Insight Development Grant application: Emerging and
established scholar module
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) recently announced that the
online forms are available for the next competition for the Insight Development Grants (IDG) Program.
This program supports research in its initial stages.
Please note the following important enhancements and improvements have recently been added to the
IDG application form as well as the Canadian Common CV (CCV):
Insight Development Grant application: Emerging and established scholar module
The Scholar Type section of the Identification module now allows users to more easily determine whether
their scholar type should be “emerging scholar’ or “established scholar.”
The questions to determine scholar status have been refined and Emerging scholars are limited to
choosing one of the eligibility criteria, and the form will verify their eligibility status by asking for
specific dates.
CCV: Importing publications to a CCV
The CCV can now import publication details from external bibliographic databases, such as PubMed,
Citeulike, DBLP, Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, Plos, Scopus, and Web of Science. For details, see the
Release Notes and How-To sections of the CCV website.
The SSHRC CCV instructions have also been improved and can be found on the SSHRC website at this
link: http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/forms-formulaires/instructions/ccv-eng.aspx
Applicants are advised to review the SSHRC website for recent updates to the IDG description. SSHRC
will be holding two webinars on the IDG (one in English and one in French) in January. Information on
how to connect will be sent at a later date.
A summary of the IDG program is provided below.
Objectives
to enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new
methods, theoretical approaches and/or ideas; and
to foster research in its early stages, but are not intended to support ongoing initiatives
Insight Development Grants proposal are expected to respond to the objectives put forward in the call for
proposals for the Insight program.
The objectives of the Insight program are to:
 build knowledge and understanding from disciplinary, interdisciplinary and/or cross-sector
perspectives through support for the best researchers;
 support new approaches to research on complex and important topics, including those that
transcend the capacity of any one scholar, institution or discipline;
 provide a high-quality research training experience for students;
 fund research expertise that relates to societal challenges and opportunities; and

mobilize research knowledge, to and from academic and non-academic audiences, with the
potential to lead to intellectual, cultural, social and economic influence, benefit and impact.
Proposed projects may involve, but are not limited to, the following types of research activities:
 case studies;
 pilot initiatives; and
 critical analyses of existing research.
Value
$7,000 - $75,000
Duration
1 – 2 years
Deadlines
Submission to Osgoode Research Office - January 6, 2015
Submission to ORS for full technical review – January 16, 2015
Submission to agency – February 1, 2015 (Please note, this deadline falls on the weekend, therefore, the
actual deadline for submission to the agency will be on the next business day which is Monday,
February2, 2015)
Submission to ORS of hard copy of full application plus completed and signed ORS checklist
and electronic submission to SSHRC – no later than 12noon on February 2, 2015
Complete details on this opportunity may be obtained by visiting SSHRC's web site at the following link:
http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/insight_development_grantssubventions_de_developpement_savoir-eng.aspx
York University researchers are reminded that all applications for external research funding, including
Letters of Intent, must be reviewed and approved by the Office of Research Services before they are
submitted to the granting agency. For internal approval, the application must be accompanied by a
completed ORS Application Checklist, which requires the Chair’s and Dean’s signatures. To ensure that
the approved application is ready by the agency deadline, a complete application folder must be submitted
to the ORS ten (10) working days prior to final submission date.