The Faculty of Land and Food Systems announces the launch of the Internal Research Grant Program (IRGP). The intent of this program is to provide one year of support for the development of innovative, multidisciplinary research that will eventually form the basis of a research proposal submitted to one of the Tri-Agency funding organizations (i.e. NSERC, CIHR, SSHRC) or the UBC TLEF program. The overall aim of the IRGP is to identify and support innovative, early-stage research within LFS which will enable preliminary data to be gathered for the purpose of strengthening the calibre and competitiveness of research proposals submitted to the Tri-Agency and TLEF funding competitions from LFS.
The LFS IRGP encourages collaborative multidisciplinary submissions: applicant teams must be comprised of a lead PI and least one other co-applicant who represent different research disciplines. The lead, and at least one other co-applicant, must be full-time LFS faculty members with a minimum of 12-month appointments. Additional co-applicants from outside LFS are permitted.
The program will have two intakes per year, with a $50,000 envelope for each intake: a single proposal may request up to $25,000 of LFS. There is a requirement for 20% in-kind/cash from other sources, so that the maximum allowable budget is therefore $25k +( $25k x 0.2) = $30k. Given the broad scope of research within LFS, where possible the review panel will make efforts to award at least one proposal in each of the following streams:
- one proposal from the Tri-council research stream (NSERC, SSHRC, CIHR);
- one proposal from the pedagogical research stream (UBC TLEF)
Applications for the first intake of the LFS IRGP should be sent to lfs.research@ubc.ca by 5 pm, Friday, September 14, 2018.