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Federation Congratulates Recipients of Latest Round of SSHRC Funding
Over $190 million in new grant and scholarship funding will support almost 4,000 of Canada's research community members.
Letter to Minister Clement Regarding Elimination of Mandatory Long-Form Census
The Federation shares the concerns of the humanities and social sciences research community regarding the elimination of the mandatory long-form census and the impact this decision will have on research and innovation in Canada.
Federal Budget 2011
From Invention to Innovation: the Federation calls for more innovative approaches to federal investment in the SSH
Don’t be fooled by “innovation nostrums”
Federation President Noreen Golfman, responding to an op-ed article in the Globe and Mail, suggests that social sciences and humanities graduates offer some of the best potential to close this gap.
Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program Accepting Applicants
The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships Program will fund 70 new two-year awards annually with 140 awards active at any one time at program maturity.
Employment Opportunity
Université de Sherbrooke invites applications for a Research Chair in the field of religions and modernity.
Creating Canada’s Digital Society
Social sciences and humanities research community at the forefront of Canada's digital transformation.
Federal Government Announces Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, Support for Next Einstein Initiative
On July 6, the Government of Canada announced the establishment of the its Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, a new program to attract and develop leading postdoctoral researchers in Canada.
Canadian Science Policy Centre invites proposals for presentations at the upcoming Conference
CSPC is an annual event, specifically designed as a multi-sector forum for fostering science policy discourse in Canada.
2011 Competition - NCE-Knowledge Mobilization (KM)
The NCE-KM initiative supports networking and collaboration among well-established research teams and receptor communities to further the application and mobilization of knowledge.
    SSHRC Looks Ahead FEATURE

In 2007, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) published “Framing Our Direction,” a document defining its three strategic ambitions of quality, connections and impact, and setting out SSHRC’s objectives for the period of April 2008 to March 2010.

SSHRC is now looking ahead to 2012 and has identified the next steps tto its strategic direction,  published in “Framing Our Direction 2010-12.”

