to its Grants Program. The objectives of this program include: to support highly practical research studies and training initiatives from leading experts; and to enhance workers' compensation system outcomes by supporting innovative proposals that are aligned to the WSIB's mandate and strategic objectives.
More details here.
Columbia University Libraries Research Awards
Deadline: Feb. 29, 2016
The Columbia University Libraries will award ten (10) grants of $2,500 each on a competitive basis to researchers who can demonstrate a compelling need to consult Columbia University Libraries/Information Services holdings for their work. (For US citizens.).
More details here.
NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects
ORS Deadline: Mar. 18, 2016
NSERC Deadline: Apr. 1, 2016
Researchers: Please note that NSERC has updated the target areas since the call originally went out.
More details here.
Calls for Papers
Canada and the Great War
CFP Deadline: Feb. 15, 2016
The editors of Revue Etudes Canadiennes/Canadian Studies seek papers (in French or in English) that explore the ways in which WWI might have transformed Canada and Canadians, at home and in the Empire, or how Canadians' participation in the Great War was represented in literature and the arts. We are also interested in examining how the war is remembered and commemorated today, particularly around the upcoming Vimy Ridge Remembrance day in April 1917.
More details here.
Across Borders: Print and Periodical Studies in Motion
CFP Deadline: March 1, 2016
This conference is to be held at the New York City College of Technology-CUNY in Brooklyn, June 9 – 10, 2016.
More details here.
Printers Unite! Print and Protest from the Early Modern to the Present
CFP Deadline: March 25, 2016
This conference will be held 3-4 November 2016 at The Marx Memorial Library, 37A Clerkenwell Green, London.
More details here.
Celebrate the Vibrancy of Documentary Editing
CFP Deadline: March 30, 2016
The Association for Documentary Editing will hold its next conference on August 4-6, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. With the spirit of New Orleans in mind, we invite proposals on any aspect of documentary editing, including (but not restricted to) the discovery, editing, annotation, analysis, teaching, and publication of texts from many disciplines, including history, literature, linguistics, ethnic studies, classics, musicology, economics, philosophy, digital humanities, paleography, codicology, art history, the history of science, library and information science, gender and sexuality studies, and more.
More details here.
