Welcome Dr. Samia Khan, Associate Dean, Research
The Office of Research in Education (ORE) would like to welcome Dr. Samia Khan, Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), who assumed the role of Associate Dean, Research, starting July 04, 2025. ORE also extends sincere thanks to Dr. Nancy Perry, Professor in ECPS, who led the portfolio since July 01, 2023 […]
NSERC Discovery Grant Application Deadlines
Program Link: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/professors-professeurs/grants-subs/dgigp-psigp_eng.asp Sponsor: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Value: Funding available for up to 5 years Description: The DG 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 […]
Vancouver Foundation Participatory Action Research (PAR) Grants
Program Link: https://www.vancouverfoundation.ca/grant-seekers/find-grants/participatory-action-research-grants/ Sponsor: Vancouver Foundation Value: Convene Grants (up to $25,000, for up to one year) Investigate Grants (up to $100,000 per year, for up to three years) Description: What is Participatory Action Research? The participatory action research methodology is based on the principle that research should be conducted with people, not for or on them. […]
CIHR Project Grant – Fall 2025
Program Link: https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?prog=4345 Sponsor: Canadian Institutes of Health Research Value: The total amount available for the Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 Project Grant Competitions is $824M Description: The Project Grant program 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 […]
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 […]