January 20, 2020 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
LA&PS Launches 2020 DARE Program
LA&PS is now accepting project posting descriptions for the 2020 Dean’s Award for Research Excellence – Undergraduate (DARE). DARE provides opportunities for Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) undergraduate students to engage in research projects supervised by faculty members over the Summer Term. The primary goal of the Award, valued at $5,000, is to support the development of students’ research skills by providing them with hands-on experience on a research project being undertaken by an LA&PS faculty supervisor. Complete details about DARE 2020, including timelines, instructions and guidelines are available here. If you have questions about the DARE Program, please contact David Cuff (dcuff@yorku.ca).
VPRI Launches Research Commons
Launched in January 2020, the Research Commons is the Office of Vice-President Research and Innovation’s commitment to enabling research success at York University. For more details about its programming, explore its website.
MobilizeYU
Interested participants can apply to participate in the 8-week interactive MobilizeYU course. Taught by leading KMb professionals and researchers, participants will learn about theoretical and practical aspects of effective KMb. The next course will be held February 6 to April 2, 2020 in person at York University’s Keele campus and online. Applications are due before 5:00 pm on Friday, January 24, 2020. Visit here to register.
Organized Research Units Open House
On January 29, 2020, from 10 am - 2 pm, please drop by the ORU Open House at the Collaboratory, Scott Library. This event is an opportunity to learn more about the ORUs and the exciting research that they are undertaking. A special address will be given by the Associate Vice-President Research & Innovation and more. Refreshments will be served.
Internal Grants
SSHRC Exchange – Conference Grant (ORS)
Deadline: February 1, 2020
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. Application available here. (Expect to be prompted for your York Passport login.)
LA&PS Travel Grant for Dissemination
Deadline: March 1, 2020
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. Applications can be found under section #2 on this web page.
Contract Faculty Conference Travel Fund
Deadline: March 1, 2020
To support contract faculty members of the University attending scholarly/professional/artistic conferences. Current application form available from this page.
Contract Faculty Research Grants Fund
Deadline: March 1, 2020
To encourage individual research and study and to defray research costs incurred by members of the CUPE 3903 bargaining unit in accordance with Article 15.16 of the CUPE 3903 Unit 2 Collective Agreement. Current application form available from this page.
Mariano A. Elia Research Fund
Deadline: March 1, 2020
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. Application form can be found here. (Expect to be prompted for your Passport York login.)
SSHRC Explore Grant
Deadline: March 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 can be found here. (Expect to be prompted for your Passport York login.)
SSHRC Exchange - KMb Grant
Deadline: March 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 can be found here. (Expect to be prompted for your Passport York login.)
LA&PS Support for Scholarly Journals
Deadline: March 31, 2020
The objective of this fund 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. Find the application form under section 5 on this page of the LAPS website.
For a general listing of internal research funding opportunities, visit here.
External Notices
Tri-Council Strategic Plan for Indigenous Research
The strategic plan is published by the federal research granting agencies—CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC—and fulfills a priority of the Canada Research Coordinating Committee to co-develop with Indigenous Peoples an interdisciplinary research and research training model that contributes to reconciliation. The text of the plan can be found here.
Tri-Council Issues Public Consultation Summary about its Research Data Management Policy
From June to September 2018, CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC held an online consultation on the draft Tri-Agency Research Data Management Policy.
This report summarizes the consultation feedback and, where warranted, clarifies the framing, scope and aims of the policy. The agencies are making final revisions to the policy based on this consultation and other feedback. With an anticipated release in Spring 2020, the new policy will include a phased-in implementation aligned with the state of readiness of the Canadian research community.
CIHR Webinar for Project Grants
CIHR will be hosting English- and French-language webinars on January 27, 2020 and February 27, 2020 to support participants with the requirements of the funding opportunity “Project Grant – Spring 2020 Competition” and to answer questions on how to apply. Attendees should download and read the presentation available on the registration page prior to the webinar. Registration information can be found here.
CIHR Learning Tools for Applicants
CIHR offers applicants a number of learning materials regarding its programs and initiatives. Visit here for a listing.
Reminder: SSHRC Extended the Connection Grant – Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative
To help the Canadian social sciences and humanities research community better understand data management and incorporate data management considerations into research practices, SSHRC’s Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative offers Connection Grants to support the research community’s development, adoption and dissemination of research data management standards, practices, tools and skills appropriate to their field. SSHRC will fund at least 10 meritorious proposals per competition. SSHRC is accepting applications for the Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative at the following Connection Grants deadlines: February 1, 2020; May 1, 2020; and August 1, 2020.
For more information about this initiative, or for advice on preparing your application, please feel free to contact SSHRC – Connection Grant at: Tel.: 613-943-1007; or Email: connection@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
External Grants and Fellowships
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: March 2, 2020
• Submission to agency: March 16, 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.
