October 27, 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
LA&PS Institutes NOI for SSHRC IDG
Planning to apply for a SSHRC Insight Development Grant in the next competition? If so, please fill in the NOI form that’s been established by LA&PS to facilitate applications to this high-volume program. The deadline for completing the NOI form is Friday, November 6, 2015. The NOI form can be found here.
How Do I Find LA&PS Funding Forms?
The revised LA&PS website has placed all of the LA&PS application forms for internal funding behind a login page. To reach them, you must go to the LA&PS Research page
Then do the following: 1) scroll down to the big, red box that says “Research Resources” and click! 2) type in your York Passport log in; 3) Click on the red words “Click to continue to Intranet Sites Prod”; 4) Click on “Funding Opportunities” in the menu on the left; 5) click on “Internal Opps by Type”; and 6) scroll down to the internal funding opportunity that you seek to access the form.
VPRI Issues Memo on Overhead Policy for Research Funding
The memo recently issued by VPRI about the University’s Overhead Policy on Research Funding can be found here.
Robarts Centre Issues Next Canada Watch
The Fall 2015 issue of Canada Watch, “The Politics of Evidence, ” is now available online. Edited by Jody Berland and Jennifer Dalton, this issue “investigates the records and implications of the government’s war on science.”
FGS Launches York Post-doctoral Fellowship Program
The Faculty of Graduate Studies has launched a York post-doctoral program targeted at York doctoral candidates in their fourth year of study. Applicants must have fulfilled or expect to fulfill all requirements for the doctoral degree on or before August 31 in the fourth year of their doctoral degree.
More details here.
Internal Grants
SSHRC Small Grant
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2015
To provide support to full-time faculty members and professional librarians and junior faculty, for pilot projects, ‘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.
LA&PS Travel Grant for Dissemination
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2015
LA&PS offers this grant to offset costs associated with the public dissemination of research, scholarship, or creativity. Full-time YUFA faculty members and senior scholars in LA&PS are eligible to apply.
Application Form (doc)
LA&PS Minor Research Grant
Deadline: Nov. 16, 2015
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.
More details here.
YUFA Research Development Fellowship
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2015
Fellowships are intended to provide a period of reduced or eliminated time from teaching, professional responsibilities or service commitments to commit more time and energy on a particular project.
More details here.
YUFA Release Time Teaching Fellowships
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2015
Fellowships are intended to provide recipients with the opportunity to develop innovative teaching and learning projects or to enhance their own teaching skills. Eligibility: Full-time faculty in tenure-stream appointments.
More details here.
YUFA Teaching-Learning Development Fund
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2015
Funds are available to 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. Eligibility: All members of the YUFA bargaining unit.
More details here.
External Notices
SSHRC Plans Changes to the Connections Grant
In an effort to streamline the Connection Grants application requirements, SSHRC will make some changes to the application form. As a result, the form will be unavailable as of 8:01 p.m. ET on November 2, 2015. All Connection Grants applications that are IN-PROGRESS will be deleted from the on-line system if they have not been submitted to SSHRC via the institution’s Research Office or not-for-profit organization’s financial administrator before 8:00 p.m. ET on November 2. The revised Connection Grants application form will become available on November 4, 2015.
The following enhancements will be implemented as of November 4, 2015:
- CVs will no longer be required for collaborators.
- The Knowledge Mobilization Plan attachment will no longer be required.
- The Relationship to Other Support attachment will no longer be required.
- The Event Presenters form has been significantly streamlined.
External Grants and Fellowships
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.
MITACs International Opportunities
ORS Deadlines: Early November
Agency Deadline: Mid-November
MITACS has announced a series of international opportunities with November 2015 deadlines.
India:
Tunisia:
France:
Inria:
BAnQ Awards for Research Visit for Non-Quebec Residents
Deadline: November 15, 2015
These awards are intended to provide financial support for researchers from outside Québec (non-Quebec residents) who need to consult documents of a heritage nature in one or more of the buildings of the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ).
More details here.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
ORS deadline: November 16, 2015
Agency Deadline: December 2, 2015
The OPC invites proposals for projects that advance its new strategic privacy priorities: 1) The economics of personal information; 2) Government surveillance; 3) Reputation and privacy; or 4) The body as Information.
More details here.
France-Canada Research Fund
ORS deadline: November 9, 2015
Agency Deadline: November 20, 2015
This program provides funds for new scientific projects jointly developed by French and Canadian teams that have never worked together before. Please note there are restrictions on how many applications can go forward from the university.
More details here.
Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships
Deadline: Dec 1, 2015
The Society invites applications for its ninth annual Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades as well as its annual short-term fellowships, all of which support bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history. Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading.
More details here.
Philip Jones Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera
Deadline: Dec 1, 2015
The Ephemera Society of America invites applications for the Philip Jones Fellowship for the Study of Ephemera. This competition, now in its tenth 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.
More details here.
Imperial Oil University Research Awards
ORS Deadline: Dec 1, 2015
Agency Deadline: Dec. 15, 2015
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.
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.
Calls for Papers
Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
CFP Deadline: Dec. 31, 2015
The goal of the symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation on all topics and in all disciplines of the medieval and early modern worlds.
More details here.
Gatherings: Communities of Print and the Book
CFP Deadline: Jan. 15, 2016
In May 2016, the Bibliographical Society of Canada invites scholars to shift their perspective from the national and global scale and to consider the printed word, the book, and texts on the micro-scale of the community. In tandem with the general Congress theme of “Energizing Communities,” the BSC-SbC will showcase papers by scholars examining communities of readers, communities of writers, communities of the book and of print.
More details here.
