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RESEARCH NEWS LETTER, SEPTEMBER 2004
RESOURCES
REMINDER: RESEARCH
REFERENCE LIBRARY AVAILABLE
Titles include:
-Subsidies Grants and Loans Directory
-Directory of
Grants in the Humanities
-Proposal Writing
-Qualitative Research Practice
-Handbook of Interview Research, Context and Method
-Qualitative Methods in Social Research
-Handbook of Ethnography
-Handbook of Qualitative Research
-The Foundation Center’s Guide to Winning Proposals
*Please see Lehanne
in JD 106 to sign out one or more of the above texts on short-term loan
(3pm until 10am on the next working day)..
OTHER
- SAGE: In celebration
of the launch of its new platform, enjoy free access to all SAGE Journals
Online until 31 October 2004. Visit http://online.sagepub.com to gain
access to these free titles!
PUBLICATIONS
RECEIVED
The following
new publications are available from the Research Office:
- Provincial
Perspectives: Persons with Developmental Disabilities – Fall
2004 Issue.
- “Creating
the knowledge for a better future” by Claire Morris. From The
Ottawa Citizen, 29 Sept. 2004, pg. A 15.
CATALOGUES
AND PUBLICATIONS
The research office
also offers catalogues of publications. If you have any catalogues that
are no longer of use to you, would you please forward them to us so
they may be available to other faculty.
BOOK LAUNCHES
Please let us know
when you have a book published. We would like to launch it!
FUNDING
OPPORTUNITIES
INTERNAL
The next deadline
for internal competitions is November 1, 2004. Please check http://www.stu.ca/research/Research/InternalFunding.htm
for details.
EXTERNAL- SSHRC/NSERC/CIHR/OTHER
Please check http://www.stu.ca/research/Research/Externalfunding.htm
for more information, timeline and details. If you are planning to prepare
an application for the fall 2004, please inform the research office.
If we can be of assistance, please call Lehanne for an appointment.
Information on
the following funding opportunities is available from the Research Office
or posted on the Research Notice Board.
- Multiculturalism
Issues in Canada: a three-year Strategic Joint Initiative
program of SSHRC and the Multiculturalism Program of the Department
of Canadian Heritage. Application deadline is 30 November 2004. Grant
maximum is 50K. For more information, please visit: http://www.sshrc.ca/web/apply/program_descriptions/multiculturalism_e.asp
- Ford
Foundation Grants: Funding available in numerous areas of
social science and the humanities, primarily relating to the following
fields: Asset Building and Community Development; Education Reform;
and, Human Rights. Please visit: http://www/fordfound.org/about/guideline.cfm
for more information.
- Metropolis
– Call for Proposals: “Governance and Glows of
International Migration.” Research outlines should be submitted
no later than 1 January 2005. Full proposals must be submitted by
31 May 2005. Successful applicants may receive up to 100,000 euros
to conduct the developmental studies that have been accepted. Further
information and guidelines for submitting proposals are available
here: www.international.metropolis.net
NEW SOURCES
OF RESEARCH FUNDING
- Bank
of Canada Fellowship - Available for areas critical to the
Bank’s mandate: macroeconomics, monetary economics, international
finance, and the economics of financial markets and institutions.
Deadline is 15 November 2004. Awards between $20,000 and $50,000.
For more information, please visit http://www.bankofcanada.ca/fellowship
- “Indigenous
Participation in Bush Produce Industries”:
PhD Scholarship available from the Centre for Rural and Regional Development
at the University of South Australia, in the amount of $5-6,000. More
information is available from the Research Office.
- “Arid
Lands Governance Project”:
PhD Scholarship available from the Centre for Rural and Regional Development
at the University of South Australia and another from the School of
Management at Curtin University in Perth. Award in the amount of $5-6,000
More information is available from the Research Office.