To access an application form and full instructions, log into your SSHRC account.
SSHRC Connection Grants
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: April 17, 2020
• Submission to agency: May 1, 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.”
CIHR Project Grant
Deadlines:
• Agency registration deadline: February 5, 2020
• Submission to ORS for technical review: February 19, 2020
• Agency deadline: March 4, 2020
The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports 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 is also pleased to support a number of Priority Announcements as part of the Project Grant: Spring 2020 competition. The complete listing of Priority Announcements is now available.
CIHR Funding Opportunities
The Office of Research Services (ORS) recently updated the spreadsheet of funding opportunities available through CIHR. Due to the large volume of RFAs, ORS has created a simplified Excel spreadsheet that will make it easier for researchers to locate the funding call that is most appropriate to their research area.
View the spreadsheet. You will be required to enter your Passport York user ID and password for YU Link to gain access to the spreadsheet. If the link below does not take you directly to Passport York, please copy and paste the link into your web browser.
NSERC Research Alliance Grants: Option 1
Deadlines: See ORS guidelines.
Value: Requesting $150,000 or more annually from NSERC
Duration: 1 – 5 years
Value: $20,000 - $1M/year
Alliance grants support projects of varying scale and complexity, from short-term smaller projects involving one researcher to long-term projects involving researchers across several universities, and from one-on-one collaborations with one partner organization directly involved in the research to projects involving many partner organizations across multiple sectors.
NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE)
Deadlines:
• Internal NOI deadline: March 16, 2020
• Agency LOI deadline: May 1, 2020
• Agency full application deadline (by invitation only): September 22, 2020
Value: $1.65 million
Duration: 6 years
CREATE initiatives provide a value-added experience to the university training environment that includes the development of professional skills among students and postdoctoral fellows that complement their qualifications and technical skills, with a focus on providing an enriched training experience for graduate students.
The CREATE program has permitted York University a yearly quota of 4 LOIs, and only those researchers selected by York can submit LOIs. For more information and to schedule a consultation, please contact Maheen Hasan, Strategic and Institutional Research Specialist, in the Office of Research Services at mhasan@yorku.ca.
Please note that there are multiple internal and agency deadlines for this competition. For a full list of deadlines, and access to the iNOI form, please consult the ORS posting. (You will be prompted for your Passport York login before you can view this page.)
New Frontiers in Research Fund – Transformation
Deadlines:
• NOI submission to agency: February 5, 2020 (mandatory but used for administrative purposes only)
• LOI submission to agency: April 15, 2020
• Full application to agency (from those teams invited after LOI): November 18, 2020
Value: $1.6M - $3.2M per year for direct costs (plus additional funding for indirect costs of up to 25%)
Duration: up to 6 years
Some preliminary details (which are subject to change) have been released about the Transformation program of the New Frontier in Research Fund.
The Transformation program is designed to support large-scale, Canadian-led interdisciplinary research projects that address a major challenge. The expectation is that execution of the project will have the potential to realize real and lasting change. Projects may involve any discipline, thematic areas, approaches or subject areas eligible for funding across the Tri-Council. Projects must include elements from at least two different disciplines – projects that fall under the mandate of only one federal research funding agency are not eligible.
Proposals must be submitted by teams, which must include a nominated principal investigator (NPI) and may include co-principal investigators, co-applicants and/or collaborators. Early career researchers (individuals who have five years’ or less experience since their first academic appointment) must be included as confirmed members in all teams. Teams must demonstrate a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, demonstrating diversity by meaningfully engaging members of underrepresented groups, including the four designated groups (women, Indigenous people, members of visible minorities and persons with disabilities) and consider diversity as it applies to career stages, sectors and institutions. At the Notice of Intent (NOI) stage, a minimum of 5 confirmed members (NPI, co-principal investigators and co-applicants, but not collaborators) is required.
This SIRI unit in the central Office of Research Services will be supporting this competition. SIRI will be issuing more specific details pending the release of the final documentation from the agency. In the interim, any researchers intending to apply are asked to contact Mark Roseman in the SIRI unit as soon as possible (by email at roseman@yorku.ca). Please note that in addition to the information available by clicking the link above, Mark Roseman has a more detailed draft description of the program in a PDF file that was provided to him by the agency.
Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research Fellowships
Agency deadline: January 31, 2020
Value:
• $1,500 for a project requiring a residence of one week or more
• $3,000 for a project requiring a residence of three weeks or more
The University of Michigan Library invites applications for fellowships for research in residence. We will award Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Research Fellowships to support research projects that require substantial on-site use of our special collections.
