York Research Chairs

The internal competition for the 2019-2020 York Research Chairs (YRC) program has commenced. The YRC program offers both “Tier 1” and “Tier 2” chairs. In the case of Tier 2, there are two levels of chair.

Information pertaining to both the internal LA&PS and University-wide YRC competition and selection process, as well as application forms, can be found on the LA&PS Intranet site. Please login to YU-Link with your Passport York Account and paste in this URL to access the intranet site: https://yulink-new.yorku.ca/group/laps/york-research-chairs.

The LA&PS Research Intranet site contains complete information on the program, but please note these two important features of the program:

1. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion provisions:The Faculty-level (and university wide) YRC competition includes a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Therefore, the Dean strongly encourages participation and is committed to increasing representation from persons in the federally-recognized four designated groups (FDGs) – women, Aboriginal Peoples, persons with a disability, and members of visible minorities. To this end, the Faculty is committed to having faculty members from FDGs represent at least 50% of its nominees to VPRI.
2. Early Career category added to Tier 2 (for researchers within five years of their first appointment).

To have your name considered for a YRC, you must submit the completed LA&PS application form, along with the full internal application materials (described within the form) to David Cuff, PhD, Director: Strategic Research & Partnerships (dcuff@yorku.ca) no later than 12 noon on August 26, 2019.

Please do not hesitate to follow up with David Cuff should you have any questions, or if you would like to meet to discuss your plans for an application. All the forms are available through the web address noted above, but applicants can also contact David Cuff for copies.

LA&PS Seed Grant for Collaborative Research Initiatives

Deadline: September 15, 2019

Value: Up to $5000

LA&PS full-time faculty members are invited to apply for seed funding to build new research collaborations with scholarly and/or community partners by supporting the specific costs associated with bringing key partners together to explore and develop new research and research funding opportunities. These initiatives must involve at least one LA&PS faculty member working with collaborators, who can be faculty or external community members (locally or globally). The funding is designed to offset costs associated with bringing the collaborators together for a preliminary planning meeting or small-scale workshop.

Application form (see under section #1).

Contract Faculty Research Grants Fund (CUPE)

Deadline: October 1, 2019

Value: Up to $8,000 for research grants

This fund is intended to encourage individual research and study by defraying research costs.  Contact Charles Bisram (bisr590@yorku.ca) in Faculty Relations for a current application form.

Contract Faculty Conference Travel Fund (CUPE)

Deadline: October 1, 2019

Value: Up to $2,000

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. Contact Charles Bisram (bisr590@yorku.ca) in Faculty Relations for a current application form.

For a general listing of internal research funding opportunities, visit here.

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 Project Grant

Deadlines:
• Mandatory Registration Deadline: August 14, 2019
• Mandatory Submission to Faculty Research Officer with finalized budget: September 9, 2019
• Submission to Agency: September 11, 2019

The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential for important advances in fundamental or applied health-related knowledge, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes by supporting projects or programs of research proposed and conducted by individual researchers or groups of researchers in all areas of health. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.

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.

Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative

Deadlines:
• Compulsory Submission to ORS for “Intention to Submit”: August 16, 2019 by 12noon
• Compulsory Submission to Agency for "Intention to Submit" (by the UK PI): August 19, 2019
• Submission to ORS for full administrative review: August 28, 2019
• Mandatory Submission to ORS of full application for budget review and institutional signature: September 9, 2019 by 12 pm
(A completed and signed Terms and Conditions for Applying for Canadian Tri-agency Funds must be part of the September 9 submission package to ORS in order for ORS to secure the institutional signature and forward to the relevant contact at SSHRC.)
• Submission to agency (by the UK PI): September 12, 2019

Value:
• Canadian funding agencies: Up to C$173,333 per year for Canadian teams, for a total of C$520,000
• UKRI: Up to £625,000 per project at 100% full economic cost.

Duration: 3 years

SSHRC, NSERC, CIHR and the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) are pleased to announce the launch of the Canada-UK Artificial Intelligence Initiative. It is designed to support innovative and cutting-edge interdisciplinary AI research that encourages the exploration of new interdisciplinary research methodologies, approaches and tools that cuts across at least two of the following research domains: social sciences and humanities; health and biomedical sciences; and natural sciences and engineering (including computational and/or mathematical sciences). This call will also: support the development of a collaboration in AI between stakeholders in Canada and the UK; build competitive and resilient economies and maximize the social and health benefits; and support the development of responsible AI while establishing new partnerships and enhancing infrastructure and training between researchers in Canada and the UK.

