Housing, as we know, is a critical issue for Canadians. Daily media headlines range from the lack of affordable homes to the meteoric rise in rents across all regions; from young adults giving up on home ownership to seniors on fixed incomes who can’t afford to stay in their homes. The message is clear: Canada is facing a housing crisis. In response, the federal government has made housing a national priority.
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Examining the “afterlife” of slavery in Pan-African North America
]]>A more equitable, diverse and inclusive Canadian research enterprise is essential to creating excellent, innovative and impactful research. As such, in June 2018, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), in collaboration with other federal research granting agencies, implemented a harmonized process to collect self-identification data from researchers and trainees among the four Employment Equity Act designated groups: women, Indigenous peoples, visible minorities and persons with disabilities.
]]>Giving oneself a pep talk may be key to improving female athletes’ sporting performance and mental health, new University of Saskatchewan (USask) research shows.
]]>On December 4, the president of SSHRC, Ted Hewitt, presented the 2019 SSHRC Impact Awards to the five winners at a ceremony held at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
]]>Protecting the environment and its resources for current and future generations
Forests and woodlands are what make Canada great, helping to forge its reputation. This invaluable wealth and legacy must be preserved for future generations. But how can the environment and its resources, including forests, be protected in a sustainable manner? How can we make sure that the companies exploiting them comply with best practices?
]]>SSHRC’s Storytellers contest challenges postsecondary students to show Canadians, in three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better.
]]>SSHRC, with support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, has launched this Knowledge Synthesis Grants competition aimed at examining ways to adapt to living within the Earth’s carrying capacity, which is considered one of humanity’s most important challenges.
]]>Maintenance on SSHRC’s online application system is scheduled for Saturday, October 26, 2019, between 7:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (eastern).
]]>Over the last 48 hours, SSHRC’s online application system experienced significant technical issues. The system has been restored and the issues appear to have been resolved. SSHRC will continue to monitor performance.
]]>Due to technical difficulties, SSHRC’s online application system is unavailable. SSHRC has extended the application deadline for Insight Grants to October 18, 2019 at 8:00 p.m. (eastern), in accordance with its Service Standards for Online Application Systems.
]]>John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, was awarded the 2019 Molson Prize on October 3, for his outstanding contributions to the social sciences. The presentation took place at a keynote address and book launch at the University of Saskatchewan’s Native Law Centre, where Borrows read from and discussed his latest book, Law’s Indigenous Ethics.
]]>Annual SSHRC Impact Awards celebrate top talent in Canada’s social sciences and humanities research community
]]>The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) are jointly funding a national Healthy Cities Research Training Platform (HCRTP) to develop an interdisciplinary, cross-sectoral training initiative that will generate cutting-edge knowledge and build capacity for implementation science and solutions-based research.
]]>Building bridges between science and Inuit knowledge
Canada’s North is full of valuable research opportunities. But too often, the decisions about research priorities and methods are made by researchers with no connection to the areas where the research will take place. Indigenous communities in these areas are left with little voice in these decisions—despite the enormous impacts they can have on those communities.
]]>On June 27, 2019, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, announced the latest appointments to the Order of Canada.
Four SSHRC-funded researchers were among the 83 new appointments. …
]]>On May 13, 2019, the Rideau Hall Foundation announced the recipients of the fourth annual Governor General’s Innovation Awards. Two SSHRC-funded researchers were among the six new laureates.
]]>Increasing equitable access to safe drinking water
Access to safe drinking water is something most Canadians take for granted. But for many Indigenous communities, it’s a different story. Some areas have been under boil water advisories for decades, and efforts to solve the underlying problems seem to hit roadblock after roadblock.
]]>We would like to commend the research leaders who have committed to changing the culture and climate of research to create an inclusive and diverse workforce. We too intend to do our part to break up the bias that is preventing groups underrepresented in science—including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, members of visible minorities/racialized groups, and persons with disabilities—from achieving their rightful place in scientific leadership. This change must begin with us as leaders and we accept this challenge.
]]>Research is increasingly multidisciplinary and international—it’s fast-paced and often high risk, high reward. As research changes, we as a government must also change how we support it and consult with our world-class researchers.
That’s why today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, announced the next phase of the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)―the community consultations for the Transformation stream. To be launched in October, this competition stream will support large-scale, Canadian-led interdisciplinary research projects that have the potential to bring about real and lasting change.
]]>Following on the announcement in Budget 2019, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council are pleased to announce that the duration of a paid parental leave for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows supported by the agencies is being doubled…
]]>Our government recognizes that diversity of backgrounds, experiences and thought breed great science and research. If we want Canada to achieve its greatest potential in research, we need the diversity of citizens and communities to be reflected in our academic ranks.
