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 […]
Congratulations to Dr. Patricia (Patsy) Duff!
The Faculty is extremely pleased to learn that Dr. Patricia (Patsy) Duff, Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education (LLED), has been inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada in the Academy of Social Sciences. Dr. Duff has been elected by her peers in recognition of outstanding scholarly achievement. Fellowship in […]
Congratulations to Dr. Shannon Leddy and team for being awarded $15,000 in Public Humanities Hub Research Cluster Grants
A warm congratulations to Dr. Shannon Leddy, Associate Professor in EDCP and her team for being one of two UBC teams awarded $15,000 Public Humanities Hub Research Cluster Grants in the most recent cluster competition. The PHH Research Cluster Grants are designed to support interdisciplinary research cluster development among Humanities scholars in the Faculties of Arts […]