IMPORTANT NOTE: All proposals must be completed and submitted through the UKRI’s Joint Electronic Submissions (Je-S). For this call, the UK Principal Investigator is asked to submit on behalf of the international team. However, please note that all Canadian investigators involved in applications for this call must self-register for Je-S in order to create an account.  Please visit the following link to self-register.

Note: The latest deadline to submit full applications to ORS is 12noon Monday, September 9^th, to allow ORS sufficient time to review the budget and to allow applicants to make any necessary changes before sending the documents to their UK counterpart to attach to the final application for submission to the agency.

Further details.

Open Research Area (ORA) for the Social Sciences 2019

Deadlines:
• Submission of Stage 1 Outline Proposal and Stage 2 Full Proposal to ORS for full administrative review: August 27, 2019
• Submission of Stage 1 Outline Proposal and Stage 2 Full Proposal to ORS: September 9, 2019, no later than 9:00am
• Submission of Stage 1 Mandatory Outline Proposal to agency: September 11, 2019 by 16:00 (UK Time)
• Submission of Stage 2 Full Proposal to agency: September 11, 2019 by 16:00 (UK time)

Value:

The funding limits for each national agency are:
• ANR: Up to €450,000 per project
• DFG: No maximum limit per project
• ESRC: Up to £600,000 at 100% fEC (£480,000 at 80% fEC) with a minimum of £200,000 (100% fEC) per project
• SSHRC: Up to $400,000 per project, with a maximum of $135,000 per year per project

Duration: 24 to 36 months

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC; UK), Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR; France), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; Germany), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) recently announced a Call for Proposals as part of the sixth round of the Open Research Area (ORA).  Canadian researchers are invited to submit proposals in any discipline or subject area eligible for SSHRC funding.

The general objectives of the program are: to strengthen international co-operation in the field of social sciences by funding high quality scientific research; and to provide funding for integrated projects by researchers coming from at least three of the four subscribing countries – in any combination of three or more countries. Principal Investigator(s), Co-investigator(s), Team Member(s) can only be involved in ONE proposal in the current round, in any capacity.

Outline and Full proposals must be submitted via the ESRC's electronic proposal submission system Je-S. Detailed guidance on how to submit proposals via Je-S can be found at the Call’s website.

Note: Even though the agency deadlines for the Outline and Full proposals are the same date, it is strongly recommended that you aim to submit the Outline proposal before (or at least 10 days prior to) the closing deadline of the Call.  This will enable applicants to link their Full proposal to the Outline proposal, taking advantage of the facility to copy information from the Outline Je-S form to the Full Je-S form.

If you choose to submit the Outline and Full proposals at the same time to the agency, then both applications must be submitted to the Office of Research Services (ORS) by Monday, September 9th by 9am EST, to accommodate for institutional approvals. If you would like ORS to provide a full review of both the Outline and Full applications, please submit a hardcopy of the applications to ORS at least 10 working days prior to submission to the agency.

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for full administrative review: August 30, 2019
• Submission to Agency: September 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 Insight Grant

Deadlines:
• Guarantee Deadline for complete, substantive review by Faculty RO: September 4, 2019
• Mandatory Submission to Faculty RO with finalized budget: October 10, 2019, by 9 am
• Agency Deadline: October 15, 2019

Value: $7,000 - $400,000

Duration: 2-5 years

Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging and established scholars for research initiatives of two to five years. (However, emerging scholars may find the Insight Development Grant the more appropriate opportunity.)

Insight Grant research initiatives may be undertaken by an individual researcher or a team of researchers working in collaboration. Two streams of funding are available: Stream A is for budgets of $100,000 or less; stream B is for budgets between $101,000 and $400,000. SSHRC sets the targeted success rate for Stream A higher than for Stream B.

To access an application form and full instructions, log into your SSHRC account.

SSHRC Connection Grants

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for full administrative review: October 17, 2019
• Submission to agency: November 1, 2019

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.”