]]>SSHRC is collaborating with the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences to organize several events during their 88th annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at The University of British Columbia from June 1 to 7, 2019. Congress brings together academics, researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to share findings, refine ideas, and build partnerships that will help shape the Canada of tomorrow.
]]>The Worldviews on Media and Higher Education 2019 Conference will take place June 12-14 in Toronto. This annual gathering reunites a diverse and international group of thinkers—academics, editors, students, journalists, communications professionals and others—to discuss the changing landscape between higher education and media.
]]>The Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) will be holding its 87th Congress from May 27 to 31, 2019, in Gatineau, Quebec. It is the most important multidisciplinary gathering for research and knowledge in la Francophonie.
Under the theme Engager le dialogue savoirs – sociétés, Acfas, in partnership with Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), is organizing a week of symposiums and panels that will take place at three different sites.
SSHRC will participate in several of the congress activities…
]]>Proposals can be in a variety of presentation formats that relate to any of the five conference themes.
The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2019.
]]>Photo courtesy of the Robert McLaughlin Gallery
Visual artist Andil Gosine assembles a non-sentimental and multilayered exhibition that reconsiders his immigration to Canada as a teenager and early encounters with racism. He skillfully interlaces this charged personal narrative with themes of both servitude and hope.
Environmental Studies Professor and visual artist Andil Gosine personifies innovative, compelling and interdisciplinary work. His artwork, while complex and deeply informed by history and scholarship, is also subjective and powerful on a personal level.
]]>The Canada Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) have signed a letter of understanding (LOU) to strengthen collaborations between Canadian and British researchers and boost joint research through a collaborative approach to research design, funding and review.
The LOU outlines the principles for partnership, which will focus on a bottom-up, agency-to-agency approach to research, science and innovation…
]]>Global Affairs Canada has partnered with SSHRC to launch its fourth International Policy Ideas Challenge for graduate students and early career researchers from Canadian postsecondary institutions. Participants are invited to submit their best ideas and solutions for Canada’s international policy challenges.
]]>New draft charter and grants will help increase diversity and inclusion at academic institutions
Canada’s greatest potential can only be realized when all people are welcomed into the laboratory, the classroom and the field. We all benefit from the wide range of perspectives and talent that make our research and our society better. In a competitive global economy, Canada can't afford to leave talent on the sidelines.
That is why on this International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Sport, unveiled the draft Made-in Canada Athena SWAN Charter, and announced the creation of a new fund to foster equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in research. Minister Duncan was joined by the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality, and Celina Caesar-Chavannes, Member of Parliament for Whitby.
]]>Photo: © UNHCR/Achilleas Zavallis
Looking at ways to make migrants’ journeys safer
While only 3.5 per cent of the world’s population is classified as migrant, their movements have lasting effects on the places they leave—and where they end up. That makes migrant journeys relevant for everyone in the global community.
Danièle Bélanger, Canada Research Chair in Global Migration Processes, and her team at Université Laval are studying migration as a complete system that includes countries of origin, transit and destination. She hopes that by understanding the migratory process, governments will be able to create policies that support not only migrants but also the communities they now call home.
]]>On December 27, 2018, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, announced the latest appointments to the Order of Canada.
]]>The Conversation Canada, a media website bringing research and journalism together, now offers bilingual content. SSHRC is supporting a pilot of La Conversation Canada to enhance the capacity of Canada’s francophone and bilingual universities and higher education sector to create high-quality journalism content. The website will feature a wide range of articles by francophone Canadian academics, increasing public access to the impact of their research.
]]>Weeding out misconceptions about the harms and benefits of cannabis
While people have been using cannabis for thousands of years, starting in Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, stigmatization and criminalization over the past century have made it almost impossible to properly study its effects—positive or negative.
That’s why Zach Walsh of The University of British Columbia was pleased when Canada became the second country in the world to fully legalize recreational cannabis.
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Helping Canadian schools support Indigenous language learning
The language we speak influences how we see the world. Its expressions and nuances bear cultural and historical significance. To lose our language is to lose a piece of our identity.
That’s exactly what Indigenous communities across Canada are trying to prevent from happening for their people.
]]>The Government of Canada is committed to renewing our relationship with Indigenous peoples—one based on the recognition of rights, respect, collaboration and partnership. When we recognize Indigenous rights and traditional knowledge, we are helping close the gaps in social, health, environmental and economic outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
]]>Hidden Costs: A new $2.5 million investigation
With a $2.5 million partnership grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Global Reporting Centre is launching Hidden Costs. The project brings together award-winning journalists from around the world, who will work with leading academic experts and media organizations to investigate corruption, labour abuses and environmental impact hidden within global supply chains.
]]>Multi-agency partnership between IDRC, CIHR, and SSHRC funding vital research to improve pandemic response capacity.
