SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants – March
Link: https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/opportunities/partnership-engage-grants/2026/competition.aspx Sponsor: Social Science and Humanities Research Council Value: $10,000 to $50,000 for 1 year Description: Partnership Engage Grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through Partnership Engage Grants are […]
Health Research BC Advancing Groundbreaking Research in Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Diseases Team Award
Link: https://healthresearchbc.ca/fundingprogram/advancing-groundbreaking-research-in-alzheimers-and-parkinsons-diseases-team-award/#funding-resources Description: This Award supports BC-based, interdisciplinary research teams working to deepen understanding of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD), improve diagnosis, treatment, and/or care, and potentially explore shared mechanisms across neurodegenerative diseases. Teams are encouraged to meaningfully engage with research users, particularly people with lived experience as team members, as appropriate for […]
CIHR Operating Grant: Advancing 2S/LGBTQI+ Health Through Research
Link: https://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/vwOpprtntyDtls.do?progCd=11404&language=E&org=CIHR&utm_source=Michael+Smith+Health+Research+BC Description: This funding opportunity calls for bold research proposals that centre lived and living experience and community priorities to generate robust scientific evidence necessary to transform and advance 2S/LGBTQI+ health through research. A wide range of research approaches are eligible. Interdisciplinary research is encouraged. The maximum amount per grant is $175,000 per year […]
Looking into the Year Ahead: Research Grant Timelines and Project Planning with ORE
The Office of Research in Education (ORE) invites all faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and colleagues across the Faculty of Education to a research planning workshop. This event will introduce participants to internal UBC research grant opportunities, a range of supports available to establish and grow a research program, and key features of the Canadian research funding landscape. The session will begin with a […]
SSHRC Talent Award
Program Link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/sshrc-talent-award Sponsor: SSHRC Value: $50,000 Description: The SSHRC Talent Award recognizes outstanding achievement by an individual who, on 1 April 2025, holds a SSHRC doctoral or postdoctoral fellowship or scholarship. This includes, but is not limited to, a Canada Graduate Scholarship, Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship or Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship. The Talent Award is given to an […]
Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRAs)
Program Link: https://students.ubc.ca/career/undergraduate-student-research-awards-nserc-cihr-sshrc/ Sponsor: The Tri-Agencies: NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council), CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health Research), and SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Value: $6,000, plus a faculty member funded top-up to create a minimum 4-month stipend of $13,977.60 Description: Special note: The Faculty of Education’s School of Kinesiology has its own USRA […]
Michael Smith Health Research BC: Research Trainee Program
Program Link: https://healthresearchbc.ca/fundingprogram/research-trainee-program/ Sponsor: Michael Smith Health Research BC Value: 60,000/annum for up to 3 years and travel allowance of $4,500/annum. Description: These awards provide salary support for talented post-doctoral or health professional researchers and develops their health research careers. They help post-doctoral researchers increase their, and their labs’, research productivity. In addition, these awards prepare […]
SSHRC Partnership Grants — Stage 1
Program Link: https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/opportunities/partnership-grants/2026/stage-1-competition.aspx Sponsor: Social Science and Humanities Research Council Value: Stage 1: up to $30,000 Description: Partnership Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Research partnerships program. Proposals exclusively for partnered research training initiatives are expected to respond, instead, to the objectives of the Research training and talent development program. These grants provide […]
SSHRC Destination Horizon Grants
Program Link: https://sshrc-crsh.canada.ca/en/funding/opportunities/joint-initiatives/2025/destination-horizon-grants/competition.aspx Sponsor: Social Science and Humanities Research Council Value: Up to $15,000 for 1 year Description: Please consult the internal competition instructions if you plan to apply Destination Horizon Grants support researchers affiliated with eligible Canadian post-secondary institutions to build capacity, foster existing partnerships, and further develop networks and/or consortia with member states and associated countries, […]
UBC Faculty of Education International Research Visiting Fellowship (IRVF)
Link: https://ore.educ.ubc.ca/research/internal-and-external-funding/ Description: The IRVF supports visiting fellows to spend a minimum 2 weeks between Apr. 1, 2026 and Aug. 30, 2027 to engage in high quality collaborative and innovative research with researchers in the Faculty of Education-V. Fellows should be acclaimed scholars in their respective fields, as evident through track-records of high quality research, […]