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SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2015)

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Value: $7,000 up to $75,000 over 1-2 years

Deadlines:
Brescia Research Officer: January 23 (for review and feedback)
SSHRC: February 2  (8:00 pm EST) Applicant submits to Research Portal and Research Officer submits to SSHRC.

Description: Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages.The grants enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas. Funding is provided for short-term research development projects, of up to two years, proposed by individuals or teams.

Eligibility: Both emerging and regular scholars who are affiliated with an eligible Canadian post-secondary institution are eligible to apply.

All 2015 applications will be submitted using the Research Portal. The Canadian Common CV (CCV) will also be required. If you have not previously used the CCV you are strongly advised to allow plenty of time for completion of the CCV for yourself and your co-applicants/ collaborators. See: Canadian Common CV

Note on multiple applications: Researchers may not apply, as applicant, for an Insight Development Grant and an Insight Grant within the same calendar year. For instance, a researcher who applies for an Insight Development Grant in February 2014 may not apply for an Insight Grant in October 2014, whether successful in the competition or not. However, a researcher who applied for an Insight Grant in October 2014 may apply for an Insight Development Grant in February 2015, provided that the objectives of the research are different.

See: SSHRC Insight Development Grant funding information page

 

 

CIHR Planning and Dissemination Grants (Winter 2015)

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CIHR’s Planning and Dissemination Grants are intended to provide support for planning and/or dissemination activities consistent with the mandate of CIHR.

Amount: The maximum amount per grant varies by Institute/Initiative but will not exceed $25,000 for up to one (1) year

The availability of funding also varies with the Institute or Initiative. For example, the Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes among others.

Deadlines:
Brescia Research Officer: 3-4 weeks before agency deadline (for support requests and required forms)
CIHR: February 17 (for a decision June 30/15)

Description: Events/activities may focus on, but are not limited to, the following:

Planning:

  • Activities that assist potential teams of researchers, knowledge-users and/or partners in working together to identify research questions or emerging issues and priorities that could form the basis of a grant application;
  • Stakeholder consultations, including citizen engagement activities, regarding needs, gaps and opportunities in the health research landscape, priority policy issues and/or priority research questions, where such common understanding is currently lacking or requires further development;
  • Initial planning and discussion of a research project among potential team members including researchers, knowledge-users and/or partners to assess the viability of the research project and the partnership;
  • Conducting an environmental scan or preliminary synthesis of relevant literature, activities or programs;
  • Early-stage planning to determine possible commercial viability of a discovery;
  • Opportunities for knowledge exchange involving stakeholder linkages (to inform practice, care, and/or policy) that could potentially lead to an application to a funding opportunity;
  • Gatherings of partners, health researchers, and/or knowledge users where the main objective is to facilitate regional/national and/or international collaboration among individuals or groups from a variety of backgrounds (for example, building new and existing multi-sectored partnerships that include a significant number of participants from outside the conventional scientific community, consensus meetings, networking and partnership development events) interested in applying to a funding opportunity.

Dissemination:

  • Education of groups such as patients, health professionals, community organizations, policy-makers, the general public;
  • Knowledge dissemination that will inform practice, clinical care, partnership best practices, policy and decision making;
  • Dissemination and/or discussion of research findings at scientific meetings, workshops, conferences, congresses or symposia;
  • Development and dissemination of KT products and tools (e.g., written materials in various formats, plain language summaries, decision support tools, educational materials, web sites).

More information on the program and how to apply…

SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant

SSHRC’s Knowledge Synthesis Grants competition supports the objectives of the Imagining Canada’s Future initiative, with a focus on one of the six future challenge areas. Proposals are sought that address the challenge area of: What new ways of learning, particularly in higher education, will Canadians need to thrive in an evolving society and labour market?

Value: up to $25,000

Deadlines:
Brescia Research Officer: At least 1 week before agency deadline for feedback/edits.
SSHRC: February 19, 2015 (Results announced March 2015).

These grants are not intended to support original research; rather they are intended to support the synthesis of existing research knowledge on the topic and the identification of knowledge gaps. The synthesis reports will be due no later than end September 2015 and award holders will be requested to participate in two workshop meetings in Ottawa. These will be scheduled in early Spring and late Fall.

See the SSHRC funding page for more information on Knowedge Synthesis Grants

Revised Version of the 2nd Edition of TCPS 2 (2014)

The Presidents of the three federal research agencies — Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) announce the release of the revision of the 2nd edition of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans, or TCPS 2 (2014). The revised version replaces TCPS 2 (2010) as the official human research ethics policy of the Agencies.

Changes include increased emphasis on the participant’s decision-making capacity, more detailed guidance about alterations to consent requirements, and the full integration of CIHR’s Guidelines for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research. The inclusion of the Guidelines addresses the Agencies’ goal of making TCPS 2 the single Agency policy for the ethics of research involving humans.

Please consult the Panel on Research website for additional information on the Panel, Highlights of Changes and to download your copy of TCPS 2 (2014). For questions on changes to the TCPS 2 (2014) or to request a hard copy version of the TCPS 2 (2014), please contact: secretariat@rcr.ethics.gc.ca.