RESEARCH AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT NEWSLETTER

RESEARCH GRANT OPPORTUNITIES AND INFORMATION SESSIONS

NSERC
NSERC (Science and Engineering Research Council) will be visiting UNB Campus between 10.00 and 12.00 noon on Wednesday September 3rd. The meeting will be in the Forestry Building Rm 303. Representatives from NSERC will provide information about the eSubmission process. The reps will also provide advice on the completion of on-line application processes and inform researchers of current and new eProjects. Psychology, Ecology , Maths, and STS research may qualify for NSERC grants. STU faculty are invited. If anyone can go to this meeting, please give me feedback and grab an extra copy of any handouts for me. The NSERC Programme Guide for Professors is available on-line at http://www.nserc.ca/professors_e.asp?nav=profnav&lbi=pg

SSHRC
1. Graduate Awards
Fevronica Novak is coming to UNB on 24 September to provide workshops for Master’s and Doctoral Students on how to prepare good SSHRC applications. She will probably be doing the Master’s presentation at 1.00pm. These workshops might be useful for faculty who are doctoral students and upper level students who will be applying for a Master’s scholarship. STU faculty and students are invited. More information later
2. Faculty Awards
The internal deadline to submit applications for SSHRC Standard Research Grants is Monday 29 September. If you intend to apply please let me know without delay. The web-site is as follows
http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/standard_e.asp
If you are interested in the RDI program that supports research in its initial stages check the web-site http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/rdi_e.asp
The internal deadline to submit applications under this programme is Monday 1st December.
If you would like to discuss which of these programmes is most appropriate for you please let me know.

NBIF
The next deadline for receipt of applications for Graduate or Undergraduate Research Assistants is September 12th. hope to get out another newsletter soon but time is short so I thought that I would remind you (or tell you for the first time) about the NBIF Research Assistants Initiative. The deadline for receiving the applications is September 12th. This fund provides $10,000 a year for 2 years for a Graduate Student to act as a Research Assistant and/or $5000 for one year for an undergrad student. Try the following link: To get to the site type “www.nbif.ca” on to the address line, then write “research assistants” in the “search box” on the home page. Open the second link. I have been lobbying for more NBIF money to come to us, and so has our President. I have been told by someone who is usually a reliable source that more money will be coming to social sciences in the Research Assistants Initiative this time. I don't know about humanities.

INTERNAL COMPETITIONS

To learn more about internal funding check the research section of the Research and Faculty Development web-site
http://www.stu.ca/research/Research/InternalFunding.htm. The Senate Research Committee will be issuing a call for the November competition soon. There is a special competition for new faculty who will be participating in conferences before 31 December. If you missed the New Faculty Orientation sessions and want information about this competition please let me know. Deadline for applications is September 30th

TEACHING

Congratulations and thanks to the LTD Committee for hosting the sessions on Course Outlines.
Twenty eight faculty attended. This shows how much we care about our work!

BOOK LAUNCHES

Those of us at the BBQ on Wednesday heard our VP (Academic) tell us that we will be launching books by 7 of our faculty within the next few weeks. He is wrong. Our new colleague in Anthropology, Craig Proulx, has just had a book published. Congratulations Craig. Anyone else? Unfortunately we will need to double up. Please keep September 19th at 3.30 free for the first launches. More information soon . . .

PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES

TAYLOR AND FRANCIS
This company publishes 750 peer reviewed journals. If you check the list there may be an appropriate journal for your article. There is also a facility to subscribe (free) to receive the contents pages of one of the journals.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/sublist.html. Also, there is information about books published electronically and in hard copy. There are guidelines if you want to submit a proposal http://www.tandf.co.uk/books/

CONFERENCE OPPORTUN ITY

WOMEN”S WORLDS - IDENTITY POLITICS AND FEMINISM
June 20 - 24th 2005, EHWA Women’s University, Seoul, Korea.
For more information try www.ww05.org

LIST

NB WOMEN’S NEWS
Current issue includes articles on rate of sexual offences in NB, healthcare services for women survivors of abuse, age of marriage, same-sex marriage, beyond same-sex and beyond marriage, body image, women v Wal-Mart
To subscribe contact acswcccf@gnb.ca

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WEB-SITE

This is slowly coming together. I have some pages in the “service”section. The “career development” pages should be posted next week. I am working on the “education” pages now. The education pages will link to the LTD site and complement it. Check out the site and give me feedback about errors, ambiguities or omissions. I want it to be useful. It is located at http://www.stu.ca/facstaff/facdev/index.htm

INVITATION - RESEARCH ETHICS

The Canadian Interagency Panel on Research Ethics Special Working Committee invites researchers to participate in consultations about the Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans,
For more information check http://www.pre.ethics.gc.ca/english/publicparticipation/commentondocuments.cfm

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED

“THE BULLETIN” (ASSOCIATION OF COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITIES)
Here are some of the highlights (for me). There’s an article on “divorcing teaching and research” in UK universities. An article that grabbed me is one on Universities and their Communities - there is a short article and a number of references Another one is on a programme that Dalhousie will be offering in the Caribbean. You may also be interested in a world alliance in distance education or a gender equity conference. The bulletin ends with a bibliography of books on higher education and industry.

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES
This is a promotional booklet for the University of Ottawa but you may be interested in some of the articles. . . 9/11 . . Health Care Costs . . .Citizenship in a ‘knowledge’ society

MUSIC ON THE HILL
This is the 2003 - 2004 programme for UNB/STU Creative Arts. If you want a copy of the brochure, contact the UNB College of Extended Learning 457-3572

CIHR
Strategic Plan, Institute of Health Services and Policy Research

HORIZONS - CONNECTING RESEARCH TO POLICY, Vol 6 (1)
Articles include:
Nathalie Rosier “The journey from Research to Policy”
Garnet Picot “Does statistical analysis matter?”
Ken Battle “The role of a think tank”
Shorter notes on review of hospital mortality, street-youth suicide, public support for North American integration, sustainable development and governance, cost of climate policy, basic income for Canadians.
There is also a list of recent publications and “upcoming conferences” - most of which have already happened.

CANADIAN ISSUES - FOCUS ON IMMIGRATION
There are lots of short articles. Here are some examples.
official languages, poverty among immigrants, economic performance of immigrants, integration, political participation by newcomers, diasporic religions in Canada, social inclusion and social capital . . .

CANADIAN DIVERSITY
Articles include:
citizenship and attachment across borders, Muslims and citizenship in Canada, citizenship profiles of young Canadians, civic participation, the values we live by today, values as hidden curriculum, diversity without divisiveness . . .

Pop round if you think that any of these articles or documents might be worth copying.

Rosemary Clews
August 29, 2003