SSHRC Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging and established scholars for long-term research initiatives of three to five years. Insight Grant research initiatives may be undertaken by an individual researcher or a team of researchers working in collaboration. The maximum value of an Insight Grant is $400,000 over three to five years. A minimum request of $7,000 is required in at least one of the years. A maximum of $100,000 is available in a single year.

October 2016 Competition information:

Value: $7,000 – $400,000
Duration: 3 to 5 years
Application deadlines:
Internal (Brescia Research Officer):  1 week before agency deadline (allow for 2 weeks before if you wish to receive feedback on your application, and/or if you require additional materials)
SSHRC deadline: October 17, 2016 (2:00 pm EST) *Note: if deadline falls on a weekend or a Canadian public holiday, the online application system will remain open until 2:00 pm (eastern time) on the next business day (October 17th).

Results announced: Spring 2017
Apply: Web CV, application and instructions. Insight Grant application forms will be made available online starting July 15, 2016.

For complete details on this opportunity see the SSHRC Insight Grant funding page.

Insight Grant proposals are expected to respond to the objectives put forward in the call for proposals for the Insight program. The objectives of the Insight program are to:

• build knowledge and understanding from disciplinary, interdisciplinary and/or cross-sector perspectives through support for the best researchers;
• support new approaches to research on complex and important topics, including those that transcend the capacity of any one scholar, institution or discipline;
• provide a high-quality research training experience for students;
• fund research expertise that relates to societal challenges and opportunities; and
• mobilize research knowledge, to and from academic and non-academic audiences, with the potential to lead to intellectual, cultural, social and economic influence, benefit and impact.

SSHRC welcomes applications involving Aboriginal research, as well as those involving research-creation.

Refer also to the Eligibility section (subject matter, applicants etc.) on the Insight Grant opportunity page.