Information Session: SSHRC Connections and Partnership Engage Grants

1. Information Session: • SSHRC Connections and Partnership Engage Grants

2. Agenda • Part One: • i) Overview of each program • ii) Evaluation and Adjudication • iii) Grant Writing Tips • iv) U of T submission process

3. Agenda • Part Two: • Guest Speaker: SSHRC 2018 Connections grant Review Committee member: • Professor Robin Elliott, Jean A. Chalmers Chair in Canadian Music, Director of the Institute for Canadian Music, Acting Associate Dean, Academic & Student Affairs in the Faculty of Music

4. A & S Grant Preparation Support • Suzanne M. Jaeger, PhD • Funded Research Officer, • Suzanne.jaeger@utoronto.ca • 416 978-5417

5. Partnership Engage Grant (PEG) • Program Objectives • The purpose is to respond quickly to the immediate needs, challenges and opportunities of non-academic organizations. • A short-term, small-scale research partnership between an academic researcher and a non-academic partner organization.

6. Sample Successful PEG Projects • March 2018 Competition Results

7. Key Features • Valued between $7K and $25K over one year. • Four competitions per year (Sept. 15, Dec. 15, Mar. 15, June 15). • Quick turnaround from application deadline to results. • Shorter application and simplified partner invitation process.

8. Other Key Features • Partnership Engage Grants are expected to respond to the objectives of the Insight program and the Connection program. • Please note that Partnership Engage Grants cannot respond exclusively to the objectives of the Connection program.  • The small-scale, stakeholder-driven partnerships let non-academic organizations and postsecondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest. • SSHRC welcomes applications involving Indigenous Research as well as those involving Research-Creation. • Applicants may be eligible for internship co-funding through the Mitacs Accelerate program, for graduate students and/or postdoctoral researchers involved in their project.

9. Applicant Eligibility • Applications may be submitted by an individual researcher or a team of researchers (consisting of one applicant and one or more co-applicants and/or collaborators). • Applicants who have received a SSHRC grant of any type must be sure to submit their end of grant report by the deadline specified in their Notice of Award in order to be eligible to apply for another SSHRC grant.

10. Co-applicants & Collaborators • An individual is eligible to be a co-applicant if they are formally affiliated with any of the following: • Canadian: Postsecondary institution; not-for-profit organization; philanthropic foundation; think tank; or municipal, territorial or provincial government. • International: Postsecondary institution. • Postdoctoral researchers who are affiliated with a postsecondary institution are eligible to be co-applicants. • Any individual who makes a significant contribution to the project is eligible to be a collaborator. Collaborators do not need to be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution. • Individuals from the private sector or federal government can only participate as collaborators.

11. Partner Organizations • Only one Canadian or international organization from the public, private or not-for-profit sector may be involved as a partner organization. • Postsecondary institutions, as well as any organization or associations affiliated with or servicing them, are not eligible as partner organizations. • Partner organizations are expected to support the activities of the partnership through cash and/or in-kind contributions. • Researchers involved in formal partnerships that involve more than one partner organization are encouraged to apply for Partnership Development Grants or Partnership Grants.

12. PEG Deadlines

13. Connections Grant Program • Support events and outreach activities geared toward short-term, targeted knowledge mobilization initiatives such as: workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities that facilitate: • disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the humanities and social sciences; • scholarly exchanges between those working in the social sciences and humanities and those working in other research fields; • intersectoral exchanges between academic researchers in the humanities and social sciences and researchers and practitioners from the public, private and/or not-for-profit sectors; and/or • international research collaboration and scholarly exchanges with researchers, students and non-academic partners from other countries.

14. Value and Duration • 1. Events: $7,000 to $25,000 • Short term activity • Completed within a week • Follow-up activities • 2. Outreach Activities: $7,000 to $50,000+ • Longer in duration • Engage larger public • Speaker series, travelling exhibition, podcast, etc.

15. Successful Connections Grants • 2017 – 2018 Competitions

16. Matching Funds • Eligibility requirement: 50% matching funds • Budget requested from SSHRC: e.g. $10,000; mandatory matching funds: $5,000

17. Matching Funds • Letters of support from sponsoring organizations are required. The letters must clearly confirm the amounts and types of contributions the organizations are providing for the proposed event or activity. • Letters of support cannot be provided by individuals, e.g. a researcher at the institution. The letter of support must come from the academic unit, i.e. department, dean’s office or VPRI or another university office. • See SSHRC’s Guidelines for Cash and In-Kind Contributions for more details

18. More Matching Funds Info • Possible sources of matching funds: • Work Study program • Room allocations for conference if normally a fee is charged for room rental • Administrative support for project, e.g. proportion of salary for administrator or project manager’s time dedicated to the project. • Matching funds between Department and Vice-Dean Research & Innovation • Contributions from various academic units invested in the project. • UT fellowship portion of assigned graduate students working on the project. • Community contributions such as space, staff, and other resources

19. Eligible Activities • Events: short-term activities completed in a week or less (e.g., a two-day conference or a one-week workshop). • As part of the overall proposal, applicants may request support for longer-term activities directly related to the event (e.g., developing proceedings, publications or reports, or other forms of knowledge synthesis). • Proposed events may be: • - face-to-face or involve virtual interaction; • - discipline-specific, or cross-disciplinary and/or cross- • sectoral; and • - open or closed-invitation.

