Deadline: 15-Nov-21
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is inviting proposals for the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative to support community-based and community-led research partnerships with postsecondary institutions that are grounded in the lived experience of underrepresented or disadvantaged groups and that analyze the causes and persistence of systemic racism and discrimination.
This initiative encourages an intersectional approach. Intersectionality—a term first coined by African-American scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw—is an approach to research that helps them understand how identities (e.g., race gender, class and sexuality) and power structures intersect to create various modes of discrimination and privilege, advantage and disadvantage. Research under this initiative can include learning from grant-supported or prior pilot projects to achieve greater justice and equity.
Objectives
The main objective of the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative is to award approximately 20 grants to support community-led and community-based formal partnerships between one or more partner organizations from the not-for-profit, public and/or private sectors and at least one postsecondary institution, to support connection, research and training activities. These three-year partnership grants offered under the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative will serve as hubs for challenge-oriented, community-led and community-based intersectional research and knowledge mobilization activities, and can be used to incubate new research partnerships.
Specific objectives include support for:
- Partnerships addressing antiracist, equity, diversity and inclusion considerations in research practice (e.g., by supporting diversity in the composition of the partnerships and teams and in the recruitment of trainees; by fostering equitable and inclusive research work environments; and by highlighting diversity and equity in mentoring, training and access to development opportunities) and in research design (e.g., through approaches such as intersectionality, antiracist frameworks and gender-based analysis plus [GBA+]);
- Partnered research activities responding to the needs of partner organizations from the not-for-profit, public and/or private sector, and which will inform their decision-making;
- Intersectoral collaborations and connection activities, such as public outreach activities, workshops and conferences;
- Innovative approaches that enrich partnered research training experiences for students and postdoctoral researchers; and
- Leveraging contributions from all partner organizations (cash and/or in-kind contributions).
Funding Information
- Grants offered under the Race, Gender and Diversity Initiative are valued at up to $80,000 annually for the first two years and up to $290,000 in the third year, for an overall total maximum of $450,000. A two-year automatic grant extension without additional funding is also available under this strategic initiative.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications may be submitted by a team of researchers (consisting of one applicant / project director and participants such as co-directors, co-applicants and collaborators). The applicant / project director prepares the application with the team on behalf of the partner organizations of the formal partnership.
- Applicants must be affiliated with an eligible Canadian institution (universities, colleges, not-for-profit organizations) at the time of application. Researchers who maintain an affiliation with a Canadian postsecondary institution, but whose primary affiliation is with a non-Canadian postsecondary institution, are not eligible for applicant status.
- Institutions: Grant funds may only be administered by an eligible Canadian institution. Institutions proposing to administer a grant awarded under this funding opportunity must hold or obtain institutional eligibility.
- Co-directors and co-applicants: An individual is eligible to be a co-director or co-applicant if they are formally affiliated with any of the following:
- Canadian: Eligible postsecondary institution; not-for-profit organization; philanthropic foundation; think tank; or municipal, territorial or provincial government.
- International: Postsecondary institution.
- Collaborators: Any individual who makes a significant contribution to the project is eligible to be a collaborator. Collaborators do not need to be affiliated with an eligible Canadian postsecondary institution. Individuals from the private sector or federal government can participate only as collaborators.
For more information, visit https://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca/funding-financement/programs-programmes/rgdi-irgd-eng.aspx