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November 28, 2023 from 12:00-1:00 pm 

Students, staff, and researchers are invited to attend our online drop-in sessions.
This session will be focusing on best practices, ethical principles, and community engagement protocol when it comes to research projects engaging with Inuit communities.

Registration is required

This Community of Practice is for Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics to network, connect, and create capacity within our campus. Some of the topics discussed will include mentorship, university processes, and sharing of research projects and initiatives. Indigenous Research CoP will be held on the last Thursday of every month at 12 p.m. MT.

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Navigating DORA: Tools for Advancing Research Assessment

Professor Ruth Schmidt presented on her work developing new, user-centred tools and resources for research assessment, with a focus on Project TARA (Tools to Advance Research Assessment) earlier this week. Watch the webinar recording.

The University of Calgary signed DORA in January 2021 with the aim of improving research assessment practices and recognizing accomplishments more broadly across all scholarly disciplines. For more information on DORA implementation at UCalgary please check out our website. If you have questions, please contact DORA@ucalgary.ca.

2024 Wellcome Trust Mental Health Award: Understanding how anxiety- and trauma-related problems develop, persist and resolve

Wellcome’s mental health strategic aim is to drive a transformative change in our ability to intervene as early as possible in the course of anxiety, depression and psychosis, in ways that reflect the priorities and needs of people who experience these problems. This call will fund research that advances scientific understanding of the causal mechanisms through which brain, body and environment interact over time in the development, persistence and resolution of anxiety- and trauma-related disorders.

Existing evidence suggests that many factors contribute to the development, persistence and resolution of anxiety-related problems. However, we know much less about the biological, psychological and social causal mechanisms underpinning how and why these factors influence the trajectory of these problems over time. With this funding opportunity, Wellcome Trust wants to move beyond correlational evidence to a deeper consideration of the causal mechanisms underpinning anxiety-related problems. This mechanistic understanding will help develop new and improved ways to predict, identify and intervene as early as possible. Up to £4 million for up to 5 years is available to research teams from any relevant discipline based anywhere in the world (apart from mainland China). Wellcome Trust encourages applications from diverse and interdisciplinary teams, with collaborations covering multiple areas of expertise (for example, biological, psychological and social); and from researchers at any stage of their career, including early career researchers and/or those who are new to the field of mental health science. 

Partnership Grants provide support for formal partnerships that advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities through mutual co-operation and sharing of intellectual leadership, as well as through resources as demonstrated by cash and/or in-kind contributions. Faculty members who would like to participate in the 2024 competition must inform RSO of their intent to apply (ipd@ucalgary.ca) and provide a completed internal Notice of Intent (iNOI template attached) for the proposed project as soon as possible.

2024 SSHRC Partnership Grant: Stage 1

SSHRC-PHAC Joint Partnership Engage Grant: Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making

This joint initiative is a partnership between the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) to support research opportunities entitled “Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making" The overall goal of this joint initiative is to identify and advance socio-economic research for evidence-informed public health decision-making on selected public health priority topics in Canada. The objectives of the joint initiative include: Supporting evidence-informed public health policy making; Addressing horizontal public health policy needs; Broadening the understanding of socio-economic impacts of public health interventions; Examining issues related to data sources, gaps and potential remedial strategies.

The joint initiative provides short-term and timely support for partnered research activities that will inform public health decision-making and are grouped under 6 broad categories with specific research themes in each category. Please see Funding Calendar entry for more details on themes and categories.

Amount: $7,000 to $25,000 for one year

RSO Internal Deadline: Tuesday December 12, 2023 at noon

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Stephanie Patrick

Value: up to $25,000 for one year

RSO Internal Deadline: Tuesday December 12, 2023 at noon

SSHRC will be holding webinars for applicants and research administrators on the Partnership Engage Grants funding opportunity. This will include the newly launched joint initiative between SSHRC and the Public Health Agency of Canada, titled Advancing Socio-Economic Research for Evidence-Informed Public Health Decision-Making.

The webinars will be held via Webex at the following dates and times:

Webinar
Partnership Engage Grants (English)

Date & Time (MT)
November 14, 2023, 11 a.m.-12 p.m.

Links to meeting
https://sshrcvideo.webex.com/sshrcvideo/j.php?MTID=m0cd14328e6474209a668f0c2e28c206d

Password: PEG2023

Partnership Engage 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 postsecondary researchers access each other’s unique knowledge, expertise and capabilities on topics of mutual interest.

If you have technical questions, please contact:
Tel.: 613-995-4273
Email: webgrant@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

Information Sessions

This jointly funded Indigenous studentship is part of MHRC’s 2023-2024 Studentship cycle, where students share their time between academic institutions and community service providers, tying together their research with the needs of the end-users — the community and people with lived experience. This studentship provides $15,000 for a four-or-six-month term. Deadline: November 30, 2023

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