]]>SSHRC Impact Awards celebrate Canada’s most curious minds and the impact of their research
]]>On October 2, 2018, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. (eastern), SSHRC and the Canadian Housing and Mortgage Corporation (CMHC), will be offering a bilingual webinar to provide information and answer questions about the CMHC-SSHRC Joint Initiative.
]]>In response to technical issues, SSHRC has extended the application deadline for its current SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships competition to September 25, 2018 (8 p.m. eastern).
]]>Canada’s science and innovation agenda is vital among current national priorities.
The Government of Canada recognizes that fundamental science is essential to economic growth, but that it must also work together with innovators in all fields for research results to reach their full potential.
]]>Join us on SSHRC Day and celebrate 40 years of SSHRC’s support of social sciences and humanities research and its impacts on society—in Canada and around the world.
]]>Due to a technical error, the French webinar on August 29, 2018, was not held as scheduled.
]]>More than $34 million to support PhD and Post Doc students working in fields such as astronomy, health care and food security
]]>In September 2018, SSHRC is offering a webinar to provide information and answer questions about the Insight Grants.
]]>SSHRC is pleased to announce the 12 finalists for its 2018 Impact Awards. This year’s awards are being celebrated alongside SSHRC’s 40th anniversary.
]]>In August 2018, SSHRC is offering a webinar to provide information and answer questions about the Partnership Engage Grants.
]]>In August 2018, SSHRC is offering a webinar to provide information and answer questions about the Aid to Scholarly Journals.
]]>In August 2018, SSHRC is offering a webinar to provide information and answer questions about the Special Call: Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation—Connection Grants. Participants will have the opportunity to submit written questions via the webinar interface at any time during the presentations. No registration is required, so you can drop in at any time.
]]>The Canada Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) is launching a national consultation to reinvigorate Canada’s support for science and to position Canada as a global leader in research excellence.
]]>In July 2018, SSHRC is offering a webinar to provide information and answer questions about these Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation—Connection Grants.
]]>SSHRC has partnered with the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) on a new joint initiative to build the Collaborative Housing Research Network (CHRN). A competition for eight one-year Partnership Development Grants (PDG) is now open. Grants for this first stage of a two-stage application process are valued at $80,000 for up to a year. The competition deadline is November 15, 2018. Results will be announced in early 2019.
]]>On June 28, 2018, Ted Hewitt, SSHRC president and Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce board member was presented the Order of Rio Branco by His Excellency Denis Fontes de Souza Pinto, ambassador of Brazil to Canada.
]]>The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and SSHRC have joined forces to create the Collaborative Housing Research Network. This research network’s mission is to stimulate innovative thinking and novel housing solutions for Canadians.
]]>Don't forget, Dialogue wants to hear from you!
We'll be taking advantage of a summer break to think about how to better bring you SSHRC news and stories.
]]>The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the United Kingdom have awarded 10 Knowledge Synthesis Grants totalling over C$280,000 (over £161,000) to assess the state of research knowledge on Canada-UK trade relationships.
]]>Government of Canada launches national consultation on $275-million Tri-Council Research Fund
Science is that much stronger when diverse ideas are welcomed. When Canada’s research community has a say in the development of new programs that support it, our researchers are able to discover and innovate in ways that have a profound impact on our health, environment, economy and communities.
]]>Across Canada, remote and rural Indigenous communities have been building and delivering broadband services to rural and remote communities. A new book celebrates the achievements of some these communities.
A new book, Stories from the First Mile: Digital Technologies in Remote and Rural Indigenous Communities, celebrates Indigenous innovation and struggles against systemic and circumstantial obstacles, like political silos, lack of infrastructures and challenging environments.
Photo: Jesse Fiddler/Stories from the First Mile - First Mile Connectivity Consortium/CC-BY-NC-SA
]]>The new tri-agency Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation—Connection Grants invites proposals from applicants affiliated with First Nations, Métis and Inuit not-for-profit organizations, as well as with other not-for-profit organizations or Canadian postsecondary institutions in any discipline.
]]>The Government of Canada, through three of its dedicated funding agencies, has launched a new partnership aimed at sustainably improving Ebola response capacities in and around the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and surrounding region.
Photo: Wikipedia Commons
]]>Two prizes of $50,000 each are awarded annually to distinguished Canadians, one in the arts and the other in the social sciences and humanities. Funded from the income of a $1 million endowment given to the Canada Council by the Molson Family Foundation, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prizes encourage Canadians honoured with this distinction to continue contributing to the cultural and intellectual heritage of Canada. The Canada Council administers the awards in conjunction with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
]]>Government of Canada investing more than $24M in innovative projects that will deliver new technologies to Canadians and unlock the power of AI to tackle chronic health issues
Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way Canadians live; it’s in our cars and computers, our smartphones and apps. All the more reason to unlock the power of AI to address some of the greatest health challenges Canadians face.
