VPR Announcements

Insight/Insight Development/Partnership LOI/Partnership Dev’t

The Office of Research Services will be holding an information session on the Insight, Insight Development, Partnership LOI and Partnership Development competitions.

Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Time: 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location: Administrative Services Building (ASB), Rm 120

Please RSVP to Dailene (resprog3@uvic.ca) if you plan to attend.

UVic Internal Deadline: November 23, 2012
***(Please advise resprog3@uvic.ca / grants@uvic.ca) as soon as possible if you plan to submit an application.***

SSHRC Deadline: November 30, 2012

The Partnership Development Grants description and application form are now available on the SSHRC website at the following link: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/partnership_development_grants-bourses_partenariat_developpement-eng.aspx

Partnership Development Grants provide support, up to $200,000 over one to three years, to new or existing partnerships to:

• develop research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities, including knowledge mobilization and the meaningful involvement of students and new scholars, by fostering new partnerships for research and related activities involving existing and/or potential partners; or
• design and test new partnership approaches for research and/or related activities that may result in best practices or models that either can be adapted by others or have the potential to be scaled up to a regional, national or international level.

MESSAGE FROM THE VICE-PRESIDENT RESEARCH

It is my pleasure to announce that Dr. Oliver Schmidtke has been appointed to a one year term as the Interim Director for the Centre for Global Studies (CFGS), replacing, Dr. Gordon Smith who retired at the end of June. Dr. Schmidtke, a former director of European Studies, holds appointments in the departments of Political Science and History and has an extensive record of scholarship in comparative and identity politics, citizenship and immigration, and xenophobia and racism. Oliver will work closely with the interim program committee to implement the recommendations of the CFGS working group to expand and deepen the engagement of UVic faculty and students in the centre’s activities. The CFGS’s initial programs of research will revolve around four interdisciplinary themes: global governance, environmental challenges, social justice, and culture and identity.

Under the direction of Dr. Schmidtke and the interim program committee, a number of fellowships for UVic faculty and students and visiting scholars will be established during the coming year.  Plans are being developed for a series of lectures, symposia, and workshops that will serve as a catalyst for interdisciplinary research in the CFGS’s areas of thematic concentration.

Dr. Schmidtke looks forward to engaging the university and wider community in the renewal of the CFGS research programs over the coming year.

Howard Brunt
Vice-President Research

 

 

The Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program’s objective is to provide substantial and timely resources to a small group of researchers whose research proposals suggest and explore high-risk, novel or potentially transformative concepts and lines of inquiry, and are likely to have impact by contributing to groundbreaking advances in the area. DAS support enables the researcher to capitalize on an opportunity, such as a recent research breakthrough, a paradigm shift or a new strategy to tackle a scientific problem or research question.

Researchers do not apply for a DAS. Rather, Discovery Grants recipients may be nominated during the annual Discovery Grants competition by their respective evaluation group (EG), if they meet the objectives of the program. Nominations for a DAS are considered when applications for Discovery Grants are evaluated. You may find the DAS program description and Frequently Asked Questions on NSERC’s Web site at http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Professors-Professeurs/Grants-Subs/DGAS-SGSA_eng.asp.

NSERC is offering the option for the Vice-President, Research to request from NSERC a reduction in the duration of the Discovery Grant for a limited number of their very best researchers who they believe would meet the objectives and intent of the awards. This would allow the researchers to be possibly considered for these awards earlier than their original grant duration would have allowed.

NSERC has established a quota system for each eligible institution based on its size. The quota for our university has been established as six (6).

Should you wish to be considered, please email Terri Myhr, Pre-Awards Grants Officer (grants@uvic.ca), Office of Research Services, no later than July 3, 2012.

 

If your name is put forward to NSERC, you will need to submit a Notification of Intent to Apply for a Discovery Grant (Form 180) by the deadline date of August 1, and a Discovery Grant application by November 1. The duration of your current Discovery Grant will be reduced accordingly.

NSERC can neither guarantee that a DAS will be awarded, nor that the previous Discovery Grant level will be maintained.

This year the Fall SSHRC Insight Grant competition will be a two step process.

NOI
Mandatory. Only researchers who submit an NOI will be given access to the full application form.
Form Available - Starting June 15, 2012
ORS Internal Deadline - n/a
SSHRC Deadline - August 15, 2012

Full Application
Form Available - Starting July 15, 2012 (to researchers who submitted an NOI)
ORS Internal Deadline - October 1, 2012
SSHRC External Deadline - October 15, 2012

NOTE: This year SSHRC will be accepting Research Creation applications as part of the Insight Competition.

If you have questions, please contact Dailene O’Neill (resprog3@uvic.ca).