{"id":80029,"date":"2022-08-25T12:11:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T16:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=80029"},"modified":"2022-08-25T22:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T02:08:49","slug":"research-webinar-to-offer-tips-on-applying-for-sshrcs-insight-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/08\/research-webinar-to-offer-tips-on-applying-for-sshrcs-insight-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Research webinar to offer tips on applying for SSHRC\u2019s Insight Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Funding from federal government agencies is the lifeblood of university research. This is particularly true of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and its flagship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca\/funding-financement\/programs-programmes\/insight_grants-subventions_savoir-eng.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insight Grants<\/a> program.<\/p>\n<p>To assist faculty with the application process, the Office of Research Services (ORS) and the Brock University Library\u2019s Building Better Research series is hosting an online webinar, <a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/210239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Insights into Insight Grants<\/a>, on Wednesday, Aug. 31 from noon to 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>SSHRC\u00a0Acting Senior Program Officer Eric\u00a0Bergeron will present details about the Insight Grants program, while ORS Research Officers Vincent Annibale and Ronnie Morris will cover Brock-specific procedures and other items.<\/p>\n<p>Insight Grants have supported Brock researchers for many years. For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2022\/06\/brock-researchers-awarded-more-than-1-1-million-in-sshrc-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in the most recent competition<\/a>, eight researchers from four Faculties were awarded more than $1 million for a variety of research projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSSHRC\u2019s investment in our research enables our scholars to contribute valuable insights into our collective understanding of a wide range of challenges faced in society,\u201d says Brock\u2019s Vice-President, Research Tim Kenyon.<\/p>\n<p>The Insight Grant program provides funding for three to five years for research excellence that accomplishes a number of goals, including building knowledge and understanding, supporting new approaches to research and providing training experiences for students.<\/p>\n<p>Recipients are judged worthy of funding by fellow researchers and\/or other experts. The research can be conducted individually or by teams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/experiencebu.brocku.ca\/event\/210239\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RSVPs<\/a> are requested. For more information, contact Jayne Morrish at <a href=\"mailto:jmorrish@brocku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jmorrish@brocku.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock&#8217;s Building Better Research series is offering a webinar Aug. 31 to help researchers apply for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada&#8217;s Insight Grants program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":80030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54,7,5],"tags":[3577,11912,98,384,522,594,3310,5218,894,1381,11914,2196,11913],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80031,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80029\/revisions\/80031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}