October 17, 2019 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
Kitty Lundy Memorial Lecture
November 19, 2019
Reception: 6:00pm, CIBC lobby, Ivan Fecan and Sandra Faire Theatre, Accolade East Building
Lecture: 7:00 pm, Ivan Fecan and Sandra Faire Theatre, Accolade East Building
Speaker: Jesse Thistle, “From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way”
Panelists: Shane Belcourt, ShoShona Kish and Jesse Wente
Further details and registration.
Vico Lecture 2019
November 7, 2019
Lecture: 7:30-8:30pm, Sandra Faire & Ivan Fecan Theatre, Accolade East, York University, Keele Campus
Reception: 8:30-9:30pm, CIBC Lobby, Accolade East, York University, Keele Campus
Speaker: Maurizio Bevilacqua, Mayor of Vaughan, “Amore in the City: A Purpose Driven Approach to Public Life”
Further details and registration.
SSHRC Partnership Grant – Internal Process Launched
The Strategic & Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) unit in the Office of Research Services has sent out its annual announcement about internal procedures that faculty members need to follow in order to pursue the first-round, Letter of Intent stage of a SSHRC Partnership Grant. For full details and the series of deadlines, please visit here. (You may be prompted for your Passport York login before you can view the page.) Contact person for the program is SIRI specialist Diana Frasca (dfrasca@yorku.ca).
Two Hundred Years of All Things Victorian
October 25, 2019
10 am – 3 pm
Stong Master’s Dining Room
Victorian Studies at York celebrates its 12th annual symposium. View the conference program here. If you plan to attend, please RSVP Lesley Higgins: 19higgins55@gmail.com.
McLaughlin College Annual Public Policy Lecture 2019
October 30, 2019
5:30 pm
014 McLaughlin College
Speaker: The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin “The Role of the Constitutional Court in a Modern Democracy”
For more details, visit here.
2019-2020 Indigenous Lecture Series on Indigenous Health and Decolonisation
October 31, 2019
3-4:30 pm
Stedman Lecture Hall D
Speaker: Dr. Barry Lavallee
Sponsored by the School of Health Policy & Management, the Indigenous Council, and the Faculty of Health in conjunction with Ryerson University.
Visit here for more details. Please RSVP.
Making Stories in the Early Modern World
November 1-3, 2019
Honouring the work of Elizabeth and Thomas Cohen, this three-day international conference brings together scholars to explore local and global developments in storytelling, narrativity, constructions of identity, community and alterity across geographies, cultures and faiths.
Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History Conference
November 7 – 8, 2019
Archives of Ontario, 134 Ian MacDonald Blvd
The conference begins at 8:30 am. The program is accessible here.
In the evening, Professor George Colpitts (University of Calgary) will give the 2019 annual Avie Bennett Historica Canada public lecture in Canadian History at 7 p.m. The title of his public lecture is “Retail Animalia: Consumers, the Animal Anti-Cruelty Movement, and the Canadian Fur Trade, 1920-1940.”
If you plan to attend, please register before October 31, 2019.
Organized Research Units Open House
York’s Organized Research Units (ORUs) Open House is being rescheduled for January 2020. Details still forthcoming.
Revised ORS Checklist
The Office of Research Services has revised its “ORS Checklist,” the tracking document that accompanies all external funding applications processed through that office. The blank of the ORS Checklist can be found here. (You’ll be prompted for your Passport York login before seeing the form.)
Internal Grants
SSHRC Explore Grant Program
Deadline: October 31, 2019
Value: Up to $7,000
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. (Note: you’ll be prompted for your Passport York login before you see the form.)
SSHRC Exchange – KMb Grant Program (ORS)
Deadline: October 31, 2019
Value: Up to $7,000
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. (Note: you’ll be prompted for your Passport York login before you see the form.)
Sustainability Innovation Fund (SIF)
Deadline: October 31, 2019 at 4 pm
We are pleased to announce a new Sustainability Innovation Fund (SIF) to support projects on the York University campuses that advance the Sustainability Strategy and build a culture of sustainability while tackling real-world challenges through innovative solutions. This fund will create opportunities for the York University community to actively engage in sustainability initiatives and utilize the campus as a living lab, empowering individuals to be agents of change and take meaningful steps to reduce our impact on the planet. For the inaugural academic year 2019-2020, the Sustainability Innovation Fund has $50,000 sponsored by the Office of the President. A selection committee will evaluate the applications through a Proposal Assessment Rubric in order to allocate funding to projects.
For application details, criteria/eligibility, application form and proposal assessment rubric, please visit the website.
