Western Innovation Fund Announces Grant Recipients

The Western Innovation Fund grant recipients were announced today on Western’s Home Page. Congratulations to Immaculate Namukasa and George Gadanidis, both from the Faculty of Education on receiving funding for their work on Rich Online Mathematics Tasks: An Interactive Database.  

Other recent grant recipients from the Faculty are featured on the Faculty of Education research web pages.

Jacobs Foundation

The Jacobs Foundation  was established by Klaus J. Jacobs in December, 1988, in Zurich, Switzerland. The foundation is committed to creating a real and sustainable impact, both by financing research in the field of youth development and by supporting the development of professional and social skills of young people around the world. Investing in what they call “Productive Youth Development” means an investment in a better future. The foundation supports academic research, as well as pilot projects in the field of intervention and application, which aim to achieve immediate practical results and provide best-practice examples for future projects. The majority of their projects are developed in close collaboration with existing partners or with partners consciously selected by the Foundation for a certain project.

Deadlines: There are no set deadlines.

Research Priorities: In the field of Productive Youth Development, the Jacobs Foundation’s current priorities are:

1. Capitalizing on migration and the integration of youngsters with migrant backgrounds.
2. Improving learning contexts, including institutional dimensions of learning, all-day learning, out of school learning and integrative approaches to learning.
3. Economic dimensions of Productive Youth Development: macro and microeconomic effects

Within this context, the following aspects are of particular interest:

• developmental perspectives
• transitions in life
• preventative inter-medial measures
• learning methods, such as formal and non-formal learning
• cultural contexts and values
• skills and social responsibility
• peace, inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue

Projects taking into account the Foundation’s priorities and the above mentioned aspects normally have a higher chance of being considered for funding.

How to apply: If you believe that your research or activities match the Foundation’s approach and current priorities very closely, you can send a preliminary project proposal.

Applications must be accompanied by a completed Research Data and Approval Form (RDAF).

Fulbright Program

The Canada-U.S. Fulbright Program offers a unique opportunity to explore important contemporary issues relevant to Canada and the United States and the relationship between the two countries.

Deadlines:  
Faculty of Education Dean’s Office: 1 week prior to agency deadline (2-3 weeks if you wish feedback on your application – submit to Karen Kueneman)

Fulbright: November 15, 2008

Value:
Traditional Fulbright Scholar Awards - $25,000 (U.S. for full academic year; $12,000 for one semester)

Description:

Traditional Fulbright Scholar Awards Grants are available to Canadian and American scholars, post-doctoral researchers and experienced professionals to conduct research and/or teach at a host institution in the United States or Canada, respectively.
Applications in the following areas are given preference: Comparative public policy, North American integration, communications and culture, Indigenous issues, Border issues, Canada-U.S. relations, International trade, Security, Ecology and the environment, Law, Public Health, Canadian and American studies.All award recipients must be affiliated with an institution in the host country and are responsible for securing such affiliation.

All Applications must be accompanied by a completed Research Data and Approval Form (RDAF) in order to receive UWO Institutional approval. Forms can be obtained and submitted using Research On-Line Approvals (ROLA).

More information & applications…

Upcoming Grant Season

This is an early reminder that the very busy fall granting season will be upon us before we know it. We want to be strategic about our preparations for the fall. To prepare you and our office, we are asking for your feedback and also for your assistance. 

 

First:

 

1. If you plan to apply (or are contemplating applying) to any of the funding opportunities  below, please let me know as soon as possible.

2. READERS: We would like to prepare a list of readers who would be willing to review drafts of applications and provide constructive feedback. If you have been a successful applicant in past competitions, you would be an ideal candidate. However, if you haven’t been successful or if you are a new researcher, your assistance with this would also be valuable.  Please let me know if you would be willing to review applications. (This does not obligate you in any way. You will be able to say no at a later date if you are unable to help at that time.) The Associate Dean will write an acknowledgement letter to recognize your service.

3. INFORMATION SESSION: We would like to have a grant writing information session at the Faculty level where successful applicants and those who have served on review panels share experiences and tips with potential applicants.

a.  We would like your feedback on when this would be most helpful to applicants – June, July, August, September?

b.  If you are a successful or unsuccessful applicant and would be willing to share your experiences, please let me know.

4. OTHER SUGGESTIONS:

a.  If you have other ideas concerning what would be helpful, please let me know.

                               i.     What would you like to know about the grants process or writing a grant? 

                               ii.    What help do you need?