- Canada-US
Fulbright Program Call for Applications: for Canadian Scholars,
Post-doctoral Researchers, Graduate Students and Graduating Seniors
who are interested in teaching or researching for one or two semesters
in the United States. Visiting Chair and Traditional Fulbright Scholar
Awards carry a value of US$25,000 (for one year, US$12,500 for one
semester), plus health insurance and visa services. Traditional Fulbright
Student Awards allow students and researchers to conduct their research
at a US institution. This award carried the value of US$15,000, plus
health and visa. Application deadline is 15 November 2004 for exchanges
to commence in September 2005, or January 2006. For more information,
please visit http://www.fulbright.ca.
CONFERENCE
OPPORTUNITIES
- “Nurturing
Ourselves 2004” Women & Health Conference
– 15 & 16 October, in Fredericton, NB. Sponsorship available
for those women who are financially unable to attend. Please provide
your name, phone number, and desired sessions to the Immigrant Women’s
Collective. For more conference information, please visit: http://www.unbf.ca/nursing/nurturing/pro.html
- 4th
MPHEC Conference- “Student-Centred Assessment: Strategies
for Improving Learning and Student Outcomes.” To be held on
November 25-26, 2004 at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
For more information, please visit: http://www2.mphec.ca/english/pdfs/4Conf_Web_Prel_Prog_Eng.pdf
- 10th
Annual Conference on Web-Based Teaching & Learning –
To be held on the 16-19 October 2004 at UNB. Please contact our WebCT
administrator Rik Hall, or the conference website (http://naweb.unb.ca)
for more information.
- Conference
and Annual General Meeting of the Crime Prevention Association of
New Brunswick: “Crime Prevention Through Social Inclusion:
Everyone Needs to be Involved.” To be held on the 5-6 November
2004, hosted by the Fredericton Community Crime Prevention Council.
- “Forging
Links: Investing in New Brunswick Communities” –
2004 Provincial Forum. To be held on the 20-21 October 2004, in Moncton,
NB. For more information or to register, please contact Rick Hutchins
by phone at 458-8274 or by e-mail: policylink@nb.aibn.com
- “Dialogue
with Self and Other” – To be held on the 17-22
July 2005 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. A three-day experiential
course combined with a two-day international conference, “Storytelling,
Listening, and Change.” For more information, please visit:
http://shss.nova.edu./events/DCAR-TRT/index.htm
- Atlantic
Teaching Showcase – To be held on Saturday, 30 October
2004 at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS. Several STU faculty will
be presenting, including: Russell Hunt, Rosemary Clews, Norma-Jean
Profitt, Raymond Williams, Cheryl Miles, Sue McKenzie-Mohr, and Brian
Ouellette.
- The
Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education is
hosting several conferences throughout the upcoming year. For more
information on each of these conferences, please visit: http://www.mcmaster.ca/stlhe/conference.html
OTHER MATTERS
- Research Opportunity
with York University and the Université de Montréal
in the area of German and European studies.
- Research Cluster
on “The Democratic Management of Ethnic Diversity.” Contact:
John McGarry, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and
Democracy, Dept. of Political Studies, Queen’s University: 613-533-6237
or http://www.queensu.ca/politics/mcgarry.html
- Call for submissions:
“CFP: the interfaces of auto/biography: fiction – memory
– history.” The editors of Thirdspace, the premier journal
for emerging feminist scholarship, are looking for essays for their
upcoming special issue in March 2005. Deadline for submissions is
29 October 2004. For more information, please visit: http://www.thirdspace.ca/submit.htm
REMINDERS
The first information
session for students for the SSHRC Master’s Scholarship will be
held on Wednesday, October 13, 2004 from 1:00 – 2:30pm in the
Holy Cross Conference Room. The internal deadline for this award is
December 1, 2004.
Check the notice
boards near the research office for information about funding and conference
opportunities mentioned in this newsletter and e-mails between newsletters
Rosemary Clews
Assistant Vice-President (Research)
September 30, 2004
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