The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) wishes to remind stakeholders of WADA’s 17 October 2022 call for proposals for its 2023 Social Science Research Grant Program (Grant Program), which invites applicants to submit Expressions of Interest via the Agency’s WADAGrants platform, by 21 November 2022 (23:59 GMT) for Tier 1 and 2 projects. For full applications to the Grant Program, smaller Tier 3 projects and those invited from the Expressions of Interest phase, the deadline for submissions is 30 January 2023 (23:59 GMT).
 
WADA welcomes Expressions of Interest and submissions in relation to any of the following 12 Social Science Research priorities for the 2023 Grant Program. These priorities were approved by WADA’s Education Committee and are fully described within the Overview and Guidance for Applicants document.
 

1. Athlete pathway and athlete experience
2. Experience of athlete support personnel in anti-doping
3. Non-sport influences
4. Sport Policy
5. Prevention model
6. Effectiveness of anti-doping
7. Horizon scanning (learnings from other sectors/industries that can be applied to Clean Sport)
8. Evolution of sport practices
9. Anti-doping policy impact
10. People investment
11. The role and influence of athlete support personnel
12. Clean Sport behaviors

The Education Committee will review the recommendations from the Social Science Research Expert Advisory Group for WADA-funded research projects in April 2023, prior to seeking formal approval from WADA’s Executive Committee (ExCo) in May 2023; after which, applicants will be notified.

In order to assist applicants, in addition to the Overview and Guidance for Applicants document, on 20 October 2022, WADA hosted a webinar outlining the application process and providing insights for applicants to consider. A recording of the webinar can be accessed on WADA’s website. We also published short videos, in five languages, on the regional barriers and challenges some researchers may face, with a focus on underfunded regions.

For further information regarding the 2023 Grant Program, please refer to the Overview and Guidance for Applicants and Frequently Asked Questions section of the WADAGrants platform; or, contact the Agency’s Education Department at ssr@wada-ama.org.

Please contact Jill Sherman at intl.research@lakeheadu.ca for more information.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has opened the call for applications for the 2023 RISE Professional Internship program in Germany.  RISE=Research Internships in Science and Engineering.  DAAD coordinates the international internship program, offering 70+ internships at companies such as BASF, Nokia Bell Labs, and Siemens, and research centres such as Jena Bioscience, Fraunhofer Institutes, and the German Aerospace Centre.  Internships can be from 3 to 6 months in length.  In most cases, German language skills are not required for the internship. Click here to see a list of internship titles and companies - to read the full internship description, you will have to register at the application portal and then use the search tool to find the internships.  For more information and to apply, go to the DAAD RISE Professional Website, https://www.daad.de/rise/en/rise-professional/find-an-internship/   Questions?  Please contact Jill Sherman, intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), in partnership with Mitacs, has opened the call for applications for the Summer 2023 RISE Internship program in Germany.  RISE=Research Internships in Science and Engineering. DAAD coordinates the international internship program, offering 450+ internships at universities and research institutes across Germany.  In most cases, German language skills are not required for the internship.  Click here to see a list of internship titles - to read the full internship description, you will have to register at the application portal and then use the search tool to find the internships and then apply. For more information first go to the Mitacs website, https://www.mitacs.ca/en/programs/globalink/rise-globalink-research-internship, and then to the DAAD website, https://www.daad.de/rise/en/rise-germany/find-an-internship/.  Questions?  Please contact Jill Sherman, intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

OSSTF/FEESO is strongly committed to supporting and promoting evidence-informed practices in public education. As part of that commitment, OSSTF/FEESO supports high-quality research and is pleased to announce up to three research grants of up to $3,500 each, to support conducting, presenting, and publishing research in support of public education and anti-racism.

Award Criteria:

• Relevance to 2022-2023 research priorities, listed below;
• Willingness to write a summary report for OSSTF/FEESO and/or an article for Forum;
• Evidence of support for public education and/or the labour movement in previous publications and activities;
• Quality and feasibility of the project for which funding is sought;
• A budget of estimated research expenses.

Theme Identified for the 2022 – 2023 Academic Year:

• Recruitment and Retention of Workers in Education: OSSTF/FEESO is interested in research around issues about, and solutions to, attracting new workers in education, and the retention of employees in education, from Ontario, as well as from national and international contexts or perspectives. Research looking at the recruitment and retention of workers from equity-seeking groups are of particular interest.

Note: At least one of the three awards will be reserved for researchers who identify as Indigenous, Black or racialized.

The application deadline for the 2022 – 2023 Academic year is November 30, 2022. All successful applicants will be informed by December 15, 2022.

The application form will be available by Monday November 7^th 2022 on our website and can be found at:

English:   OSSTF / FEESO Research Grant for Emergent Issues and Priorities Application Form

French:    OSSTF / FEESO Research Grant for Emergent Issues and Priorities Application Form

If you have any questions regarding this information, please contact Peter Bates peter.bates@osstf.ca and Chris Samuel chris.samuel@osstf.ca.