LA&PS Global and Community Engagement Collaborative Projects Fund
Deadline (Fall): November 1, 2019
This fund supports collaborative projects and initiatives that build inclusiveness and diverse forms of community engagement. As our University Academic Plan recognizes, a “spirit of inclusion and empowerment” is a priority for enhancing community engagement within and beyond the university. Commitments to social justice, equity, and inclusion should form the core principles of successful Global & Community Engagement collaborative projects. We welcome applications for up to $5000 per project from LA&PS faculty members (YUFA and CUPE) and registered York student groups. Please apply here.
LA&PS Global and Community Engagement Events and Outreach Fund
Deadline: apply any time
LA&PS faculty members (YUFA and CUPE) are welcome to apply to the fund in support of community engagement events or outreach activities of a local, national, or international nature, and which are to be held on or off campus. Preference will be given to events held at the York campus or in community spaces where the applicant has developed a partnership. Please apply here. Applications for up to $1500 per year are welcome any time.
LA&PS Experiential Education Development Fund
Deadline (Fall): November 1, 2019
This fund has been established to provide seed funding to encourage new or expanded experiential education opportunities for LA&PS students, particularly community-focused and work-focused EE in programs which currently do not offer these opportunities. All LA&PS faculty members (YUFA and CUPE Course Directors) are welcome to apply here.
LA&PS Minor Research Grant
Deadline (Fall): November 15, 2019
Value: Up to $5,000
The adjudicated vehicle through which LA&PS dispenses the YUFA Faculty/Library Research Grant Funding and the YUFA Junior Faculty/Librarian Fund. Funding for research projects, eligible expenses include personnel, research travel, subsistence costs.
Mariano A. Elia Research Fund
Deadline: November 1, 2019
To support small-scale research projects where a significant contribution to Italian-Canadian studies will be made. Eligible expenses include research costs and travel to conferences. Application form. (Note: you’ll be prompted for your Passport York login before you see the form.)
LA&PS Travel Grant for Dissemination
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Value: Up to $1,000
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. Locate the application under section #2 at this link.
SSHRC Exchange – Conference Grant Program
Deadline: November 1, 2019
Value: Offset of transportation costs.
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 form. (Note: you’ll be prompted for your Passport York login before you see the form.)
Specific Research Grants
Deadline: November 1, 2019
The program permits, under certain conditions, a researcher to receive a research grant in lieu of salary through a mechanism which includes peer review. Application form and guidelines. (Note: you’ll be prompted for your Passport York login before you see the form.)
YUFA Teaching-Learning Development Grants
Deadline: November 15, 2019
Awards from the Teaching-Learning Development Fund will support projects which have the potential to make significant curricular or methodological contributions to teaching and learning at York, or which enable faculty to enhance their own teaching skills. Proposals are invited for projects relating to either undergraduate or graduate teaching. Guidelines and application.
YUFA Release-Time Teaching Fellowship
Deadline: November 15, 2019
These fellowships are intended to provide recipients with the opportunity to develop innovative teaching and learning projects or to enhance their own teaching skills (as opposed to disciplinary competence), when such development or enhancement could not take place in the context of a full teaching load. Guidelines and application.
YUFA Educational Leaves
Deadline: November 15, 2019
The purpose of the Educational Leaves programme is to provide opportunities for tenured or tenure stream faculty and continuing appointment employees to take Educational Leaves for approved plans of study. (N.B. CLAs are not eligible). Guidelines and application.
LA&PS Senior Scholars’ Research Fund
Deadline: December 15
Retired YUFA faculty members with “Senior Scholar” status who were affiliated with LA&PS (or its antecedent faculties Arts or Atkinson), and who are more than six years past retirement, are invited to seek funding through the LA&PS Senior Scholars’ Research Fund to offset research-related expenses associated with a specific project. Locate the application under section #1 at this link.
2020-21 York-Massey Fellowship and Visiting Scholarships
Deadline: January 13, 2020
The Office of Research Services invites applications for the 2020-21 York Fellowship and two Visiting Scholarships at Massey College in the University of Toronto. The Fellowship and the two Scholarships are open to full-time faculty members planning to go on sabbatical or other leave during 2020-2021.
Visit the VPRI website for full details. (Note: expect to be prompted for your Passport York login before being able to view the web page.)
For a general listing of internal research funding opportunities, visit here.
External Notices
NSERC Discovery Grant: Updates of some Application-related Materials
NSERC has announced that the Peer Review Manual and the Discovery Grant Merit Indicators Grid has recently been updated. New versions are now available on NSERC’s website. In the event of any questions, contact NSERC via resgrant@nserc-crsng.gc.ca.
