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Research at 91��ɫ: Call for Fall/Winter 2020-21

Deadline: July 10, 2020

Student Financial Services is pleased to announce the call for submissions for the Fall/Winter 2020-2021 Research at 91��ɫ (RAY) program. Through the RAY Program, paid opportunities are created for eligible undergraduate students to participate in research projects with faculty members and fellow students.

All requests for RAY positions must be posted through the Career Centre’s online job posting system, . The deadline date for entering your job request(s) is July 10, 2020. Position decisions will be sent by email no later than the week of July 27, 2020. The required salary rate for RAY is between $16 and $23 per hour.

Instructions on how to post a job request through Experience 91��ɫ are available online . A separate job posting must be submitted for each position you would like considered. The program allows for a maximum of 3 positions per full-time faculty member. Incomplete and/or late submissions will not be considered.

To be considered for this program, a RAY position must involve undergraduate students in research activities that will provide them with hands-on research experience and at the same time provide the faculty member with meaningful research support. RAY submissions are reviewed by the RAY Advisory Committee with the following considerations: Is the position appropriately geared to an undergraduate student? Will the proposed activities meaningfully engage students in learning about research? Is the student engaged in activities which contribute significantly to the proposed research project? Is training and support provided to the student in carrying out these research activities?

The job description(s) should not exceed 400 words and must include the following: 1) Nature of the research project; 2) Specific research activities the student(s) will be engaged in; 3) Type of research experience the student(s) will receive; 4) Type of training and support that will be provided to the student(s) in carrying out these research activities; and 5) The name of the supervising full-time faculty member.

Examples of suitable research activities include (but are not limited to) the following: Performing a literature search or bibliographical compilation; Understanding the difference between primary and secondary sources; Developing a compelling research proposal; Designing and trouble-shooting an experiment; Learning interview techniques or basic laboratory skills; Understanding data collection, visualization and analysis techniques; Applying statistical and error analyses, including through programming, and the importance of a control sample; Honing techniques in archival research, data mining and meta-analyses; Learning the dynamics associated with being part of a research team; and Enhancing communication skills - oral and written – including conference presentations and manuscripts.

Additional inquiries about the RAY program can be sent to raypost@yorku.ca.

Deadline: July 22, 2020

The 91��ɫ Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) invites applications from 91��ɫ faculty and graduate students for the 2020 Canada-China Initiatives Fund call for proposals for virtual events and activities. This includes talks, workshop, seminars or related activities held between 1 August 2020 and 30 June 2021 to communicate with peers and/or wider publics and share knowledge with researchers elsewhere that are focused on CCIF themes.

91��ɫ U-TD Community Engagement Centre (CEC) Community Engagement Catalyst Grants

Deadline: July 27, 2020

Value: One-time project start-up funding with most grants in the $5,000 range

Duration: Project completion by March 31, 2021

The 91��ɫ U-TD Community Engagement Centre (CEC) is pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for the 2020/2021 Community Engagement Catalyst Grants. These grants are designed to support creative and innovative collaborations between community partners and 91��ɫ. Details of this year’s competition can be found .

SSHRC Exchange – Conference Grant Program

Deadline: August 4, 2020

To provide assistance for attendance at national and international scholarly conferences for which the applicant is giving a paper, making a poster presentation, or featured at a solo or 2-person opening of an exhibition, a principal screening, premier performance of dance, theatre or musical production. The application form can be found (expect to be prompted for your Passport 91��ɫ login). Completed applications should be submitted via email to: Denise Jagdeosingh-Martinez at djagdeo@yorku.ca.

 

For a general listing of internal funding opportunities, visit .

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: July 17, 2020
• Submission to agency: August 4, 2020

Value:  $7000 to $25,000 for events, and up to $50,000 for other outreach activities; higher amounts for outreach activities may be considered if well justified

Duration: 1 year

These grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities.  To access an application form and full instructions, .  In most cases, the appropriate application to select is “Connection – Individual.”

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: September 1, 2020
• Submission to agency: September 15, 2020

Value: $7,000 to $25,000

Duration: 1 year

These grants provide short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform decision-making at a single partner organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector. The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships supported through Partnership Engage Grants are meant to respond to immediate needs and time constraints facing organizations in non-academic sectors. In addressing an organization-specific need, challenge and/or opportunity, these partnerships let non-academic organizations and post-secondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest.

To access an application form and full instructions, .

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: September 1, 2020
• Submission to agency: September 15, 2020

Value: $7,000 to $25,000

Duration: 1 year

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges globally. While much needed focus to date has been on developing and testing effective countermeasures to control the spread of the virus, examining the longer-term impacts of the pandemic—and the ensuing economic slowdown—on individuals, businesses and communities is just as important.