]]>We are pleased to inform you that the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) will now ask all applicants to grant, scholarship, and fellowship programs to provide information on their age, gender, Indigenous identity, and/or status as a member of a visible minority group, and/or as a person with a disability.
]]>Starting this summer, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) are asking all applicants for funding competitions (grants, scholarships, and fellowships) to self-identify with information on age, gender, Indigenous identity, and status as a member of a visible minority group or person with a disability. The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has also recently implemented this requirement.
]]>Expectations include delivering on mandate priorities, engaging in consultations and continuing ongoing collaboration
Today, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, met the Canada Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) to outline her expectations for transformative change in the research community.…
]]>Photo: CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
]]>SSHRC ambassadors are responsible for sharing their experience through photos and videos during events at the 2018 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences …
]]>Ted Hewitt, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), today applauded five talented students who have been named this year’s top research storytellers. The five were selected from among 25 finalists in a national challenge to find innovative ways to communicate the impact of social sciences and humanities research.
]]>Hundreds of social sciences and humanities projects to benefit from more than $158 million in support for research
Social sciences and humanities research is at the heart of understanding many of the challenges and opportunities faced by Canadians. This research informs policies and plays an important role in building a healthier, stronger and more prosperous Canada.
]]>Following stakeholder consultation, SSHRC will implement new parameters to the Aid to Scholarly Journals (ASJ) funding opportunity in 2018. The new parameters demonstrate SSHRC’s support for the federal government’s commitment to open science …
]]>SSHRC, in conjunction with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) is launching a funding opportunity to support Canadian engagement with European research partners.
]]>Photo: Unsplash/Aman Shrivastava CC-BY
For decades, researchers have demonstrated the numerous ways in which parents can positively influence their children’s development. This includes how confident they are, how well they do in school and how they interact with their friends.
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Thursdays, starting April 19, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>The Homeless Hub, the research arm of the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness (COH) at York University, is knowledge mobilization at its best. This organization undertakes trail-blazing research that informs policy and affects meaningful change…
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Thursdays, starting April 19, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) ambassadors are responsible for sharing their experience during events through photos and videos
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Thursdays, starting April 19, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Thursdays, starting April 19, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>In May 2018, SSHRC will be holding a series of webinars for applicants and research administrators to provide information and answer questions about upcoming Connection Grants competitions.
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Thursdays, starting April 19, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>SSHRC’s annual contest challenges postsecondary students from across the country to tell the story—in three minutes or 300 words—of how SSHRC-funded research is making a difference in the lives of Canadians. The top entries this year address a range of important issues, including children’s health, education, gender identity, immigration and integration. The stories highlight how knowledge about the social sciences and humanities helps Canadians understand and improve the world.
]]>Join the research community investigating impacts of AI on the health sector
SSHRC has joined the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) for the next competition of the Collaborative Health Research Projects initiative. This includes a special call focused on artificial intelligence, health and society.
]]>Teleconference session to address questions from interested applicants: April 10, 2018
Applicants interested in participating in the session should register by April 6, 2018 by sending a message to IPIC-CIPI.POR@international.gc.ca
]]>A new language revitalization project led by the University of Victoria will bring new life and strength to Indigenous languages in Canada
NEȾOLNEW, which translates as “one mind, one people” in SENĆOŦEN, will engage nine Indigenous-led partner organizations representing 42 distinct languages, forming a learning and research network to strengthen efforts to revive Indigenous languages. The six-year project, supported by a $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership Grant, is led by Onowa McIvor, professor in University of Victoria’s Department of Indigenous Education and linguist Peter Jacobs at Simon Fraser University.
]]>March 8 is International Women's Day — a day to recognize women's achievements and acknowledge the challenges they continue to face in the quest for gender equality.
]]>Chief Wendy Wetteland, president of the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council, approached University of New Brunswick, law professor Jula Hughes in 2015 for help on a research project. It would look for ways to prevent victimization, and improve outcomes for missing Indigenous women, girls and sexual and gender minorities in Eastern Canada.
]]>Aurora College and Aurora Research Institute recently hosted an on-the-land gathering with Indigenous Elders and research partners from the University of Alberta, University of New Brunswick, University of Saskatchewan, University of Toronto, and Toronto District School Board at Kettle Point, Wood Buffalo National Park, near Fort Smith as part of their research project, Stories of Hope: Decolonizing Learning in Canada.
]]>For thousands of years, First Nations along British Columbia’s central coast have told stories about the abundance of marine life, including Dungeness crab and yelloweye rockfish—two culturally and ecologically important marine species.
]]>In Canada, we know that diversity is a source of our strength. Whether it is in our communities and schools or our businesses and laboratories, we believe that diverse perspectives lead to greater knowledge, innovation and prosperity for all.
