The specific objective of this funding opportunity is to:

• Provide funding to develop and implement an intensive capacity-building program on the topic of Impact of climate change on the health of older persons

The host of SPA 2026 will:

• Develop the program and curriculum for an advanced training program for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows on the topic Impact of climate change on the health of older persons
• Include an Indigenous health component in the program
• Recruit/lead a planning and coordination team for SPA 2026
• Coordinate and manage the logistics related to the successful implementation of the SPA 2026 program
• Organize a 20th anniversary symposium (with guidance from the CIHR-Institute of Aging) that celebrates the impact of the SPA program.

The Doctoral Research Awards program is open to graduate students pursuing cancer research at an eligible Canadian institution. The goal of this program is to support the future generation of Canadian researchers.

The Next Generation of Scientists Award is an innovative two-pronged grant that aims to support the most promising postdoctoral fellows in becoming the next generation of cancer researchers in Canada.

The program includes a one-year postdoctoral salary award (part 1), to enable postdoctoral fellows to obtain a research position at an eligible Canadian institution. Once this position is obtained, the candidate will be offered a 2-year Operating Grant (part 2).

Brain Canada in partnership with the Huntington Society of Canada are working to attract the brightest young scientists into the field of Huntington disease (HD) research and to facilitate meaningful HD research to clarify the biological mechanisms underlying HD pathology. 

In support of these goals, we are eager to announce the launch of the 2025 Undergraduate Student Summer Fellowship. These 8 fellowships will support undergraduate university students across Canada in pursuing research projects aimed at developing a better understanding of Huntington disease. 

This funding is intended to support research projects that are focused and achievable in a short timeframe, yet helpful in guiding future research in Huntington disease.
In order to be eligible for this funding, projects must take place over a 12-week period between May and September, and undergraduate students must be working under the supervision of a Huntington disease researcher with a faculty position. 

Click here to view the Request for Applications.

Deadline to submit applications: April 11, 2025, 5pm ET  

Send completed applications and any questions to: research@huntingtonsociety.ca

The application form is available at https://www.huntingtonsociety.ca/student-fellowship/

SSHRC is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the United States’ Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the United Kingdom’s UK Research and Innovation to support the Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowships. As part of this joint initiative, SSHRC will support up to four Canadian postdoctoral fellows working at Canadian institutions, at $140,000 over two years.

This is a postdoctoral fellowship program for grants of up to $250,000 USD to support early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities (with particular emphasis on philosophy, sociology of science, and metascience) who are interested in building a career in understanding the implications of AI for the science and research ecosystem.

AI (currently understood as a set of technologies including machine learning, deep learning, and foundation models) could accelerate scientific discovery, whether through narrow applications like DeepMind’s AlphaFold, or general applications such as advances in AI-enabled lab robotics, evidence synthesis, or statistical inference. There are many practical and technical challenges to solve before society has fully-fledged autonomous ‘AI scientists’. Nevertheless, it seems inevitable that over the coming years public and private R&D funders will make significant investments both to diffuse and adopt AI technologies, and to solve technical challenges, in the direction of a more heavily AI-mediated research.

This program will support a cohort of postdoctoral researchers to deepen their understanding of AI technology and pursue career paths which evaluate the phenomenon of AI-mediated science and guide its pursuit, covering one or more of the following objectives:

a) building our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape and the day-to-day work of researchers;

b) building our understanding of the epistemic, metascientific, ethical and/or socioeconomic implications of these changes; and

c) building understanding of how governments, industry, and/or funding organizations should respond to improve our research landscape.

The following are some indicative examples of topic areas of interest: 

• The impact of AI on the topics and methods of scientific research, and how this varies across disciplines 
• AI and the pace of scientific progress
• Explainability and alignment in scientific AI
• The skills and training implications of scientific AI
• The role of humans in AI-driven science
• Epistemic and ethical considerations concerning the application of AI in the production of research outputs and the assessment of research

Canada-based applicants should apply directly to the Sloan Foundation. For more information, contact z-s-international@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca 

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed, within their disciplines. The scholarships are open to every discipline and are awarded three times per year: December, April, and August. The value of the scholarship is remitted solely through editorial assistance as follows:

Master’s candidates: $750
Doctoral candidates: $2,500
Junior academics: $500

These figures reflect the upper bracket of costs of editorial assistance for master’s theses, doctoral dissertations, and academic journal articles, respectively. All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. There are no institutional, departmental, or national restrictions.