SSHRC Connection Grants – August Deadline
Program Link: https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/opportunities/connection-grants/2025/competition.aspx Sponsor: Social Science and Humanities Research Council Value: For 1 year Events: $7,000 to $25,000 Outreach activities: $7,000 to $50,000; higher amounts may be considered if well justified Description: These grants support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives. These events and activities represent opportunities to exchange knowledge and to […]
UBC SPARC 2025 Insight Grants Writing Bootcamps
Program Link: https://sparc.ubc.ca/events-workshops Description: UBC SPARC is once again running its highly successful zoom Insight Grants bootcamps for applicants to this fall’s SSHRC Insight Grants program. Whether you’re new to SSHRC and the IG program or a seasoned IG applicant, the program offers helpful strategies and tips to preparing the various components of your IG application. Faculty […]
SPARC NSERC Grant Supports
Program Link (CWL protected): https://sparc.ubc.ca/cwl/overview-nserc-funding-competitions-and-sparc-support-new-ubc-faculty Sponsor: UBC SPARC (Strategic Programs to Advance Research Capacity) Description: UBC’s SPARC office has created an overview of NSERC funding competitions and SPARC support for new UBC faculty. Contact: If you have any questions, contact Alexander Unterberger, Manager of Research Development for NSERC at alexander.unterberger@ubc.ca
UBC SPARC SSHRC 2025 Insight Grant Peer Review Program
Program Link: https://sparc.ubc.ca/internal-review-program-sshrc-competitions Description: Through SPARC’s internal review program, faculty can receive written feedback from a peer to strengthen proposals prior to submitting to SSHRC competitions. SPARC will match applicants with fellow UBC faculty who have successfully obtained SSHRC funding and/or who have sat on SSHRC review committees. Follow-up meetings can also be organized to discuss feedback at the discretion of the […]
Considering a 2025 SSHRC Insight Grant Application? Contact ORE!
Program Link: 2024 competition link (2025 Competition TBA) – https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/insight_grants-subventions_savoir-eng.aspx Sponsor: Office of Research in Education Description: Are you intending to submit a SSHRC Insight Grant application this October? If so, please consider letting me (Robert Olaj in the Faculty’s Office of Research in Education) know. As with previous competition cycles ORE will create a listserv to communicate Insight Grant […]
Dr. Anusha Kassan appointed as the Myrne B. Nevison Professorship in School or Counselling Psychology
Dr. Anusha Kassan has been appointed as the Myrne B. Nevison Professorship in School or Counselling Psychology for a three-year term, from July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2028. Congratulations, Dr. Kassan! During the term of the Professorship, Dr. Kassan is charged with the following mandate: demonstrably impact education in and beyond BC by advancing […]
SSHRC Policy Innovation Partnership Grants – New Pilot Funding
Program Link: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/policy_innovation-politiques_innovantes-eng.aspx Sponsor: Social Science and Humanities Research Council Value: $400,000 per year over 15 years for up to a total of $6 million Description: The goal of this pilot funding opportunity is to support a partnership between a postsecondary research entity and one or more federal government departments to establish a long-term research program focusing on specific […]
NFRF Transformation 2026 Competition – Launch and Upcoming Webinars
Program Link: https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/nfrf-fnfr/transformation/2026/competition-concours-eng.aspx Sponsor: New Frontiers in Research Fund Value: Minimum $2,000,000 per year (including indirect costs); Maximum $4,000,000 per year (including indirect costs) for six years Description: The 2026 Transformation stream competition of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) was launched on February 18th, 2025. All competition information is available on our website, and the […]
UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Program Link: https://scholcomm.ubc.ca/ubc-open-access-fund/ Sponsor: Office of the VP Research & Innovation and Office of the Provost Value: $4,000 maximum Description: The UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research assists UBC faculty members who wish to publish in Open Access books and journals and who are required to pay associated fees, sometimes known as article processing charges (APCs). This fund […]
UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Program Link: https://scholcomm.ubc.ca/ubc-open-access-fund/ Sponsor: Office of the VP Research & Innovation and Office of the Provost Value: $4,000 maximum Description: The UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research assists UBC faculty members who wish to publish in Open Access books and journals and who are required to pay associated fees, sometimes known as article processing charges (APCs). This […]