September 30, 2020 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
Reminder: ORS Mandatory Deadlines for Major Tri-Council Grants
Faculty members who are applying this fall to the SSHRC Insight Grant, the NSERC Discovery Grant & Northern Research Supplement, or the CIHR Project Grant are reminded that they must submit, to their faculty-based research office, a full version of their application with finalized budget, plus completed ORS Checklist with applicant and chair signature in place, on the following schedule:
• SSHRC Insight Grant: September 29, 2020 by 9 am
• CIHR Project Grant: October 13, 2020 by 9 am
• NSERC Discovery Grant & Northern Research Supplement: October 29, 2020 by 9 am
KM Unit Offers MobilizeYU
The Knowledge Mobilization Unit is pleased to announce the new 8-week online version of its MobilizeYU course. Knowledge Mobilization Unit staff, along with guest speakers, will be covering topics such as: Knowledge Mobilization Planning; Clear Language Writing and Design; Research Impact and Evaluation; and Building Partnerships. The course will take place once a week from October 8 to November 26, 2020 at 2:00-4:00 pm using Zoom. It is free for all York faculty, graduate students and staff. More about the course is available here.
Research Commons Issues Fall Schedule
The Research Commons has issued a brochure of its fall 2020 information sessions. The brochure can be viewed here.
Jane Finch Community Research Partnership Collecting Data
The Dean’s Office of LAPS encourages researchers who have conducted relevant research to support the Jane Finch Community Research Partnership. Please feel free to contact Associate Dean Graduate Studies & Research Ravi de Costa (adres@yorku.ca) if you have any questions about this initiative.
The Jane Finch Community Research Partnership was created in 2016 as a result of ongoing engagement between members of the Jane Finch community and York University faculty and librarians. The partnership is in the process of setting up the Jane Finch Research Collection, which will enable community residents to collect academic research written about the community to be stored in a database.
The Jane Finch Research Collection is an extensive open-access database containing easily-discoverable research about the community. This collection will be freely available to community members and researchers worldwide via an open-access website hosted by York University’s Scott Library. Furthermore, it will be co-designed with community members, prioritizing their needs and perspectives. To read more about this project, please visit here.
The partnership would like to collect research data, theses, doctoral papers, and articles relating to Jane and Finch present within York departments and databases. If possible, please send any such research data and articles to this email: janefinchresearch@gmail.com.
Submission of External Grants through Office of Research Services
Given the current situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, ORS is now accepting electronic submission of research applications. A description of the submission process, and the two versions of the ORS checklist, can be found on this page. Please submit ORS Checklists and research applications to researchapps@yorku.ca.
Internal Grants
SSHRC Partnership Grant 2021 Competition: York’s Internal Notice of Intent (iNOI)
SSHRC has not formally launched the 2021 competition, but York University is launching an internal Notice of Intent (iNOI) process early given the competitiveness and strategic importance of the competition to the university. If you are interested in pursuing a SSHRC Partnership Grant, please review the full internal posting about the NOI, which can be found here.
CUPE 3903 unit 2 Research Grant
Deadline: October 1, 2020
The Contract Faculty Research Fund was established to encourage individual research and study and to defray research costs incurred by members of the CUPE 3903 unit 2 bargaining unit. Application form.
CUPE 3903 unit 2 Travel Grant
Deadline: October 1, 2020
The Employer shall maintain a Conference Travel Fund to support contract faculty members of the University attending scholarly/professional/artistic conferences. Application form.
SSHRC Explore
Deadline: October 31, 2020
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. Application form.
SSHRC KmB
Deadline: October 31, 2020
To provide support to full-time faculty, professional librarians, and current Postdoctoral Fellows for small-scale knowledge mobilization activities such as stakeholder consultations, policy briefs, publication subventions, workshops, etc. Application form.
Mariano A. Elia Research Fund
Deadline: November 1, 2020
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. Application form.
SSHRC Exchange – Conference Grant
Deadline: November 1, 2020
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. Application form.
Specific Research Grants
Deadline: November 1, 2020
The program permits, under certain conditions, a researcher to receive a research grant in lieu of salary through a mechanism which includes peer review. Links to the guidelines and application form can be found here.
LA&PS Minor Research Grant
Deadline: November 15, 2020
The adjudicated vehicle through which LA&PS dispenses the YUFA Faculty/Library Research Grant Funding and the YUFA Junior Faculty/Librarian Fund. Funding is for research projects. Eligible expenses include personnel, research travel, and subsistence costs. Guidelines and application can be found here.
