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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT NEWSLETTER
October 27th, 2003
STU
DRAFT STRATEGIC RESEARCH PLAN AND SUMMARY
I’ll
be very grateful if you could check the following site and give feedback
on the two drafts.
http://www.stu.ca/research/Research/index.htm.
The drafts are open for feedback from the community until November 7th.
Thanks for those of you who have already given feedback. I appreciate
the time that you have taken to do so. The Strategic Research Plan and
summary will accompany the application for a Canada Chair that we will
be making in December.
GRADUATE
SCHOLARSHIPS
We recommend 2
of our graduating students for $17,500 scholarships to pursue Master’s
research-based programmes for one year at a Canadian University of their
choice. Please remind your students that the Grad Students Committee
will be holding a “blue pencil café” between 9 and
10 am on Monday November 17th . Members of the committee will be available
to review student applications and make suggestions about how to strengthen
them. Do remind students to get on with putting together the application
right away. The deadline for them to submit applications to Departmental
Chairs is December 1st, and the deadline for departments to submit the
applications with departmental evaluations to my office is December
15th. Students will need mentoring as they complete these applications.
If you need another copy of the information sheet please let me know
if your departmental secretary has run out.
I have fliers for a Master’s
Fellowship at McGill valued at $12,000 and funded by Banque Nationale.
There is also a scholarship for $15,000 at McGill called the “Warren
Fellowship”.
Information about both of these opportunities can be found on
http://www.misc-iecm.mcgill.ca.
TEACHING
AND LEARNING
ATLANTIC
TEACHING SHOWCASE
Several of us went to Cape Breton for the annual “Teaching Showcase”
one day conference on 25th October. There are always interesting short
presentations that give good ideas about teaching and learning possibilities.
Consider going next year. It will be at Dal. Conference papers are peer
reviewed for conference proceedings
CLASSROOM
RELATIONSHIPS
Congratulations to the LTD committee for arranging sessions on another
very important issue. Several people have spoken to me about difficult
classroom relationships so this session should be interesting to several
people. According to the message from the LTD office , the sessions
begin at 9.00 in BMH 202 on 1st and 8th ,November
INTERNAL
GRANTS AND AWARDS
The
November 1st deadline approaches.. Please see items 2, 3, 4, and 5 on
the web-site:
http://www.stu.ca/research/Research/InternalFunding.htm
EXTERNAL
RESEARCH GRANT OPPORTUNITIES
SSHRC
1. RDI
I have suggested to several researchers that the new Research and Development
Initiative by SSHRC might be a useful fund to apply to. This fund is
intended for researchers who are not quite far enough along in their
thinking to apply for a Standard Research Grant, or researchers who
are changing direction. Unfortunately the forms are or on-line yet but
I expect them to be posted daily. The programme description is on line
at the following site http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/rdi_e.asp
There are 2 competitions a year and the first SSHRC deadline is December
15th (internal deadline is December 1st).
Please note: You can submit applications for an SRG and an RDI grant
in the same year
2. CESC-SSHRC
EDUCATION RESEARCH INITIATIVE Grants are available for 2 year
programmes of research with a maximum value of $100,000 over 2 years.
This year the 2 themes are:
learning outcomes
Education transitions at all stages of life
Anyone fancy leading a group that would look at transitions from High
School to University?
More information
http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/ine/education_research_e.asp
SSHRC Deadline Jan 5, 2004, Internal to be negotiated
3. RESEARCH/CREATION
GRANTS IN FINE ARTS These awards are up to $100,000 a year
or $250,000 over a 3 year period. Our internal deadline for submitting
complete applications to the research office is November 10th. Applications
need to be postmarked November 17th.
http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/fine_arts_e.asp
External deadline - November 17th, Internal deadline, November 10th
4. COMMUNITY/UNIVERSITY
RESEARCH ALLIANCE
This is a big one. There are 2 stages. Apply by December 8,2003 in a
letter of intent. Announcements of successful letters in March 2003.
If you are successful you will get up to $20,000 to put together a proposal
by August 4th for a grant of up to $200,000 a year for 5 years. I think
that we could submit a CURA proposal sometime. We have many community
partnerships. Who wants to take the lead on an intiiative?
http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/cura_e.asp
FULBRIGHT OPPORTUNITIES
1. Fulbright Visiting Chairs
Open to “faculty members, experienced professionals” at
a number of different US universities - value up to $25,000 for one
or two semesters to study for one or two semesters topics relating to
Canada-US relations or any aspect of Canadian studies.
Deadline November 15th
2. Fulbright Visiting Scholars
Open to “faculty members, experienced professionals and post-doctoral
researchers” at a number of different US universities - value
up to $15,000 for a nine month period. “Field open” but
web-site provides areas where applications are particularly encouraged.
Deadline November 15th
3. Fulbright Graduate Programmes
Open to graduate students who want to study at a US university.“Field
open” but web-site provides areas where applications are particularly
encouraged. Up to $125,000 for a 9 month period plus health insurance
.
4. Fulbright OAS Ecology Initiative for Graduate Studies in Environmental
Studies in the US
Open to scholars in the fields of “ecology and the environment”
or “sustainable development.”
Deadline: May 31 for grants to be taken up in Sept of the next calendar
year. Applicantion available at www.laspau.harvard.edu/fbapp
(Username fbapp, Password- education)
More information on all Fulbright
Programmes www.fulbright.ca
RESEARCH
EQUIPMENT GRANTS
Banting Research Foundation. Provides up to $20,000 for “young
investigators for the establishment of their research programme with
a special emphasis on innovative proposals that have the potential to
contribute to the understanding of fundamental mechanisms of disease
processes or to contribute to their cure.” Deadline March 15,
2004
More information: email banting.foundation@utoronto.ca,
or
http://www.utoronto.ca/bantresf/Application/application_procedure.html
CANADA
COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS - KILLAM PROGRAMMES
There are Killam Research Fellowships for many disciplines at STU
Next deadline is May 2004
More information: www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/killam/default.asp
HEALTH
CANADA
Letters of Intent to submit proposals for research “to develop
and validate health indicators that reflect gender differences and diversity”
are invited before November 10, 2003
Maximum funds per proposal - $300,000
More information http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iacb-dgiac/arad-draa/english/rmdd/rfp/rfp016.html
LECTURE
SERIES
There are lectures
at noon each day this week about different aspects of sexual diversity.
They are held in the Presidents Room in the Alumni Memorial Building
at UNB and last an hour.
PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED
Education , Fall 2003 - Catalogue
from Brooks Publishing
Genome Canada - Report
Information about a Journal
“Radical Society”. Looks interesting
All for now . . .
Rosemary Clews,
October 27, 2003
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