Updated on February 25, 2025
2026 Opportunities
January
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- UBC Faculty of Education Research Infrastructure Support Services (RISS)
- Deadlines: Monday, January 05, 2026, and Tuesday, April 07, 2026
- SSHRC Destination Horizon Grants
- Internal selection for January 2026 competition: 12:00 PM Tuesday, January 6, 2026
- Deadline to submit signed RPIF to ORE : 10:00 AM Wednesday, January 14, 2026
- Deadline to submit RPIF to ORS : 8:30 AM Thursday, January 15, 2026
- SSHRC (Sponsor) deadline: Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 8:00PM ET
- UBC Grants for Catalyzing Research Clusters
- Application Deadline: January 8, 2026
- SSHRC Insight Development Grants ORE Review and Proposal Development Support
- Dates: January 2 to January 16, 2026
- SSHRC Connection Grants
- RPIF Deadline: January 23, 2026
- ORS Submission Deadline: January 26, 2026
- E-submission Deadline: January 30, 2026
- Sponsor Deadline: February 2, 2026
- Michael Smith Health Research BC: Research Trainee Program
- Deadline to submit signed RPIF to ORE: 10:00 AM Wednesday, January 21, 2026
- Deadline to submit RPIF to ORS: 8:30 AM Thursday, January 22, 2026
- SSHRC Deadline: Thursday, January 29, 2026 (4:30 pm PT)
- SSHRC Insight Development Grants Deadlines
- RPIF Due: January 23, 2026
- ORS Deadline: January 26, 2026
- E-submission: January 30, 2026
- SSHRC Deadline: February 2, 2026
- UBC Faculty of Education Research Infrastructure Support Services (RISS)
February
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- SSHRC Partnership Grants — Stage 1
- Deadline to submit signed RPIF to ORE : 10:00 AM Monday, February 2, 2026
- Deadline to submit RPIF to ORS: 8:30 AM Tuesday, February 3, 2026
- E-submit in your SSHRC Portfolio: 8:30 AM Monday, February 9, 2026
- SSHRC (Sponsor) Deadline: Tuesday, February 10, 2026 (8 p.m. eastern)
- Undergraduate Student Research Awards (USRAs)
- Deadlines: February 9, 2026 (Monday), February 17, 2026 (Tuesday), March 4, 2026 (Wednesday), March 20, 2026 (Friday)
- Faculty of Education 2026 Internal Research Grants Program
- Deadline to E-mail Applications to Robert Olaj in ORE (robert.olaj@ubc.ca): February 25, 2026 (Wednesday)
- SSHRC Partnership Grants — Stage 1
March
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- NFRF Transformation 2026 Competition – Launch and Upcoming Webinars
- Full Application Stage Deadline (Invite-only): March 3, 2026 (at 8 p.m. Eastern Time)
- UBC Open Access Fund for Humanities and Social Sciences Research
- Deadline: Rolling, until annual funds are exhausted
- SSHRC Talent Award
- Deadline for departments to submit nominations to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies: 4 PM Monday, March 14, 2026
- SSHRC nomination deadline: April 1, 2026
- NFRF Transformation 2026 Competition – Launch and Upcoming Webinars
April
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- SSHRC Connection Grants
- Deadline to submit signed RPIF to ORE : 10:00 AM Monday, April 23, 2026
- Deadline to submit RPIF to ORS: 8:30 AM Friday, April 24, 2026
- Deadline to e-submit in your SSHRC Portfolio: 8:30 AM Thursday, April 30, 2026
- Deadline to SSHRC: Friday, May 1, 2026
- CIHR Recruitment for Membership to CIHR’s 13 Institute Advisory Boards
- Deadline to apply: April 24, 2026
- SSHRC Connection Grants
2025 Opportunities
November
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- France Canada Research Fund Call for Proposals
- Deadline to submit application for UBC internal selection: Friday, November 14, 2025
- Spencer Foundation Research-Practice Partnership Grants Program
- Pre-Proposal Deadline: 12:00PM, November 14, 2025 CT (Central Time/North America)
- UBC SOTL Seed Program
- Application Deadline: November 17, 2025
- UBC-Vancouver Public Humanities Hub Public Engagement Award
- Deadline: November 17, 2025
- CIHR Health System Impact Embedded Early Career Researcher Award Webinar
- Event Date: November 18, 2025
- Introduction to Digital Research Alliance of Canada Training Session
- Event Date: November 18, 2025
- UBC ORE Knowledge Mobilization Spotlight: Introduction to Book Publishing
- Event Date/Time: 1:00PM to 2:00PM, November 19, 2025
- UBC ORE Writing Retreat: From Proposals to Publications
- Event Date/Time: 2:15PM to 5:00PM, November 19, 2025
- France Canada Research Fund Call for Proposals
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- SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant – The Arts Transformed
- Deadline to submit RPIF and copy of the application to ORE for Faculty signature: 12:00PM, Monday, November 24, 2025
- Deadline to submit Faculty-signed RPIF and application to ORS for institutional approval: Tuesday, November 25, 2025
- SSHRC submission Deadline: December 2, 2025
- SSHRC Connection Grants – Webinars
- Event Date: November 25, 2025
- SSHRC Insight Development Grants Updates and Webinars
- Event Date: November 27, 2025
- 2025 UBC Vancouver Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund
- Application Deadline: November 28, 2025
- UBC Call for CFI and CIHR Research Advisors
- Deadline to submit a letter of interest and a UBC CV: December 1, 2025
- SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant – The Arts Transformed
December
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- UBC Postdoc Research Day
- Event Date: December 1, 2025
- Spencer Research Grants on Education: Small Research Grant
- Deadline to submit signed RPIF to ORE: 10:00AM (PT), December 5, 2025
- Government of Canada Environmental Damages Fund
- RPIF Deadline: 10:00AM, December 10, 2025
- UBC Postdoc Research Day
Tri-Agency and Other Research Updates, Reports and Calls for Feedback
- CIHR Update on CIHR’s transition to the Tri-agency CV for the Project Grant Competition
- PASSAGEC Retirement Income Analysis Tool
- Spencer Announces New Funding Program for Transformative Research
- What We Heard: A Report from the Three Federal Research Funding Agencies’ Ad Hoc Working Group on Indigenous Citizenship and Membership
- UBC Library Basic Indigenous Reference Training Workshops
- Tri-Agency: New Research Security Guidance Released by the Tri-Agencies and Canada Foundation for Innovation Update
- Michael Smith Health Research BC Pauses Scholar and Health Professional-Investigator Programs
- UBC Data Management Tools for Grant Applications
- UBC SPARC NSERC Discovery Grant Application Resources
- SPARC NSERC Grant Supports