SSHRC Program Architecture Renewal
SSHRC welcomes feedback on renewed program architecture—A message from President Chad Gaffield
Briefing on SSHRC’s Renewed Program Architecture
(PDF document, 400 KB), March 1, 2010
SSHRC is renewing its program architecture to create a more flexible and effective system of application and assessment. This exercise is in keeping with commitments to continuously improve our programs as stated in Framing Our Direction and will result in greater, overall program coherence with an improved and simplified interface for our applicants. |
Our program architecture renewal is being guided by five core principles: excellence, simplicity, flexibility, integration and quality of service. We will be moving from some thirty separately branded competitions per year, each with a varied scope of objectives, to three “umbrella” programs:
- Talent: To develop the next generation of researchers and leaders by funding individuals through scholarships and fellowships and by funding eligible institutions for innovative and partnered approaches to student training through research.
- Insight: To advance knowledge and understanding by supporting all forms and modes of research undertaken by individuals, groups, institutions and through formal partnerships and alliances.
- Connection: To realize the potential of social sciences and humanities research for intellectual, cultural, social and economic influence on and beyond the campus by supporting activities that mobilize knowledge. This can be achieved through individuals, groups, institutions and through formal partnerships and alliances.
SSHRC’s renewed program architecture will:
- group existing programming initiatives that currently have overlapping objectives into a simplified and refreshed suite of programs that serve as “open creative spaces” for the social sciences and humanities community;
- support creative ways to facilitate well-established as well as new and emerging kinds of research, partnerships, talent development and knowledge mobilization;
- simplify the selection of appropriate funding mechanisms for applicants and their partners;
- provide more options for effective and appropriate review of applications submitted to SSHRC; and
- mobilize SSHRC-funded research in the social sciences and humanities, and more effectively articulate and increase the benefits and impact of social sciences and humanities scholarship for the broader society.
We are building on the extensive consultation and evaluation activities of the last few years, and are finalizing a draft program design. SSHRC will be discussing the refinement and implementation of the draft design with the social sciences and humanities community and its partners in the coming weeks and months.
For more information please contact:
Adèle Savoie
Senior Policy Advisor
adele.savoie@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
613-943-1146