Description of SSHRC Strategic Outcomes and Program Alignment Architecture

This figure describes SSHRC’s two strategic outcomes and five programs, and breaks them down into sub-programs.

Strategic Outcome 1.0 is Canada is a world leader in social sciences and humanities research and research training. This strategic outcome has three programs.

The first one, program 1.1, is Talent: attraction, retention and development of students and researchers in the social sciences and humanities. This program has five sub-programs:

• Sub-program 1.1.1: Canada Research Chairs
• Sub-program 1.1.2: Canada Graduate Scholarships
• Sub-program 1.1.3: Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships
• Sub-program 1.1.4: Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Sub-program 1.1.5: SSHRC Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships

The second program under strategic outcome 1.0 is program 1.2, Insight: new knowledge in the social sciences and humanities. This program has two sub-programs:

• Sub-program 1.2.1: Individual, team and partnership research grants
• Sub-program 1.2.2: Institutional research capacity grants

The third program under strategic outcome 1.0 is program 1.3, Connection: mobilization of social sciences and humanities knowledge. This program has three sub-programs:

• Sub-program 1.3.1: Individual, team and partnership knowledge mobilization grants
• Sub-program 1.3.2: Research-based knowledge culture
• Sub-program 1.3.3: Networks of Centres of Excellence

Strategic Outcome 2.0 is Canada has the institutional capacity to enable research and research-related activities in social sciences and humanities, natural sciences and engineering and health. This strategic outcome has one program:

• Program 2.1: Indirect Costs of Research

There is also a program that does not fall under the individual strategic outcomes because it provides support to the agency as a whole, program 3.1: Internal Services.