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.

Please see the opportunity about a post-doctoral fellowship being offered by the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance (IMFG) at the University of Toronto (U of T) for 2025-2026.

IMFG focuses on the fiscal health and governance challenges facing large cities and city-regions. The Institute’s mandate is to conduct independent research, spark and inform public debate, and engage the academic and policy communities around important issues of municipal finance and governance.

IMFG offers a $65,000 Richard M. Bird Post-Doctoral Fellowship to support researchers who have recently completed their PhD or will have completed it by September 1, 2025. Fellowship recipients will prepare two original research papers for publication by IMFG and present their research through two seminars. Depending on the recipient’s interests and IMFG’s research agenda, the recipient may also develop and organize IMFG conferences, events or roundtables and engage in various other research projects at the Institute.

The recipient is expected to live in Toronto, Canada while pursuing their research, where they will have the opportunity to participate generally in the larger U of T community during the 2025-2026 academic year. IMFG is situated within U of T’s School of Cities, allowing the recipient to benefit from the broad network associated with the School and its affiliates.

The deadline for applications is Monday, April 28, 2025. For more details, please visit their website.

This call for proposals under Natural Resources Canada’s (NRCan’s) Energy Innovation Program (EIP) will target RD&D proposals for the clean fuels value chain from the production of clean fuels to related technologies to facilitate transport and storage. By investing in the full value chain (excluding end-use), this call for proposals supports the development of sustainable, cost-effective technologies critical to Canada’s leadership in the global clean fuels transition.

The call has two focus areas:

1. Clean Fuels Production; and
2. Clean Fuels Transport and Storage.

The objective of this call for proposals will be to support projects that address gaps in awareness, knowledge and public and industry confidence in the charging of light-duty zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) and/or the use and opportunities provided by clean fuels.

The Wenner-Gren Foundations are accepting applications for Visiting Research Fellowships.  Applications must be submitted by the host researcher in Sweden.  Fellows are senior researchers (more than 5 years post-PhD) who who stay from one to twelve months. The tax-free scholarships are intended to contribute to the costs of travel, dual residence, health insurance, etc. (There are two application periods per year; deadlines are 10 March 2025 or 01 Oct 2025.  For more information, go to: https://www.swgc.org/gastforskarstipendier.