Deadline: 24-Jan-22
Applications are now open for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Storytellers Challenge.
SSHRC’s Storytellers Challenge asks postsecondary students to show Canadians, in up to three minutes or 300 words, how social sciences and humanities research is affecting their lives, their world and their future for the better.
Prize Details
- The top 25 submissions receive $3,000.
- The top 25 finalists attend a special research communications workshop and present their stories to a distinguished jury, for a chance to be a final five winner and win an additional $1,000.
- The final five winners are unveiled at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, in May 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be a Canadian resident 19 years of age or older.
- Must be enrolled at a Canadian postsecondary institution.
- Create a three-minute video or audio clip, or 300-word text or infographic.
- Submit original work featuring SSHRC-funded research carried out at the institution at which you are enrolled at the time of submission.
- Feature your own research or a teacher’s (make sure you get permission).
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The Sponsor’s “The Storytellers” competition (the Competition) is open to residents of Canada who at the time of entry:
- are students (undergraduate or graduate) enrolled at a Canadian postsecondary institution; and
- are nineteen (19) years of age or older (the Contestants or Contestant). The Competition is not open to postdoctoral researchers.
- Employees of the Sponsor or of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, including immediate family members and/or those living in the same household (whether legally related or not) are not eligible. For the purposes of the Competition, immediate family members are defined as spouse, domestic partner, parents, legal guardians, in-laws, grandparents, siblings, children and grandchildren.
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Previous winners are eligible to enter the Competition if:
- the research featured in their submission is materially different, as determined by the Sponsor, from that of their previous winning submission(s); and
- they meet all other eligibility requirements.
For more information, visit SSHRC.
For more information, visit https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/society-societe/storytellers-jai_une_histoire_a_raconter/index-eng.aspx