News and Announcements
New Electronic Grants Management System, together with Canadian Common CV, launched with SSHRC Insight Development Grants
SSHRC, in collaboration with NSERC, has been working to modernize its technology infrastructure and develop a new electronic grants management system that will streamline and simplify the submission process for both applicants and partners. Following a rigorous development and testing process involving members of the research community and SSHRC staff, a phased-in approach will now see the rollout of the system beginning with the Insight Development Grants competition in November 2012, well in advance of the competition’s February 1, 2013 deadline. Additional funding opportunities and programs for both SSHRC and NSERC, including the Canada Research Chairs program, will be phased in to the system in 2013.
Concurrently with the launch of the new grants management system, SSHRC will move to the new Canadian Common CV (CCV) to replace the SSHRC CV for the Insight Development Grants competition. All participants in the Insight Development Grants will be required to complete and upload their CCV when submitting an application to SSHRC. Please note that at this time, use of the new CCV applies only to the Insight Development Grants. The current SSHRC CV will continue to be used for all other competitions until those funding opportunities have been moved onto the new grants management system.
SSHRC has published a fact sheet and a Q&A document on the SSHRC website, relating to the grants management system portal and the CCV. In addition, SSHRC’s Research Portfolio will be offering a webinar on the grants management system portal and CCV for the Insight Development Grants, open to all interested participants, in early December 2012. Details will be made available on the SSHRC website in the coming weeks.
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program - Internal Deadline: 12:00 p.m(noon) October 11, 2012
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program is an initiative of the Government of Canada to attract top-tier postdoctoral researchers, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research-based growth. The awards are two-year fellowships at $70,000/year for a total award of $140,000. Once in full operation, the program will support 140 international and Canadian postdoctoral researchers, with 70 fellowships awarded each year. The fellowships will be distributed equally across Canada's three federal granting agencies: the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
Both Canadian and international recent PhD, PhD-equivalent or health professional degree graduates are eligible to apply for a Banting postdoctoral fellowship. International students must hold their award at a Canadian institution, as must Canadian citizens or permanent residents who obtained their degree from a foreign university.
Host institutions play a critical role in the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program. Institutions are asked to endorse only their highest-caliber postdoctoral researchers, and Letters of Endorsement from the host institution are required for complete applications. Due to recent changes in the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program, institutional endorsement letters are required to include information about how applicants are selected for endorsement.
At Memorial University, applications for the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program will be selected for endorsement by a committee developed through the School of Graduate Studies (SGS). The committee will make recommendations to the Vice President Research. The Office of Research Services will be receiving applications on behalf of the SGS committee (Deadline - noon on Thursday, October 11, 2012). The Office of Research Services will coordinate with the Office of the Vice President Research to obtain institutional Letters of Endorsement for selected applicants and this letter will be provided back to applicants in sufficient time to be included in their applications for the external competition deadline of November 1, 2012.
Please review and complete the information on this funding opportunity at http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/home-accueil-eng.html. If you will be submitting an application for consideration by the selection committee, please contact the Office of Research Services (see list below) as soon as possible to indicate your intent.
Office of Research Services contact information:
Contact for Faculty of Medicine, Schools of Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work, HKR, and Grenfell campus is Vicki Gill, vgill@mun.ca, 709-864-3045.
Contact for Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Engineering, Marine Institute is Jessica McLachlan, jspenney@mun.ca, 709-864-3805.
Contact for Faculties of Science, Business Administration, and Education, School of Music, and the Labrador Institute is Jillian Westcott, jwestcott@mun.ca, 709-864-4745.
Access to Mutant Mouse Lines for Research
The NorCOMM2 project is notifying Canadian researchers about the opportunity to nominate genes for mutant mouse line production and phenotyping. Do you have one or more gene candidates for disease, development, or drug target validation for which you would like to get a mouse model, but don't yet have enough data to write that grant proposal? Do you need more information about the phenotypic consequences of gene dysfunction? If so, then the NorCOMM2 project may be able to help. NorCOMM2 is part of the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, a program aimed at generating and phenotyping knock-out mouse lines derived from the International Knockout Mouse Consortium ES cell resource. NorCOMM2 aims to generate and phenotype 150 mouse lines over the next 3 years and we want to know what genes are of greatest interest to Canadian researchers to assist us with our selection process. All mouse lines generated as part of the NorCOMM2 project will be available for distribution from the Canadian Mouse Mutant Repository as soon as they are produced. Phenotype data will be posted publicly as soon as it has undergone internal quality control. Please go to http://www.norcomm2.org to learn more about the NorCOMM2 project and nominate your gene(s) of interest.