Through the June 15, 2020 and September 15, 2020 rounds of its Partnership Engage Grant competitions, SSHRC will invest up to $1.5 million in special initiative funding to COVID-19 related projects.

Note: SSHRC recently updated the eligibility section of this competition to allow researchers who have already submitted a PEG application in 2020 to be able to apply to the PEG COVID-19 Special Initiative.

Deadlines:
• Deadline to guarantee a full substantive review of draft application by LAPS pre-award staff member: August 24, 2020
• Verified application, final budget, and ORS checklist due at LAPS: September 29, 2020 by 9 am
• Agency Deadline: October 1, 2020

Value: $7,000 - $400,000

Duration: 2 to 5 years

Insight Grants support research projects proposed by scholars in the humanities or social sciences that are judged worthy of funding by their peers and/or other experts. Insight Grant research initiatives can be undertaken by an individual researcher or a team of researchers working in collaboration.

Applicants choose from one of two streams, depending on the amount of funding required. Both streams will be adjudicated by the same committees, and will receive the same rigorous level of merit review. The deadlines and application process are identical for both; however, the targeted success rate for Stream A is higher than for Stream B. Stream A is for budgets between $7000 and $100,000; Stream B is for budgets between $101,00 and $400,000. Application forms can be found by logging into your SSHRC account , clicking on “Create New Form,” and selecting the Insight Grant from the list provided.

CIHR Funding Opportunities

A list of funding opportunities through CIHR can be found on of the agency’s website. Please be attentive to any COVID-19 update that appears as part of the posting for specific opportunities.

NSERC: Upcoming Notices of Intent to Apply

NOI Deadline: August 4, 2020, 8:00 pm ET

Researchers who intend to apply for a Discovery Grant, Subatomic Physics Discovery, Major Resources Support, or Category 2 or 3 Research Tools and Instruments in the 2021 competition must submit a Notification of Intent to Apply (NOI) by the deadline date of August 4, 2020, 8:00 p.m. (ET). NSERC will not accept any NOI after the deadline.  In addition, NOIs do not need to come through ORS but should be submitted directly to NSERC. 

Discovery Grant NOI .

Subatomic Physics NOI .

Note: NSERC is working on a new format for hosting webinars to further assist researchers with the application process. Communication will be sent to the research community once the process and dates are finalized.

Deadlines:
• Final proposal and fully signed ORS Checklist to ORS: by 9:00 am, June 29, 2020
• Agency deadline:  July 1, until 11:59 pm EST

Value: Maximum of $10K

The Department of National Defense and the Canadian Armed Forces (DND/CAF) is inviting COVID-19 related proposals through its Mobilizing Insights in Defence and Security (MINDS) program. Applications must be relevant and align with the .

Deadline: July 8, 2020

Value: $500,000 over three years

To support the work of an early-career researcher (within 8 years from PhD) affiliated with a recognized Canadian academic institution through the creation of a research chair in pandemic preparedness. Innovative Medicines Canada recognizes the critical need to support research excellence and to help world-class scientists working on the discoveries and innovations that keep us and our communities healthy, and our economy thriving. The creation of a research chair dedicated to pandemic preparedness, as well as to the role of healthcare and the healthcare sector in sustaining and growing our economy, will contribute to helping Canada look ahead to the next public health crisis and ensure our country is well-prepared to effectively respond and recover.

If interested, please contact Abby Vogus, SIRI Specialist, at avogus@yorku.ca as soon as possible.

Deadlines:

Value:  Up to $150K, with 20% overhead

Duration: 12 months

To promote and provide funding for workplace health and safety research to inform innovative, practical, and easy-to-implement solutions that support the prevention of workplace injuries and illnesses or support re-integration into the workplace, post-injury. Applications will be accepted for the following research topics: workplace safely culture; workplace violence prevention; fall prevention; occupational disease and exposure; serious injuries; prevention of musculoskeletal injuries; mental health issues; and other topics.

Fulbright: Awards for Canadian Scholars

Deadlines:
• Submission to ORS for technical review: October 30, 2020
• Submission to Agency: November 15, 2020

The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program operates on the principle of reciprocal exchange and provides the opportunity for outstanding Canadian scholars to lecture and/or conduct research in the United States.

: US$12,500 for one semester (4 months). These awards are field open and can be taken up at any university, think tank, or government agency in the United States.

: The award values range from US$25,000 to US$50,000 and from four to nine months.

Additional opportunities open to Canadian scholars, with alternative/rolling deadlines can be found on of the Fulbright Canada website.