SSHRC-funded research fuels innovative thinking across a wide range of issues in the humanities and social sciences, including education, economy, health care, the environment, immigration, globalization, language, ethics, peace, security, human rights, law, poverty, mass communication, politics, literature, addiction, pop culture, sexuality, religion, Aboriginal rights, the past and our future. SSHRC programs also provide support for research training and research communication activities. SSHRC is currently the main source of Tri-Agency funding for the Faculty of Education.

In the period 1999 to 2004, approximately 87% of Tri-Agency funding that is brought into the Faculty of Education was from SSHRC and the majority of this funding was from the SSHRC Standard Research Grants Program (Source: Faculty of Education External Review, 2005).

To learn about the major SSHRC funding programs, please visit the SSHRC web site.

IMPORTANT PROCESSES AND TIMELINES PERTAINING TO SSHRC STANDARD RESEARCH GRANT:

Listed below is information that is designed to help you with processes and timelines pertaining to the authourization of your SSHRC Standard Research Grant applications at the Faculty-level, through the OGPR. At the OGPR, our responsibility is to ensure the following:

1. Required signatures have been obtained. These include:

a) The Applicant's
b) The Applicant's Department Head
c) ALL Co-Applicants
d) Institutional signatures from the research office at EACH Co-Applicant's institution.

Please note that FAX copies of the Co-I signatures (and their institutional signatures) are acceptable.

2. We review the budget for accuracy, inclusion of eligible costs, and a thorough budget justification. Note that each year roughly 50% of applications have problems in this area. We highly recommend that you submit your budget for an early review (see below).

3. Approval obtained for requests for Release Time Stipend (RTS) (if allowable in the application).

Please note that all faculty interested in applying for release time as part of their research grant application must complete and submit the two Faculty RTR request forms when they are submitting their applications for authourization. These two forms - one for the faculty member to fill out and one for the faculty member's Department Head to fill out, are available on the OGPR's Release Time for Research web page.

Here are the timelines for obtaining the Faculty-level signature for SSHRC Standard Research Grant Applications (October 16 SSHRC deadline) through the OGPR:

We highly recommend that you submit your application to OGPR by Tuesday October 10. The signed application forms with feedback (if applicable) will be ready by Thursday (October 12) at noon. If you are not able to submit your application by October 10, please submit it as early as possible that week. We require a turn around time of, at minimum, one full working day to give us time to attend to the matters listed above (our institutional responsibility). Further, more often than not we have found that minor revisions are necessary (e.g., for missing signatures, problems with budgets). The earlier you provide the grant to us, the more likely you will be able to attend to necessary revisions. At the very latest, we request that you submit your application by no later than Thursday October 12 at 4:00 p.m. These applications would be ready to be picked up by Friday the 13th at 4:00 p.m., leaving you just the (very busy) Monday morning to obtain the final institutional signature from UBC's Office of Research Services.

Please make sure that your application has a contact number and personnel from the OGPR will notify you when the application has been signed at the Faculty-level.

Supporting you to obtain signatures from the Office of Research Services:

We offer a service to faculty members to obtain institutional signatures from ORS for your applications. Once your application has been signed at the Faculty-level, if time permits, we will walk your application over to ORS to obtain their signature. ORS has a signing time designated between 9 and 10 am each morning. On request, we will obtain this signature for you during that block of time, when your application is ready (e.g., if your application receives a faculty-level signature by 9 am on Friday the 13th, at your request, we will walk the application over to ORS for you, obtain the necessary signatures, and alert you to when you can pick up the completed package at the OGPR).