Qatar Foundation – WISE Awards

Qatar Foundation has launched the first ever World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) AWARDS to recognise outstanding innovation in education.

Deadline: July 15, 2009 (results announced by August 31/09)

Amount: $20,000

Description: The WISE Awards support outstanding practice and achievements within the themes of Pluralism, Sustainability and Innovation in education. The WISE Awards will honour innovative, education-related projects and initiatives – tools, practices or processes – that have fostered distinctive cross-educational collaboration. Six awards will celebrate achievements from around the world across three categories:
Pluralism: “Educational activities that explicitly generate greater respect and understanding between communities, enhance diversity, or increase access and equality to education.” 
Sustainability: “Initiatives that offer new approaches to educational sustainability (through appropriate funding mechanisms, good governance, suitable accreditation and quality control structure) thereby contributing to the creation of sustainable global societies.”
Innovation: “Educational activities that use information and communication technologies and other innovative means to generate new and exciting opportunities for access and delivery of learning content that better enable people to face the diversity of today’s challenges.”

Applications (submitted in English) are welcome from all sectors of education and all types of organisations located anywhere in the world.

Applications and more information

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 Assoc. Dean Signatures).

Grant Writing Working Session Planned for June 25

Faculty of Education researchers are invited to join us for a grant-writing work session at the faculty where we will discuss and brainstorm regarding how to respond to the feedback from past applications, and provide tips for writing future applications.

Potential applicants for this Fall’s competitions are invited to bring in
a) an initial draft (a one page/paragraph/outline of your planned study); and / or
b) unsuccessful applications (and  feedback on those applications)

If you have been a successful applicant in the past or have served on an adjudication/review committee and would be willing to share your experiences, expertise or tips, please also plan to attend.

Thursday, June 25
1:30 – 4:00
Faculty of Education Building, Room 1010

Refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP to Karen Kueneman, kueneman@uwo.ca  if you plan to attend.

Guggenheim Foundation

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation (HFG) welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression, and dominance. The Foundation places priority on the study of urgent problems of violence, aggression and dominance in the modern world.

Deadlines: 
Faculty of Education Dean’s Office: July 18, 2009 (2-3 weeks if you wish to receive feedback on your application – submit to Karen Kueneman)
Research Western: July 25, 2009
HFG Foundation: August 1, 2009 (for a decision in December)

Value: $15,000-$30,000 a year, US (for up to 2 years)

Research Priorities: Particular questions that interest the foundation concern violence, aggression, and dominance in relation to social change, the socialization of children, intergroup conflict, interstate warfare, crime, family relationships, and investigations of the control of aggression and violence.

Past Grants

Application and more information…   

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 Assoc. Dean Signatures).

Fall 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.

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. 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. WORKING SESSION: We are planning a grant-writing work session at the Faculty level where potential applicants bring in a) an initial draft (a one page/paragraph/outline of your planned study); b) unsuccessful applications (and  feedback on those applications) to discuss and brainstorm regarding how to respond to the feedback, and tips for writing applications.
   1. This will take place at the end of June. Date will be announced soon.
   2. If you are a successful applicant and would be willing to share your experiences, expertise or tips, please let me know.

4.       Other Suggestions:

1. If you have other ideas concerning what would be helpful, please let me know.
   1. What would you like to know about the grants process or writing a grant? 
   2. What help do you need?

Potential Funding Opportunitiesfall2009.

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

SSHRC Internal Research

SSHRC Internal Research Awards are to support the cost of research initiatives in disciplines normally supported by SSHRC and are intended for research projects of modest scope. The competitions are for seed money, one-time requests, and projects of short duration. Applications may be made for new research initiatives. Requests for funds to supplement existing operating or research grants, to augment funds for larger projects (funded or applied for), or to attend conferences generally will not be accepted.

Amount: maximum $7,000 (over one year)

Deadlines:
Associate Dean’s Office: August 4, 2009 (1-2 weeks prior if you wish feedback on your proposal – submit to Karen Kueneman)
Research Western: August 17, 2009

Eligibility: The Principal Investigator must hold an academic appointment with a significant research component at UWO and must be eligible to hold a research account.

Applications and Guidelines

Forms must be accompanied by an RDAF.

SSHRC Internal Conference Travel

SSHRC Internal Conference Travel Awards are to enable faculty, academic librarians and post-doctoral fellows to take part in research-related meetings/conferences of major scholarly significance in disciplines normally supported by SSHRC. The program will fund participation in both regular international congresses and more narrowly focused conferences and seminars which take place more than (500 kilometers) from London, Ontario; applicants must be presenting a paper at the conference. Breadth of participation and decanal recommendation will be two major criteria for determining whether or not an award should be made.

Amount: $7,000 (maximum) The awards cover travel and subsistence costs only.

Deadlines:
Associate Dean’s Office: August  4, 2009 (2-3 weeks prior if you wish feedback on your proposal – submit to Karen Kueneman)
Research Western: August 17, 2009, 4:00 p.m.

Eligibility: A Principal Investigator (PI) must hold an academic appointment with a significant research component at UWO and must be eligible to hold a research account

Timing of Conference: There are no longer any restrictions as to when the conference must occur. However, retroactive requests for conferences occurring prior to the application date for a particular competition will receive a lower priority.

Applications and Guidelines

Forms must be accompanied by an RDAF

SSHRC: Reductions in Health-Related Research

CIHR is working closely with SSHRC on Health Research Funding Guidelines

As the Government of Canada’s agency responsible for investing in health research, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is committed to helping improve the health of Canadians. The CIHR Act explicitly provides CIHR with the mandate to invest in research covering a broad range of health determinants – social sciences and humanities are very much a part of this landscape and certainly are already well represented in the CIHR research community. Major new health services renewal projects, studies on aging, studies on cancer, studies on addiction, mental health and child development to name a few need the perspective and insight from different health research disciplines, including certainly social sciences and humanities.

Recently, you may have heard of changes being made to the funding of health research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) as a result of decisions announced in Budget 2009. As stated by SSHRC, the agency will reduce the amount of funding it provides for health-related research that is eligible under the mandate of the CIHR.

CIHR is well aware that there are a number of excellent researchers in health related areas currently receiving SSHRC funding that will be affected by these changes. CIHR is sending this message is to reassure members of this community that excellent funding opportunities for their research continue to exist at CIHR. For more details on CIHR programs click on http://www.researchnet-recherchenet.ca/rnr16/search.do?fodAgency=CIHR&fodLanguage=E&all=1&search=true&org=CIHR&sort=program&masterList=true&view=currentOpps

CIHR is working closely with their partners at SSHRC to ensure a coordinated approach during this transition period. They are working together to establish guidelines for determining whether applications are suitable for SSHRC or CIHR. CIHR is committed to a healthy and robust research community in Canada and welcome applications from all researchers committed to improved health.

Scholarship@Western

Scholarship @ Western, http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/, collects, indexes, disseminates, and archives a variety of materials created or sponsored by the University of Western Ontario community. It aims to advance scholarship and disseminate knowledge by providing open access to the academic and professional achievements at Western. 

Scholarship @ Western is an Institutional Repository. Institutional Repositories (IRs) bring together all of a University’s research under one umbrella, with an aim to preserve and provide access to that research. IRs are an excellent vehicle for working papers or copies of published articles and conference papers. Presentations, senior theses, and other works not published elsewhere can also be published in the IR.

The Researcher Gallery provides researchers and research centres with an opportunity to create and maintain personal homepages.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Adrian Ho at Western Libraries - adrian.ho@uwo.ca