Friday, December 11, 2009

[PDADC-L] FW: IMPORTANT FUNDING NOTICE ABOUT A MAJOR SSHRC PROGRAM

Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:27:00 -0500
From: "Vice-President, Research (Professor R. Paul Young)"
To: PDADC-L@listserv.utoronto.ca

Subject: [PDADC-L] FW: IMPORTANT FUNDING NOTICE ABOUT A MAJOR SSHRC PROGRAM

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MEMORANDUM

TO: Principals, Deans, Academic Directors and Chairs
(Humanities & Social Sciences)

FROM: Professor R. Paul Young, Vice-President, Research

DATE: 11 December 2009

RE: University of Toronto Participation and Success in the
SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) Program
________________________________________________________________________

Please Bring This Information to Members of Your Unit Who May Be Interested

Further to my memorandum of November 25th, I am writing to provide more detailed
information on our internal process for the current MCRI competition. Please ensure that this information is passed on to members of your academic unit who are, or should be considering, participating in this important funding opportunity.

The MCRI is SSHRC's largest funding opportunity, aimed at enabling multidisciplinary teams to probe critical questions that demand a multi-lens perspective in the social sciences and humanities. Successful proposals can receive up to $2.5 million over 7 years. As well as providing important research support, funding through this program is critical to the calculation of our Canada Research Chair (CRC) and Federal Indirect Cost allocations. The MCRI is a highly competitive program.
In addition to yesterday's information session conducted by Research Services, we will be coordinating an internal review process (peer and editorial review) to ensure that the Letters of Intent submitted to SSHRC's January 31 deadline are as strong as possible. Our goal is to win at least one of the four or five MCRI awards in this competition.

Critical dates for the internal process are as follows:

January 5: Return of the attached INTERNAL Intent to Apply

January 14: Submission of full draft SSHRC Letter of Intent

January 22: Feedback provided to proposal leaders

January 28: Final SSHRC LOIs submitted to Research Services

January 29: Final Review, Presidential Endorsement, Submission to SSHRC

Should you have any questions, please contact (fred.zhu@utoronto.ca; 978-2155).

SSHRC MCRI Program information is available on our website at:

www.research.utoronto.ca/for-researchers-administrators/funding-sources/funding-opps/?showopp=451


cc: Drew Gyorke, Director, Agency and Foundation Funding
Judith Chadwick, Executive Director, Research Services


Professor R. Paul Young Ph.D., FRSC
Vice-President, Research
University of Toronto
Simcoe Hall, Room 109
27 King's College Circle
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
Telephone: 416-978-4984
Email: vp.research@utoronto.ca
Web: www.research.utoronto.ca

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