WSIB 2020 Grants Program
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: January 31, 2020
• Submission to agency: February 14, 2020 by 4:00pm
Value: Up to $200K/year for a total maximum budget of $400K
Duration: 2 years
These grants are designed to enhance workers’ compensation system outcomes by supporting innovative proposals that are aligned with the WSIB’s strategic mandate. The priority areas are: Making Ontario a safer place to work; Improve return to work and recovery outcomes; and Meeting the needs and expectations of WSIB’s customers.
Discovery Awards in Data Science
Deadlines:
• Intent to apply email to ORS: January 20, 2020
• Submission to ORS for technical review: January 31, 2020
• Submission to agency: February 14, 2020 by 5:00 pm ET
Value: Up to $25K
Duration: 1 year (July 1 – June 30)
The Banting Research Foundation and the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) are partnering to make available two Discovery Awards in Data Science. The objectives are: to support statistical or computational research related to health or biomedical problem; and to support young Canadian researchers who demonstrate excellence and creativity in health and biomedical science.
Note 1: A department/division head will be permitted to nominate only ONE potential applicant during each annual granting cycle. For this reason, please indicate your intent to apply by sending an email to research@yorku.ca no later than 9am on Monday, 20 January 2020, so that the Office of Research Services can liaise with your department/faculty if there is more than one applicant from any department.
Note 2: Intents to apply that are submitted to ORS after the January 20th deadline will not be accommodated if a potential applicant from your department has already been approved to submit their application to agency.
To obtain the guidelines and application form please consult here and here.
Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowship
Agency deadline: February 5, 2020
Value: salary of $70,000-$80,000
Duration: 1 year
Help solve public policy challenges in Canada. The Mitacs Canadian Science Policy Fellowship offers PhD holders from all disciplines a 12-month immersion into the policy making process with participating government departments.
Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies: Visiting Professors Program
Agency Deadline: February 20, 2020
The Halbert Centre sponsors visiting professors to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for a short-term visit of 1-4 weeks. During their stay in Jerusalem some of the visiting Canadian scholars give a departmental and/or a public lecture, meet with Israeli and other colleagues, engage in research, and some teach a course.
Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies: Call for Research Workshops
Agency Deadline: February 20, 2020
The Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is pleased to invite faculty members in the regular academic track to submit proposals for the organization of research workshops with participation of Israeli and Canadian researchers, to be held at the Hebrew University. In addition, requests for follow-up workshops in Israel or Canada will be considered by the Halbert Centre if appropriately justified. The goals of the workshops are: to strengthen academic ties between researchers from the Hebrew University in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Business Administration, Education and Social Work, and cohorts from universities throughout Canada; to promote the exchange and development of ideas and knowledge with Israeli and Canadian content; and to keep abreast of latest developments in the fields related to the themes of the workshops. The Israeli-Canadian workshops will focus on a specific theme for a period of between 3-4 days.
Senate House Library Visiting Research Fellowship 2019-2020
Agency deadline: March 1, 2020
Value: up to £10,000
Duration: up to 3 months
Senate House Library, in partnership with the Friends of Senate House Library, invites applications for a Visiting Research Fellowship. As well as 50 named special collections and over 1,800 collections of archives and manuscripts, from the Middle Ages to present time, Senate House Library provides access to over a million printed items, arranged into 14 named subject collections, in addition to a nationally significant collection of print and electronic journals, and a growing range of e-resources and e-books, thus making it one of the world’s greatest research libraries for the study of the arts, literature, humanities and social sciences.
Hertlein-Whitehead Visiting Scholars Program
Agency deadline: March 31, 2020
Value: $500
The Special Collections & University Archives at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, Kansas) is now accepting applications for the The Hertlein-Whitehead Visiting Scholars Program. The Hertlein-Whitehead Visiting Scholars Program was established in 2011 to provide financial support to researchers unaffiliated with the university. The research strengths of the organization support studies in Kansas history and personalities, American socialism, free thought, Libertarianism, printing and printing history, mining and labor history, and third-party political movements. Questions can be directed to: Steve Cox, Curator of Special Collections: spcox@pittstate.edu.
Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED): Accessible Technology Program
Deadlines: Multiple agency deadlines
Value: Up to $4 million/year
The ISED Accessible Technology Program aims to facilitate and encourage participation and inclusion of underrepresented groups in the digital economy. By investing in initiatives that will expand the range of assistive technologies, and giving more Canadians better access to digital services, the Program will contribute to providing Canadians with disabilities with the right tools, skills and access to study, work, or engage socially online.
The ISED Accessible Technology Program is an institutional grant and thus all applications need to be submitted by York University. All researchers should notify both their Faculty and Diana Frasca (dfrasca@yorku.ca) as soon as possible about their intention to apply. Doing so will both streamline the process of securing Faculty-level support and ensure that researchers receive adequate support in application preparation.
Please visit the full internal posting about this opportunity for more details. (You will be prompted for your Passport login before seeing the page.)
