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Also blogging at University Affairs Careers Café- The past and the future in the hiring process January 30, 2012 Jo VanEvery
- Making amends in the new year January 23, 2012 Liz Koblyk
Tag Archives: Funding
Thinking about hiring research assistants
Are you reluctant to hire Research Assistants?
I was reading a blog post about hiring in a small business and this paragraph resonated with conversations I’ve had with researchers. “I believe that I am a genius at some things and not others. And that I need to hire geniuses in the other areas.” It’s a bit different when you think about research assistants because one purpose of hiring them is to provide apprenticeship opportunities. But that just extends this perspective rather than negating it. Continue reading
Posted in Funding, Research
Tagged administrative assistants, asking for help, budget, Funding, grants, hiring, research assistants
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Ask me about research grants!
Are you thinking about applying for a research grant? Maybe you feel under pressure to apply but you don’t know if you really need one? What do you want to know but weren’t sure who to ask? I’ve been helping … Continue reading
Posted in Funding
Tagged Funding, grants, humanities, questions, social sciences, SSHRC
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New Scholars & SSHRC’s Insight grants
The SSHRC Standard Research Grant is no more. 2010/11 was the last competition.
It has been replaced, more or less, with the Insight Grant. However, if you are in the first 5 years of your academic career (defined by the later of PhD completion or starting first tenure-track position) and have not received a SSHRC grant before (as faculty), there are important changes that affect you.
You should apply to the Insight Development Grant
The accommodations for new scholars in the old SRG program are gone. If you apply to the main Insight program in the fall, you will be competing against more experienced scholars with no special consideration for your newness. Continue reading
Posted in Funding, My services
Tagged Funding, grant proposal development, Insight, Insight Development Grant, new scholar, SSHRC
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You need a funder who will love you for who you are
You know those teen magazine articles that tell girls how to be the kind of girl the great guys will want to date? Don’t they enrage you? Don’t you just want to take your closest teen girl and tell her … Continue reading
Canadians & European research funding
Did you know you might be able to participate in European Framework funded projects, have access to travel funds for European collaboration or exchanges, or other resources? A former colleague of mine, Garth Williams, is the director of ERA-Can, a … Continue reading