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eNewsletter of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
April 2025
| | Introducing the 2025 Storytellers Challenge finalists | From over 160 high-quality submissions, SSHRC is pleased to introduce the finalists for the 2025 Storytellers Challenge. Each of our finalists is conveying social sciences and humanities research in their own innovative way to describe how it transforms the lives of Canadians and people around the world for the better. | | | |
HEADLINE NEWS
The latest from SSHRC and its partners
| | | | In Conversation With Jean-Marc Narbonne | Watch the latest edition of In Conversation With, organized in partnership with The Conversation Canada. Titled “Democracy’s Challenge Across Time,” this event features Jean-Marc Narbonne, winner of SSHRC’s 2024 Impact Award Gold Medal. Narbonne is professor of philosophy and Canada Research Chair in Critical Antiquity and Emerging Modernity at Université Laval. | | | | SSHRC to sponsor Big Thinking lecture at Congress 2025 to help shape an equitable future with artificial intelligence | Collaborative, inclusive approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are at the forefront of an upcoming Big Thinking lecture at Congress, sponsored by SSHRC. Taking place on June 1, this event will address practices for inclusive learning and more in a world using AI. We hope to see you there! | | |
FUNDING FOCUS
Application deadlines, program updates, application tips and more
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Funding tip of the month: Merit review—the heart of SSHRC’s research funding system
A robust merit review process is key to SSHRC’s mission, forming the heart of our granting process. SSHRC reviewers complete training to help eliminate unconscious bias, with clearly defined principles and roles to help ensure fair and accurate recommendations. SSHRC is constantly seeking reviewers who represent the diversity in the social sciences and humanities research community. Find out more and get involved!
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Spotlight
Featured stories and articles
| | Canada leading the way in gender and sexuality research | Three Canada 150 Research Chairs are combining their expertise on the scientific, political and social implications of sex and gender to create safer, more inclusive ways to conceptualize, measure and explore people’s experience of gender and sexuality. Sari van Anders, Judith Mank and Shireen Hassim are taking a holistic approach, examining the impact actions and stimuli have on gender development, and the many, many ways to be male or female, both in humans and in broader nature. | | Canada 150 Research Chairs Program brings cutting-edge research talent home | Having built impressive research resumés spanning Europe and the United States, Jennifer Welsh, Canada 150 Research Chair (C150) in Global Governance and Security at McGill University, and Azim Shariff, C150 in Moral Psychology at The University of British Columbia, are just two of the Canadian researchers who’ve brought their ambitions and engaging approaches to the social sciences home as part of the C150 program. Each has had a profound impact, with Welsh establishing McGill’s new Max Bell School of Public Policy, and Shariff establishing the Centre for Applied Moral Psychology. | | |