This value is true in our governing bodies: the boards and councils that oversee public institutions committed to serving Canadians. The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science and Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities, today announced the appointment and renewal of several diverse members of the governing council for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
]]>Revisiting the equity of the Canada Research Chair Program in 2017 set the tone for lasting representational thought leadership in Canada. With a similar lens, groundbreaking new research led by York University Professor Emeritus Frances Henry puts Canadian universities under the microscope. This new inquiry, funded by SSHRC, shows that racialized and Indigenous faculty are low in numbers and even lower in terms of power, prestige and influence compared to non-racialized [white, male] counterparts within the university.
]]>Ideally, public space should belong to us all. Everyone is free to use it; everyone infuses it with life in their own way. Public space changes depending on its intended nature and context. It is designed to play a role in society, but it is actually society that defines its role. From Montréal to Hanoi, from Mexico City to Paris, young people shape, transform and take ownership of public space, giving it a meaning that the Transformative Youth Spaces partnership will seek to understand.
]]>Social sciences and humanities researchers investigate who we are as human beings and study various elements of our world—past, present and future. Communicators at postsecondary institutions need a special kind of resourcefulness and creativity to share the impact of this research with a wide and diverse audience.
]]>As the 2017-18 William Lyon Mackenzie King visiting professor for Canadian Studies at Harvard University, McGill University professor Charmaine Nelson is sharing her rich and unique perspective on underexamined topics in black history with a broader international audience.
]]>The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the United Kingdom have launched an international competition to assess the state of research knowledge on Canada-UK trade relationships.
]]>Statistics Canada is moving to reinstate its Full Time-University and College Academic Staff System survey, and to include information on part-timers.
The data it will reveal is bound to shed much-needed light on a growing challenge that is already well-recognized but far too infrequently discussed in academia: the recent surge in numbers of underemployed PhD graduates at Canada’s universities.
]]>SSHRC has reached a major social media milestone: it now has more than 15,000 Twitter followers in English and over 2700 followers in French.
]]>On December 29, 2017, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada, announced the latest appointments to the Order of Canada.
]]>This interview was originally published on December 11, 2017, in Découvrir, an online publication by the Association francophone pour le savoir.
]]>In 1978, the Bee Gees and Fiori Séguin were topping Canadian pop charts, the Montréal Canadiens were on a roll and the Apple II was quickly becoming a home office staple.
But, did you know that SSHRC also awarded its inaugural research grants that year? Among the funding the new agency gave out was a doctoral fellowship to Peter Jensen. His then-emerging field of sport psychology has since helped lead to more than 40 Canadian Olympic medals.
]]>Photo: © Roland Lorente
Start a conversation about the circus in Canada and someone will inevitably bring up Cirque du Soleil. But Canada, and particularly Quebec, which is home to over 20 circus companies, has become a beacon for circus arts as a whole. Canadian circuses attract artists and performers from across the country, and around the world.
]]>Photo: © University of Alberta
Governor General Gold Medal recipient and PhD graduate Kacey Neely takes determination and resilience to a whole new level
Saturday, June 30, 2001 is a day that will always stick out in Kacey Neely’s mind. She was at home in Burlington, Ontario getting ready to head to soccer practice when the phone rang. It was her coach calling to tell her to not come to practice as she was no longer on the team. At 15 years old, after playing on the same team for the past six years, getting cut was truly a devastating moment in this young athlete’s life.
]]>SSHRC has granted $2.5 million in funding to an ongoing project based at Concordia University.
Combined with additional support from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the award will go toward an initiative designed to improve teaching and learning outcomes through educational technology in sub-Saharan Africa.
]]>Library and Archives:
As Canada marks its 150th year as a nation, we look back on our past with immense pride, but also with a critical eye. In this episode we teamed up with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to talk about the future of Canada and look at the ways in which examining our history can help to inform decisions about the future.
]]>SSHRC Impact Awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in all research areas of the social sciences and humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers and celebrate their research achievements, research training, knowledge mobilization, and outreach activities funded partially or entirely by SSHRC.
]]>This December, SSHRC will be holding two webinars for applicants and research administrators to answer questions about the upcoming Insight Development Grants competition. Webinar participants will have the opportunity to submit written questions via the webinar interface at any time during the presentations. No registration is required, so you can drop in at any time.
]]>SSHRC’s Storytellers contest challenges postsecondary students to show Canadians how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better.
]]>This December, SSHRC will be holding two webinars for applicants and research administrators to answer questions about the upcoming Insight Development Grants competition. Webinar participants will have the opportunity to submit written questions via the webinar interface at any time during the presentations. No registration is required, so you can drop in at any time.
]]>Research is at the heart of understanding the challenges and opportunities people face in areas such as education, immigration and technology. That’s why the Government of Canada continues to support the work of our country’s social scientists and humanities researchers. The evidence they produce informs policies that improve our understanding of each other and our communities.