YUFA Educational Leave
Deadline: November 15, 2020
The Educational Leaves program provides opportunities for tenured or tenure-stream faculty and continuing appointment employees to take Educational Leaves for approved plans of study. See guidelines and application form.
YUFA Release-Time Teaching Fellowship
Deadline: November 15, 2020
These fellowships are intended to provide recipients with the opportunity to develop innovative teaching and learning projects or to enhance their own teaching skills (as opposed to disciplinary competence), when such development or enhancement could not take place in the context of a full teaching load. See guidelines and application form.
YUFA Teaching-Learning Development Grants
Deadline: November 15, 2020
Awards from the Teaching-Learning Development Fund will 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. Proposals are invited for projects relating to either undergraduate or graduate teaching. See guidelines and application form.
For a general listing of internal funding opportunities, visit here.
External Notices
NSERC Guidelines for Impact of COVID-19 on Research
NSERC has developed general guidelines for the consideration of COVID-19-related impacts on research aiming to provide direction on how to describe these impacts in an application and information on how to consider these impacts when reviewing contributions to research and training and/or research and training plans.
Tri-agency Grants Management Solution (TGMS)
The three federal granting agencies, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) are modernizing their grants management solution to better support applicants, research administrators and reviewers during the grants management lifecycle. This initiative is called the Tri-agency grants management solution (TGMS).
As work progresses to identify a future grants management solution that will better meet the needs and standards of excellence expected by the research community, the TGMS team is inviting community members to complete a 15-minute change readiness survey (use Google Chrome to open survey), by October 14, 2020. The results of the survey will: 1) help assess how prepared users are for the changes that will arise from the implementation of a new grants management solution; 2) shape how users from the research community are informed, engaged with, and can provide feedback; and 3) inform the ongoing support (i.e. coaching, training, etc.) required by users to adopt the new solution. Questions may be sent to the TGMS team at TGMS-SGSTO@cihr-irsc.gc.ca.
Safeguarding Your Research
The Government of Canada has launched the website “Safeguarding Your Research,” which provides a suite of tools and resources to help university researchers secure their research from unwanted threats. Visit the site here.
Canada Council Issues Call for Molson Prize Nominations
The Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes are awarded to two persons – one in the arts, and the other in the social sciences and humanities – who have distinguished themselves by their outstanding achievements. The prizes are intended to encourage ongoing contributions to Canada’s cultural and intellectual heritage. Valued at $50,000, the deadline for nominations is November 1, 2020. Nominations must be submitted to the Council by a third party (individual or organization).
If you are planning to submit a nomination for a York colleague, please contact Abby Vogus at avogus@yorku.ca to discuss how the SIRI team in the Office of Research Services can support it.
NSERC Project Opportunities Related to COVID-19 Pandemic
NSERC now has listed on its website challenges and questions submitted by industry, not-for-profit and public-sector organizations. NSERC encourages university faculty to visit this page and review the opportunities.
External Grants and Fellowships
SSHRC Insight Grant
Deadlines:
• Deadline to guarantee a full substantive review of draft application by LAPS pre-award staff member: August 24, 2020
• Verified draft of application, final budget, and ORS checklist due at LAPS research unit: September 29, 2020 by 9 am
• Agency deadline: October 1, 2020
Value: $7,000 – $400,000
Duration: 2 to 5 years
Insight Grants support research projects proposed by scholars in the humanities or social sciences that are judged worthy of funding by their peers and/or other experts. Insight Grant research initiatives can be undertaken by an individual researcher or a team of researchers working in collaboration.
Applicants choose from one of two streams, depending on the amount of funding required. Both streams will be adjudicated by the same committees, and will receive the same rigorous level of merit review. The deadlines and application process are identical for both; however, the targeted success rate for Stream A is higher than for Stream B. Stream A is for budgets between $7000 and $100,000; Stream B is for budgets between $101,00 and $400,000. (Application forms can be found by logging into your SSHRC account here, clicking on “Create New Form,” and selecting the Insight Grant from the list provided.)
SSHRC Connection Grant
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: October 19, 2020
• Agency deadline: November 2, 2020
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. To access an application form and full instructions, log into your SSHRC account. In most cases, the appropriate application to select is “Connection – Individual.”
