Thread by @Jamaticulus

The unconventional trick to getting grad. funding in Canada (Social Sciences and Humanities)

If you missed the STEM thread, see it here

https://twitter.com/Jamaticulus/status/1363863093462396933?s=20

This one is meant for those in social sciences and humanities grad. looking to tailor their search, identify profs.

with funding to know their current research focus.
Let's go! (Allons-y✈️)

1)The SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) is a federal research funding agency that promotes and supports postsecondary-based research and training in the humanities&social sciences.

2) Professors (Principal Investigators-P. I) apply individually or collaboratively for SSHRC grants through the submission of project proposals

3) After a committee assesses these proposals, funded projects are made PUBLIC on the SSHRC website.

It’s these funds that professors use to run their research and employ qualified grad. students (YOU) who would deliver the project results as stated in their proposal.

4) Here is the SSHRC website: sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/home-accueil-e…

5) Click competition results>notification of competition results> Winners of recent SSHRC competitions or award recipients

6) Click “Award Recipients for Insight Dev. Grants: Feb. 2020 Competition”. The grant results were announced in October 2020. The prof in the image got 74k to carry out research. You can scroll along and play with the filter items at the top of the page using the keywords

(school, city, professor’s name if known).

7) Go back 1 page and click “Knowledge Synthesis Grants: Skills and Work in the Digital Economy”. The results for these grants were just announced this month and it was capped at $30k. At the bottom of this page, it shows that

it was funded by “Future Skills Centre”. You can click the link to read more about them. I can’t tell if this grant is for hiring students as it depends on the P.I’s plan.

Key points
i) It is very evident that the funding base for social science and humanities can’t match that

of the STEM as seen from my previous thread. See the image below 👇. Nevertheless, don’t be discouraged. Shoot the right shots and improve your profile to make your self competitive. Add technology to your current social science/humanities background.

Read this for more insight: mcgill.ca/arts/article/a…

ii) This info. is to help tailor your search, finetune your CV, research experience, and contents of your cold email to containing the keywords the professor is interested in at this moment.

iii) Also, spread your search beyond what you see here. The P.I might still have funds from other sources (just like the one from Future skills centre) and looking to employ grad. students.

iv) Some P.I might have hired graduate students for these positions.

v) Be ready to come up with new initiatives. A P.I might require you to submit a short proposal that would be used to apply for new grants (From the images, you can see the low figures). If they feel it’s good enough, they would be able to employ you.

AVOID the following:

i) Mentioning the funding info. you found on the SSHRC website.

ii) Don’t even attempt to CONGRATULATE them on getting the grant while you have an underlying motive of getting into their lab. They are not entitled to respond even if you are a good fit.

We’ve now completed threads for NSERC (STEM) and SSHRC (social sciences). Next up is for the health-related sciences. Stay connected, share/RT with your friends and colleagues and tell them to follow @Jamaticulus

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