 
     CALENDAR
English Quarterly - Call for Papers - 2010-09-20
This fall winter 2010 double issue of English Quarterly invites submissions from teachers and researchers who see the potential of language arts as a foundation to explore more deeply personal, social, and global issues.
Unwrap the Research: What Now for Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo? - 2010-10-22
Call for Proposals: Have you conducted social research on Fort McMurray and the oil sands region of Alberta? This unique conference is an opportunity to share your findings with other interdisciplinary researchers and with residents of the region.
Meeting of the Board of Directors - 2010-11-27
November 27-28 (Fairmont Château Laurier, Ottawa)
Postdoctoral Opportunity at Brandeis University - 2010-12-01
Brandeis University invites applications for a two-year Kay postdoctoral fellow working on culture and politics in the francophone world, to begin in Fall 2011.
Meeting of the Board of Directors - 2011-03-25
March 25 (Location to be confirmed, Ottawa)
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Constantinides   -   Conrad Laforte   -   Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University    -    Brian Titley   -   Lesley Cormack   -   Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section), University of Ottawa    -   J. Gulsoy   -   Patricia Demers   -    André Lachance   -   David Haglund   -   Keith Ellis   -   David Freeman   -    Viviana Comensoli   -   Kerry Abel   -   Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick    -   Bernard Allaire   -   Pierre R.A. Leon   -   Janet Ajzenstat   -   Anthony R. Pugh   -   D. W. Smith   -   Donald F. Theall   -   Faculty of Education, Brock University    -   José Igartua   -    Laurence D. Steven   -   Marjorie Stone   -   Ronald Rompkey   -    Diane Farmer   -   David Blewett   -   Joseph McLelland   -   Faculty of Arts, Acadia University    -    David Pugh   -   Juliet S. McMaster   -   Mary Kinnear   -   Linda Hutcheon   -   Faculty of Education, University of Windsor    -   Nicole Dubreuil-Blondin   -   Clara Thomas   -   Ben Z. 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Wright   -   Clement Légaré   -   Andrew Brook   -   Normand Séguin   -   David MacKenzie   -   John Clarke   -   Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto    -   Ross S. Kilpatrick   -   Brian Corman   -   Marc Epprecht   -   Russell Johnston    -   Andrew Eason   -   Reinhold Kramer   -   Irene Gammel   -   John David Wood   -   Gaelan T. DeWolf   -    Margaret Rodman   -   Martin Rumscheidt   -   Virginia Stead   -   Edward G. Andrew   -   Gilles Martel   -   Girard J. Etzkorn   -   Roger Magnuson   -   John A. Scott   -   John Lennox   -    Alain Goldschlager   -   Elizabeth Ewan   -   Judith Fingard   -   Faculté des arts, sciences at administration des affaires, Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface    -   Edith Fowke   -   Ann B. Denis   -   Duncan Fishwick   -   Alastair Urquhart   -   Laura Groening   -   Irene Kmet   -   Faculty of Education, University of Alberta    -   Carolyn Strange   -   Adolf Ens   -   Donald Fisher   -   John Haiman   -   Bernard J. 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Leith   -   Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph    -   Marcel Martel    -   Rosa Sarabia   -    Richard Giguère   -   Doug Owram   -   Douglas Walker   -   Lorne Falkenstein   -   Viviana Comensoli   -   Ruth Roach Pierson   -   Peter Brock   -   Martin Friedland   -   Lucie Bourassa   -   Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta    -   Martin Singer   -   Stephen Clarkson   -   Edwin G. Pulleyblank   -   Yves St-Arnaud   -   Robert A. Imboden   -   Konrad Eisenbichler   -   Maryann Ayim   -    Gary Butler   -   Rainier Grutman   -   Maurice Tardif   -    William C. James   -   Jean-Louis Major   -   Tina Loo   -   Liliane Welch   -   M. Elisabeth Wallace   -   John Reid   -   Stephen R. Brooks   -   Frank W. Peers    -   Ghyslain Charron   -   Donna Lelièvre   -   Drew Griffith   -   Réjane Blary   -   David Docherty   -   Elizabeth Rapley   -   Gordon Shrimpton   -   James B. Hartman   -   Marian Binkley   -   Marianne Fizet   -   Sandra Beckett   -   Yolande Grisé   -   Frances Fortier   -   Sheryle Drewe   -   Donald C. Rowat   -   D. F. S. Thomson   -    George Englebretsen   -    Jennifer Reid   -   Pierre Gobin   -   Albert W. Halsall   -   Helmut Kallmann   -   A. H. Jeeves   -   Faculté des letters et sciences humaines, Université de Sherbrooke    -   Peter C. Slater   -   Leslie A. Pal   -   Theodore de Bruyn   -   Gaétan Thériault   -   Geoffrey Johnston   -   Bruce Muirhead   -   Blema Steinberg   -   Richard MacLennan   -   Faculty of Education, University of Calgary    -   Barbara Godard   -   Solomon Lipp   -   Michiel Horn   -   John C. Courtney   -   Richard Szostak   -   James S. Frideres   -   Jill Vickers   -   Guy Laflèche   -    Alfred H. Siemens   -   Jody Ciufo   -   David Staines   -   William Gillies Ross   -   François Duchesneau   -   Kay Stockholder   -   Aubrey Rosenberg   -   Claude Lafleur   -   Raymond A. Maclean   -   Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences and School of Education, Bishop's University    -   Richard D'Alquen   -   E. W. Dowler   -   Christiane Kègle   -   Katherine Quinsey    -   Geoffrey Adams   -   Robert O'Kell and Arlene Young   -   Eldon Hay    -   Jean-Claude Muller   -   Roger Fowler   -   Noreen Golfman   -   Margie Mendell   -   William McCready   -