Sponsor: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Value: Fifteen $25,000 awards. Synthesis report due to SSHRC by September 2015.
Objectives:This competition will be launched in support of the objectives of the Imagining Canada’s Future initiative, with a focus on one of the six future challenge areas. The knowledge synthesis will address the challenge area of: What new ways of learning, particularly in higher education, will Canadians need to thrive in an evolving society and labour market?
These grants are not intended to support original research, rather they are intended to support the synthesis of existing research knowledge on the topic and the identification of knowledge gaps. The call for proposals is scheduled to be released on SSHRC’s website in early January 2015, with an application deadline in late February 2015. Results will be announced in March 2015.
Application deadlines:
- 11:00 AM, Tuesday February 17: OGPR internal signature deadline. Applicants should email Robert Olaj a PDF of their proposal with a completed, signed and scanned ORS Research Project Information Form.
- 4:00 PM, Tuesday February 17: ORS deadline to receive Faculty-signed RPIFs and a copy of the proposal.
- Thursday February 17: : SSHRC deadline to email PDF of all required documents to SSHRC at KSGLearning–SSCApprentissage@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
Special notes: The application process does not utilize SSHRC’s online web forms. The requisite PDF attachments, which include a SSHRC web CV and an RPIF signed by the Director of ORS, must be emailed directly to SSHRC by the deadline.
Award holders will be requested to participate in two workshop meetings in Ottawa. These will be scheduled in early Spring and late Fall.
For further information, contact Jacques Critchley, Senior Program Officer, at 613-992 5145 or jacques.critchley@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca