Insight Development Grants

Sponsor: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)

Sponsor program link: Funding opportunity details

Value: $7,000 – $75,000 over 1-2 years.

Objectives:Insight Development Grants support research in its initial stages. For Emerging Scholars, this supports pursuing new research questions and approaches. For Established Scholars this supports exploration of new research questions and methodologies that are distinctly different from previous research.

These grants fund projects that meet the goals of the Insight Program:

  • build knowledge and understanding from disciplinary, interdisciplinary and/or cross-sector perspectives;
  • new approaches to research on complex and important topics;
  • provide a high-quality research training experience for students;
  • expertise that relates to societal challenges and opportunities; and
  • mobilize research knowledge, to and from academic and non-academic audiences.

Proposed projects may involve, but are not limited to, the following types of research activities:

  • case studies, pilot initiatives and critical analyses of existing research.

Projects may also involve national and international research collaboration, and the exploration of new ways of producing, structuring and mobilizing knowledge within and across disciplines and sectors.

Application deadlines:

  • December 10: Email Danica Kell in SPARC a note to say that you would like to participate in SPARC IR.
  • December 17:Email Danica Kell your 1-page Summary for SPARC IR.
  • January 5: Email Danica Kell your full proposal for SPARC IR.
  • January 28, Noon: 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.
  • January 29, 3:00 pm: Robert will email your PDF application and signed RPIF to ORS on your behalf.
  • February 2 (1st is a Sunday): SSHRC national deadline.

Special notes: Applicants for the 2015 IDG competition will be ineligible to apply to the October 2015 Insight Grant Competition, even if applicants are unsuccessful in the IDG competition. SSHRC has developed a new online application portal called the Research Portal and the IDGs are the first SSHRC program to use the new system. Applicants must submit an online application, as well as a Canadian Common CV. All Co-Applicants and Collaborators must also submit Canadian Common CVs. Please allow a generous amount of time to complete your and your team member’s CCVs (60-100 hours each, from scratch).

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