September 20, 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
Survey on Mental Health Research at York
York’s Mental Health Steering Committee is interested in determining who on campus is engaged in mental health/stigma research and/or practice. The intention is to develop a hub of information and expertise in this field from faculty and graduate students across the campus and highlight/share knowledge, skills and resources. A brief survey can be found here.
Open Access Open Data Steering Committee to Support York community
A new campus-wide Open Access/Open Data Steering Committee will guide the direction of policy compliance on open access and digital data. Read the Yfile story.
Internal Grants
CUPE 3903 unit 2 Research Grant
Deadline: Oct. 1, 2016
To encourage individual research and study by defraying research costs.
CUPE 3903 unit 2 Conference Grant
Deadline: Oct. 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. More details.
SSHRC Research Opportunity Grants Program
Deadline: Oct. 31, 2016
To provide support to full-time faculty, professional librarians and current Postdoctoral Fellows for stand alone, small-scale projects and for projects that will lead to the development of larger SSHRC applications or other external funding. More details.
SSHRC Conference Opportunity Grants Program
Deadline: Nov. 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. (Usually only airfare is considered.) More details.
Mariano A. Elia Research Fund
Deadline: Nov. 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.
Specific Research Grants
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2016
The program permits, under certain conditions, a researcher to receive a research grant in lieu of salary through a mechanism which includes peer review. More details.
York Incentive Grant
Deadline: Rolling
To provide support to defray costs that are essential to the preparation of a successful grant application, such as those associated with assembling collaboration teams. It is intended to assist larger-scale initiatives in the quest for external funding. More details.
VPRI Funding for Scholarly Events and Outreach Activities
Deadline: Rolling
The Office of the VPRI offers seed funding to support events or outreach activities that strengthen the research culture and build the profile and reputation of research at York University. More details.
LA&PS Travel Grant for Dissemination
Deadline: Nov. 1, 2016
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. More details.
LA&PS Minor Research Grant
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2016
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.
External Notices
CIHR Lifts Restriction on Applying to both Foundation and Project Grants
CIHR has decided to lift the restriction that limits researchers to applying to either the Foundation Grant or Project Grant competition. In the upcoming round of the Investigator Initiated programs, researchers will be able to apply for funding through both competitions. The following policies remain in place, however: 1) Researchers who receive a 2016 Project grant as a Nominated Principal Applicant and go on to receive a Foundation grant as a Program Leader in future years will have their project grant rolled into their Foundation grant as is the case for all CIHR Investigator Initiated grants; and 2) Researchers cannot submit the same or similar application to overlapping competitions. If, at Stage 2 of the Foundation Grant competition, it becomes obvious that the same application has been submitted to the Project Grant competition, the researcher will be asked to withdraw one of the applications.
External Grants and Fellowships
CIHR Project Grant
Registration Deadline: Sept. 20, 2016
Agency Deadline: Oct. 18, 2016
The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related fundamental or applied knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects with a specific purpose and a defined endpoint. More details.
Canada Council: Grants for Professional Writers: Creative Writing
Agency Deadline: Oct. 1, 2016
The Grants for Professional Writers program covers subsistence, project and travel expenses. The Creative Writing Grants component gives Canadian authors (emerging, mid-career and established) time to write new literary works, including novels, short stories, poetry, children’s and young adults’ literature, graphic novels, exploratory writing and literary non-fiction. More details.
Ontario Arts Council: Writers’ Works in Progress
Agency Deadline: Oct. 18, 2016
To assist professional writers to complete book-length works of literary merit. More details.
NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grants Program
ORS full review Deadline: Oct. 11, 2016
Agency Deadline: Oct. 25, 2016
This NSERC program now has two streams associated with it: 1) Research Tools and Instruments; and 2) Operations and Maintenance Support For Research Facilities. Scroll down completely on the relevant page on the NSERC website in order to review both descriptions. More details.
SSHRC Connection Grant
ORS full review Deadline: Oct. 17, 2016
Agency Deadline: Nov. 1, 2016
Connection Grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. More details.
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
ORS Full Review Deadline: Nov. 16, 2016
Agency Deadline: Nov. 30, 2016
Partnerships funding is intended for research teams working in formal collaboration between postsecondary institutions and/or organizations of various types. (Planning well ahead of the competition deadline is strongly encouraged.) More details.
Canada-US Fulbright Program
ORS full review Deadline: Nov. 1, 2016
Agency Deadline: Nov. 15, 2016
The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program operates on the principle of reciprocal exchange and provides the opportunity for outstanding Canadian scholars to lecture and/or conduct research in the United States.
Traditional (All Disciplines) Awards
Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowships in the Humanities
Deadline: Nov. 15, 2016
The Harry Ransom Center, an internationally renowned humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, invites applications for its 2017-2018 research fellowships. More than 50 fellowships will be awarded for projects that require substantial on-site use of the Ransom Center’s collections, supporting research in all areas of the humanities including literature, photography, film, art, the performing arts, music, and cultural history. More details.
Bibliographical Society of America: Fellowships
Agency Deadline: Dec. 1, 2016
The Society invites applications for its 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. More details.
Calls for Papers
Britain, Canada, and the Arts: Cultural Exchange as Post-war Renewal
CFP Deadline: Nov. 1, 2016
Papers are invited for a major international, interdisciplinary conference to be held at Senate House, London, in collaboration with ENCAP (Cardiff University) and the University of Westminster. Coinciding with and celebrating the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, this conference will focus on the strong culture of artistic exchange, influence, and dialogue between Canada and Britain, with a particular but not exclusive emphasis on the decades after World War II. More details.
Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture
CFP Deadline: February 15, 2017
“Imagined Forms: Modeling and Material Culture” inaugurates a biennial conference series sponsored by the Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware. We invite submissions from all disciplines that critically investigate the function and form of models, the materials and methods of simulation and representation, questions of scale and perception, experiment and presentation, and the limits of modeling. More details.