SSHRC Partnership Development Grants
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: November 2, 2020
• Agency deadline: November 16, 2020
Value: $75,000 to $200,000
Duration: 1-3 years
SSHRC invites applicants and their partner organizations who wish to propose formal disciplinary, interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, international and/or cross-sector partnership arrangements to apply for support through this funding opportunity. Funds are available to support a variety of formal partnership development initiatives in all of the disciplines and themes eligible for funding at SSHRC. Please see the definitions for formal partnership and partner organization before beginning an application. (Application forms can be accessed by logging into your SSHRC account here, and then clicking on “Create New Form.”)
SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: December 1, 2020
• Agency deadline: December 15, 2020
Value: $7,000 to $25,000
Duration: 1 year
These grants provide 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 small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through 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 post-secondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest. (Application forms can be accessed by logging into your SSHRC account here, and then clicking on “Create New Form.”)
SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant: Mobility and Public Transit
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: December 3, 2020
• Agency Deadline: December 17, 2020
Value: $30,000
Duration: 1 year
SSHRC and Infrastructure Canada have launched this Knowledge Synthesis Grants competition to mobilize social sciences and humanities research to examine and synthesize existing knowledge on mobility and public transit issues. Grant holders will identify research gaps and opportunities and their work will inform and guide policy-makers and service providers responsible for public transit at the community level. (Application forms can be accessed by logging into your SSHRC account here, and then clicking on “Create New Form.”)
NSERC Discovery Grant
Deadlines:
• Agency registration deadline: August 1, 2020
• Mandatory deadline to submit full draft of application, with finalized budget, and ORS Checklist with applicant and chair signatures to LAPS research unit: October 29, 2020 by 9 am
• Agency deadline: November 2, 2020
Value: No maximum amount
Duration: Up to 5 years
The Discovery Grants program supports ongoing programs of research with long-term goals rather than a single short-term project or collection of projects. These grants recognize the creativity and innovation that are at the heart of all research advances. Discovery Grants are considered “grants in aid” of research, as they provide long-term operating funds and can facilitate access to funding from other programs but are not meant to support the full costs of a research program.
CIHR Project Grant
Deadlines:
• Agency Registration Deadline (Mandatory): September 16, 2020
• LA&PS Deadline for final application and ORS checklist: October 13, 2020 at 9am
• Agency Deadline: October 15, 2020
The CIHR Project Grant 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: Other Funding Opportunities
A list of funding opportunities through CIHR can be found on this page of the agency’s website. Please be attentive to any COVID-19 update that appears as part of the posting for specific opportunities.
Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities
Agency deadline: October 5, 2020
Value & Duration: $20,000 per semester (up to $60,000 for a year)
The Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities Program exists to promote the practices of, and approaches to, the humanities and arts — broadly conceived — as important sites of creative and critical engagement with the major concerns of our times. Shadbolt Fellows in the Humanities will be engaged academic scholars, artists, knowledge keepers, practitioners or writers in the humanities and arts. Fellows will help us imagine how we can make the world we live in better through acts of world-making in the creative arts and/or publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities, in alignment with the fundamental values of advancing reconciliation and equity, diversity and inclusion, communication, coordination, and collaboration. Normally, fellowships will be held for one academic year (September to August), but can be held for one or two terms (September to December and/or January to April and/or May to August).
DND/CAF Targeted Engagement Grants
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for full technical review: September 28, 2020
• Final proposal and fully signed ORS Checklist due at ORS for required review: October 8, 2020 by 9:00 am
• Agency deadline: October 13, 2020
Value: Up to $50,000
The Department of National Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF) are pleased to announce the second round of the Targeted Engagement Grants through its Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) program. The two objectives of this funding opportunity are: 1) to drive innovation in defence policy thinking and to foster the next generation of defence and security experts; and 2) to support the exchange of a diversity of researchers in the domain of security and defence. The opportunity funds projects such as conferences, roundtables, workshops, research, and publications.
ACU Fellowships
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for full technical review: September 29, 2020
• Final application and fully completed and signed ORS checklist due at ORS for required review: October 9, 2020 by 9:00am
• Agency deadline: October 14, 2020 by 23:59 UTC
Value: Up to 5000 DBP
The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) has announced that applications are now open for this year’s ACU Fellowships. This year’s ACU Fellowships will solely fund virtual collaborations. A list of the available fellowships can be found here.
Fellowships are primarily intended for academic and professional staff of ACU member universities. In some circumstances they can be used for collaboration between universities and the private sector – for more details of this please email acufellowships@acu.ac.uk.