Fulbright Canada Webinar
The recorded webinar from the October 17, 2019 Fulbright Canada information session can be found here.
SSHRC Webinar: Partnership Grants, Stage 1 (Letter of Intent)
SSHRC will be holding webinars on the upcoming Partnership Grants funding opportunity. (Revised timing!!)
The webinars will be held via Webex at the following times:
English webinar
November 14, 2019
12 – 1:30 pm ET
French webinar
November 14, 2019
2-3:30 pm ET
Note: Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) will also host the English portion of the SSHRC-hosted PG LOI webinar on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 12 pm in room 510 Kaneff Tower.
External Grants and Fellowships
NOTE: If you are interested in any of the external opportunities below, please contact the research officer associated with your academic unit. (Some postings may also include a directive to contact a member of the Strategic & Institutional Research Initiatives [SIRI] unit in the central Office of Research Services.)
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 does not take you directly to Passport York, please copy and paste the link into your web browser.
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for full administrative review: December 2, 2019
• Submission to Agency: December 16, 2019
Value: $7,000 – 25,000
Duration: 1 year
This program provides 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 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 postsecondary 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 full administrative review: January 19, 2020
• Submission to agency: February 3, 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 that facilitate knowledge exchange.
To access an application form and full instructions, log into your SSHRC account. In most cases, the appropriate application to select is “Connection – Individual.”
NSERC Research Alliance Grants: Option 1
Deadlines: See ORS guidelines.
Value: Requesting $150,000 or more annually from NSERC
Duration: 1 – 5 years
Value: $150,000 – $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.
Fulbright Canada
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for full administrative review: November 1, 2019
• Submission to agency: November 15, 2019
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. Award recipients include prominent and promising scholars, as well as experienced professionals.
Traditional Awards are field open and can be taken up at any university, think tank, or government agency in the United States. (US $12,500 for one semester [4 months].)
Research Chairs are targeted opportunities at select universities/institutions designed to host exceptional scholars and experienced professionals who conduct research in a specific area. (From US $25,000 to US $50,000 for four to nine months.)
Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships
Agency deadline: November 1, 2019
The Bibliographical Society of America funds a number of fellowships designed to promote bibliographical inquiry and research.
Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships
Agency deadline: November 11, 2019, 5 pm CST
Value: $3,500 per month
Duration: 1-3 months
The Ransom Center will award 10 dissertation fellowships and up to 50 postdoctoral fellowships for projects that require substantial on-site use of its collections. The collections support research in all areas of the humanities, including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history.
Canada-Brazil Awards
Deadlines:
• Application to ORS: November 12, 2019
• Application to agency: November 26, 2019 by 11:59 EDT
Duration: 2 years
Value:
A) CAD 7,200 for the Canadian Project where Members will travel for a research exchange for a minimum period of four months; or
B) CAD 9,700 for the Canadian Project where Members will travel for a research exchange for a minimum of five to six months; or
C) CAD 2,700 for the Canadian Project where the Lead will travel for a faculty visit for a minimum period of seven days.
Note: In addition to the funds allocated to the Canadian Project Lead and Project Members, the Canadian institution may also claim CAD 500 per member to assist with administrative costs associated with the joint research project.
Global Affairs Canada and the Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES) of Brazil are offering scholarships to support team-oriented research projects, between Canadian and Brazilian universities. This program is open to all academic disciplines. The collaborations are expected to result in high quality research that will have an impact in Canada and in Brazil through the mobility of both Canadian and Brazilian research students and Project Leads.
A.C. Elias Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship
Agency deadline: November 15, 2019
Value: $2,500
The A.C. Elias Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship, with $US 2,500 in annual funding, supports ‘documentary scholarship on Ireland in the period between the Treaty of Limerick (1691) and the Act of Union (1800)’. It enables North American-based scholars to pursue research in Ireland and Irish-based scholars to travel to North America for research.
Projects conducting original research on any aspect of eighteenth-century Ireland qualify for consideration, but recipients must be members of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) with permanent residence in the United States or Canada or be members of its Irish sister organization, the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society (ECIS), with residence in Ireland.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships Call for Applications
Agency deadline: December 1, 2019
The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for a variety of Visiting Fellowships for the 2020-21 academic year. Proposals are invited from researchers who will benefit from an uninterrupted period of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries.
2020 Philip Jones Fellowship
Agency deadline: December 1, 2019
Value: $2000
The Ephemera Society of America invites applications for the Philip Jones Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera. This competition, now in its thirteenth year, is open to any interested individual or organization for the study of any aspect of ephemera, defined as minor (and sometimes major) everyday documents intended for one-time or short-term use. The $2,000 stipend can be applied to travel and/or study expenses, but cannot be used to purchase ephemera.