20. Eligible Activities • Outreach activities: Proposed outreach activities must be designed to engage a broader public in humanities and social sciences knowledge through one or a combination of the following: knowledge dissemination, transfer, brokering, translation, synthesis, exchange, networking or co-creation beyond what would typically be achieved through an event.

21. Examples of Outreach Activities • adaptation including translations of texts or presentations for the purpose of broader dissemination to different audiences; • development of policy briefs, knowledge syntheses and scoping reviews; • development of articles for print or online publication in newspapers or weekly or monthly magazines—whether specialized or general interest; • virtual networking; • media events (such as television/radio presentations); • summer schools/institutes; • speaker series; • public debates; • artistic exhibits, performances or festivals; or a film about or based on the research • development/use of interactive technologies, audio-visual products or software; • development/use of educational aids, instruments or equipment.

22. Eligible Activities • Projects may occur in Canada or abroad. • If a proposed project is to occur abroad, the applicant must justify the project’s potential to mobilize Canadian research on an international stage, and why the project must happen outside Canada. Applicants must provide evidence that they are playing an active and significant role in the organization and delivery of the event.

23. Ineligible Activities • Research • Stand-Alone Volumes • Association Activities such as: • - annual general meetings or any other activity directly related to an association’s business meetings; • - book launches or similar report dissemination; - receptions for association members; and • - any activities normally paid for by the association’s • operating fees.

24. Applicants • Two kinds: • Institutional – eligible Canadian institutions with a project manager as the lead • Individual – a faculty member whose primary affiliation is with an eligible Canadian post secondary institution

25. Co-applicants • An individual is eligible to be a co-applicant if they are formally affiliated with any of the following: • Canadian: Eligible postsecondary institution; not-for-profit organization; philanthropic foundation; think tank; or municipal, territorial or provincial government. • International: Postsecondary institution.

26. Collaborators • Any individual who makes a significant contribution to the project is eligible to be a collaborator. Collaborators do not need to be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution. • Individuals from the private sector or federal government can only participate as collaborators.

27. Deadlines

28. Evaluation Criteria and Scoring

29. Evaluation Criteria

30. Challenge—Aim and importance of the endeavour

31. Feasibility—Plan to achieve excellence

32. Capability—Expertise to succeed

33. Scoring

34. Connections Grant Success Rates • 2017 – 2018

35. PEG Success Rates – 2017-18

36. Helpful Links • Partnership Engage Grants • Connection Grants • Research Data Management Capacity Building Initiative • Indigenous Research • Research-Creation • Guidelines for Effective Research Training • Guidelines for Effective Knowledge Mobilization • Guidelines for Cash and In-Kind Contributions • Tri-Agency Financial Administration Guide • Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications • Guidelines for Support of Tools and Related Activities

37. Two more helpful SSHRC resources: • Awards Search Engine • Merit Review CommitteeMembers

38. Proposal Development – tips and strategies

39. Proposal Development • Give yourself lots of time • Frame the project within the SSHRC program objectives • Get as much feedback as you can and reorganize and shape the proposal carefully, highlighting key points • Aim for clarity in how the entire project is conceived both in terms of the big picture and in the details • A word of caution when using past successful applications as a template

40. Proposal Development - Mapping Strategy • Start by thinking about the research rather than writing text. • It is more difficult to revise research plans once they are written as text than it is to change a proposal ‘map’. • Two key tasks: • i) Finding the Project Framework; • ii) Developing the Budget

41. Finding the Framework • Key Questions to create the proposal map: • What is your main research objective? • Why is it important to do this research? • How will the research objective be achieved? • Who will be involved in the planned activities to help accomplish the research objectives? • What are the anticipated outcomes of the research? What will be the results of the research activities? • What will be the anticipated impact or significance of these outcomes/results?

42. Budget Considerations • Every item in your budget request for SSHRC funds must be justified carefully in relation to the proposed project activities (and the research objectives for PEG applications). • There should be continuity between the Project Description, Student Training, Knowledge Mobilization, Outcomes, Budget and Budget Justification. No surprises in the Budget!

43. Final Comments: An Excellent Project Plan is: • Do‐able • Plan makes sense to the reviewer • Design is comprehensive • Results clearly obtainable / interpretable • Proposal conveys little doubt of success • Clear evidence of applicant skills and previous success • No assumptions are skipped over

44. Excellent Proposal Writing is: • Easy to Read • Uses the Concept of one: • one main goal for the proposal • one main point per paragraph • one thought per sentence • Focused on the key points • Uses direct, uncomplicated language • Uses summary statements

45. A Persuasive Proposal is … • Clearly relevant and important: • Goals are directly aligned with the funder’s priorities • An important knowledge gap is identified • The rationale is presented clearly and succinctly • The research objectives and outcomes are linked • The anticipated impact of the research results is stated explicitly and in a compelling way.

46. Help Lines: • I am available to answer questions and to provide proposal development support and editorial feedback on drafts for A & S faculty members: Suzanne.jaeger@utoronto.ca • Connection@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca or Tel.: 613-943-1007 • partnershipengagegrants@sshrc-crsh.gc.caor Tel.: 613-943-1007 • Mark Bold, RSO Funding Officer: mark.bold@utoronto.ca or 416 946-3606