France-Canada Research Foundation (FCRF) New Scientific Collaboration Support Program
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: October 30, 2020 by 10:00 am
• Agency deadline: November 13, 2020, by 11:59 pm Pacific Time
Value: $8,000 – $15,000 CDN per project (for travel and living expenses)
Duration: 2 years. (This two-year period may be extended depending on the evolution of the health situation.)
This program provides funds for new scientific projects jointly developed by French and Canadian teams that have never worked together before. This call is open to all disciplines. In addition, the FRCF 2021 will reserve up to 5 grants for research projects related to the societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. More information on the focus theme is available in the FFCR 2021 guidelines.
Note: All York applicants are now required to submit their FINAL application electronically to Embassy of France’s Scientific Office at assistant.science@ambafrance-ca.org AND to ORS at research@yorku.ca by November 13, 2020 (11:59, Pacific Time).
Only five proposals will be accepted by the agency from each university. If more than five proposals are submitted on the November 13th deadline, ORS will coordinate an internal peer review process to select the five applications to go forward to the agency. Applications cannot be revised after they are submitted to the France-Canada Research Fund on November 13, 2020. As a result, the peer review committee will not provide any substantive feedback since it is not possible to incorporate the feedback in the application. Therefore, applicants are encouraged to work with their Faculty Research Officers on their applications as well as to submit to Mala Thakoor (mthakoor@yorku.ca) by 10:00am on Friday, October 30th to receive an administrative review.
CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for a technical review: October 16, 2020
• Mandatory submission to ORS for a required review: October 28, 2020 by 9 am
• Agency deadline: October 30, 2020 by 11:59 pm PT
Value: $100, 000
Duration: 2 years
This program provides funding and support to help early career researchers build networks and develop essential skills to become the next generation of research leaders. Scholars’ research interest must be aligned with the themes of an eligible CIFAR research program, which include: 1) Boundaries, Membership & Belonging; 2) Brain, Mind & Consciousness; 3) Earth 4D: Subsurface Science & Exploration; 4) Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities; 5) Humans & the Microbiomes; and 6) Innovation, Equity & the Future of Prosperity.
BSA Fellowship Program
Agency deadline: November 2, 2020
The BSA (Bibliographical Society of America) offers more than a dozen fellowships supporting a broad range of bibliographical pursuits. In addition to the broad array of Fellowship opportunities we have offered in the past, the Society is pleased to announce two new categories of Fellowships supporting research by midwestern bibliographers and collections professionals (respectively) this year thanks to generous support from The Caxton Club of Chicago and the Peck-Stacpoole Foundation. The full list of fellowships can be found on this page of the BSA website.
Rare Book School: Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Agency deadline: November 2, 2020
Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography invites applications for its 2021–23 cohort of junior fellows. Junior Fellows will be encouraged and supported in integrating the methods of critical bibliography into their teaching and research, fostering collegial conversations about historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and sharing their knowledge with broader publics.
Fulbright: Awards for Canadian Scholars
Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: October 30, 2020
• Agency deadline: November 15, 2020
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 Awards: US$12,500 for one semester (4 months). These awards are field open and can be taken up at any university, think tank, or government agency in the United States.
Research Chairs Program: The award values range from US$25,000 to US$50,000 and from four to nine months.
Additional opportunities open to Canadian scholars, with alternative/rolling deadlines can be found on this page of the Fulbright Canada website.
Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies
Agency deadline: November 1, 2020
Value: $3,000 USD
Duration: 1 month
The University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press and the Delaware Art Museum are pleased to offer a joint Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite studies, funded by the Amy P. Goldman Foundation. This one-month Fellowship, awarded annually, is intended for scholars conducting significant research in the lives and works of the Pre-Raphaelites and their friends, associates, and followers. Research of a wider scope, which considers the Pre-Raphaelite movement and related topics in relation to Victorian art and literature, and cultural or social history, will also be considered. Projects which provide new information or interpretation — dealing with unrecognized figures, women writers and artists, print culture, iconography, illustration, catalogues of artists’ works, or studies of specific objects — are particularly encouraged, as are those which take into account transatlantic relations between Britain and the United States. Applicants, whose research specifically utilizes holdings of the University of Delaware Library, the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Helen Farr Sloan Library and Archives, are preferred.
Marie Tremaine Fellowship 2021
Agency deadline: December 12, 2020
Value: $2000
The Bibliographical Society of Canada’s Marie Tremaine Fellowship was instituted in 1987 and is offered annually to support the work of a scholar engaged in some area of bibliographical research, including textual studies and publishing history and with a particular emphasis on Canada. Visit the BSC website for an application form.
