Research Information for Western Graduate Students in FIMS, Law & Music
A recent Western Research Ethics Management (WREM) system update allows research teams to track their changes within submitted applications. For more information, please see this document on the Office of Human Research Ethics WREM page as well as within the HELP feature on the WREM platform.
If you have any questions, contact wrem@uwo.ca.
The CFUW provides funds for a range of post graduate awards and fellowships to women.
Amount: Varies by award
Deadline: January 18, 2023
Eligibility: Women; Canadian Citizen or Permanent Resident in Canada
SSHRC’s Storytellers Challenge asks postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting our lives, our world and our future for the better.
Description: Create a video or audio clip of up to three minutes or a text or infographic of up to 300 words of original work featuring SSHRC-funded research carried out at the institution at which you are enrolled at the time of submission. Prizes will be awarded to 25 finalists.
Eligibility: Must a Canadian resident, be 19 years of age and must be enrolled at a Canadian postsecondary institution
Deadline: Monday, January 30, 2023, 11:59 p.m. (eastern)
SAGE, Western’s Indigenous Graduate Student Support Network, is hosting a research symposium to showcase Indigenous brilliance at Western and in the local community. Biidaaskonenjigewag means “they come with a light” in the Anishinaabe language and highlights the diverse gifts that knowledge keepers and scholars contribute to their communities. Join for the day to celebrate and honour Indigenous artists, language speakers, and researchers.
Wednesday, November 23 rd, 2022
9:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Western Libraries is offering:
Introductory Workshop on Data Archiving
Thursday, November 10, 2022
1:00 – 2:00 pm
via Zoom
Data archiving and sharing is increasingly required by many funders and journals. Western Libraries provides access to Borealis, a publicly accessible, secure Canadian data repository system using Dataverse software for sharing and archiving data. Dataverse allows for data to be released and shared openly or privately with precision at the file level.
Session outcomes:
Register here: http://www.events.westernu.ca/events/libraries/2022-11/sharing-and-archiving-data-borealis.html
The Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP) provides funding for senior undergraduates and graduate students conducting research in the North.
This is a supplementary grants program which was put in place to help defray the high costs of conducting fieldwork in the North and to encourage students to develop a commitment to northern research. Students must also have other sources of funds to be eligible. The program funds thesis-based research projects on northern topics from all disciplines and in multi-disciplinary fields.
DEADLINE : The deadline for completing the online application is 11:59 pm, November 10, 2022. The application portal will close after the deadline.
ONLINE FORMS: The Online forms are available at https://nstp-pfsn.smapply.io/
CRITERIA and ELIGIBILITY: The Program supports field research in any discipline – life, physical, human and health sciences – as long as the research has an essential orientation and impact on the North, and is part of the student’s thesis research.
The student must be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident and enrolled in a graduate or senior undergraduate program at a Canadian university. NSTP funding may be used for the purpose of dissemination or reporting back to the community. Students may apply for up to $6,000.00 in funding per year.
The research must relate directly to their thesis (undergraduate honors, Masters or PhD) research. Part time students are eligible for NSTP funding.
A student who is employed or remunerated for their research in the field cannot receive NSTP. Post-doctoral researchers and research assistants (with the exception of Northern post-secondary students) are not supported.
Field schools are not eligible.
Geographic eligibility: The research activity and travel must be north of the sporadic discontinuous permafrost line (approximately 50 deg N), ANYWHERE in the Northern Hemisphere.
APPLICATION PROCESS: The application and statement of research require significantly less content and effort than NSERC, SSHRC or OGS!
Students must go online, create a profile and complete the online application form. New supervisors will have to create a profile as well. The forms for students and supervisors are available at: https://nstp-pfsn.smapply.io
Following the field season for which funding was provided, a brief report is required from the student through the online system.
Please follow the instructions in the information manual on the main page of the NSTP application system website. Incomplete or incorrectly formatted applications will be returned to the applicant for revision. Applications received at the deadline that is incomplete or requires changes may not be accepted.
Further information on the program is available in the information manual, which you can access on the NSTP Application and Reporting system website: https://nstp-pfsn.smapply.io
CONTACT INFORMATION: Please direct any questions to Dr. Gordon Osinski, Chair, Northern Studies Committee at northern@uwo.ca.
END OF TEMPORARY MEASURES: The NSTP has ended the temporary measures that were put in place due to Covid-19. As a result, students who received funding between 2020 and 2022 will have until March 31st, 2023 to use the funds; extensions will no longer be granted. Students planning fieldwork between April 1st, 2023 and March 31st, 2024, are required to submit a new application.
Students who received funding for the 2022-2023 fiscal year and who plan to do their fieldwork between November 10th, 2023 and March 31st, 2023 should submit a preliminary report.
The university’s most recent COVID-19 update (COVID-19 website ) has been developed to ensure the Western community continues to keep each other safe this fall. Western Research has correspondingly updated their guidance for research, scholarship and creative activity. These are posted on Western Research COVID website (https://www.uwo.ca/research/covid19_updates.html) and provided below, as follows:
Western Research has released a new handbook to help arts and humanities researchers navigate the research ethics review and approval process, and to help provide information about how ethics guidelines may apply to their research. Training and education sessions will be organized this fall to help build on the content provided in the handbook.
The handbook serves as a foundation for continued education and mutual learning for all stakeholders in the non-medical research ethics space at Western.
IDRC (International Development Research Centre) International Development Research Awards (IDRA) are intended to build capacity and develop research skills in Canada and the Global South to improve the lives of people in the developing world.
The objective of the project is to strengthen the capacities of emerging researchers at Canadian universities, growing the cohort of researchers able to design, lead and carry out high-quality research that contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals and specific development outcome areas of particular interest to IDRC.
Amount: up to $20,000
Deadline: August 31,2022
Eligibility criteria:
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships support the most promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities, and assist them in establishing a research base at an important time in their research careers.
Amount: $45,000 per year over one or two years
Deadline: September 14, 2022
The purpose of these fellowships is to provide stipendiary support to recent PhD graduates who are:
SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship awards are tenable at Canadian or foreign universities and research institutions.
Eligibility: applicants must be a citizen or permanent resident of Canada
