Canada Council for the Arts – Killam Research Fellowships & Killam Prizes
Killam Research Fellowships are awarded annually to full professors at Canadian universities and research institutes, who have an outstanding reputation in their area of research (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, or studies linking any of these disciplines). The fellowship (awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts) provides two years of release […]
UBC Healthy Workplace Funding
Applications are now being accepted for the Healthy Workplace Initiatives Program (HWIP). In support of UBC departments and units that are interested in promoting wellbeing in the workplace, the HWIP provides start-up funds for health-related activities. The program has previously funded grassroots initiatives such as yoga classes, health challenges, mental health training and creative activities. […]
IDRC Accelerating Climate Action: Social Equity and Empowerment of Women and Girls
The Accelerating Climate Action call will focus on the following three themes, collectively addressing current knowledge gaps in socially-transformative climate research: Climate and disaster resilience: Research projects focusing on socially-equitable development planning that enhances the ability of people — regardless of gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, age, or physical ability — to mitigate and adapt to […]
Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities
A particularly diverse set of grant opportunities across Grand Challenges initiatives open now from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other Grand Challenges funders. These opportunities are described in a blog and listed below. Grand Challenges Explorations grant opportunities The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting proposals for the next round of Grand […]
CIHR Team Grant : GENDER-NET Plus
Through the leadership of the CIHR Personalized Health Initiative (PH), the CIHR Institute of Gender and Health is a member of GENDER-NET Plus – an international consortium of sixteen research funders in thirteen countries. These 16 partners from 13 countries have joined forces to launch a Joint Call for proposals, which will support research that […]
CIHR Operating Grant : Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research
The purpose of the Network Environments for Indigenous Health Research (NEIHR) is to build on previous efforts of the Network Environments for Aboriginal Health Research (NEAHR), initially launched in 2007, and the Indigenous Mentorship Network Program (IMNP), initially launched in December 2016, by establishing a solid foundation for Indigenous health research driven by, and grounded […]
CIHR Operating Grant : Early Career investigator (ECI) grants in Maternal, Reproductive, Child & Youth Health
The program will fund research across the four CIHR research themes (biomedical, clinical, health systems services, and population health) that has the potential to have a significant impact on maternal, reproductive, child and youth health outcomes according to the mandates of the participating CIHR institutes. Ultimately, the program aims to strengthen Canada’s capacity and knowledge […]
Call for Nominations for CIHR’s Institute Advisory Boards
CIHR has launched the 2018 membership renewal of its thirteen Institute Advisory Boards (IABs). Online applications can be submitted, via ResearchNet, from February 26, 2018 to April 09, 2018. Read more
Competition open for Canadians: Foreign Government Awards Program – Korea, 2018-2019
The Government of the Republic of Korea is offering scholarships at the Master’s and PhD level for study or research in a variety of fields including Korean studies, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. Scholarships are tenable from September 1, 2018. Program name: Foreign Government Awards Program – Korea Funding organization: Government of the […]
SPARC Connects March 1, 2018
Highlights in this issue: UBC and SPARC Results for the Fall 2017 CIHR Project Grant Competition Genome BC: Sector Innovation Program – Intake 4 SPARC will offer full review for the microbiome-focused Genome BC Sector Innovation Program (SIP) Intake 4 on a first come, first served basis during the week of Monday, March 5 to […]