 

Potential Funding Opportunities (Deadline dates are approximate – not an exhaustive list):

 

Funding source	Associate Dean’s Deadline	Granter Deadline
Western Innovation Fund		Aug 12/08 Letter of Intent Sept 16/08 Full Application
SSHRC Internal Research	Aug 1/08	Aug 15/08
SSHRC Internal Travel	Aug 1/08	Aug 15/08
SSHRC Standard Grant – Notice of Intent to apply		Aug 15/08 ??
CIHR – Operating Grants		Aug 15/08 Registration Sept /08 Full Application
SSHRC ITST	TBD	Sept 15/08
SSHRC International Opportunities	TBD	Sept /08  ??
Ontario Mental Health Foundation	TBD	Sept /08
Faculty of Education Internal Conference Travel		Oct 1/08
SSHRC RDI	TBD	Oct 7/08
SSHRC Standard Grants	TBD	Oct 15/08
ADF – Small Grant	Oct 1/08	Oct 15/08
SSHRC Conference / Workshop	TBD	Nov 1/08
SSHRC CURA	TBD	Nov /08 ??
SSHRC ICURA	TBD	Nov /08 ??
SSHRC Northern Research Dev’t	TBD	Nov /08 ??
ADF – Major Grant	Nov 1/08	Nov 15/08
UWO Internal International Research	Nov 1/08	Nov 15/08
Fulbright		Nov 15/08

 

Please contact Karen Kueneman, kueneman@uwo.ca  with any ideas, if you wish to volunteer your services, or have any questions or concerns.

Education Library Presentation – Google Scholar

Researchers may be interested in attending a session on Google Scholar today from 3:00 – 4:30 in Room 1158. Details are available at the Education Library Blog.

“Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.”

National Council on Teacher Quality

Although the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) is American, the website may have useful data for Canadian researchers.

The Council is also calling for proposals for its research competition, Help or Hindrance? What is the impact of  teacher roles, rules, and rights on teacher quality?.

The competition  is an opportunity to explore NCTQ’s groundbreaking database, TR3,  which contains the intricacies of collective bargaining agreements,  school board policies, and state laws for 100 schools districts and all 50 states.

 The deadline for proposals is May 30, 2008.

NCTQ is particularly interested in attracting new scholars from all  fields to education policy research. A jury of top educational  scholars will select 12 authors as semi-finalists that will receive $5,000 to conduct research and write a formal research paper. In  December, eight finalists will be selected to present their papers at  a national conference to be held in winter ‘09 in Washington, D.C.
 At the conference, prizes of $15,000 and $5,000 will be awarded to the  top two papers.

More Information…

SSHRC – Aid to Scholarly Journals

The application form and instructions for SSHRC’s Aid to Scholarly Journals are now available.  SSHRC recognizes that peer-reviewed scholarly journals are a primary tool for fostering intellectual debate and inquiry. Today, new information and communication technologies are changing the way research results are published and disseminated, allowing information to circulate more rapidly and widely than ever before. In response, and in accordance with Council’s position on open access, SSHRC has designed this program to allow journals to seek support regardless of business model or distribution format.

Deadlines:  
Faculty of Education Dean’s Office: 1 week prior to agency deadline (2-3 weeks if you wish feedback on your application – submit to Karen Kueneman)
UWO Internal: no less than 3 days prior to agency deadline
SSHRC: June 30, 2008 for a decision in October 2008

Value: Up to $30,000 per year for up to 3 years

Description: Through the program, SSHRC will contribute to the broad dissemination and impact of original research results in social science and humanities scholarship via Canadian scholarly journals. The program will also assist journals as they seek to take advantage of advances in communication technologies. Funds will be awarded to help defray the costs of publishing scholarly articles, to assist with distribution costs, and to support journal organizations in their transitions to digital media.

Eligibility: For this program, a scholarly journal is defined as a peer-reviewed academic publication that disseminates the results of original scholarship. Subscription-based journals, journals using an open-access business model, and journals using a “moving wall” arrangement to provide delayed open access are eligible for support. Also, for this program, an “article” is defined as a record of previously unpublished, high-quality, original research or scholarship that has been accepted for publication after a rigorous process of peer review. The adjudication committee will apply this definition to determine what is or is not a research article.

To be eligible for support under this program, a journal must have as its primary focus the publication of scholarly articles in a discipline or disciplines within SSHRC’s mandate; submit each article to be published to a rigorous, independent peer-review process; have been founded at least two years prior to the application deadline and have published within that timeframe a minimum of four issues, each having at least three peer-reviewed articles, or, for electronic journals not publishing in issue format, at least 12 peer-reviewed articles; have a minimum of 250 regular readers, as demonstrated through a detailed web-usage report or other verifiable documentation, such as a list of subscribers; have an editor-in-chief who is a faculty member of a Canadian postsecondary institution; have an editorial board responsible for the intellectual direction and content of the journal of which at least one-third of the board’s members are scholars affiliated with a Canadian postsecondary institution

Full Applications are to be processed through Research Development Services for institutional signatures, and are to be accompanied by a completed RDAF form (bearing applicant and Associate Dean Signatures).

More information…