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Workshop: SSHRC Insight Development Grant

Workshop: SSHRC Insight Development Grant. November 29, 2011, Waterloo December 6, 2011, Brantford Elin Edwards & Barry Ries. LAURIER OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES. Basic Information. No notification of intent SSHRC due date: February 1, 2012

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Workshop: SSHRC Insight Development Grant

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  1. Workshop: SSHRC Insight Development Grant November 29, 2011, Waterloo December 6, 2011, Brantford Elin Edwards & Barry Ries LAURIER OFFICE OF RESEARCH SERVICES

  2. Basic Information • No notification of intent • SSHRC due date: February 1, 2012 • Laurier internal due date: January 25, 2012 • SSHRC CV and application verified & submitted online • “External Grant & Contract Cover Sheet” with dean & chair signatures to the Office of Research Services • Results announced: June 2012

  3. Grant Assistance

  4. Grant Assistance • Budget • Paul Barnard, Research Grants Officer • pbarnard@wlu.ca • X3131 • Editorial • Elin Edwards, Editorial/Communications Officer • eedwards@wlu.ca • X3533 • Barry Ries, Editorial/Communications Officer • bries@wlu.ca • x3479

  5. Statistics for the first Insight Development Grant Competition • 630 eligible applications • 194 awards • Commitments of $10,474,793 over two years

  6. Insight Development Grants:Key Features • Applicant: Principal investigator • Duration: 1 to 2 years • Value: Up to $75,000 • Application process: One-stage application • Next deadline: February 1, 2012

  7. Insight Development Grants:Purpose • To support research in its initial stages • To enable the development of • new research questions • experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches, and/or ideas • Funding is provided for short-term research development projects, of up to two years, proposed by individuals or teams. • May include • case studies • pilot initiatives • critical analyses of existing research.

  8. Insight Grant vs. Insight Development Grant Insight Insight Development • $7,000 to $75,000 • 1-2 years 50% of funding for new scholars Scoring: - Challenge – 50% - Feasibility – 20% - Capability – 30% • $7,000 to $500,000 • 3-5 years • No special funds for new scholars • Scoring: - Challenge – 40% - Feasibility – 20% - Capability – 40%

  9. Insight Development Grants:Application Categories • Within the Insight Development Grants funding opportunity, funding is available for two distinct categories of scholars: new scholars & regular scholars • New scholars*: • This funding supports high-quality research projects by new scholars to develop new research questions and/or approaches. • Such projects may build on and further the applicant’s (or team’s) graduate work and/or represent a continuation of their overall research trajectory • Regular scholars: • Funding for regular scholars provides support to explore new research questions and/or approaches that are distinct from the applicant’s previous or ongoing research. • Research projects should be clearly delimited and in the early stages of the research process. • Insight Development Grant funding is not intended to support ongoing research for regular scholars.

  10. *New scholar • Someone who has not yet had the opportunity to establish an extensive record of research achievement, but is in the process of building one. • Applicants identifying themselves as a new scholar must demonstrate that they have not applied successfully, as principal investigator or project director, for a grant through any of SSHRC’s funding opportunities. • In addition, they must meet at least one of the following criteria: • have completed their highest degree no more than five years before the competition deadline (SSHRC considers only the date of completion of the first doctorate);
or • have held a tenured or tenure-track university appointment for less than five years;
or • have held a university appointment, but never a tenure-track position (in the case of institutions that offer tenure-track positions);
or • have had their careers significantly interrupted or delayed for family reasons.

  11. Insight Development Grants: EligibilityRequirements • New and regular scholars are welcome to apply. • Applied for Insight Grant, October 2011: • OK to apply for IDG in February 2012 • (but with different objectives) • Apply for IDG in February 2012: • cannot apply for Insight Grant in October 2012 • If you currently hold a SSHRC Insight or Standard Research grant: • OK to apply for an Insight Development Grant • (but not as a new scholar). • If you’re not sure • Consult SSHRC’s Frequently Asked Questions and/or call a program officer (see next-to-last slide).

