Let me email you the PDFs, please!
- Until they are formally published through University Affairs, please treat these documents as if they are embargoed. I published my summary of the NFRF Peer Reviewers’ Perspective doc in my January 2025 piece for my column. My summaries and the PDFs for SSHRC, CIHR, and NSERC will be published in my column in May, June, and July respectively.
- Because I’m hoping to update these documents when I’ve done more interviews, I’ve asked for your email address. This approach means that I can email you with updated or new documents when they are available. Because I want to keep these docs up-to-date, I ask you to not circulate the PDFs at all; instead, please direct your colleagues and researchers to my column, where I’ll publish the URL that folks can use to get an email with the doc they’re interested in.
References & Resources:
- The column that I write for University Affairs is called “Ask Dr. Editor.”
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Post-Secondary Research System is a report published by the Council of Canadian Academies in October 2024 (and it’s the source of Table 5.1, “EDI considerations in select federal grant programs”)
- I was fortunate to be able to receive funding to hire three UBC graduate student interns to support this project: Andrea Kampen, Olivia Brophy, and Athena Pallas.
- The narrative CV is coming! Specifically, it’s coming to CIHR this fall, and NSERC and SSHRC in the next few years. While I wouldn’t usually edit a CCV, I will be editing these narrative CVs, because I anticipate my clients will be writing them poorly in the first few years. For tips, see my Dec 2024 article, “How to write a narrative CV.”
- The three-part budget justification strategy that I use with my clients is described in my Nov 2024 article, “Drafting the budget for your first SSHRC grant application.” That piece was written with the SSHRC IDG in mind, but the three-part strategy can be applied across competitions.
- I would love to publish about novel approaches to student training or knowledge mobilization, as I did in May 2024 in my piece “Helping undergrads see the ‘flip side’ of research.” If you know a researcher who has taken an original, meaningful approach to either knowledge mobilization or student training, please consider sharing their name with me using the contact me form on my website. (I promise I’m not interested in taking your clients from you — just in writing about their work and sharing it with a national audience!)
- The 2019 report Research 101 : A Manifesto for Ethical Research in the Downtown Eastside contains some excellent and provocative recommendations for researchers invested in supporting people from vulnerable urban populations. While I’m not sure that all its recommendations would be practical to apply, I’m also of the opinions that manifestos are allowed to push the boundaries of practicality so that they can open up space for revolutionary ideas.
- The list of questions that I sent to interviewees can be found on this google doc. Because I had so many questions, I wasn’t able to get through the whole list with each interviewee.
- As a thank you for attending this webinar, I’m offering $99 off my course, “Editing Academic Research Grants in Canada,” to the first 10 people who choose to take it. Because of the way Teachable structures its coupons, this discount is eligible only for the independent, self-paced option; if you want to upgrade to working with a coach, please put through the purchase so you get the discount, and then I’ll email you to transfer you into a coach-supported option.
I hope you find these resources useful. Thank you, I love you, good-bye.