February 9, 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
HIPN Initiates Newsletter
As part of our mission to promote Indigenous Studies at York University and throughout the Greater Toronto Area, the History of Indigenous Peoples Network will begin this term sending out a periodic newsletter highlighting talks, seminars, symposiums, fellowship and job opportunities, and other announcements of interest to our community.
There are so many exciting things going on here at York involving Indigenous Studies, it’s time we gather them together. The newsletter, we hope, will be a vibrant and convenient location to advertise all kinds of activities. Here’s where we need your help: please send any information or material you would like to see in the newsletter either to Boyd Cothran (cothran@yorku.ca) or to the HIP Network’s official email address (hipnyork@gmail.com).
Internal Grants
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.
LA&PS Minor Research Grant
Deadline: Apr. 15, 2016
Within the eligibility requirements set out in the guidelines, YUFA Faculty in LA&PS can apply for up to $5000 from this fund.
More details here.
External Notices
CIHR Seeks Advisory Board Members
The recruitment campaign to fill up to 75 positions within the five new Institutes Advisory Boards (IABs) has begun. Comprised of five (5) horizontal boards serving all 13 CIHR Institutes, this new advisory model will boost collaboration across Institutes and within our multitude of stakeholder communities by bringing together a wide range of perspectives within each IAB.
The five (5) new IABs are: IAB on Research Excellence, Policy and Ethics; IAB on Health Innovation; IAB on Indigenous Peoples’ Health; IAB on Health Promotion and Prevention; IAB on Chronic Conditions. Online applications can be submitted before February 10.
External Grants and Fellowships
RECODE/Cities for People Civic Innovation Awards
ORS Deadline: Feb. 12, 2016
Agency Deadline: Feb. 29, 2016
The Foundation provides grants to initiatives that position change in cities and support innovative collaborations between post-secondary institutions and community organizations or businesses that strengthen their communities.
More details here.
CIHR Funding Opportunities
- CIHR Catalyst Grant: Ethics
Registration Deadline: Feb. 15, 2016
ORS Deadline: Feb. 16, 2016
Agency Deadline: Mar. 1, 2016This funding opportunity is to build capacity in ethics as it applies to health (including health research, health promotion and maintenance, clinical care, population and public health, health systems and services, policy and governance) by encouraging applications from new investigators as well as established investigators new to the field of health ethics.More details here.
- CIHR Operating Grant : New Investigator Research Grants in Child and Youth Health
ORS Deadline: Apr. 5, 2016
Agency Deadline: Apr. 20, 2016Jointly sponsored program of SickKids Foundation and the CIHR – Institute of Human Development, Child and Youth Health (IHDCYH). Grant recipients may obtain up to three years’ support for research in biomedical, clinical, health systems and services, population and public health sectors.More details here.
All current CIHR Funding Opportunities
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation: Research Travel Grants
Deadline: Mar. 15, 2016 and Sept. 15, 2016
The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation awards grants of up to $2,200 each in support of research in the holdings of the Gerald R. Ford Library.
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.
Law Foundation of Ontario: Access to Justice Fund
LOI due at ORS for review: Mar. 18, 2016
LOI to agency: Apr. 1, 2016
The Foundation invites projects addressing legal needs of or relating to: Children and Youth; Consumers; Public legal education, intake and referral; Racialized groups; or, Refugees. Collaborations among organizations with different areas of expertise and from different areas of the country are encouraged.
More details here.
Smart and Green Buildings in Sustainable Cities
ORS Deadline: Mar. 18, 2016
Agency Deadline: Apr. 1, 2016
The India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnership to Accelerate Community Transformation and Sustainability (IC-IMPACTS) and the Department of Science & Technology (DST) India recently announced a new joint Call for Research Proposals in the area of Smart and Green Buildings in Sustainable Cities.
More details here.
More Years / Better Lives
ORS Deadline: Mar. 28, 2016
Agency Deadline: Apr. 11, 2016
The More Years / Better Lives call is sponsored by 13 leading research funding agencies, including SSHRC and CIHR, from 11 European countries and Canada. Funding will support transnational research teams seeking to improve the understanding of how different approaches to welfare secure quality of life, especially for older people.
The objective is to develop comparative perspectives on “welfare models”, and the ways in which they are changing, drawing on the great diversity of approaches to welfare across Europe and Canada. Because welfare models involve a complex interaction of public, private and voluntary activity, the research will draw on expertise from many academic disciplines, therefore proposals are expected to have an interdisciplinary nature.
More details here.
SSHRC Connection Grant
ORS Deadline: Apr. 18, 2016
Agency Deadline: May 1, 2016
Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives.
More details here.
Canada Council: Killam Research Fellowships
ORS Deadline: Apr. 29, 2016
Agency Deadline: May 15, 2016
A fellowship from this program provides two full years of release time, beginning no later than 1 January following notification of the fellowship (you may not request less than the full two-year fellowship period). The support for the second year depends on approval of your interim report.
More details here.
Calls for Papers
43rd Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies
CFP Deadline: Mar. 15, 2016
Paper or session proposals are invited for the 43rd Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, organized by the Vatican Film Library and to be held at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, MO, 14–15 October 2016.
More details here.
Manuscript Studies
CFP Deadline: Submissions for 2017 and beyond.
The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is pleased to announce its new semi-annual journal Manuscript Studies. This journal aims to bring together scholarship from around the world and across disciplines related to the study of pre-modern manuscript books and documents. It is actively seeking submissions for 2017 and beyond.
More details here.
Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces
CFP Deadline: Apr. 17, 2016
The symposium, which will be held September 23-24, 2016 in Graz, Austria, will discuss the relationship between digital scholarly editing and interfaces by bringing together experts of DSEs and Interface Design, editors and users of editions, web designers and developers. It will include the discussion of (graphical/user) interfaces of DSEs as much as conceptualizing the digital edition itself as an interface.on.
More details here.
