I recently held a Q&A call about SSHRC Grants. And in the introduction, I talked a bit about some of the common problems I’ve seen in the past 5 years of reviewing proposals from a range of social science and humanities researchers.

Today, I did some audio-editing and made a file with just that portion of the call. It is under 5 minutes. And the information is not specific to SSHRC.

Common Problems with Grant Proposals (mp3, 1.1MB, <5 min)

If having listened to that, you’d like more help. Let me know.

I can provide help with a specific proposal or more general help with defining your research objectives and figuring out how to achieve them. There is more information here.

Applying for a SSHRC grant?

If you are Canadian (or work in a Canadian university) and are even vaguely thinking about applying to SSHRC for funding, you might want to subscribe to my Questions About SSHRC Grants series. It doesn’t cost anything.

I also wrote a guide, Writing Your SSHRC Grant Proposal, that explains what needs to go in each main section of a SSHRC Standard Research Grant proposal (this also applies to RDI and strategic grants).

You can’t access SSHRC’s instructions until sometime in the summer when they make the application form available. This guide, available as either an e-book or a spiral bound paper booklet, will get you started so all you have to do next summer is enter it into the online system and fill in the forms.

Thank you for the e-book. It calmed me down and allowed me to focus on what I wanted to do instead of panicking about all the forms. (Daniel Burgoyne, Vancouver Island University)

“Writing Your SSHRC Grant Proposal” $25