Wall Solutions Initiative
Sponsor: The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Application deadline(s):
- April 17: Deadline to email OGPR your LOI draft for internal review. Please email your drafts to Robert Olaj, unless your topic is health related, in which case please email your draft to Heather Frost.
- April 30, 12 Noon: Deadline to submit applications to the OGPR for Faculty signature (KIN applicants please submit to Bob Sparks for signature).
- May 1: Peter Wall LOI deadline.
- August 1: Peter Wall full application deadline (through invitation only).
Special notes: Regarding eligibility, Principal investigators must be full-time UBC faculty at the Professorial Rank in grant/tenure track positions (i.e. Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor). Other faculty levels who may be independent researchers, adjunct professors, or instructors are not eligible as principal applicants but may be co-investigators.
Grawemeyer Award in Education (2015 Award)
Sponsor: Grawemeyer Foundation / University of Louisville
Application Deadline(s):
- April 27: OGPR for requisite Faculty-level administrative review and Faculty signature.
- April 29: ORS for the institutional signature.
- April 30:The Foundation (nomination form and letter).
- May 31: The Foundation (all supporting materials).
Special notes: Candidates must be nominated by others. Self-nominations will not be considered.
UBC Salary Research Grant (non-study leave)
Sponsor: Individual researcher-funded
Application deadline:
- April 15: Office of Research Services (ORS)
Special notes: Also see UBC Policy 35: Research Grants During Periods Other Than Study Leave
Research Week 2014
Presented by the Office of Graduate Programs and Research in collaboration with the Graduate Student Council of the Faculty of Education, and the Teacher Education Office.
Lynn Miller Co-Investigator on $911,632 CIHR Operating Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Lynn Miller, ECPS, co-investigator on a 3-year Operating Grant ($911,632) from CIHR for the project, “Neural Correlates in Childhood-onset Obsessive Compulsive Disorder”.
Investigating Our Practices (IOP) – Call for Proposals
Practicing education professionals and students will come together to share their questions, investigations and understandings about their practice. Call for Proposals is open until March 3.
SSHRC Visits UBC
SSHRC leaders visit UBC to unveil the outcome of consultations on their Imagining Canada’s Future / Six Future Challenges project. Registration and Live Webcast Information
Knowledge Synthesis Grant: Spring 2014 Competition
Sponsor: Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) Science, Knowledge Translation and Ethics Branch
Application deadline(s):
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March 26: OGPR for Faculty-level signature
March 28: ORS Deadline for Institutional Signature and e-approval
April 1: CIHR National Deadline
Special notes: For your application to be eligible, it must include 2 Principal Applicants: one independent researcher and one knowledge user. CIHR strongly recommends that each team include a content expert, an expert in synthesis methods and an information scientist/librarian. Applications are submitted via ResearchNet and electronically approved and submitted to CIHR by ORS on behalf of the applicant.
Aid to Scholarly Journals
Sponsor: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Application deadline(s):
- May 14: OGPR for internal review and feedback (optional)
- May 28: OGPR for Faculty-level signature
- May 29: ORS Deadline for institutional review, signature and e-submission
- June 2 (Mon.): SSHRC national deadline (5:00 PM PST)
Special notes: There are a number of special conditions for eligibility – please be sure to review the program guidelines carefully.
Call for Concept Notes: Canadian Partnerships Small Grants
Sponsor: International Development Research Centre
Application deadline(s):
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February 7: Alert Heather Frost in the OGPR of your interest to apply.
March 6: OGPR for Faculty-level signature.
March 7: ORS mandatory internal selection deadline.
Special notes: If you are planning to move ahead with an application to this call, please contact Heather Frost in the OGPR immediately. Universities may only submit a maximum of three applications per call and each must be from a separate administrative unit. Two investigators across UBC have already expressed interest. An internal review at the University level may be required if the number of applications exceed the limit.