Details
| Award Name | Robbins-Ollivier Award for Excellence in Equity |
| Agency | Canada Research Chairs Program (CRCP) |
| Value | $100,000 |
| Duration | 1 year |
Deadlines
| Application due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for full review | 08-19-2024 |
| Application and fully signed ORS checklist due to FSc RO at sciapps@yorku.ca for mandatory review | 08-26-2024 |
| Faculties/individuals submit internal nominations to VPRI | 09-03-2024 |
| VPRI decisions and feedback provided to nominees | Late September |
| Final submission to SIRI | 11-04-2024 |
| Agency deadline (anticipated) | 11-07-2024 |
Please contact sciapps@yorku.ca as soon as possible if you intend to apply.
Background
The objectives of the annual Robbins-Ollivier Equity Award are to:
- Fund bold and potentially game-changing institutional-level initiatives that will challenge the status quo, spark change and take action to address persistent systemic barriers within the institution research ecosystem and academia more broadly;
- Recognize faculty members who contribute their time, expertise and lived experience to help address inequities in their institution, the research ecosystem and academia; and
- Provide opportunities for students and trainees to contribute to this important work.
Eligibility
To be eligible for nomination, the faculty member(s) must:
- Be eligible to receive grant funding from the agencies;
- Hold a full-time academic appointment at York University at the time of nomination and for the duration of the award (adjunct faculty are not eligible); and
- Be in good standing with CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC (e.g., they cannot have eligibility limits placed on them due to not meeting grant reporting requirements for the CRCP or have sanctions in place tied to the agencies’ responsible conduct of research policy).
Institutional administrators who are eligible to hold grant funding from the agencies are also eligible to be nominated.
The CRCP is an institutional program and does not accept applications from or fund researchers directly. York University may submit only one nomination, with the Office of the VPRI administering the internal nomination process.
Required Materials
York Internal Nomination Package (due September 3, 2024 by email to avogus@yorku.ca)
A complete internal nomination package includes:
- A two-page project overview with the following sections:
- Overview of the project objectives and activities
- Expected impacts/outcomes, including how these will be measured
- Project roles, including trainee/student roles
- Community engagement
- Nominee’s CV, highlighting relevant service and leadership related to EDI
- Budget plan, including any secured matched funding. If nomination has matched funding (which is not required), the nominee should include an email or other written confirmation of the commitment.
Completed Nomination Package (due 10am, November 4, 2024 by email to avogus@yorku.ca)
The selected nominee(s) will be notified by VPRI in late September. The SIRI team will support the nominee(s) in preparing the final nomination package.
Nominee(s) will be primarily responsible for the following:
- Description of the proposed project (4 pages max for English/5 pages max for French)
- Budget (1 page)
SIRI will prepare the remaining parts of the nomination:
- Institutional nomination letter and rationale
- Institutional nomination process and support for the nomination
Internal Nomination Process
Faculties and individuals are asked to submit nominations for review by the Office of the VPRI (via the Strategic and Institutional Research Initiatives (SIRI) team). There is no limit as to the number of nominations that Faculties may bring forward.
A joint committee with representatives from the VPRI, the Office of VP Equity, People and Culture, and other faculty representatives will review nominations to assess which nominations best meet the following criteria:
- To what extent has the nominee(s) shown leadership at York or other research institutions in advancing EDI initiatives and/or breaking down or understanding systemic barriers for researchers from equity-deserving groups? (25%)
- Does the proposed project demonstrate potentially game-changing results toward addressing persistent systemic barriers at the institution? Has the nominee(s) created a plan and indicators to measure the projects’ success in meeting its aim? (50%)
- Does the proposed project include meaningful roles for students/trainees? (5%)
- To what extent has the nominee(s) demonstrated engagement with the communities it seeks to benefit? How has the nominee(s) considered unintended harms to the communities? (15%).
- Has the proposal effectively considered and addressed intersectionality? (5%)
Abby Vogus, SIRI Specialist, Office of Research Services, will work with nominees to prepare final nomination packages for submission.
How to Apply
York University researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are submitted to the granting agency. For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a completed ORS Checklist, which requires the Dean’s signature. Please send the complete application, with the finalized budget and a completed ORS checklist to sciapps@yorku.ca, five days prior to agency deadline.
ORS is accepting electronic applications – the process is outlined here.