]]>Glwa: Resurgence of the Ocean-Going Canoe, a documentary film coproduced by the Heiltsuk Nation’s Tribal Council and The University of Winnipeg, was screened this October at the ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival in Toronto.
]]>This fall, SSHRC will be holding a series of webinars for applicants and research administrators to answer questions about upcoming Connection Grants competitions. Webinar participants will have the opportunity to submit written questions via the webinar interface at any time during the presentations. No registration is required, so you can drop in at any time.
]]>October 27, 2017 – Ottawa – Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
When Canada’s scientists have the best support to meet their needs, whether new labs and equipment, access to funding, or opportunities to collaborate with their research peers or train new generations of students—they are able to pursue bold new ideas and make exciting breakthroughs in research.
]]>“Hardly anyone studies officiating,” says Kim Dorsch. “We’re usually more concerned with athletes’ performance rather than officiating performance. However, it’s an interesting population from an applied sport psychology perspective.”
Dorsch is a professor in the University of Regina’s Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies. She does research in the field of sport psychology, examining the psychological stressors and coping styles of ice hockey officials.
]]>Following the success of the Community and College Social Innovation Fund (CCSIF) pilot program, the Government of Canada’s Budget 2017 provided an additional $10 million over two years beginning in 2017-18 to continue this initiative.
]]>This fall, SSHRC will be holding a series of webinars for applicants and research administrators to answer questions about upcoming Partnership Development Grants and Partnership Grants – Stage 1 competitions.
]]>SSHRC has renewed its institutional block grants funding opportunity, the SSHRC Institutional Grants (SIG), merging it with the former Aid to Small Universities.
]]>Documentaries can be a compelling, engaging way to mobilize knowledge and reach a wide audience. If you ever thought a documentary film could be an excellent way to showcase your research results, a SSHRC Connection Grant may be the place to start.
]]>New program may be the key
If you have unpleasant memories taking mathematics in elementary school, you’re not alone.
Your teacher may have felt the same way.
Surveys show that less than 30 per cent of elementary teachers and pre-service elementary teachers describe their own experience of learning mathematics as positive.
Teachers confided in one survey as feeling “high anxiety over mathematics” and struggling to “explain things in different ways if students ‘don’t get it.’”
Now, the University of Regina is offering a new certificate program: Teaching Elementary School Mathematics.
]]>The Royal Society of Canada (RSC) has recognized the outstanding scholarly and scientific achievements of Canada’s most accomplished and promising minds, and many are SSHRC-funded researchers. Founded in 1883, The Royal Society of Canada comprises the academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
]]>The Government of Canada is committed to strengthen science in government decision-making and to support scientists’ vital work.
In keeping with these commitments, the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced Dr. Mona Nemer as Canada’s new Chief Science Advisor, following an open, transparent, and merit-based selection process.
]]>Katherine Lippel, professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, and Canada Research Chair in Occupational Health and Safety Law, has won this year’s Gold Medal at the annual Impact Awards, presented by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). The Gold Medal is SSHRC’s highest research honour and comes with $100,000 in research money.
]]>OTTAWA—His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will present the 2017 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Impact Awards during a ceremony at Rideau Hall, on Friday, September 15, 2017, at 6 p.m.
]]>This fall, SSHRC will be holding a series of webinars for applicants and research administrators to answer questions about upcoming Insight Grants competitions.
]]>The United States Society for Ecological Economics presented McGill University professor Peter Brown with the 2017 Herman Daly Award.
]]>Growing up in the village of Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick, Heather Mair had a sense that the local curling club played an important role in the community that went far beyond just sport.
So, as an associate professor at the University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Recreation and Leisure Studies, she conducted a large ethnographic study looking at 22 curling clubs across the country to examine their role in rural Canada.
]]>SSHRC is pleased to announce 12 outstanding finalists for this year’s Impact Awards.
The winners in each of the categories of Talent, Insight, Connection and Partnership—as well as the Gold Medal recipient—will receive their awards at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday, September 15, 2017.
]]>François Trudeau has always played sports. That’s what led him to study physical education. Now a professor at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, he also coaches cross-country skiing and cross-country running teams.
In 2009, he took his interest in sports training and developed a research project on a hitherto little-studied coaching model: the long-term development of participants or athletes. Contrary to classic training models that focus on the athlete’s age, this model is based on the idea that training has to take into consideration the athlete’s physical, mental and emotional maturity.
]]>This fall, SSHRC will be holding a series of webinars for applicants and research administrators to answer questions about upcoming Partnership Engage Grants competitions.
]]>Some 60 per cent of delegation members at the Rio Olympic Games were female. However, only an estimated 15 per cent of the coaches were women. This is exactly the issue Guylaine Demers, professor in Université Laval’s Physical Education Department, is addressing.
