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SSHRC Insight Grant

September 22, 2022

Procedures and timelines for the SSHRC Insight Grant

Important Dates
Check with your Department/SchoolApplication package sent to Department Head/School Director office for review & approvalSee below for application package details.
September 25, 2023Application package sent to Dean’s Office or affiliated hospital research office, hard copy or via email, for review & approval (FoM Internal Deadline).
September 26, 2023​Application package (printed if necessary), approved by Faculty, and taken to ORS (UBC Internal Deadline)
September 29, 2023 | 12:00pm​Applicant submits application on SSHRC research portal
October 3, 2023 | 5:00pm​ORS approves application on research portal (SSHRC Application Deadline)

Procedure

For the 2023 SSHRC Insight Grant opportunity, the Faculty of Medicine (FoM) has agreed with the Office of Research Services (ORS) on the following procedures/timelines:

  1. Your application package must be submitted to the Dean’s Office or affiliated hospital research office by Monday, September 25, 2023 for Faculty approval. Please email it to the Faculty signature contact for your site. Note that Evelina Tolstykh (fom.grantapprovals@ubc.ca) is the contact for Faculty approval for those located at the UBC Point Grey campus. See below for a complete list of the required items.
  2. After Faculty approval, your documents will be forwarded to ORS.
  3. Your application must be submitted via the SSHRC research portal no later than 12:00pm on Friday, September 29th, 2023.
  4. ORS will electronically approve your application via the research portal for submission to SSHRC.

Please remember that you can continue working on your research proposal up until you submit on the research portal on September 30th, even after you have submitted your application package for Faculty approval.

Required Documents

Required Documents to be submitted to the FoM for the SSHRC Insight grant competition:

  1. Completed Research Project Information Form including the following signatures:
    1. the Principal Investigator
    2. Department Head or School Director
    3. Research Centre Director (if using research space within a Senate-Approved Research Centre, identified with an asterisk on the Academic & Research Units page)
    4. Life Sciences Institute Director (if using research space within the Life Sciences Building, but excludes researchers using space within the Centre for Blood Research)
  2. Identification page (page 1 of the application)
  3. Participants page (page 2 of the application)
  4. Summary of proposal
  5. Funds requested from SSHRC and budget justification
  6. Funds from other sources
  7. In the case of cooperative projects where your partner has provided confirmed cash commitments, letters of support or commitment from collaborating companies or institutions

If you are a UBC co-applicant, please review the ORS website for the SSHRC-specific Agency Application Requirements & Procedures to check for signature requirements.

If you have any questions regarding this process, please contact Evelina Tolstykh at the FoM (evelina.tolstykh@ubc.ca).

Read more: Agency-Specific Procedures