August 19, 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
Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award
Nomination Deadline: 4PM, Sept. 4, 2015
Intended to provide financial support for an outstanding new full-time faculty member who is beginning his/her academic career. Preference will be given to faculty members who are conducting research in science, information technology, environmental studies or business, and whose research will lead to peer reviewed external funding.
Please direct questions to Lisa Rumiel in ORS
Who Is My Faculty-based Research Officer?
LA&PS has three faculty-based research officers who are happy to review drafts of grant applications that arrive in sufficient time to offer feedback. Each research officer has been assigned specific academic units. These are their names and assigned units:
Nadya Bloom (nbloom@yorku.ca)
Units: Anthropology; Geography; Political Science; Social Science; Sociology; and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies.
Janet Friskney (friskney@yorku.ca)
Units: English; French Studies; History; Humanities; Languages, Literatures and Linguistics; Philosophy; and Writing.
Kay Li (wli@yorku.ca)
Units: Administrative Studies; Communication Studies; Economics; Equity Studies; Human Resource Management; Information Technology; Public Policy and Administration; and Social Work.
Internal Grants
Contract Faculty Research Grants
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2015
To encourage individual research and study by defraying research costs. Value: Research grants – up to $8,000.
More details here.
Contract Faculty Conference Travel Grants
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2015
To support contract faculty members who are giving papers; have been asked to give commentaries; to chair sessions; or are attending conferences. Eligible expenses include travel, registration, accommodation and subsistence. Value: Up to $2,000.
More details here.
SSHRC Small Grant
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2015
To provide support to full-time faculty members and professional librarians for pilot studies, junior faculty, ‘opportunistic’ small projects, and projects not readily funded elsewhere.
More details here.
York Incentive Grant
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2015
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.
More details here.
Mariano E. Elia Research Fund
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2015
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.
Specific Research Grants
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2015
The program permits, under certain conditions, a researcher to receive a research grant in lieu of salary through a mechanism which includes peer review.
External Notices
Tri Agency Draft Statement on Digital Data
CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC have developed a draft Statement of Principles on Digital Data Management. VPRI will be submitting an institutional response to the call for input and would appreciate your feedback on the Statement by Aug. 21, 2015.
Tri-Agency Draft
Feedback Form
SSHRC Issues New KM Guidelines
SSHRC has issued a text entitled “Guidelines for Effective Knowledge Mobilization.”
More details here.
SSHRC Issues Revised Materials around Aboriginal Research
SSHRC has recently issued new Guidelines for Review of Aboriginal Research and new Aboriginal Research Statement of Principles.
External Grants and Fellowships
SSHRC Funding Opportunities
- SSHRC & Genome Canada Joint Initiative Applicants must submit to one SHHRC funding opportunity. To enrich the understanding on societal implications of genomic innovations characterized as “disruptive.”
More details here.
- SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant
ORS Deadline: Aug. 26, 2015
Agency Deadline: Sept. 10, 2015Aims to foster a deeper understanding of the state of knowledge in the social sciences and humanities regarding the human aspects of the search, extraction, production and use of energy and natural resources. This knowledge will pave the way for developing robust policies, practices and tools for a sustainable, equitable and prosperous future for Canada and the world.More details here.
- SSHRC Insight Grant
Faculty Guarantee of Full Review Deadline: Sept. 1, 2015
Agency Deadline: Oct. 15, 2015Insight Grants support research proposed by scholars and judged worthy of funding by their peers and/or other experts. Insight Grants research initiatives may be undertaken by an individual researcher or a team of researchers working in collaboration. If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact your Faculty-based Research Officer right away!More details here.
- SSHRC Connection Grant
ORS Deadline: Oct. 19, 2015
Agency Deadline: Nov. 1, 2015Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. Please note that SSHRC requires a 50% cash and/or inkind match to whatever is requested from SSHRC.More details here.
- SSHRC Partnership Grants
NOI Deadline: Nov. 20, 2015 by 9amAll researchers planning to submit an application to the SSHRC Partnership Grant competition – stage 1, Letter of Intent phase – are required to submit an Internal Notice of Intent (iNOI) to their Associate Dean of Research. All researchers should notify both their Associate Dean and the SIRI Specialist Lisa Rumiel (lrumiel@yorku.ca) as soon as possible about their intention to apply.More details here.
- SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
ORS Deadline: Nov. 16, 2015
Agency Deadline: Nov. 30, 2015Partnership Development Grants are intended for larger research teams working in formal collaboration with partner organizations, such as post-secondary institutions and/or organizations of various typesMore details here.
- SSHRC & CIHR Partnership: Healthy and Productive Work Initiative
ORS Deadline: Nov. 15, 2015
Agency Deadline: Nov. 30, 2015Aiming to develop, implement, evaluate and scale-up innovative, evidence-informed and gender-responsive solutions to foster the labour force participation of men and women with health issues and disabilities, as well as older workers and workers with caregiving responsibilities outside of their paid work.More details here.
THE ONTARIO CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE: EXPLORE PROGRAM
Application Deadline: September 4, 2015
The aims of this funding project are to support unconventional and highly innovative research projects that could strongly impact the drug discovery process. Explore is designed to fund early concept validation of cutting-edge technologies, computational tools, novel approaches, techniques and devices that address the most crucial needs in drug discovery and/or development.
