Canadian Science Policy Fellowship
Sponsor: Mitacs
The Canadian Science Policy Fellowship is now accepting applications from prospective fellows interested in undertaking a 12-month policy project with a Canadian government host office.
Value:
Approved fellows receive remuneration from their host offices and professional development training and networking events facilitated by Mitacs.
Deadlines:
Sponsor Deadline: March 4, 2018 (11:59 PM)
MSFHR 2018 Scholar Competition
Sponsor: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
The MSFHR Scholar Program is designed to attract and foster the development of outstanding health researchers in BC. The intent of the Scholar awards is to allow early career researchers to establish an independent research career, build a leading research program, and expand their potential to make significant contributions to their field.
Value:
The Scholar award provides salary support at $90,000 per annum for up to a term of five (5) years.
Deadlines:
Sponsor Deadline: February 2, 2018 (4 PM)
Award for Distinguished Research
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2017 SSHRC Insight Grant
Sponsor: SSHRC
Value: $7,000 to $400,000, 3 to 5 years
Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. Funding is available to both emerging and established scholars for long-term research initiatives of three to five years.
The 2017 competition is not yet open, but please take note of the below deadlines.
Application Deadlines:
- October 6 (10 AM): Deadline ORE/Kinesiology for Associate Dean/Director signature
- October 6 (4:30 PM): Deadline ORS for RPIF + PDF copy of your full proposal
- October 13 (4:30 PM): Deadline to hit “Submit” online through your SSHRC Portfolio
- October 16: Deadline at SSHRC national
Gerda Henkel Prize
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Mitacs Elevate
Sponsor: Mitacs
Mitacs Elevate trains emerging research management leaders through an exclusive professional skills curriculum. Fellows gain theoretical and experiential training in areas such as project management and presentations.
Value:
Postdoctoral fellows will receive $55,000 annual award (plus $7,500 per year non-cash value in training).
Elevate supervising professors will also get access to competitive funding, including up to $5,000 in research expenses.
Deadlines:
ORE Deadline: June 28, 2017 (9 AM)
Sponsor Deadline: July 5, 2017 (1 PM)
UBC Okanagan RSEDIC Seed Grants
Sponsor: Regional Socio-Economic Development Institute of Canada (RSEDIC)
The purpose of the RSEDIC seed grant is to provide funding to support new areas of regional socio-economic research, and to increase the capacity for regional socio-economic inquiry on campus. Activities undertaken through the seed grant can include for example knowledge syntheses, and/or the collection of pilot data on a new topic.
Value: Grants are for up to a maximum of $3,500 over 6 months. No extensions are available.
Deadlines:
ORE Deadline: April 18, 9 AM
ORS (Okanagan Campus) Deadline: April 18, 4 PM
Notes:
The RSEDIC seed grant is open to all full-time tenure-stream faculty in the professorial stream. The applicant shall have, at the time of application for the funding, a term of appointment spanning the period of funding, or a signed commitment for a term of employment spanning the period of funding.
CIHR Project Grant Spring 2017 Competition
Sponsor: CIHR
The Project Grant program is designed to capture ideas with the greatest potential to advance health-related knowledge, health research, health care, health systems, and/or health outcomes. It supports projects with a specific purpose and a defined endpoint. The best ideas may stem from new, incremental, innovative, and/or high-risk lines of inquiry or knowledge translation approaches.
Value: Project grant funding levels will be commensurate with need, which is expected to vary by research field, research approach, and scope of project activities.
Deadlines:
CIHR Registration Deadline: May 30, 2017 (Opens May 8, 2017)
ORE Review & Signature Deadline: Contact Heather Frost
ORS Signature Deadline: June 6, 2017
CIHR Application Deadline: June 13, 2017
MSFHR Reach Awards
Sponsor: Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research
These awards will provide funding to support the dissemination and uptake of research evidence to inform and improve further research, practice and policy-making. Awards will help teams of health researchers and research users collaboratively plan and implement dissemination activities, adapting messages and mode of delivery in order to reach audiences who can directly use the information.
Value: Maximum award amount is $10,000, for up to 12 months.
Sponsor Deadline: May 19, 2017
Note:
Each team must have at least one BC research/health professional trainee (e.g. undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral and/or clinical fellows) as a team member included in a meaningful way to enhance their knowledge translation experience and skills.
Peter Wall International Research Roundtables
Sponsor: Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
International Research Roundtables are aimed at fostering excellence in research, and serving as a catalyst for collaborative research between international scholars and UBC scholars. They will provide scholars, community leaders, artists, policy makers and others the opportunity to explore a theme, create the foundation for innovative research, prompt important advances in science and society, and/or have a significant impact on the discovery of solutions to important problems.
Value: The proposed budget may range from $20,000 to $45,000. The award will support meeting expenses for a Roundtable at the Peter Wall Institute in Vancouver, Canada, for two to five days. Award funds may be used to cover accommodation, meals and travel costs, for up to 20 participants for the duration of the Roundtable.
Deadlines:
ORE review deadline: April 10, 2017
Sponsor deadline: May 1, 2017