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eNewsletter of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
January 2025
| | SSHRC Launches Impact Awards 2025 competition | | Know an outstanding scholar in the social sciences and humanities? Nominations are now open for the 2025 SSHRC Impact Awards! These awards recognize outstanding researchers, as well as knowledge mobilization, research training and outreach activities. Full details are now available on our website, as well as information about webinars in French and English (more details below). Submissions close April 1, 2025. | | |
HEADLINE NEWS
The latest from SSHRC and its partners
| | | | 2025 Impact Awards webinars | Learn more about the 2025 Impact Awards at two informational webinars, to be held January 23, 2025, in French at 10:30 a.m., and English at 1:30 p.m., eastern time. Each webinar will cover the competition’s mission, eligibility and selection criteria, the different awards available, the nomination process, regulations, policies and more. | | | | Guidance on the Use of AI in the Development and Review of Research Proposals | The three federal research funding agencies—the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and SSHRC—recently released new guidance on the use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in the development and review of research proposals submitted for grant applications. | | | | Canada-France call for proposals on AI | The three federal research funding agencies—NSERC, SSHRC and CIHR—in collaboration with IVADO, are partnering with the French National Research Agency (ANR) to fund collaborative research projects on artificial intelligence (AI). This call will support international, collaborative multi- and interdisciplinary research projects that address generative AI and the security and safety of embedded AI. | | | | SSHRC Take Our Kids to Work Day | Secondary 3 students from Quebec and Grade 9 students from other provinces across Canada enjoyed an inside look at SSHRC’s work and impacts at SSHRC’s annual Take Our Kids to Work Day. Joined by the children of our own SSHRC employees, each of the students received a commemorative ID badge as a souvenir of the day. | | | | Parliamentary Internship Programme taking applications for 2025-26 cohort | University and college graduates from all disciplines, who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents and available to work full-time in Ottawa from September 2025 to June 2026, are invited to apply to the non-partisan, paid work-study Parliamentary Internship Programme, of which SSHRC is a partner, by January 31, 2025. Interns do placements with both a government and opposition member of Parliament, attend weekly academic seminars, produce an original research paper, and tour to other legislatures in Canada and abroad. | | |
FUNDING FOCUS
Application deadlines, program updates, application tips and more
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Funding tip of the month: Postsecondary students—Don’t miss your chance to tell your story in the SSHRC Storytellers Challenge
The deadline to submit your story to the 2025 SSHRC Storytellers Challenge is January 21! Don’t miss your chance to tell your compelling story in up to three minutes or 300 words, in English or French, showcasing how SSHRC-funded research is improving our lives, our world and our future for the better. The top 20 finalists will each receive $3,000 and more! Visit our website for details.
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Spotlight
Featured stories and articles
| | “Enough is enough”: the fight to end the gender-based violence crisis in Canada | Femicide rates in Canada are higher than ever, with a woman or girl violently killed every 48 hours. Katreena Scott, Canada Research Chair in Ending Child Abuse and Domestic Violence has had enough. She is leading a “See it, Name it, Check it” approach to identifying the signs of gender-based violence, and is determined to end the cycle that has pushed it to epidemic proportions in Canada. | | | | | |
