December 9, 2015 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
Half-day Closure of ORS on Dec. 11
The Office of Research Services (ORS), the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation and the Office of Research Ethics would like to notify all researchers that we will be closing at 12 Noon on Friday, December 11th for a holiday function. Normal hours will resume on Monday morning. Should you have any questions, please contact the ORS at (416) 736-5055 or research@yorku.ca.
Holiday Closure of ORS Dec. 24 – Jan. 3
Faculty members please note that the Office of Research Services will be closed from Dec. 24 to Jan. 3 inclusive. Also, on Wed. Dec. 23, the office will close early. If you are working on an application with a deadline during the closure period, then please be in touch with Michelle Galloro (mgalloro@yorku.ca) asap to let her know. You will need to make arrangements with ORS to submit your application to the agency in advance of the closure. ORS staff will not be working over the holidays.
Nature’s Past Episode 50: Canadian Energy History
Professor Sean Kheraj from the Department of History has just issued his latest podcast in his Nature’s Past series.
Internal Grants
LA&PS Seed Grant for Collaborative Research Initiatives
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2016
LA&PS full-time faculty members may apply for seed funding to support the development of new collaborative research initiatives. These initiatives must involve at least one LA&PS faculty member working with collaborators based outside of the Greater Toronto Area. The funding is designed to offset costs associated with bringing the collaborators together for a preliminary planning meeting or small-scale workshop.
More details here.
YUFA Leave Fellowships
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2016
This program provides peer-adjudicated additional grants of up to 10% of academic base salary to sabbaticants. The grants shall be subject to the conditions set out in Article 20.17 (b) of the YUFA Collective Agreement. Applicants may apply for amounts of up to 10% of their academic base salary.
More details here.
SSHRC Grant in Aid of Travel
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2016
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.
More details here.
York Incentive Grant
Deadline: Feb. 1, 2016
To provide support to defray costs that are essential to the preparation of a successful grant application, such as those associated with assembling collaborative teams. It is intended to assist larger-scale initiatives in the quest for external funding. These grants are not awarded to support the preparation of applications for the standard programs of research support (e.g., NSERC Discovery, SSHRC Connections Grants, and SSHRC Insight and Insight Development Grants). Applications will be considered in support of the development of larger-scale tri-council applications.
External Notices
Canada Council’s New Funding Model
Details of the Canada Council’s new funding model have been posted to the agency’s website.
External Grants and Fellowships
SSHRC Funding Opportunities
- SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis: Emerging Technologies
ORS Deadline: Dec. 18, 2015
Agency Deadline: Jan. 12, 2016Proposals are sought that address the challenge area of: How can emerging technologies be leveraged to benefit Canadians?More details here.
- SSHRC Connection Grant
ORS Deadline: Jan. 18, 2016
Agency Deadline: Feb. 1, 2016Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to engage on research issues of value to those participating.More details here.
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant
ORS Deadline: Jan. 20, 2016
Agency Deadline: Feb. 3, 2016These one to two-year grants support: 1) research projects by emerging scholars, or 2) funding for established scholars to explore new research questions and/or approaches that are distinct from the applicant’s previous/ongoing research. Please note: this SSHRC program uses the new research portal and the Canadian Common CV.This is a high-volume competition. If you wish to apply, and haven’t already contacted the research officer for your unit, please do so right away.
CIHR Funding Opportunities
- CIHR Project Scheme : 2016 1st Live PilotRegistration Deadline: Jan. 18, 2016
The Project Scheme: 2016 1st Live Pilot funding opportunity has been posted far in advance of the competition’s registration deadline in order to provide the research community with the program details and the opportunity to prepare for the competition. However, please be advised that the information in this funding opportunity and its supporting documents might change based on the analysis of the results from ongoing pilots. All changes will be highlighted within the text of the funding opportunity and the relevant supporting documents as they are made. No significant changes are expected to be made after December 15, 2015.More details here.
All current CIHR funding opportunities.
