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2014-10-13

Mackey, Margaret

SSHRC Awarded IG 2015: The research explores how today's screen-oriented young adults perceive the local and situated nature of their early literate development. RESEARCH QUESTIONS: How do contemporary Canadian young adults articulate their childhood experiences of landscape and local geography,...

2016-10-11

Heyes, Cressida

SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: This project aims to change the way we think about sleep as well as the way we practice it. It communicates to diverse audiences that sleep is not a mysterious non-experience (essential but a wasteful interruption of life) but rather a central part of existence that tells...

2011-10-10

McConnell, David

SSHRC Awarded IG 2012: This study will generate robust data on the social disadvantage and subjective well-being of Canadian children and youth with disabilities. The study has three objectives. 1] determine the nature and level of social disadvantage faced by young Canadians with disabilities...

2016-01-01

GAPSSHRC

Example of the SSHRC application for an Insight grant, from 2016. This version uses the SSHRC "legacy" curriculum Vitae, not the Canadian Common CV. All personal information redacted. When using this form, please also access the "Simplifying the Insight Grant application" documents (this...

2015-01-01

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Sample of a SSHRC blind review, used with permission. Useful for understanding what a positive reviewer may say (this grant was funded).

2014-07-16

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

SSHRC's web-based instructions for the Insight Grant competition.

2015-01-01

GAPSSHRC, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Basic Insight Grant application form, annotated with directions. For use in the Grant Assistance Program's grant-crafting workshops and boot camps. Please note, SSHRC will likely update the form in 2017, to include the new option for selecting "Stream A" or "Stream B' for the applications.

2015-10-14

Brigandt, Ingo

SSHRC Awarded IG 2016: Where philosophy of science has traditionally construed and studied science in terms of representations of the natural world (eg: data and theories), this project will study scientists' values, explanatory and investigative aims, and methodological and explanatory...

2018-07-01

GAPSSHRC

Document consists of extracted one page summaries from several successful Insight grant applications, ranging from 2011 to 2018. The collection demonstrates a variety of subject disciplines, different writing styles, but also the common characteristics of any summary. The SSHRC summary page is...

2015-12-01

McConnell, David

SSHRC Awarded PDG 2016: This study aims to determine a solution to two inter-related problems for human services in Quebec and Alberta. One problem is that we currently lack the requisite knowledge to 'make good' on our commitment under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with...