]]>From March 1 to June 1, 2017, the Walrus Foundation and the Order of Canada presented an extraordinary tour focused on the future of Canada.
]]>The Royal Ontario Museum is staging an exhibition devoted to snapshots—and what it means to be Canadian
The Family Camera Network, launched in 2016, is a three-year investigation into the stories behind Canadian family photos. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, it’s a partnership between more than 25 researchers and six institutions, including the Royal Ontario Museum and the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives.
]]>Most Indigenous languages in Canada are not likely to survive without massive revitalization efforts. Only Inuktitut, Cree and Ojibway are considered strong enough to be able to survive into the next century.
This story was written by Krista Baliko, a communications strategist at the University of Regina. The research is supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Knowledge Synthesis Grant.
]]>On June 30, 2017, the day before Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation, his Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, announced 99 new appointments to the Order of Canada.
]]>Nine students nominated by SSHRC to attend Lindau Meeting in Germany
]]>SSHRC-funded panel examines the role of our oceans in Canada’s evolution
Embedded in Canada’s national coat of arms is the Latin phrase: a mari usque ad mare. It means “from sea to sea” and it acknowledges Canada’s geography and vast expanse of oceanic territory. A source of commerce, recreation, security and transportation, our oceans have played an important role in our evolution as a nation.
]]>Competition opens for new Canada 150 Research Chairs Program offering more than $117 million to attract top international research talent
The Honourable Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science, today launched the call for applications to the Canada 150 Research Chairs Program. The Minister is inviting the world’s scientists and scholars to apply to the new program and, if successful in their applications, bring their groundbreaking work to Canada. The investment of $117.6 million honours Canada’s 150th anniversary and was announced earlier this year in Budget 2017.
]]>SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships support the most promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and assist them in establishing a research base at an important time in their research careers.
]]>The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) has announced the launch of the Partnership Engage Grants, designed to address the short-term needs, challenges and opportunities of researchers and institutions.
]]>How SSHRC-funded research is helping Winnipeg’s inner city
Transforming a bleak inner-city neighbourhood into a flourishing district is a challenge for any community. Problems seem to outweigh solutions, so revitalization appears hopeless.
Not so for Jim Silver who, with the help of a 2012 SSHRC Partnership Grant, is leading a team of researchers in finding specific solutions for Winnipeg’s inner-city community.
]]>A number of Canadian academics whose research was funded by SSHRC have recently received high-profile awards for their transformative scholarship.
]]>Investment of $744,000 will allow Canadian researchers to shape responses to the emerging global challenges and opportunities playing out in the country and around the world.
]]>We’ve compiled the data and have some interesting numbers to share from SSHRC’s most recent competition cycle. For more details, check out the latest competition statistics.
]]>KELOWNA, BC, May 31, 2017 /CNW/ - What is this research about? What did the researchers find? How can people use it? With plain and simple language, McMaster University's Research Snaps digital media campaign, which features over 80 projects, has helped make social sciences and humanities research more accessible to Canadians. It has earned this year's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Award of Excellence, presented at this year's annual Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) gala on May 30, 2017.
]]>In the year since Johannes Lampe was sworn in as the third president of the regional government of Nunatsiavut in Newfoundland and Labrador, his commitment to preserving and promoting the Labrador Inuit’s language hasn’t wavered.
In fact, his government’s 2017 budget affirms: “We have a unique language and culture, and it is imperative for us to honour our identity in our communities as well as on the national stage. We are committed to preventing the erosion of our language, our culture and our identity.”
]]>Ted Hewitt, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), today applauded five talented students who have been named this year’s top research storytellers. The five were selected from among 25 finalists in a national challenge to find innovative ways to communicate the impact of social sciences and humanities research.
]]>Two prizes of $50,000 each are awarded annually to distinguished Canadians, one in the arts and the other in the social sciences and humanities.
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Tuesdays, starting April 18, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>SSHRC-funded researcher studying plant-based nutrition for those who have cancer, and those who don’t
When Amy Symington came home from university one day for a visit, the last thing her father expected to hear was that she had become a vegetarian. That’s because home was a beef and dairy farm in southwestern Ontario.
“My dad was less than pleased when I first became vegetarian and even used to exclaim regularly that I had been ‘brainwashed,’ ” she recalls. “I should mention that his diet is mostly plant-based now as well.”
]]>Global Affairs Canada announces finalists in 2017 International Policy Ideas Challenge
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Tuesdays, starting April 18, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>A SSHRC-funded researcher looks at how clothing can affect our perceptions of others
“Clothes make the man,” according to an old saying. But, can clothes also make a social profiler? It seems the answer is, yes.
A study funded with a SSHRC Insight Development Grant found that people dressed in police-style uniforms who were shown images of individuals wearing hoodies were distracted by them, while those wearing regular clothes were not.