NSERC Funding Opportunities
- NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for Networks
NOI Submission to ORS: January 11, 2016 — followed by other deadlinesTo increase research and training in targeted areas that could strongly enhance Canada’s economy, society and/or environment within the next 10 years. Research and training under these grants must be conducted through a partnership between academic researchers and industry or government organizations.More details here.
- NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for Projects
ORS Deadline: Mar. 18, 2016
NSERC Deadline: Apr. 1, 2016To increase research and training in targeted areas that could strongly enhance Canada’s economy, society and/or environment within the next ten years. Research and training under these grants must be conducted through a partnership between academic researchers and industry or government organizations.More details here.
Bodleian Libraries Visiting Fellows Programme
Deadline: Dec. 14, 2015
The Libraries encourage research that makes use of Bodleian Special Collections, an outstanding resource for scholarly study and discovery, containing rare printed books, classical papyri, medieval and renaissance manuscripts, literary, political and historical papers, archives, printed ephemera, and maps and music in both manuscript and printed form. Fellowships give applicants from outside of Oxford the opportunity to undertake an uninterrupted period of research with the Bodleian collections.
More details here.
Lewis Walpole Library Fellowships
Deadline: Jan. 11, 2016
The Lewis Walpole Library, a department of Yale University Library, invites applications to its 2016–2017 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. In addition, the Library offers a joint fellowship award with the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to support up to eight weeks of research in both collections.
More details here.
American Antiquarian Society: Research Fellowships
Deadline: Jan. 15, 2016
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) invites applications for its 2016-17 visiting academic fellowships. Over thirty short-term fellowships will be awarded for periods of one to two months. The AAS holds the largest collection in the world of American newspapers before 1877, and thus offers particularly rich resources to historians of journalism and communication.
More details here.
OCE and SOSCIP – Smart Computing R&D Challenge
ORS Deadline for EOI: Feb. 9, 2016
Agency Deadline for EOI: Feb. 23, 2016 by 2 pm
In support of the R&D Challenge, OCE and SOSIP are holding the 2nd and final Smart Computing R&D Challenge Partnering Forum for academic researchers associated with the SOSCIP consortium and industry partners. Cheryl Giblon (cgiblon@yorku.ca), Industry Liaison Manager, Innovation York, will be able to work with PIs to bring relevant industry on-board.
More details here.
SOSCIP Standard Collaborative Projects
Deadline: Rolling
The Southern Ontario Smart Computing Innovation Platform is inviting eligible researchers to submit Expressions of Interest (EOI) in partnership with industry for the development of Standard Collaborative Projects.
More details here.
Alberta-Ontario Innovation Program
ORS Deadline: Submit as early as possible
Final agency Deadline: Feb. 16, 2016
This program supports cross-provincial collaborations between industry and academia to solve key industry challenges in both provinces.
More details here.
Calls for Papers
Copyright and the Circulation of Knowledge: Industry Practices and Public Interests in Great Britain from the 18th Century to the Present
CFP Deadline: Jan. 15, 2016
This conference, to be held October 7-8, 2016, seeks to bring together specialists of Great Britain from the eighteenth century to the present to explore the complex relationship between copyright and the circulation of knowledge. We welcome case studies that focus on a particular time period as well as papers that show how attitudes and practices have changed over time. Papers that bring past and present concerns into dialogue are especially welcome.
More details here.
Interdisciplinary Conversations on Social Transformation and Critical Practices
CFP Deadline: Feb. 1, 2016
Organized by the School of Social Work at York University, the Critical Social Work and Social Justice Research Symposium aims to foster critical education, research and practice in relation to critical social work and social transformation in order to promote contemporary, historical, social, political and economical context, both locally and globally. The event will be held April 29, 2016.
More details here.
Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect: Indigenous, Canadian, and Québécois Writings in the Crossfire of a New Turn
CFP Deadline: Feb. 1, 2016
To be held in Banff September 22-25, 2016, “Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect” not only responds to recent attention to affect, or the “affective turn” dubbed by Patricia Clough, but also investigates the impact of previous forms of research both on emotions and cognition on the study of Indigenous, Canadian and Québécois writings in English and French.
More details here.