CIHR’s 2021-2031 Strategic Plan Priority A, Strategy 1 is to champion a more inclusive concept of research excellence including developing and promoting a renewed concept of research excellence that values equity, diversity, and inclusion. This notion of excellence recognizes fundamental knowledge creation, knowledge mobilization, multiple ways of knowing, non-traditional research methods and outputs. It includes the active collaboration of patient partners (also known as “people with lived experience”), the public, health care providers, decision-makers, and other users of research outputs throughout the research process.

As CIHR embarks on this commitment to champion a new concept of research excellence and develop a guiding framework, CIHR-IMHA will contribute by awarding Inclusive Research Excellence prizes that will solicit examples of research excellence from the IMHA community which will be used as one input to guide this important work. Note that there may be elements within this funding opportunity that do not align with CIHR’s developing concept of inclusive research excellence. CIHR is committed to integrating new evidence and data to guide and iteratively improve its programs, policies and practices.

The Five Research Domains

This funding opportunity seeks to reward research excellence achieved in the broad IMHA mandate areas by awarding prizes in the form of a supplemental grant to support further research.

Specifically, prizes will be given to investigators (individual or individuals) who have completed projects or programs of research in any of the 5 following domains:

1. Research Impact Prizes: Research impact was the focus of a 2009, expert panel convened by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) to discuss the “best way” and “best metrics” to measure research impact. The group made five recommendations including that: Canada should immediately initiate a national collaborative effort to measure the impacts of Canadian health research. Prizes in this category will be awarded for research impacts achieved in one or more of the three following CAHS framework impact categories (see pages 18-20):
   • Informing Decision-Making – with indicators, including but not limited to, representing pathways from research to its outcomes in health, wealth and well-being;
   • Health Impact – with indicators including, but not limited to, those on health status, determinants of health and health system changes (including quality of life);
   • Broad Economic and Social Impacts with indicators including, but not limited to, economic activity, commercialization and health benefits.

    

   As a signatory of the Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), CIHR strongly encourages applicants to this pool to demonstrate their research impact without relying on journal-based metrics such as the Journal Impact Factor.

1. Team Science Prizes: Much has been written about team science for health research—why and how to do it. In 2017, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) expert panel provided recommendations related to “Academic Recognition of Team Science [ PDF (681 KB) - external link ]”. Among the calls to action was the need for funding agencies to reward team science. Specifically, the authors called for a multifaceted commitment to experimenting with promising practices is needed at the level of organizations, review committees, and applications for funding.

1. Open Science Prizes: The 2021 UNESCO Recommendations on Open Science report defined Open Science as an “inclusive construct that combines various movements and practices aiming to make multilingual scientific knowledge openly available, accessible and reusable for everyone to increase scientific collaborations and sharing of information for the benefits of science and society, and to open the processes of scientific knowledge creation, evaluation and communication to societal actors beyond the traditional scientific community”. Recommendation #1 of the Chief Science Officer’s Roadmap for Open Science (2020) is that Canada should “adopt an Open Science approach to federally funded scientific and research outputs.” (See Additional Information for more information on open science)

1. Patient Engagement Prizes: Prizes in this category will be given to exemplary research co-created with a patient partner or patient partners. Patient engagement in research involves meaningful and active collaboration in governance, priority setting, conducting research and knowledge translation. Depending on the context, patient engagement may also engage people who bring the collective voice of specific, affected communities.

1. Indigenous Health Research Prizes: Indigenous methodologies and ways of knowing have been integral to excellent and impactful research by and with Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, Métis and/or Urban Indigenous) Peoples and communities. Prizes in this category will be given to researchers who exemplify Indigenous health research. Specifically, this prize category will reward research that is Indigenous focused, inclusive of or grounded in Indigenous knowledges and/or engages Indigenous community members, including Elders or Knowledge Keepers and people with living experience, as leaders/decision-makers/partners in the research.

Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP) provides a total of $60,000 over three years to support the career development activities for underrepresented minority postdoctoral fellows in a degree-granting institution in the United States or Canada whose training and professional development are guided by mentors committed to helping them advance to stellar careers in biomedical or medical research.

For more information, please contact Jill Sherman, intl.research@lakeheadu.ca.

The AMS Doctoral Research award provides funding to doctoral students to help support full-time dissertation writing leading to dissertation completion in the humanities or social sciences, writing on a history of medicine/health care topic – broadly defined as the study of past practices and epistemologies related to human health, healthcare, and disease.

This funding supports small-budget proposals for research projects in the history of medicine and allied disciplines, such as science and technology studies, sociology, anthropology, and classics. Your project must strive to advance the history of health, healthcare and disease, or the education of health professionals. We’re partial to projects that consider the Canadian context, and these may include requests for seed money to develop research initiatives. Your work should benefit the broader community of practitioners in the field. Successful applicants must produce one or more conference papers or publications/presentations within a year of this grant’s completion.