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Tuesdays, starting April 18, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>A guide to recognizing fake news by neuroscientist and SSHRC-funded scholar Daniel Levitin has won the National Business Book Award. In his book, A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age, Levitin outlines the many pitfalls of the information age, and provides the means to spot and avoid them.
]]>The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is introducing a Partnership Engage Grant to better address the short-term needs, challenges and opportunities of researchers and institutions.
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Tuesdays, starting April 18, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>Check back here for Storyteller Tuesdays, starting April 18, as we profile our Top 25 finalists and their submissions.
]]>SSHRC’s annual contest challenges postsecondary students from across the country to tell the story—in three minutes or 300 words—of how SSHRC-funded research is making a difference in the lives of Canadians.
]]>Canada 150 Research Chairs program to provide $117.6 million to attract top international scientists and innovators
]]>SSHRC may bring a little jazz to the 85th Congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir (Acfas) at McGill University from May 8 to 12.
]]>More than 450 researchers at the doctoral, postdoctoral and early-career levels will undertake global research projects as part of the new Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Advanced Scholars Program, contributing to improved global talent exchange between Canada and other nations.
]]>How the Arctic is changing, and what needs to be done to stop it
When most Canadians think of the Arctic, they picture vast tundra abundant with snow and ice and polar bears—an iconic region of Canada that helps define us as the Great White North. But, with the alarming acceleration of the effects of climate change on the Arctic, this risks becoming a romantic myth.
Michael Byers, a SSHRC-funded researcher, is working hard to make decision-makers and policy-drafters aware of the realities of the Arctic today, while there is still time to put the brakes on its destruction.
]]>How architectural skins can work with the elements against climate change
Imagine a skyscraper that changes colour depending on the temperature. Or poetry that’s revealed on a building as it absorbs and collects rain drops for use as potable water.
A SSHRC-funded researcher has created architectural fabrics that do just that, with a purpose.
]]>Join SSHRC at Metropolis, March 16 to 18, in Montréal, to discuss preliminary research results on Syrian refugee resettlement and integration.
]]>Confronting cyberbullying among young people
Under a SSHRC Standard Research Grant, the three-year study (2012-14)—Motivations for Cyberbullying: A longitudinal and multi-perspective inquiry, took a comprehensive look at the issue of bullying over social media. In it, the Toronto District School Board partnered with researchers from the University of Toronto, led by Faye Mishna, a renowned expert on bullying and dean of the university’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.
]]>Fighting fake news with real, scholarly journalism
With the sheer volume of information people have exposure to today thanks to the advent of digital technology, it can be hard to weed through legitimate and illegitimate information available on the Internet…
]]>Bringing black Canadian history out from the shadows
The recent designation of Viola Desmond as the first woman to grace a Canadian bank note is historic. But her story of refusing to sit in the segregated section of a movie theatre in Nova Scotia in 1946 was unknown to most Canadians.
Afua Cooper is not surprised. Throughout Canadian history, “black history was erased or marginalized. It did not constitute ‘real’ history,” she says…
]]>McGill researcher advises on acclaimed Hollywood film
Cinematic success rests largely on solid plot development and a sense that a story is credible. Enter Jessica Coon, Canada Research Chair in Syntax and Indigenous Languages. The McGill University scholar was a pre-production advisor on Arrival, where her guidance and linguistics expertise helped flesh out the central role played by Amy Adams…
]]>Global Affairs Canada has partnered with SSHRC to launch its second International Policy Ideas Challenge for graduate students and early career researchers affiliated with Canadian postsecondary institutions. Participants are invited to submit their best ideas and solutions for Canada’s international policy challenges…
]]>On December 30, 2016, as Canada prepared to launch its year-long 150th birthday celebration, Governor General David Johnston announced the latest appointments to the Order of Canada.
]]>SSHRC Impact Awards are designed to build on and sustain Canada’s research-based knowledge culture in the social sciences and humanities. The awards recognize outstanding researchers and celebrate their achievements in research, research training, knowledge mobilization and outreach activities funded partially or completely by SSHRC…
]]>It is understood that sports participation has an impact far beyond the physical. When children play, they develop cognitive and social skills, learn to manage their emotions and, hopefully, have fun.
But can play do more?…
]]>Mobilizing research about Canada’s past, present and future
As we settle into 2017, we look forward to celebrating Canada’s 150th birthday. Much has happened since Confederation in 1867, and Canadians will be marking the occasion with home-grown events right across the country…
]]>The impact of body image on female participation rates
A weekly ritual for many parents of young children is the frenzied, post-dinner dash to get their child to soccer or baseball or basketball practice. But, as the years go by, a pattern that many parents notice is that while boys enthusiastically continue their sports participation well into high school, girls tend not to.…
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