Health Research Foundation (HRF) of Innovative Medicines Canada: Fellowship Program

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for full administrative review: September 13, 2019
• Submission to Agency: September 27, 2019

Value: $100K/fellowship

Duration: 1 year

HRF has recently announced a Call for its Fellowship Program in the area of Artificial Intelligence Health Research.  Two fellowships will be awarded: one will focus on AI’s impact on health system sustainability while the second will focus on AI’s impact on patient outcomes.

The 2019 HRF Guidelines and Application Form can be found on the Health Research Foundation’s website.

IDRC KIX Global Grants

Deadlines:
• Submission of full draft of application to SIRI unit in ORS: September 16, 2019
• Submission of final application and ORS Checklist to SIRI: September 30, 2019
• Selected Proposals receive feedback from IAP and IDRC: November 20, 2019
• Amended Proposals deadline: December 5, 2019

Value: $1.35M to $2.7M

Duration: Up to 42 months

The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) and IDRC invite proposals for KIX Global Grants from individual organizations or groups of organizations for multi-region, multi-country projects that aim to develop, test, and apply ways to scale innovations that address key education issues.  The projects funded under these grants will: 1) generate knowledge and evidence to support the adaptation of proven innovations to address key education priorities in GPE member countries; and 2) mobilize research and knowledge to support the scaling of these proven innovations.

Projects must respond to the following question:  How can existing evidence-based and contextually relevant innovations that have a demonstrated impact be adapted and scaled to improve education access and quality within GPE member countries?

Projects must also focus on one or more of the following thematic areas: teaching and learning; early childhood care and education; equity and inclusion; data systems; or learning assessment systems.

To signal your intent to apply and to book a one-on-one meeting, please contact Diana Frasca, Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives Specialist , in the Office of Research Services, at ext. 20757 or by e-mail (dfrasca@yorku.ca).

Note: Webinar for this opportunity noted above under “External Notices.”

Guggenheim Fellowships

Deadline: September 16, 2019

Duration: 6-12 months

The purpose of the Guggenheim Fellowship program is to help provide Fellows with blocks of time in which they can work with as much creative freedom as possible.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact SIRI specialist Abby Vogus at avogus@yorku.ca.

Sloan Research Fellowships

Deadline: September 16, 2019

Value:  $75,000 (USD)

Duration: 2 years

The Sloan Research Fellowships are given annually to early career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars and influential leaders. Candidates must hold a PhD or equivalent degree in chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, molecular biology, neuroscience, ocean sciences, physics, or a related field.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please contact SIRI specialist Abby Vogus at avogus@yorku.ca.

NSERC Research Alliance Grants: Option 1

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for full administrative review: 10 business days before submission to the agency
• Submission to agency: Rolling deadline

Value: Requesting $150,000 or more annually from NSERC

Duration: 1 – 5 years

NSERC’s Alliance Grants will be launched in a phased approach. On May 21st, Option 1 will be open for applications requesting $150,000 or more annually from NSERC.

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.

NSERC PromoScience Program

Deadlines:
• Submission to faculty: alert research officer immediately of intentions
• Submission to ORS for full administrative review: September 3, 2019
• Submission for institutional signature from ORS prior to submission to NSERC: September 12, 2019 by 9:00am
• Submission to agency:  September 16, 2019 by 8:00pm (ET)

Value:  Up to $200K/year  (NSERC will not fund 100% of the costs of a proposed activity. NSERC’s contribution is generally up to one-third of a program’s funding.)

Duration: Up to 3 years

This program offers financial support for initiatives that promote the natural sciences and engineering to Canada's young people, particularly to groups such as girls and Indigenous peoples that are under-represented in scientific and engineering careers. It supports hands-on learning experiences for young students and their science teachers.  Grants may be used to cover improvements to program content or delivery, as well as for new programs and activities. Grants can also be used to cover operational costs such as salaries, travel, postage, materials and supplies, provided that they relate to the promotion of science and engineering.

Activities that encourage Indigenous undergraduate students to pursue graduate studies in the natural sciences and engineering are eligible.

Note: Post-secondary institutions will be limited to one PromoScience application per department. If multiple applications come in per department/Faculty, as applicable, the Faculty will select which applications go forward. Therefore, if you are interested in this opportunity, please contact your Research Officer.

Further details:

General Description

Call for Applications