  12. Insight Development Grants: EvaluationProcess • Adjudication: • Applicants may select one of 5 Research Groups or request a multidisciplinary adjudication • Research Groups are then divided into adjudication committees based on their demand • Feedback: • All applicants will receive, together with SSHRC’s notice of decision, a summary of the adjudication committee's comments

  13. Insight Development Grants: Adjudication

  14. Insight Development Grants:Committees + Applicant Choices • Applicants will be asked to select: • which of the five groups is most appropriate for their proposal • A primary discipline and area of research from the list on the application form • Applicants submitting multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary proposals must: • indicate secondary & tertiary disciplines and areas of research • include a rationale for the request

  15. Insight Development Grants:Research Groups at Application Stage • Group 1: • History; medieval studies; classics; literature; fine arts; philosophy; religious studies; and related fields. • Group 2: • Anthropology; archaeology; linguistics; translation; political science; public administration; law; criminology; geography; urban planning and environmental studies; and related fields. • Group 3: • Business and management; economics; and related fields. • Group 4: • Sociology; demography; communication studies; journalism; media studies; gender studies; cultural studies; library and information science; and related fields. • Group 5: • Education; psychology; social work; career guidance; and related fields.

  16. Committee Members • Number of committee members is a function of applications received. SSHRC aims for an equitable and a reasonable distribution of work • Specific members chosen for broad-ranging expertise/experience and scholarly stature • SSHRCalso seeks balance in terms of: • university size (small, medium and large) • geographical region • Language • gender • 2011 IDG Competition: • Applicants applied to one of the five broad research areas • 9 committees subsequently created based on: • disciplines implicated in the proposals • applicants’ request for disciplinary or multidisciplinary review

  17. Insight Development Grants: OptionalPriority Areas • Applicants are asked to indicate whether their research falls within one of SSHRC’s priority areas: • Aboriginal Research • Canadian Environmental Issues • Digital Economics • Innovation, Leadership, and Prosperity • Northern Communities: Towards Social and Economic Prosperity • Read priority area descriptions carefully • Must complete a 1-page “Statement of Alignment”

  18. Insight Development Grants: EvaluationProcess & Criteria • The scoring scheme is the same as for the Partnership Development grant. • Challenge: • Aim and importance of endeavour (50%) • Feasibility: • The plan to achieve excellence (20%) • Capability: • The expertise to succeed (30%) • Make sure all of these are accounted for in your proposal somewhere – clearly!

  19. Evaluation Criterion #1: Challenge – the aim and importance of the endeavour (50%) • originality, significance and expected contribution to knowledge; • appropriateness of the literature review; • appropriateness of the theoretical approach or framework; • appropriateness of the methods/approach; • quality of training and mentoring to be provided to students, emerging scholars and other highly qualified personnel, and opportunities for them to contribute; and • potential influence and impact within and/or beyond the social sciences and humanities research community.

  20. Evaluation Criterion #2: Feasibility –the plan to achieve excellence (20%) • probability of effective and timely attainment of the research objectives; • appropriateness of the requested budget, and justification of proposed costs; • indications of financial and in-kind contributions from other sources, where appropriate; • quality of knowledge mobilization plans, including for effective knowledge dissemination, knowledge exchange and engagement within and/or beyond the research community; and • strategies and timelines for the design and conduct of the activity/activities proposed.

  21. Evaluation Criterion #3: Capability –the expertise to succeed (30%) • quality, quantity and significance of past experience and published outputs of the applicant and any team members relative to their roles in the project and their respective stages of career; • evidence of contributions such as commissioned reports, professional practice, public discourse, public policies, products and services, development of talent, experience in collaboration, etc.; and • potential to make future contributions.

  22. Insight Development Grants:Scoring Table

  23. Insight Development Grant:Application Components • Summary of Proposed Research: 1 page • Clear, plain language, aimed at non-specialist • Include: • The problem or issue to be addressed • The potential contribution of the research, both to the advancement of knowledge and the wider public benefit • One of the most important sections of your application!

  24. Insight Development Grant:Application Components (not 6…) • Detailed Description: 5 pages • “Use the following headings to describe the proposed research in enough detail to allow informed assessment by committee members” • Objectives • Context • Lit review • Relationship to your ongoing research • Importance/originality/contribution to knowledge • Theoretical approach or framework • Methodology • Research strategies & key activities • Justify choice • Explain specific instruments/procedures A timeline works well here!