More details here.
NSERC Research Tools & Instruments Internal Competition
ORS deadline for internal competition: Sept. 14, 2015 at 9 am
NSERC has imposed a quota of twelve (12) on the number of applications that York can submit to the 2015 Research Tools and Instruments competition for Category 1. As a result of this quota, the Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation is inviting potential applicants to submit an RTI application for internal review to select the 12 applications for submission to NSERC.
More details here.
Women’s Xchange Fund
Submission of full application to ORS: Sept. 17, 2015
NOI to agency: Sept. 1, 2015 by 4pm
Full application: Oct. 1, 2015 by 4:00pm for Small Scale Projects only
Women’s Xchange, a woman’s health knowledge translation and exchange centre, based at Women’s College Hospital in Toronto recently announced a Call for Proposals to support grassroots research projects. There are Small and Large scale community-initiated projects with funding valued from 15-75,000.
More details here.
FULBRIGHT CANADA PROGRAM FOR VISITING SCHOLARS
Visiting Research Chairs Program
ORS deadline: November 2, 2015
Application Deadline: November 15th, 2015
The award is valued at $25,000 for one semester beginning in either September or January.
More details here.
TRADITIONAL FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR AWARDS
ORS deadline: November 2, 2015
Application Deadline: November 15th, 2015
The award is valued at US$12,500 for one semester, either September or January or US$25,000 for a full academic year.
More details here.
DEPARTMENT OF CANADIAN HERITAGE: Canada 150 Fund
ORS Deadline: 10 working days before submission to the agency.
Application Deadline: 30 weeks prior to the proposed project’s desired start date.
Aims to create opportunities for Canadians to participate in local, regional, and national celebrations to promote Canadian values, culture and history, and to build a sense of pride and attachment to Canada and to bring citizens together to celebrate Canada 150.
More details here.
CIHR Funding Opportunities
- CIHR Operating Grant : Knowledge to Action ORS Deadline: Sept. 16, 2015
Agency Deadline: Oct. 1, 2015
To increase the uptake/application of knowledge by supporting partnerships between researchers and knowledge-users to bridge a knowledge to action gap, and in so doing, increase the understanding of knowledge application through the process.More details here.
- CIHR Catalyst Grant : HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research ORS Deadline: Oct. 17, 2015
Agency Deadline: Nov. 2, 2015
This opportunity supports: 1) partnerships between communities affected by HIV in Canada and researchers to facilitate the conduct of community-based research; and/or 2) future applications for more comprehensive community-based research grants.More details here.
- CIHR Operating Grant : HIV/AIDS Community-Based Research ORS Deadline: Oct. 17, 2015
Agency Deadline: Nov. 2, 2015
Key objectives of this funding opportunity include promoting the creation of new knowledge that is relevant to communities affected by HIV in Canada and to the goals of the Federal Initiative, and promoting the dissemination of new knowledge and uptake of evidence into action to enhance the community response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.More details here.
- CIHR Operating Grant : Population Health Intervention Research ORS Deadline: Oct. 1, 2015
Agency Deadline: Oct. 15, 2015
Objectives for this opportunity include generation of evidence about interventions in health and other sectors that have the potential to promote health and health equity at a population level.More details here.
- 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.
Calls for Papers
Edited Collection on Early Modern Ciphers
CFP Deadline: Sept. 1, 2015
Abstracts are solicited for an edited collection on medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century cryptography, ciphering, deciphering, coding, or decoding. Abstracts of 500-1000 words, with citations in Chicago style, should be sent via email to Prof. Katherine Ellison, Department of English, Illinois State University, at keellis@ilstu.edu by September 1, 2015. Please send original proposals not under consideration in other venues.
More details here.
Cultures of Harm in Institutions of Care: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives
CFP Deadline: Sept. 20, 2015
In 1921, Dr Montagu Lomax published a searing indictment of Prestwich Asylum exposing an entrenched sub-culture of malpractice, negligence and abuse. Recent historical research has shown that many of the same practices were still taking place at Prestwich fifty years later. This two-day conference will explore the shifting political, socio-economic, cultural and medical influences that have formed and perpetuated cultures of harm from the eighteenth century to the present day around the world. We are particularly interested in the production of harmful practices – physical, sexual and psychological violence directed by one person or group against another – in therapeutic and caring environments. Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words together with a brief outline of your academic affiliation to trauma@mail.bbk.ac.uk.
More details here.
23rd International Conference of Europeanists: “Resilient Europe?”
CFP Deadline: Oct. 1, 2015
Resilience is the capacity to survive, to bounce back and to innovate in the wake of extraordinary stress or unexpected crises. Psychologists view resilience as a character trait. Today, researchers and scholars of all stripes are beginning to understand resilience as constitutive of societies as well as of individuals. The Council for European Studies (CES) seeks proposals that explore these questions and the quality of resilience in Europe.
More details here.
“A Time of Judgement”: The Operation and Representation of Judgement in Nineteenth-Century Cultures
CFP Deadline: Nov. 30, 2015
This international, interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the role of ‘judgement’ in the nineteenth century, in both the Anglophone and European cultures. As a theme, related to but distinct from notions of justice, judgement has not attracted much attention from humanities scholars in contrast to the interest expressed in philosophy and psychology.
More details here.
