Research Day 2010

Please hold this date!

This is a preliminary announcement that Research Day will be held on:

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Great Hall, Somerville House

In order to facilitate collaborative research, Research Day will be a joint effort between the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Faculty of Information and Media Studies and the Faculty of Education.

A call for research to be presented at Research Day will be sent out soon.  All Faculty and Graduate Student researchers will be invited to submit intent to present forms.

If you have any questions please contact Karen Kueneman, kueneman@uwo.ca.

CIDA Conference Fund

Application deadline: Complete applications must be received no later than16 weeks before the conference begins

The Conference Fund supports participation by eligible delegates at conferences that address topics of particular interest to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). Conferences must directly support one or more of CIDA’s program priorities (governance, health, basic education, private-sector development, and environmental sustainability, with gender equality as a cross-cutting theme), and seek to influence sustainable development in developing countries and/or countries in transition. In response to Agency requirements, the Conference Fund may favour conferences that address areas where CIDA is strengthening its programming. Conferences may be held in Canada or abroad.
Amount: The Conference Fund will support up to 33% of total conference costs, to a maximum of $200,000, towards the participation of eligible delegates.

Applicant Eligibility: Only organizations may apply for funding. Applicant organizations must be:

• legally constituted Canadian, foreign, or international organizations (including government departments) in the public, voluntary, or private sectors;
• financially viable; and
• an organizer or one of the organizing partners of the proposed conference

More Information…

Invitation to Comment on TCPS – Research Involving Aboriginal Peoples

The Panel on Research Ethics announces the early release of the revised version of Chapter 9 of the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans (TCPS) for further public comment. Chapter 9 focuses on research involving Aboriginal Peoples. The early release of this chapter is provided in response to requests made by a number of individuals and groups in the Aboriginal community and the research community at large.

During the current comment period, national Aboriginal organizations are invited to consult with their own constituencies regarding the chapter. First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities and researchers engaged with them are especially encouraged to respond.

The complete revised draft 2nd edition of the TCPS will be made public in December 2009. A final draft 2nd edition of the TCPS will be provided to the three federal research Agencies in the Spring of 2010.

Comment Submissions
Written comments on the revised Chapter 9 will be accepted until March 1, 2010.

Please include your name with your submission. It is the panel’s intention to post all comments on the revised draft 2nd edition of the TCPS, including Chapter 9, on the Panel’s website after the closing of the comment period. If you do not wish to have your comments posted, please indicate that clearly in your submission.

Download a copy of revised Chapter 9 of draft 2nd edition of the TCPS. For background information on the Aboriginal Research Ethics Initiative, visit AREI-IERA.

Submit your written comments by e-mail at draft2e@pre.ethics.gc.ca, by fax to 613-996-7117 or mail your comments to:
Interagency Secretariat on Research Ethics
350 Albert Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 1H5

For additional information, please visit http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/eng/resources-ressources/news-nouvelles/nr-cp/2009-11-06/www.pre.ethics.gc.ca or contact:

Heather Dana Munroe
Communications Officer
Secretariat on Research Ethics
350 Albert Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 1H5
(613) 996-2569
hdm@pre.ethics.gc.ca

Western Innovation Fund

Description: Funded projects are intended to move new research results forward along the path towards commercialization and to provide incentive to validate and develop commercial opportunities for the investigator’s research.  Competitions are for one-time projects based on existing research initiatives and expected to be of short duration (6-12 months).

Amount: up to $50,000

Deadlines: Report of Invention (ROI) due November 20, 2009
Letter of Intent (LOI) due Decempber 15, 2009 (ROLA NOT Required at this stage)
Full Application due February 1, 2010 (ROLA Required)

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

Note: The submission instructions have changed for this competition.  In particular, there is now a Report on Invention (ROI) deadline. As well a ROLA proposal must be included with the application and is not longer required at the Letter of Intent (LOI) stage. Only Letters of Intent with Associate Dean signature approval will be accepted.

Previous Awards…

More Information & Application…

WORLDiscoveries personnel are available for consultation on issues related to intellectual property and commercialization.

Full Application must be accompanied by a ROLA.

Wayne Martino – Article in the Ottawa Citizen

Wayne Martino wrote an article for the October 29th edition of the Ottawa Citizen, “All boys aren’t the same: Lumping boys together for gender-based education ignores the differences among boys, and can reinforce potentially harmful stereotypes”

See http://www.ottawacitizen.com/life/boys+aren+same/2157168/story.html

CIHR – Message to SSHRC Health Researchers

This message is from Pierre Chartrand, CIHR:

SSHRC Health Researchers: You can find acceptance, challenge and $$$ at CIHR

As you know, with Budget 2009, the Government of Canada announced changes to eliminate overlap between different research investment agencies. As such, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) stated that it would reduce the amount of funding it provided for health research that was eligible under the mandate of CIHR. In my previous message, CIHR encouraged health researchers previously supported by SSHRC to submit funding applications to CIHR.

Six months later, we have received very few applications by researchers from the social sciences and humanities community despite the fact that the CIHR Act provides CIHR with a wide-ranging mandate which includes research on social determinants of health.

CIHR is deeply interested and invested in supporting the continued intellectual growth and increased breadth of scope of Canada’s research community. We firmly believe that that broad intellectual curiosity is critical for improving the well-being of Canadians, improving our understanding of the social determinants of wellness and disease, and increasing our capacity to provide optimal health care.

Already we have started building capacity in cross-cutting research domains that include the interface between health and society.  CIHR-funded multidisciplinary teams have shown tremendous promise in addressing key questions surrounding issues such as palliative care, cancer survivorship, obesity, neighborhood influences on health, mental health and health care delivery. These are just a few examples of a long list of research areas that require the insight and acumen of researchers from the social sciences and humanities community.

CIHR is in the process of planning important reforms to its peer review system to ensure that we are investing in the highest quality research and that applications from all four pillars of health research are reviewed with the same degree of equity. One of the objectives of these changes is to help identify and support ongoing and comprehensive research programs as opposed to applications for one-off research projects. I strongly encourage all health researchers previously supported by SSHRC to think about their work in these terms and, above all, to submit funding applications to CIHR for review.  I can ensure that these applications will be handled by top reviewers with the appropriate expertise in the field.

Pierre Chartrand, PhD
Vice-President, Research Portfolio
Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Comparative and International Education Speakers’ Series

The third lecture in the series:

The promise of a brighter future through education: Assessing the impact of NGOs working to provide educational opportunities for Maasai girls and women in rural Tanzania

Dr. Aniko Varpalotai
Faculty of Education
The University of Western Ontario

Thursday, November 12, 2009
1.00-3.00pm
UWO Faculty of Education Room 1010