  25. Insight Development Grant:Application Components • Knowledge Mobilization Plan • 2000 characters (about 1 page) • Knowledge Mobilization: • “the specific activities and tools that facilitate the multidirectional flow and exchange of research knowledge.” • “facilitating and enabling the benefit and impact of research on and beyond the campus (as described under Intended Outcomes of Proposed Activities) through enhanced accessibility and interaction.” • May include: publications, events, development of pedagogy, other forms of knowledge mobilization • Include: • Overall plan for “flow & exchange” and engaging various audiences • Schedule for achieving KM activities • Elaboration on purpose of KM activities and goals New for Insight grants Timeline helps…

  26. Insight Development Grant:Application Components • List of references: maximum 10 pages • Research Team and Student Training: 2 pages • A. Description of research team (if applicable) • Only if including co-applicants and collaborators • B. Description of student training strategies • Specific roles, responsibilities, duties of students & RAs • How these will complement their academic training • Budget Justification: 2 pages • Use categories from “Funds Requested from SSHRC” • Explain needs and amounts in detail • Relate to objectives of research • Appropriateness of budget & justification of costs: subcriterion in Feasibility section!

  27. Insight Development Grant:Application Components • Research Contributions: 4 pages • 1. research contributions over the last 6 years • 2. other contributions • 3. most significant career research contributions • 4. career interruptions and special circumstances • 5. contributions to training • Use SSHRC formatting instructions • Principal applicant: upload as part of application • Collaborators: information on uploading attachment in their “invitation” email

  28. Insight Development Grant:Application Components • Intended Outcomes of Proposed Activities • Dropdowns: • Scholarly benefits • Social benefits • Audiences • Expected outcomes summary - about 1 page • Potential benefits/outcomes that could emerge from proposed research and related activities • Evolution, effects, potential learning, implications • Knowledge mobilization = dissemination activities • Outcomes = effects of research

  29. Insight Development Grant:Application Components • Optional statements: • Sport Participation Research Initiative (Statement of Relevance) – 1 page • How research meets the intiative’s sport participation objectives • How research is relevant to the initiative’s focus on enhancing sport participation and the development of policy and programs intended to enhance participation • Statement of Alignment (with priority areas) – 1 page • How your research is relevant to the priority area(s) • How your research will advance knowledge with respect to the priority area(s)

  30. Characteristics of a Successful Application • Complete all mandatory fields (boldfaced labels). • Attach all mandatory electronic uploads (application). • For pdf uploads, use required format • Pdf format (.pdf extension), unprotected • Maximum file size of 500 Kb • 8.5 x 11 • Maximum page length specified for section • Body text: minimum of 12 point Times New Roman • Single-spaced (no more than 6 lines per inch) • All margins set at ¾” Note: Word defaults to more than this, so reset your margins to .75” all around

  31. Characteristics of a Successful Application • Ensure all co-applicants and collaborators (i.e., participants with SSHRC CVs) have submitted their "Accept Invitation Form” and uploaded their CVs • Verify and correct data until the Verification Report indicates successful verification. • Click on the "Submit" button (Submit to Research Administrator) for institutional approval.

  32. Characteristics of a Successful Application • Clarity: application is • well written, • well organized and • error-free • Originality: application is • challenging, • interesting, and • ambitious yet feasible • Project’s significance is clear • Potential impact is stated convincingly • Presented confidently, not boastfully Always answer the question So What?

  33. Resources: www.wlu.ca/research How to find us! Information on SSHRC programs & links to website Cover sheet (fillable pdf) Finance information for budget

  34. For more information… Laurier “External Grant and Contract Cover Sheet” Laurier “Request for External Peer Review” Laurier “2011-2012 Grant Assistance Timetable and Contacts” Laurier Research Finance webpage: www.wlu.ca/researchfinance SSHRC Insight Development Grant description SSHRC Insight Development Grant instructions SSHRC Insight Grant & Insight Development Grant FAQs SSHRC Priority Areas and Priority Areas FAQ SSHRC Program Officers by discipline SSHRC Insight Development Grants general program information: Email: insightdevelopment@sshrc-crsh.gc.caTel.: 613-947-9659

  35. Thankyou / Merci • Laurier Office of Research Services • www.wlu.ca/research • Laurier Research Finance information • www.wlu.ca/research/researchfinance • External Grant information • www.wlu.ca/research/externalgrants • Office of Research Services • Alumni Hall, top floor • Extension 3689 • research@wlu.ca

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