Imperial Oil University Research Awards Program
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS: December 2, 2019
• Submission to agency: December 15, 2019
Value: $10,000 to $25,000 (with required overhead 40%)
Duration: One year, with possibility of renewal annually for a maximum tenure of three years
To encourage research at Canadian universities in areas of interest to Imperial Oil’s petroleum, petrochemical and energy resource development businesses. These areas include the fields of engineering, environmental, earth, chemical, and physical sciences. Awards for specific research projects are made to full-time faculty members to support research work carried out by university students under their direction.
American Geographical Society Library Fellowship
Agency deadline: December 15, 2019
Value: $500 per week, to maximum $2000
Duration: 2-4 weeks
The AGS Library fellowship program gives scholars an opportunity to pursue their work in proximity to a distinguished collection of primary sources. Approximately 4-8 fellowships are awarded each year for periods of time usually ranging from two to four weeks. The Library has strengths in geography, cartography and related historical topics. The Library maintains a wide variety of hard to find primary and secondary resources. Curator Marcy Bidney (bidney@uwm.edu) can be contacted with questions about the fellowships or AGS collections.
2020-2021 Fellowship Opportunities at the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum
Agency deadline: Various for multiple opportunities
The American Philosophical Society Library & Museum in Philadelphia invites applications for long and short-term fellowships for scholars engaged in all fields, and especially those working on projects pertaining to the history of science, technology, and medicine; early American history; the digital humanities; and Native American and Indigenous studies. Comprehensive, searchable guides and finding aids to our collections are available online at www.amphilsoc.org/library and http://amphilsoc.pastperfectonline.com/.
McGill Institute for the Study of Canada: Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies
Agency deadline: January 3, 2020
Value: $15,000 per semester
The McGill Institute for the Study of Canada (MISC) is now accepting applications for the Eakin Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Studies for the 2020/2021 academic year.
Lewis Walpole Library 2020–2021 Fellowships & Travel Grants in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Agency deadline: January 6, 2020
The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of Yale University Library, invites applications to its 2020–2021 fellowship program. Located in Farmington, Connecticut, the library offers short-term residential fellowships and travel grants to support research in the library’s rich collections of eighteenth-century materials (mainly British), including important holdings of prints, drawings, manuscripts, rare books, and paintings.
Gerda Henkel Prize
Agency deadline: January 17, 2020
The Gerda Henkel Prize was set up in 2006 and is awarded every two years to excellent and internationally acclaimed researchers who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement in the disciplines and funding areas supported by the Foundation and can be expected to continue to do so. The Gerda Henkel Prize is worth 100,000 euros. The prize money may be used at the winner’s discretion.
The Foundation primarily provides support for the historical humanities, in particular research in the following fields: Archaeology; History; Historical Islamic Studies; Art History; History of Law; Prehistory and Early History; and History of Science.
Nominations can be put forward by institutions (one per institution) or by individuals (one per individual). Self-nominations are not accepted.
If you are interested in being nominated for this prize, please contact your Research Officer. Faculty who normally work with RO Nadya Bloom (on leave) should contact Chris Hendershot (hender@yorku.ca). The SIRI unit in ORS is also offering support for these nominations. Interested nominees are also asked to contact Abby Vogus (avogus@yorku.ca) by November 1, 2019.
Mitacs Accelerate Industrial Postdoc Program
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS: November 22, 2019
• Submission to Agency: December 6, 2019
Value: $55K/year
Duration: Up to 3 years
The Mitacs-Accelerate Industrial Postdoc provides funding for research with a company or not-for-profit.
If you are interested in applying to this competition, please contact Kim McIntyre, post-doctoral services coordinator, at kimmcint@yorku.ca or extension 22993.
Mitacs Elevate Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadlines:
• Letter of Intent and Conflict of Interest Declaration to agency: January 8, 2020 by 5pm PT
• Draft application to agency for pre-review: January 22, 2020 by 5pm PT
• Application to agency: February 19, 2020
Value:
• $55,000 minimum annual stipend/salary (for fellowships awarded after April 1, 2018)
• Training curriculum valued at $7,500 per year
• Submission assistance, including application feedback, from Mitacs representatives
• Certificate of completion after receipt of their exit survey and final report submission
Duration: 2 years
Mitacs Elevate is a postdoctoral fellowship with a customized research management training component. A minimum one-year research project (normally two years in duration) with a partner organization in need of high-level expertise.
If you are interested in applying to this competition, please contact Kim McIntyre, post-doctoral services coordinator, at kimmcint@yorku.ca or extension 22993.
