Lunch & Learn about SSHRC Partnership Development Grants

Invitation from the Office of Sponsored Research

Lunch & Learn about SSHRC Partnership Development Grants

The Office of Sponsored Research is pleased to invite McGill researchers to a Lunch & Learn 
about the upcoming SSHRC Partnership Development Grants competition.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012                            

12:30 – 14:00 pm

James Building, Room 302

The workshops will include:

·         a brief presentation about the requirements of the Partnership Development Grants;

·        presentations of two McGill researchers, who were successful in last year´s Partnership Development Grants competition and who will discuss strategies for establishing formal partnerships, in particular with non-academic partners:
- Professor Donald Taylor (Department of Psychology) and
- Professor Frederick Stapenhurst (Institute for the Study of International Development)

·        a question and answer period where participants will be encouraged to pose any questions that they may have about this funding opportunity. 
For participants who may not feel comfortable asking a question during the session or might not be able to attend the workshop, we invite you to send your questions in advance to joanna.mastalerek [at] mcgill.ca" target="_blank">Joanna Mastalerek.

The Office of Sponsored Research will offer a guide for preparing applications to this funding opportunity, which will be distributed at the workshop.

Refreshments will be served.

Please R.S.V.P. to joanna.mastalerek [at] mcgill.ca ()  before Wednesday, September 19.

The workshop may be cancelled if attendance is not sufficient.

Background:

Partnership Development Grants provide support, up to $200,000 over one to three years, for new or existing partnerships to:
- develop research and related activities in the social sciences and humanities, including knowledge mobilization and the meaningful involvement of students and new scholars; or
- design and test new partnership approaches for research and/or related activities that may result in best practices or models that either can be adapted by others or have the potential to be scaled up to a regional, national or international level.
 
The federal budget, as noted in the 2012 Economic Action Plan, announced an increase of $7 million per year to SSHRC for industry-academic partnerships to commence in 2012-13.   As a result, SSHRC encourages applicants to involve partners from the private sector, including associations.

Please note that, as indicated in SSHRC’s regulations governing multiple applications, researchers who have been named Project Directors for a Partnership Grant in 2012 are not eligible to apply to Partnership Development Grants in 2012, whether successful in the Partnership Grant competition or not. 

For all questions related to SSHRC funding opportunities, please contact joanna.mastalerek [at] mcgill.ca (Joanna Mastalerek), Grants Officer, Office of Sponsored Research.